Volume 21.2, Winter
2004 
CONVERSATION
Writing a Life: A Conversation with Gary Gildner by Brad L. Roghaar
ART
Mindscapes and Landscapes by Meri DeCaria & John Collins
ESSAYS
My Advice on Writing Advice by David James Duncan
Over the Line: Robert Frost and Trespass by Robert Schnelle
Voles in Their Prime by Robert Schnelle
Homesteading in Virginia: An Academic in Exile by Jim Young
Fashion Stories by Julia Corbett
FICTION
The Romona Tomorrow Story by Gary Gildner
Clear Cut by John Purdy
James Dean by Arthur Winfield Knight
POETRY
The Iguana Knows Your Voice and other poems by Joel Long
Belladonna Nightshade and other poems by Dennis Saleh
Hat Tricks and Wildfire by Barb Lundy
Porch Moths and other poems by Gary Fincke
Fallen Leaves and Still Life by J. L. Kubicek
Dust Devil and Snow in Taos by Catharine Savage Brosman
Give Us This Day and other poems by Ingrid Wendt
Poems by Simon Perchik
READING THE WEST
Volume
21.3, Spring/Summer 2004
SPECIAL COWBOY POETRY FEATURE
CONVERSATION
Word From the Great Basin: A Conversation With Waddie Mitchell
by Mikel Vause
Speaking of Women: A Short Conversation With Carolyn Dufurrena
by Sarah Vause
ESSAY
Keynote Address: 2001 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering by
Waddie Mitchell
COWBOY POETRY
That "No Quit" Attitude and Infraction Distraction by
Waddie Mitchell
Ol' Bunnion and The Last Nail by Don Kennington
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys and other poems by Bob Urry
The Army Surplus Store and A Fish Story by Marilyn S. Diamond
Welcome Rain and other poems by Stan Tixier
ESSAY/POETRY
Sometimes on the Right Kind of Morning… and Water I., Water II.
by Carolyn Dufferna
ART
Ranch and Range: Picturing the Great Basin by Linda Dufurrena
ESSAY
The Mormon Samson: Porter Rockwell by Russell Burrows
Fire and Water by Andrew Wingfield
FICTION
The Otherwise Dark by James Reed
The Cook by Jeff Richards
HUMOR
Coroner
Candidates Vie at Forum by Michael Fedo
POETRY
Writing the Stones of the Dead and Holy Places, Patchouli and Wool
by William Jolliff
Unless I Am Mistaken and other poems by Brad Maxfield
Pika Song at Ten Thousand Feet and other poems by Joanna
Straughn
The Vast Void of Infinity and other poems by Edward Michael
O'Durr Supranowicz
READING THE WEST
Volume
22.1, Fall 2004
CONVERSATION
An Authentic Voice: A Conversation with Ken Brewer by Sunday
Watanabe
ART
Context and Form: Shaping the Lines Between the Natural and the Human
by Jim Jacobs
ESSAYS
Tree of Heaven by Harry Willson
Metamorphosis by Robert B. Smith
To Become As a Child by Pat Ament
Look To Your Soul, By Which You Might Be by Pat Ament
FICTION
Madison Blues by Joseph M. Ditta
Taking Flight
by Gordon T. Allred
Tucker's
Coat by Gene Washington
Force of Habit by D'Wayne Hodgin
POETRY
Proposition
and other poems by Alicia Beale
The Animal Mother
and other poems by Keith Moore
Grounded
and Sanctuary
by Cynthia L. Monroe
Woodwork
and Proprietary Views
by Ken Raines
A Kind of Apple Picking
and other poems by Laura Stott
How Wildness Finds Us
and other poems by Cathryn Essinger
Saltspring, September 10, 2001
and Perfect Pitch
by DM
Gordon
The Gray Cat
and other poems by Michael Salcman
Driftwood
and The Boulders at Lolo Hot Springs
by Michelle
Bonczek
Voluptuaries
and other poems by Paulann Petersen
READING THE WEST
Volume
22.2, Winter 2005
CONVERSATION
An
Appetite for Art: A Conversation with Robert Pinsky by Joel
Passey
ART
Adaptations:
Seeking Survival in a Small World(s) by Jane Catlin
ESSAYS
Letter From the Blackstone River: Under Fog with the Porcupine
Caribou by Shaun T. Griffin
For the Birds by Ron McFarland
The Language of Stone: Stories from Pictograph Caves by Ron
Fischer
FICTION
The Price of
Preservas Prohibidas by Will Michelet
Trapped Alive for Five Months in a Delicatessen by Will Ackerman
