September/October 1987 
Writers, Theorists, and the Department of English
Peter Stitt
I am told there is a problem; apparently, some members of AWP are alarmed that "theorists" are gradually taking over the departments of English, thereby making the life of writers and writing students miserable. I am going to assume essentially the perspective of graduate students in creative writing; they are the persons who feel these things most directly.
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An Interview with Philip Levine
Liam Rector
The following interview took place between Philip Levine and Liam Rector in July, 1987.
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How the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Assist Writers
Barry H. Slinker
These questions were raised just last week and are just some of the hundreds of problems that are handled each month at Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA), a national, not-for-profit arts service organization with headquarters in New York City.
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Rocks in Our Beds: A Dark Valentine to New England
John Clellon Holmes
John Clellon Hoimes closed an enviable teaching career when he took early retirement from the writing program at the University of Arkansas and returned with his wife, Shirley, to their home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. For a generation he had sharpened the edges of writers at Arkansas, Iowa, Bowling Green, and Brown, serving a term along the way on the board of AWP.
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