May 1985
The Yuppie Poet
Ariel Dawson
A few months ago, Newsweek did its cover story on the young urban professional or yuppie, the acronym a play on the yippies that many yuppies used to be. According to the Newsweek article, militant careerism and conspicuous acquisitiveness (particularly in the area of real estate) are the yuppie’s identifying characteristics, those and an average individual income of $50,000 a year.
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Inside: The University of Denver
Stephen Coyne
When I left my community college teaching job in North Carolina to come to the University of Denver and take a Ph.D. in creative writing, I was motivated largely by a desire for change—change in climate, culture, attitude, scenery, intellectual environment and employment possibilities. I was not disappointed. I had been teaching my five or six courses a quarter for either years and taking summers of to travel and write. I was seeing the world by bits and pieces and publishing a few poems in small places, but where was I getting?
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The Owl in the Kitchen: Inside the University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series
Ronald Wallace
I am sitting in my old farmhouse in the hills of Richland County, Wisconsin. Outside, the waxwings are thrumming in the cedar tree, getting drunk on fermented berries. Across the road, on the south slope among the burr oaks and hickories, heifers are grazing, beige against the gray day’s rain. In the yard, the last few crickets of October are chirring in grass too green for autumn.
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How to Accept Nothing on Faith
C.S. Giscombe
My thinking about all this really started earlier this year when word came that a poet whose work we’ve been casually rejecting for years at Epoch had had a book, a collection, taken by one of the big New York City publishing houses. That news upset me some, for reasons that are not, in themselves, extraordinary.
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