Volume 4, Number 2 (2005)

The second issue of Harpur Palate’s fourth volume includes an esteemed variety of writers, including Milt Kessler Poetry Prize winner Gail Waldstein, author of The Hauntings and To Call this Quitting: Firsthand Tales of a Pediatric Pathologist; Bruce Holland Rogers, winner of the Pushcart Prize, two Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Award, and two World Fantasy awards; Sue William Silverman, guest on The View, The Morning Show, and CNN-Headline News; and Marvin Bell, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature as well as Iowa’s first Poet Laureate. This issue is also from the era of HP that included art & photography in every issue, and is a debut of two art portfolios by Kara D’angelo, which contain a series of black and white photos of fluidly arranged materials that display the fluctuating connections between form and shape. The motifs of this issue question what sounds memory can make, the purpose of yellow and orange, and how God manages to hold space—which are all neatly woven between each letter, word, and sentence crafted across this issue.