Mondegreen by James Barbour
What's (Not) Simple by Diana Joseph
POETRY
Maturities
and other poems by William Kloefkorn
On the Occasion of Your Marriage
and other poems by Myrna Stone
The Web You Weave
and other poems by Ryan G. Van Cleave
Return to Jemez Canyon
and other poems by Anne Wilson
After the End
and other poems by Rob Carney
Bag
and other poems by Matthew James Babcock
Still, Vivid Parrot
and Someone in the Night
by Rob
Stothart
Heritage: Quest to Identity By a Cherokee Granddaughter by Mary
Dezember
READING THE WEST
Volume
22.3, Spring/Summer 2006
CONVERSATION
Unleashing the Comic Muse: An Interview with Robert Dana by
Guy Lebeda
ART
Art as Alchemy: Capturing the Sacred State of Discovery by
Brian T. Kershisnik
ESSAYS
Narrative, Creative Nonfiction and The Personal Essay: Housing
the Text by Donna Rigby
What's Heaven Without a Gate? by
Ana Maria Spagna
Cemeteries
by Gary Fincke
FICTION
In the Shade of the Wavering Palms
by Anis Shivani
Speak Up, Voice
by Sarah Sarai
Pigfarmer's Stepdaughter
by Stephanie Dickinson
POETRY
Short Suite
and other
poems, by Robert Dana
Saving the Dog
and other poems
by Taylor Graham
Wake
and other poems
by Sunni Brown
Perspective
and Teachings On The Banks of The Lochsa by
Linda Cooper
The Overseer Of Birds
and Kaniksu by
Tim Kahl
Sharing the Tornado's View
and other poems
by Christine Delea
False Season
and other poems
by Scott K. Odom
Gray Tree
and other poems
by Shawn Pittard
Morning
and other poems
by William Virgil Davis
A Map of Grass
and The Hammock
by
Hamish Guthrie
The Crow in the Driveway
and The
Ghost of Brutus Hawkins… by Robert Cooperman
Fishing With a Witch
and Barrowed Emblems
by
John Randolph Carter
READING THE WEST
Volume 23.1, Fall
2006
CONVERSATION
Capturing the American Experience: A Conversation with Ken Burns by
Mikel Vause
ART
Plein Air Paintings: John Hughes, Doug Braithwaite, David Koch, and
Roberta Glidden
ESSAYS
Sharing the American Experience by Ken Burns
Many Rivers Run Through Their Friendship by Andrew Wingfield
Chasing the Light by Roberta Glidden
An Ecology of Time by Robert King
Gift Giving by Ruth Ann Dandrea
FICTION
Click by Bonnie Hale
Backtracking Lewis & Clark Through Idaho by Ron McFarland
Mansion View
and other short fiction by Kristine Somerville
Testimony by Martin Naparsteck
POETRY
How Water Works
and other poems by Michael Johnson
When Chagall Dreams
and other poems by Moira Linehan
Under Ice
and About Survival
by Georgia Tiffany
Words
and other poems by Mikel Vause
Lessons
and Hands
by Nancy Burke
The Given
and other poems by Barry Ballard
Desert Riparian
and other poems by Gary Every
READING THE WEST
Volume 23.2,
Winter 2007
CONVERSATION
Getting
Weathered: A Conversation with Christopher Camuto by Melora
Wolff
ESSAY & ART
Bear,
Bison, and Bacteria: The Microbiology of Yellowstone Park by
Craig Oberg
ESSAYS
In
a Landscape by Christopher Camuto
Clay
Lessons by Judy Elsley
Deadwood
by Karen Babine
FICTION
Spin
and
other short fiction by David McGlynn
The
Companion of Our Dreams by William Woolfitt
Marks
and
Swallows Day by Richard Robbins
Dancing
with the Dentist at the Blue Gardenia Ballroom by Michael Fedo
POETRY
Symbiosis
and Pots on the Windowsill
by Nancy Takacs
The Creature Considers Nature
and other poems by Jerry Harp
November Snow
and other poems by Christian Knoeller
The Connotation of Rain
and Ruminations
by Charlotte
McCaffrey
Dangerous Mountain
and other poems by Shawn Fawson
Power Outage Before the First Snow
and other poems by Jennifer
Richardson
READING THE WEST
Volume
23.3, Spring/Summer 2007
CONVERSATION
The Mysteries of the Ordinary: A Conversation with Stephen Dunn by
N. Colwell Snell
ART
Capturing the Big Picture by Richard Caldwell
ESSAYS
The Great American Predator by Stephen Markley
News Flash: Walt Whitman Advises Teens to "Skip" Poetry?
