Found Credo
Ann Lauterbach
A Credo: Writing in My Native American Voice
Simon Ortiz
Credo
Robert Creeley
Rendezvous
Frank Chin
Writing Praxis
Kathy Acker
Writin’ Is Fightin’
Ishmael Reed
Notes for the Next Century
David Mura
Four Fidelities
Anne Waldman
Beliefs Reasonable, Unreasonable Beliefs
Gilbert Sorrentino
Credo
Victor Hernández Cruz
The Theory and Practice of Postmodernism: A Manifesto
David Antin
She and I
Robert Olen Butler
Art and Politics
William T. Vollmann
Credo
Walter Mosley
Middle River Stump Jump: A Credo
Paul West
From John’s Wife
Robert Coover
From The American Woman in the Chinese Hat
Carole Maso
Primer
Myung Mi Kim
The Second Presence
Forrest Gander
And the Stars Were Shining
John Ashbery
The Further Complexities of Intimacy
Mary Caponegro
Seven Poems
Cole Swensen
Abendmusik
Theodore Enslin
Nowhere
Joanna Scott
Heavenly Junket (with collages by the author)
Kenward Elmslie
Animals Behind Bars!
Scott Bradfield
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Ron Silliman
From The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
Janice Galloway
The Physiology of William Blake
Robert Kelly
Seven Outsiders
Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley and Guy Mendes
Two Unidentifiable Persons
Can Xue, Translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Translated by Jian Zhang
Renga
Melanie Neilson, Elaine Equi and Martine Bellen
Twelve Poems
Thomas Meyer
Cover art: Sculptures and prepared background by Robin Winters. Photography by Kevin Noble.
What do you believe? It’s an impossible question in many ways, given that a credo is both essential and absurd. But we thought we’d ask anyhow. The fifteen narratives of belief gathered in this issue’s special portfolio are the result.
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