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Jodi Varon's essay on translation, "Going Among the Folk" begins the poetry section, with poems by Mariana Marin translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and Daniela Hurezanu, Eliseo Diego translated from the Spanish by Jesse Dwyer, Georges Godeau translated from the French by Kathleen McGookey, Jaime Siles translated from the Spanish by Miles Waggener, Micheliny Verunschk translated from the Portuguese by Rosângela Vieira-King and Dorianne Laux, Roberto Juarroz translated from the Spanish by Mary Crow, Luis Cernuda translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann translated from the German by Mark Terrill, Vytautas Skripka translated from the Lithuanian by Irena Praitis, Aku Wuwu translated from the Nuosu by Mark Bender with Aku Wuwu and Jjiepa Ayi, Ece Temelkuran translated from the Turkish by Deniz Perin, Andrzej Bursa translated from the Polish by Kevin Christianson and Halina Ablamowicz, Yu Jian translated from the Chinese by John A. Crespi, and prose from Karel Čapek translated from the Czech by Norma Comrada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713399772624-6S9MWMCY6DEHETG72AY2/3-1.jpg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 3, number 1 - 2008 Basalt Volume 3, Number 1 includes a facsimile of Timothy C. Ely’s brilliant and fascinating book, The Obervatory, as well as poetry and prose by Katrina Roberts, Richard Robbins, Christopher Howell, Michael McGriff, and Christopher Buckley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713399772910-Z1BW2ZJP52339FEHYLUL/4-1.jpg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 4, number 1 - 2009 Volume 4, Number 1 features poems and prose by Christopher Howell, Rich Ives, Laurie Lamon, Laurie Blauner, Madeline DeFrees, and James Crews. Art work by Mary Farrell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713399790650-QTSA2ADG19F3ODU7K1CQ/2010.jpg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 5, number 1 - 2010 This issue features an affectionate memoir about Kat’s student days by her university art teacher, Cheryl K. Shurtleff, a critical essay by the Art Editor of basalt, several of Kat’s own often very moving and articulate artist statements about her important bodies of work, and a chronology of her life. In addition, there is a portfolio of many of Kat’s bold and vigorous drawings, a color portfolio drawn from her Belted Galloway series, a photo essay by Mona Dinger of Kat’s studio as she left it at the time of her death, an important work she did after her first stroke when Kat realized her eye sight was failing, as well as the provocative drawing she was working on when she passed away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713399790772-2CNS0CK0MKJZSQ79EQ9L/2011.jpeg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 6, number 1 - 2011 Reminiscent of Chinese “scholars’ rocks,” check out the stunning photography portfolio of the inland Northwest by Terry Toedtemeier, who called his lifelong admiration of the craggy and textured geology of the Basin and Range “a thousand places I love.” Elegy for Toedtemeier by James Lavadour. New translations of Nobel laureate Harry Martinson’s prose, poetry translations of Rosa Alice Branco and Giacomo Leopardi. Featured poems by Carl Adamshick, Sid Miller, Jon Davis, Christopher Buckley, Simon Perchick, Henry Hughes, Ingrid Wendt, and others. 2010 Bunchgrass Poetry Prize winner Stacey Heiney’s “The Breaking Around Us Is Huge” headlines the issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713399791497-5HAITOPKK9N6SMZ4ZTPU/2012.jpeg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 7, number 1 - 2012 This issue features the haunting art of Oregon painter and iconoclast Morris Graves along with an insightful essay by Ben Mitchell to illuminate Graves’ aesthetic, offering both appreciation and rediscovery of a man Mitchell calls “prankster and provocateur.” Featured poetry includes exceptional new work from Philip Kobylarz, Kathleen McGookey, Jade Sylvan, Tim Barnes, Jan Wagner, Scott Penny, Maxine Scates, Travis Mossotti, and many more in our largest edition yet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713399791954-VR05F3405M0LN4BSR7L6/2013.jpg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 8, number 1 - 2013 The current issue of basalt features new poems by Peter Everwine, Danielle Duelin, Chris Dombrowski, Jennifer Boyden, Ed Skoog, Henrietta Goodman, and Geffery Davis, among many others. Volume 7, Number 1 also includes an essay by Robert Stubblefield, as well as a raucous portfolio of linocut prints of women from the Bible by the late Lorna Obermayr. As always, the fine art portfolio is accompanied by Ben Mitchell’s insightful essay about the artist and her work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713399793103-BV2PJKF8YUOUFT116PPA/2014.jpg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 9, number 1 - 2014 Features new work by Lance Olsen, Dennis Hinrischsen, Naton Leslie, Amanda Bales, Tim Keppel, Peter Serchuk, Juan Parra, Noah Burton, Melissa Reeser Poulin, Joseph Fasano, Matt Schumacher, Charles Goodrich, Barry Spacks, and Marvin Shackelford. Translations of Boris Slutsky, Ales Razanau, George Bacovia, and Peter Bichsel. Art Porfolio by Ian Boyden, and a