by John Schwiebert
Calendars of Sun and Moon by Simmons B. Buntin
FICTION
Rides & Conversations by Edward Black
Drive by Robert H. Smith
The Archivist's Daughter by Jenny Hanning
Goleta, My Love by Sheila MacAvoy
Company Man by Chad Unrein
POETRY
The Routine Things Around the House and At the Smithville
Methodist Church by Stephen Dunn
Five for Truth
and How She Keeps Faith by Camille
Dungy
Mud Season and Practice by Erin Coughlin Hollowell
Pastoral Storm and other poems by Susan Varnot
Nocturne Chinle Strata and other poems by David Lee
Four of the Stargazers and other poems by Paulann Petersen
For Erika
and other poems by Cathryn Essinger
Global Warming Scenarios: Rocky Mountain Region by Claudia Putnam
Killdeer, etc.
and Vienna 1965 by N. Colwell Snell
Drinking with the Poets on the Dock
and other poems by Tara
Powell
Jeffers at the Edward Weston Show
and other poems by Susan
Kelly-DeWitt
Frogs, Unique Masters of the Dark
and One Heron in Buenos
Aires by Luis Benitez
Poems About Naked by William Winfield Wright
Climbing in Little Cottonwood Canyon
and Watching Bald Eagles
on my 59th Birthday by Terry Gifford
Stone Mirror
and other poems by Tom Jones
READING THE WEST
Volume 24.1, Fall
2007
Editor's Preface
CONVERSATION
A Century of Jazz: A Conversation with Joe McQueen at 88 by
Michael Wutz
Beyond
Death: A Conversation with Alice Sebold by Becky Joe (Gesteland)
McShane
ART
Naming the Unnamed
by Suzanne Kanatsiz
ESSAYS
R. C. Gorman and J. D. Challenger: Two Hearts of the
West by Larry Tritten
Singing
by Gary Fincke
The Shadow Side
by Susan Marsh
It
Ain't Las Vegas by Sally Charette
FICTION
Them There Eyes
by Ercole Joseph Gaudioso
Aunt Clara's Keys
by Karen Batchelor
GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
The Escape Artist
by Martin R. Dean
POETRY
Cosmogony
and other poems
by Lois Marie Harrod
Cleaning
the Watergap and other poems
by William Jolliff
Creature and Astronomy in the Dark by
Taylor Graham
On the Way to Nicaragua
and other poems
by Joannie Kervran Stangeland
In the Green Door Bazaar
and
Who Deserves Mercy More? by Susannah W. Simpson
The Russian Olives
and other poems
by Grace Danborn
spying on my father as gardener
and other poems
by Brian Burke
Fish Like Angels
and Blue Steel by
Katie Kingston
Another Entry
and other poems
by Rabindra K. Swain
READING THE WEST
Volume 24.2,
Winter 2008
CONVERSATION
On
Politics, Poetry and Mentoring: A Conversation with Carolyn Forché by
N. Colwell Snell
ART
Works
in Motion by Frank Anthony "Tony" Smith
ESSAYS
Bringing
the Dead to Life: An Explanation of War by John H. Timmerman
FICTION
Perpetual
Motion by John Lindgren
Down,
Down, Down Into the Valley of the Snake by Elizabeth Buechner
Morris
Motel
Man by Richard Dokey
GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
The
Treatment by Ronald Frame
FILMFOCUS
Professing
Spirituality: Bollywood Fantasies and the Return of Religion
by Samir Dayal
Between
Moscow and Hollywood: China's National Cinema at Weber State University
by Greg Lewis
On
the Threat to American Bodies: The View From Abroad Inside a Movie
Theater by Andreas Ströhl
Not
the Usual Suspects: Revising the Code of the Male Heist in Sugar
& Spice by Madonne Miner
POETRY
The Museum of Stones by Carolyn Forché
A Poet of the Farmyard
and other poems by John Grey
Looking at the Bright Side
and On a Path Along the Hudson by
Marvin Glasser
10 Haikus by Rebecca Lilly
Whale Breaching
and other poems by Linda Swanberg
The Unsent Letter
and other poems by Christopher Barnes
Born Under a Caul and A Murmuring by Doug Ramspeck
RE-READING THE WESTERN
Volume
24.3, Spring/Summer 2008
CONVERSATION
On Wolves, Wildlife, and Weather: A Conversation with Douglas W.
