ZYZZYVA 93 / San Francisco, CA
New England Review 32.3 / Middlebury, VT
DIAGRAM 11.4 / Tucson, AZ
Camera Obscura 3 / Addison, TX
Fiddleblack 2 / Peninsula, OH
Barrelhouse 9 / Washington, DC
Antioch Review Fall 2011 / Yellow Springs, OH
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Gigantic Sequins 2.2 / Philadelphia, PA
Paris Review 199 / Manhattan, NY
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Julia Johnson is the author of the poetry collections Naming the Afternoon and The Falling Horse. She is an associate professor in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences.
The following is the introduction to Mississippi Review volume 39, numbers 1-3, an issue reprinting highlights from Frederick Barthelme’s three decades as editor of the magazine. Introduction: Thirty Years Before the Mast Thirty-three and a half, to be exact. That’s how long Frederick Barthleme worked as editor of Mississippi Review, an odd little bi-annual literary magazine