commentary by Tim Ely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713399794213-N2TKLD1F9JOC0S1N2Q0B/2015.png Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 10, number 1 - 2015 Featured Artist: Sandra Dal Poggetto Writers: Dan Raphael, “Moments from the History of Rain”; Shawn Fawson, Four Poems; Anna Świrszczyńska, Five Poems; Ana Blandiana, “Rain Chant”; Asha Doré, “Figure Studies”; Bob Ross, Two Poems; Sandra Dal Poggetto, Portfolio; Sandra Dal Poggetto, “Wildtime”; Melissa Kwasny, Four Poems; James Crews, Five Poems; Laura Cesarco Eglin, Five Poems; Piotr Florczyk, Three Poems https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713981963973-QNTO1FXLW4G70JIXISNQ/vol11_no1_basalt2017_cvr.jpg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 11, number 1 - 2017 Wes Mills art portfolio, with accompanying essays "A Sense of Being" by Kerri Rosenstein and "I have become persuaded" by Robert Stubblefield. Ian Boyden's meditations in honor of the children killed in the Sichuan, China earthquake of 2008, "A Forest of Names,"headlines the poetry in volume 11. Boyden, in conjunction with Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who tweeted the names of each child on his or her birthday, created these delicate poems as a gesture of empathy for victims and their families in Sichuan. Other poets in volume 11 include Piotr Florczyk, Heather Swan, Sam Roxas-Chua, Ray Amorosi, Grace Grafton, Marc Harshman, Ryan Scariano, Sandra McPherson, Theresa Hamman, Emily Ransdell, Matt Schumacher, Jennifer Oakes (formerly Jennifer Boyden), Christopher Howell, and Thomas Madden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713981984774-AJ36T0PMMJ88IXC8EFKY/vol12_no1_basalt2018_cvr.jpg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 12, number 1 - 2018 Susan Murrell art portfolio, "Transitional Spaces," with accompanying essay "Our Infant Eyes: Susan Murrell" by Amy Wheeler Harwood. Poetry by frequent basalt contributors Thomas Madden, Sandra McPherson, Kerry James Evans, Paulann Petersen, Travis Mossotti, Tami Haaland, Grace Grafton, Simon Perchik, Caitlyn Curran, Michael McGriff, Heather McElwain, John Sibley Williams, Yang Wanli, translated by Gary Young and Yanwen Xu; Lu You, translated by Gary Young and Yanwen Xu; and Robert Ross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713981991317-D6H0YH2EYWSV82FHJP12/vol13_no1_basalt2019_cvr.jpg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 13, number 1 - 2019 Art portfolio by Jennie Kappenman, Dyani White Hawk, Ka'ila Farrell-Smith, and Leah Rose Kolakowski, whose haunting photograph published here, "Bring Her Home" was created to raise awareness for missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. David Axelrod's essay, "I Am Here/I Am Home" accompanies the portfolio. Poets in this volume include F. Daniel Rzicznek, Christina deVillier, Karl Plank, Sarah Gridley, Heather Cahoon, Elizabeth McLagan, Piotr Florczyk, Deborah Buchanan, Cory Hutchinson-Reuss, Marc Harshman, Cameron Scott, David Memmott, Sarah Aronson, Helena Lipstadt, Molly McCarty, Beth McKinney, and John Sibley Williams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713981997808-DOO767YUTDHAAM6DHBNL/vol14_no1_basalt2020_cvr.jpg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 14, number 1 - 2020 Nan Parsons' paintings, which art curator Ben Mitchell praised for their "beauty, grace, and truth," anchors volume 14, with an accompanying comprehensive essay by Mitchell, "Close to What Is Elemental." Poets and writers in volume 14 include Jennifer Oakes (formerly Jennifer Boyden), Michael McGriff, Noah Davis, Paulann Petersen, Christina DeVillier, Christopher Munde, David Koehn, Jane Zwart, Paul Freidinger, Christopher Howell, and prose by Wynne Hungerford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/660eb6800180860ea8a3d65b/1713982000882-SY8NXAT8A2GRUZYN6DKU/vol15_no1_basalt2021_cvr.jpg Basalt: A Journal of Fine and Literary Arts - volume 15, number 1 - 2021 "Love Letters to the Contemporary Native American Art Collection at the Missoula Art Museum" a collection of fine art and accompanying letters headlines volume 15, with commentary by Laura Millin and Brandon Reintjes, "About the Love Letters." Debra Magpie Earling began the portfolio with an apologia, "On Not Writing a Love Letter," followed by Mandy Smoker Broaddus, who responded to Epicenters and Impact by Molly Murphy Adams. David Moore addresses Gorge Spirits Floating 2 by Lillian Pitt, Cory Walsh to Flatlander: Red Cloud Rd. by John Hitchcock. Heather Cahoon extends gratitude to Molly Murphy Adams for her beadwork and ribbon map, Forced North, while Chris La Tray praises Family Watch by Donna Loos. The portfolio concludes with pieces by Cameron Decker on Split War Shield by Corwin Clairmont, Stephen Glueckert on Modern Times by George Longfish, Gail Tremblay on Bestiary by Joe Feddersen and Bill Ransom, Mike Jetty on Wow! Full Blooded White People! by Dwyane Wilcox, and Melissa Kwasny on Epicenters and Impact by Molly Murphy Adams. Other poets in the issue include Liana Sakelliou, translated from the Greek by Don Schofield, Karl Plank, Lyn Domina, Brandon Krieg, Nicole Zdeb, Shann Ray, Martha Silano, Travis Mossotti, Todd Davis, and Tami Haaland. Varon and Axelrod's essay, "Beautiful in Its Bones," concludes the issue.