chelsea literary journal

Antonella Anedda has won numerous awards for her work, including the 2000 Premio Montale. Her most recent collection of poems is Il catalogo della gioia.

Louis E. Bourgeois lives & writes in Oxford, Mississippi. His latest book, Olga, was published by WordTech. Currently, he is completing the translation of Rimbaud’s Une Saison en Enfer & Les Illiminations. Bourgeois is also editor of Vox.

Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was one of Spain’s leading 20th century poets. His collected prose poems, Written in Water, translated by Stephen Kessler, received a 2004 Lambda Literary Award. His other major collection in English is Selected Poems, translated by Reginal Gibbons.

Ned Condini has completed an anthology of contemporary Italian poetry. His most recent work is La morte e la fanciulla (2005).

William Delman’s fiction & poetry has appeared in various magazines. He is a fiction editor for Agni. He lives in Boston.

Tony Dokoupil’s writing appears regularly in New York Press & Publisher’s Weekly, & is forthcoming in Newsweek International. He is doctoral student of communications in Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Lael Ewy’s work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review & elsewhere. He co-founded & edits EastWesterly Review, an online journal of literary satire at www.postmodernvillage.com.

Susan Fox’s poems have appeared in a wide range of journals, among them Poetry, Boulevard, & The Paris Review. An opera to her libretto about a hidden child during World War II had its semiprofessional premiere in New York, & her screenplay of another Holocaust story was optioned by an independent producer. She lives in the French countryside.

Daniela Gioseffi is an American Book Award winning author of 12 books of prose & poetry, & a retired professor of American & world literature. She was a featured scholar on a documentary devoted to the poetry of Emily Dickinson produced by Pacifica Radio, & is currently completing a historical novel on Dickinson. Her publications include Women on War: International Writings (Anchor/Doubleday, 1993). Her latest book of poems is the bilingual Blood Autumn/Autunno di sangue (VIA Folios/Bordighera Press, 2006).

Dorothea Grünzweig, born in Germany, has lived in Finland since 1989. She received various awards for poetry. The poems in this issue are from her second collection, Vom Eisgebreit (From the Ice Field), published in 2000.

Michael Hansen co-directs the Speakeasy Poetry Series at The Bitter End, New York City. His poems have appeared in Verse, Bellingham Review, Western Humanities Review, & Quarterly West.

Scott Hightower’s third collection, Part of the Bargain, received Copper Canyon Press’s 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. He lives in New York City, is a contributing editor to The Journal & Barrow Street.

Timothy Houghton’s publications include Stand, Chelsea, Malahat Review, & Quarterly West. Currently he teaches at Eastern Kentucky University. He also leads birdwatching hikes for Audubon.

Stephen Kessler is a poet, prose writer & translator living in California, where he edits The Readwood Coast Review. His most recent books of original poetry are After Modigliani & Tell It to the Rabbis.

John Kistner is a social worker. His poems have been published in ACM, Spinning Jenny, Pleiades, West Branch & Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIV.

Renate Latimer teaches at Auburn University & translates contemporary German & Austrian literature.

Quitman Marshall’s books of poems include The Birth Gift, 14th Street, & The Slow Comet. He was the Founding coordinator of the literary series at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston. He’s recently completed Swamptime: Escapes with the Congaree, a work of literary nonfiction.

Elizabeth McBride is an original fiction writer for years appreciated by Chelsea, where she appeared a few times. Her last story written twenty years ago, Inclusions, & in Chelsea 75 (2003), was one of two stories from the same issue selected to appear in the anthology New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond, to be published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2007.

Jill Meyers is the managing editor of American Short Fiction. Her reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Shenandoah, & the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review.

Eugenio Montejo is a writer living in Caracas, Venezuela.

David Moolten has published in Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, & The Southern Review. His first book, Plums & Ashes, won the 1994 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. A new volume, Especially Then, was published in the fall 2005.

Manini Nayar’s articles & stories have been published in periodicals & anthologies including Boston Review, Stand Magazine, London Magazine, The O. Henry Festival Stories & Signals. She is the recipient of Boston Review’s Short Fiction Prize; the Andre Dubus Award in Short Fiction from the University of Southern Maine; & Stand Magazine’s Fifth Biennal Short Story Award.

