Rattle #14, Winter 2000

Tribute to Native American Poets

Releasing December 2000, issue #14 celebrates the work of 11 Native American poets, including Saginaw Grant of the Sac-n-Fox and Otoe-Missouria Nations, Simon J. Ortiz of the Native American Renessaince (sic), and Margie editor Robert Nazarine.

Also in the issue, Alan Fox interviews Ortiz and Anne Waldman. In the essay section, Juliane S. Neistadt writes about her acquaintance with Ezra Pound, and Elisha Porat writes an autobiography of his reading life.

Tribute to Native American Poets
Saginaw Grant • Steven Beauchamp • Joseph Bruchac • C.S. Fuqua • Adrian C. Louis • Robert Nazarene • Simon J. Ortiz • Edgar Silex • Lynne Thompson • Mark Turcotte • C.L. Vinson

Poetry
Marilynn Fournet Adams • Bettina T. Barrett • John Bennett • D.C. Berry • Marta Boswell • Christopher Buckley • Deborah Byrne • Charles Cantrell • Kathleen Carbone • Doritt Carroll • C.E. Chaffin • Christopher Chambers • Earl Coleman • Gannon Daniels • Peter Desy • Camille Dungy • Jeffrey L. Dye • Michael Estabrook • Dennis Etzel, Jr. • Stewart Florsheim • Alan Fox • Devorie Franzwa • John Freeman • Ed Galing • Oren Haker • Doris Heitmeyer • Karla Huston • Maggie Jaffe • David James • Nicholas Johnson • Mark Johnston • David Joseph • Angela Kelly • Willie James King • Jimmy A. Lerner • Wayne Allen LeVine • Lori Levy • Marc Levy • Lyn Lifshin • Suzanne Lummis • Kate Lutzner • Andre Mangeot • Jane McClellan • Hosho McCreesh • Glenn McKee • Michael P. McManus • Michelle Moore • Simone Muench • Will Nixon • Marianne Poloskey • James S. Proffitt • Philip Ramp • David Ray • Dale Ritterbusch • C.J. Sage • Marjorie Saiser • Dennis Salch • Jeannine A. Shackleton • Christopher Shaffner • Frederic Sibley • Glori Simmons • Matthew J. Spireng • Stephen Sundin • Paula Tatarunis • Kent Taylor • George Wallace • Thom Ward • Sarah Brown Weitzman • Judith Werner • Sylvia Wheeler • Dallas Wiebe • A.D. Winans • Michael J. Wyly

Reviews
John Birkbeck • Hugh Fox • Fred Marchant • Michael P. McManus • Terry Stevenson

Essay
Julian S. Neistadt, M.D. • Elisha Porat

Conversations
Simon Ortiz • Anne Waldman