September 1988 
Poland: Form and Freedom
Robert Pinsky
This is a personal essay. I'd like to explore the ideas of form, freedom and control by leading up to a particular time when I was brought to consider a poem of mine in a cultural setting just a little different from my accustomed one. Some of the material will be autobiographical, and I'll risk some generalities—by way of introduction.
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The Thirty-Seven Percent Solution
David Daniel and Liam Rector
In the forthcoming Fall ADE Bulletin, Robert D. Denham writes, "37% of all teachers in higher education are now on part-time contracts, and the rate of growth in part-time hiring has been almost 1% a year since 1972."1 The implications of these statistics threaten both the quality of education provided and the welfare of teachers themselves.
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Bringing the Strange Home
Stephen Dunn
Czeslaw Milosz, in his book of essays The Witness of Poetry, eloquently states one of the dilemmas facing the modem poet: When poets discover that their words refer only to other words and not to reality which must be described as faithfully as possible, they despair.
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The Old Testament and Feminist Imagination
Alicia Ostriker
What happens when women writers re-imagine culture? What happens when we re-imagine that profoundly masculine ur-text of Western culture, the Bible? A few years ago in my book on contemporary American women's poetry, Stealing the Language, I surveyed what I call "revisionist mythmaking" by contemporary women poets.
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