History & Mission
International
Quarterly
no longer exists, but the literary merits
of its editors & writers continue. I
thank Paula Owens, president of
Southwest School of the Arts, San Antonio, Texas, for
housing the IQ collection & helping Naomi Shihab Nye,
get copies to libraries, classrooms, & students. In time,
more of IQ will be available. Former editors, editorial readers
& their successes:
GEOFFREY
BROCK has major awards for translations, & The New
Criterion Poetry Award--WEIGHING LIGHT, 2005, Ivan
Dee.
PAUL
SHEPHERD, -MORE
LIKE NOT RUNNING AWAY Sarabande (2005), won the Mary McCarthy
Award. .
FAITH
EIDSE &Nina Sichel
edited Unrooted
Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up
Global (with Carlos Fuentes, Pat Conroy, Isabel
Allende) & and Faith, Voices
of the Apalachicola
KIM
GARCIA--her book, Madonna
Magadalene (poems), Turning Point (Fall
2006). She teaches at Boston College, & also writes &
publishes fiction.
CATHERINE
REID--joins the Warren Wilson faculty.
See COYOTE:
SEEKING THE HUNTER IN OUR MIDST (nonfiction)--& with
former editor
HOLLY
IGLESIAS--poet--Every
Woman I've Ever Loved: Lesbian Writers on Their Mothers
& His
Hands, His Tools, His...: Lesbian Writers on Their Fathers.
See BOXING INSIDE
THE BOX, Hands
On Saints
MONIFA
LOVE's 2nd collection, Dreaming Underground won
the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. Her novel
is Freedom in the Dismal.
ED
LOVE sculptor & man of all seasons, was subject of
two books by Monifa. See also ED
LOVE by his friend
VIRGIL
SUAREZ, author of many books of his own fiction &
poetry & editor of many anthologies of the work of others.
CHELSEA
RATHBURN--her poetry collectionTHE SHIFTING LINE (2005),
Evansville Press, won the Richard Wilbur Award.
YVONNE
EDWARDS TUCKER is still exhibiting her art widely.
THOMAS
HEISE, McGill University faculty. His HORROR VACUI (2005)
won the Sarabande Poetry Award.
More
to come
.