Kirk Nesset is author of Saint X (poems), Mr. Agreable (short stories), & The Stories of Raymond Carver. His poems, translations & stories appeared lately in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, & Raritan.

Jason Park’s work appeared in PEN America Journal, Prism International, Fiction, & others. His translation of Song Yong’s story collection, Room of One’s Own, won a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award & will be published by White Pine Press in 2007.

Margaret Rabb’s book of poems, Granite Dives, was published by New Issues Press & received North Carolina’s Roanoke Chowan Award for 2000. Her poems have appeared Kenyon Review, & Light Quarterly, received awards from Columbia, The Madison Review, & Louisiana Literature, & the Wood Award for Distinguished Writing from the Carolina Quarterly.

Elena Lelia Radulescu’s poetry, short stories & translations have appeared in many Romanian journals. She appeared &/or is forthcoming in Vision International, Square Lake Review, Into the Teeth of the Wind, The Spoon River Poetry Review, & Karamu.

C-F Ramuz (1878-1947) was 20th Century Switzerland’s great literary light in French. He was novelist, essayist, poet, and did the book for Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat. “Joseph and Miss…” is from Le Garçon Savoyard (The Young Man from Savoy), a novel of 1936 (reissued in 2004); it reflects a stay at Meillerie on Lake Geneva’s French, southeastern shore.

Arthur Rimbaud doesn’t need a bibliographical note. He is just Rimbaud.

Blake Robinson has translated Sandro Penna’s poetry & prose (Remember me, God of Love); Eugène Fromentin’s Une année dans le Sahel (Between Sea and Sahara – now in paperback); Alberrto Savinio’s Paris Then, a selection of essays & reminiscencec from his Souvenirs. Publication of Joë Bousquet’s novel La Tisane de sarments is upcoming.

Kris Saknussemm’s first novel, Zanesville, was published by Villard Books in 2005. His poetry & fiction have appeared in The Boston Review, The Hudson Review, The Antioch Review, & others.

Anis Shivani is at work on a novel, The Intruder, about Americans caught up in contemporary South Asian turmoil; a new collection, Anatolia and Other Stories; & a book called American Fiction in Decline: Publishing in an Age of Plenty. Poetry, fiction, & criticism appear recently in The Times Literary Supplement, London Magazine, & elsewhere.

Yvette Siegert was born in southern California & lives in New York City, where she studies at Columbia University & works as an intern in political affairs at the United Nations. This is her first time in print.

Ann Snodgrass’s chapbook of poems, No Description of the World, appeared this summer from Finishing Line Press. She has also a book of poems, Portal, & a collection of translations of Luciano Erba, The Hippopotamus.

Henry St. Cloud lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Jim Tassopulos lives & works in Los Angeles. His short film Gone was screened at the 2005 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. He is currently completing post production on a feature he wrote & directed.

John Taylor, a frequent contributor to Chelsea, has recently published The Apocalypse Tapestries (Xenos Books), a collection of poems and short prose. His essays have been gathered in Paths to Contemporary French Literature (Transaction), of which a second volume is in preparation. He has lived in France since 1977.

Randall Watson’s poetry appeared in Chelsea before, & in 1997 he won The Chelsea Award for Poetry. His recent published collection is The Sleep Accusations.

Mario Wirz lives in Berlin & is the recipient of the prestigious Liechtenstein Poetry Prize.

Derk Wynand has published 10 collections of poems, a collection of fiction, & several books translated from the German of H.C. Artmann & Erich Wolfgang Skwara. His translation of Dorothea Grünzweig’s first book appeared in a bilingual edition, Midsummer Cut, published by Buschek Books in 2002.

Song Yong was born in Korea in 1940. Since 1967 he’s published several books of fiction & nonfiction. His most recent collection of short stories, For Baloza, was published in 2003.