Smith by Sam Zeveloff, Breanna Bartosz, Kristen Gurr
Trout Fishing in America: A Conversation with John Gierach by
Lawrence E. Morgan
LAKE
BONNEVILLE FEATURE
Water Song
and
other poems by Ken Brewer
Navigating Lake Bonneville
(Music CD) by Brad Richter
Drawing on the Pleistocene by Mark Biddle
A Brief History of Lake Bonneville by Adolph Yonkee
From Salt to Struts and Flats to Fenders—An Unnaturally Natural
Combination by Michael Wutz
ART
Watching Your Language by Mark Biddle
ESSAYS
Ten Years After: An Intimate Account of the Yellowstone Wolf Story
by Douglas W. Smith
Tracking the White Wolf by Richard Littell
Closed Range by Michael Engelhard
Surviving Paradise by Brandon Cesmat
Back to the Future: Savion Glover by Erik Stern
On Writing and Being Written About by John Gierach
FICTION
Museum of Broken Guitars by Roger Sheffer
Intercourse by Robert Olen Butler
GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
Finimondo by Piotr Siemion
POETRY
Reconsider the Impertinence of Cicadas
and The Maple by
Marjorie Roberts
Homework
and other poems by Ken Raines
Occupation by Katie S. Terry
Winter Solstice by David Lee
READING THE
WEST
In Memoriam William Mulder
Volume 25.1, Fall 2008
CONVERSATION
Brick by Brick—A Conversation with Billy Collins by Adam
Johnston
On Life, Art, and Politics—A Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye
by Kathleen M. Herndon
ART
Painting From This Remove by Lori Nelson
ESSAYS
The Real West by Andrea Clark Mason
Owachomo—Time's Bridge by John Nizalowski
Interplay—The
Need for Wilderness by Mike Freeman
FICTION
Scarf by James Iredell
Shoelaces by J. C. Geiger
GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
Al-Qaeda's Kitchen by Fadia Faqir
POETRY
A Dog on his Master
and Feedback by Billy Collins
Holy Saturday
and other poems by Peter Cooley
Biloxi Bay Bridge Still Out and other poems by Nicole
Cooley
doorway dream
and other poems by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
Talkin' with a Woman and Wagon Trails by James J. Isaacs
A Shady Little Pain and other poems by Liz Waldner
Photographs
and other poems by William Virgil Davis
Women in Starlet-pink… Sly Smiles
and other poems by Red
Shuttleworth
MIDDLE
EAST FOCUS
Serious Cartoons
and
other poems by Helene Pilibosian
Al-Qaeda's Kitchen by Fadia Faqir
My Heart Breaks for the Little Garden
and other poems by Forough Farrokzhad
On Life, Art, and Politics—A Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye
by Kathleen Herndon
Compass by Naomi
Shihab Nye
Poetry Everyday—Yemen 1993
by Elmaz Abinader
Narrative by Hayan Charara
Black Pearls by Kathleen Herndon
Armenian Memories—Living and Surviving in 1940s Tehran by Mel
K. Melcomian
READING THE
WEST
Volume 25.2,
Winter 2009
ART & CONVERSATION
Art is My Reality by Pilar Pobil
Pilar Pobil—Creator of Her Own Reality by Alicia Giralt
ESSAYS
The Triumph of Mind Over Nebraska by Todd Richardson
Who We Eating Tonight? by David Tippetts
FICTION
The Kitty by David Braly
A Son of Abraham by M. E. Parker
GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
Whispers by Daniel Zahno
FILMFOCUS
Clean Hands and Dirty
Hands—Colonial Violence in The Proposition by Sascha Pöhlmann
Imminent Future—Sci-Fi Film and the Construction of Soundscapes
by Matthias Piccolruaz Konzett
Yellowface and Racial Mimicry in World War II B Film
by Delia Caparoso Konzett
Occidental Interest, Oriental Silence—Iranian Cinema and/in the
Global Context by Proshot Kalami
POETRY
Saturday Again and other poems by Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Upcountry Overlook: Kula, Maui and Praise for the Tortoise
by Eric Paul Shaffer
Now Here, Nowhere and other poems by Michael Bazzett
Sobrevivir en Invierno and other poems by Alicia Giralt
READING THE WEST
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