Staff Contents Contributors Chelsea Award for Short Fiction--> Chelsea Award for Short Fiction Fiction Poetry Essays Translations Book Reviews		Contributors \| #81 Antonella Anedda has won numerous awards for her work, including the 2000 Premio Montale. Her most recent collection of poems is Il catalogo della gioia. Louis E. Bourgeois lives & writes in Oxford, Mississippi. His latest book, Olga, was published by WordTech. Currently, he is completing the translation of Rimbaud’s Une Saison en Enfer & Les Illiminations. Bourgeois is also editor of Vox. Luis Cernuda (1902-1963) was one of Spain’s leading 20th century poets. His collected prose poems, Written in Water, translated by Stephen Kessler, received a 2004 Lambda Literary Award. His other major collection in English is Selected Poems, translated by Reginal Gibbons. Ned Condini has completed an anthology of contemporary Italian poetry. His most recent work is La morte e la fanciulla (2005). William Delman’s fiction & poetry has appeared in various magazines. He is a fiction editor for Agni. He lives in Boston. Tony Dokoupil’s writing appears regularly in New York Press & Publisher’s Weekly, & is forthcoming in Newsweek International. He is doctoral student of communications in Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. Lael Ewy’s work has appeared in Denver Quarterly, New Orleans Review & elsewhere. He co-founded & edits EastWesterly Review, an online journal of literary satire at www.postmodernvillage.com. Susan Fox’s poems have appeared in a wide range of journals, among them Poetry, Boulevard, & The Paris Review. An opera to her libretto about a hidden child during World War II had its semiprofessional premiere in New York, & her screenplay of another Holocaust story was optioned by an independent producer. She lives in the French countryside. Daniela Gioseffi is an American Book Award winning author of 12 books of prose & poetry, & a retired professor of American & world literature. She was a featured scholar on a documentary devoted to the poetry of Emily Dickinson produced by Pacifica Radio, & is currently completing a historical novel on Dickinson. Her publications include Women on War: International Writings (Anchor/Doubleday, 1993). Her latest book of poems is the bilingual Blood Autumn/Autunno di sangue (VIA Folios/Bordighera Press, 2006). Dorothea Grünzweig, born in Germany, has lived in Finland since 1989. She received various awards for poetry. The poems in this issue are from her second collection, Vom Eisgebreit (From the Ice Field), published in 2000. Michael Hansen co-directs the Speakeasy Poetry Series at The Bitter End, New York City. His poems have appeared in Verse, Bellingham Review, Western Humanities Review, & Quarterly West. Scott Hightower’s third collection, Part of the Bargain, received Copper Canyon Press’s 2004 Hayden Carruth Award. He lives in New York City, is a contributing editor to The Journal & Barrow Street. Timothy Houghton’s publications include Stand, Chelsea, Malahat Review, & Quarterly West. Currently he teaches at Eastern Kentucky University. He also leads birdwatching hikes for Audubon. Stephen Kessler is a poet, prose writer & translator living in California, where he edits The Readwood Coast Review. His most recent books of original poetry are After Modigliani & Tell It to the Rabbis. John Kistner is a social worker. His poems have been published in ACM, Spinning Jenny, Pleiades, West Branch & Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIV. Renate Latimer teaches at Auburn University & translates contemporary German & Austrian literature. Quitman Marshall’s books of poems include The Birth Gift, 14th Street, & The Slow Comet. He was the Founding coordinator of the literary series at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston. He’s recently completed Swamptime: Escapes with the Congaree, a work of literary nonfiction. Elizabeth McBride is an original fiction writer for years appreciated by Chelsea, where she appeared a few times. Her last story written twenty years ago, Inclusions, & in Chelsea 75 (2003), was one of two stories from the same issue selected to appear in the anthology New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond, to be published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2007. Jill Meyers is the managing editor of American Short Fiction. Her reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Shenandoah, & the San Francisco Chronicle Book Review. Eugenio Montejo is a writer living in Caracas, Venezuela. David Moolten has published in Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, & The Southern Review. His first book, Plums & Ashes, won the 1994 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. A new volume, Especially Then, was published in the fall 2005. Manini Nayar’s articles & stories have been published in periodicals & anthologies including Boston Review, Stand Magazine, London Magazine, The O. Henry Festival Stories & Signals. She is the recipient of Boston Review’s Short Fiction Prize; the Andre Dubus Award in Short Fiction from the University of Southern Maine; & Stand Magazine’s Fifth Biennal Short Story Award. Kirk Nesset is author of Saint X (poems), Mr. Agreable (short stories), & The Stories of Raymond Carver. His poems, translations & stories appeared lately in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, & Raritan. Jason Park’s work appeared in PEN America Journal, Prism International, Fiction, & others. His translation of Song Yong’s story collection, Room of One’s Own, won a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award & will be published by White Pine Press in 2007. Margaret Rabb’s book of poems, Granite Dives, was published by New Issues Press & received North Carolina’s Roanoke Chowan Award for 2000. Her poems have appeared Kenyon Review, & Light Quarterly, received awards from Columbia, The Madison Review, & Louisiana Literature, & the Wood Award for Distinguished Writing from the Carolina Quarterly. Elena Lelia Radulescu’s poetry, short stories & translations have appeared in many Romanian journals. She appeared &/or is forthcoming in Vision International, Square Lake Review, Into the Teeth of the Wind, The Spoon River Poetry Review, & Karamu. C-F Ramuz (1878-1947) was 20th Century Switzerland’s great literary light in French. He was novelist, essayist, poet, and did the book for Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat. “Joseph and Miss…” is from Le Garçon Savoyard (The Young Man from Savoy), a novel of 1936 (reissued in 2004); it reflects a stay at Meillerie on Lake Geneva’s French, southeastern shore. Arthur Rimbaud doesn’t need a bibliographical note. He is just Rimbaud. Blake Robinson has translated Sandro Penna’s poetry & prose (Remember me, God of Love); Eugène Fromentin’s Une année dans le Sahel (Between Sea and Sahara – now in paperback); Alberrto Savinio’s Paris Then, a selection of essays & reminiscencec from his Souvenirs. Publication of Joë Bousquet’s novel La Tisane de sarments is upcoming. Kris Saknussemm’s first novel, Zanesville, was published by Villard Books in 2005. His poetry & fiction have appeared in The Boston Review, The Hudson Review, The Antioch Review, & others. Anis Shivani is at work on a novel, The Intruder, about Americans caught up in contemporary South Asian turmoil; a new collection, Anatolia and Other Stories; & a book called American Fiction in Decline: Publishing in an Age of Plenty. Poetry, fiction, & criticism appear recently in The Times Literary Supplement, London Magazine, & elsewhere. Yvette Siegert was born in southern California & lives in New York City, where she studies at Columbia University & works as an intern in political affairs at the United Nations. This is her first time in print. Ann Snodgrass’s chapbook of poems, No Description of the World, appeared this summer from Finishing Line Press. She has also a book of poems, Portal, & a collection of translations of Luciano Erba, The Hippopotamus. Henry St. Cloud lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jim Tassopulos lives & works in Los Angeles. His short film Gone was screened at the 2005 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. He is currently completing post production on a feature he wrote & directed. John Taylor, a frequent contributor to Chelsea, has recently published The Apocalypse Tapestries (Xenos Books), a collection of poems and short prose. His essays have been gathered in Paths to Contemporary French Literature (Transaction), of which a second volume is in preparation. He has lived in France since 1977. Randall Watson’s poetry appeared in Chelsea before, & in 1997 he won The Chelsea Award for Poetry. His recent published collection is The Sleep Accusations. Mario Wirz lives in Berlin & is the recipient of the prestigious Liechtenstein Poetry Prize. Derk Wynand has published 10 collections of poems, a collection of fiction, & several books translated from the German of H.C. Artmann & Erich Wolfgang Skwara. His translation of Dorothea Grünzweig’s first book appeared in a bilingual edition, Midsummer Cut, published by Buschek Books in 2002. Song Yong was born in Korea in 1940. Since 1967 he’s published several books of fiction & nonfiction. His most recent collection of short stories, For Baloza, was published in 2003.