Acknowledgements - Issue 3
Stone Canoe Number 3 is dedicated to W.D. Snodgrass, widely acknowledged as one of the most important poets of the modern era, winner of countless prizes and honors, and a good friend to our journal since its inception. "De" taught at Syracuse University from 1968-78, and helped shape the careers of many important poets of the succeeding generation, some of whom have appeared in our pages. We are proud to feature in this issue four of his better-known poems, including an excerpt from his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Heart’s Needle, and their companion paintings by his long-time friend and collaborator DeLoss McGraw.
Special thanks to the following people for their help and support in the creation of our third issue:
Rob Aronson, Aronson Media Group
Judy Barringer, Program Director, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts
Jean Brooks, Assistant Director, Donor Relations and Alumni Programs, S.I. Newhouse School of Public
Communications, Syracuse University
Nancy Cantor, Chancellor and President, Syracuse University
Rob Eslin, Communications Manager, The College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University
Bea González, Dean, University College, Syracuse University
Mary Lee Hodgens, Program Manager, Light Work
Jeffrey Lependorf, Jay Baron Nicorvo, and Jamie Schwarz, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
William Patrick, Director, New York State Summer Young Writer’s Institute
Thom Ward, Editor, BOA Editions, Ltd.
Thanks to the Stone Canoe Advisory Board for their wise counsel and support:
Omanii Abdullah-Grace, Paul Aviles, Judy Barringer, Peter Blanck, Carole Brzozowski, Michael Burkard, Carol Charles, William Delavan, Stephen Dunn, Arthur Flowers, Wendy Gonyea, Kenneth Hine, Jeffrey Hoone, Johanna Keller, Christopher Kennedy, Robin Wall Kimmerer, David Lloyd, David MacDonald, Timothy Mahar, Pamela McLaughlin, Philip Memmer, Elizabeth O’Rourke, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Maria Russell, Carol Terry, Suzanne Thorin, Silvio Torres-Saillant, John von Bergen.
Thanks to Mary Karr for the use of her September 28, 2008, “Poet’s Choice” column from The Washington Post, a succinct and beautifully worded tribute to the Syracuse University poets who have gone before her.
Thanks also to our loyal sponsors, without whom this publication would not be possible. Their individual pages appear in the back of the journal.
Stone Canoe is pleased to have the following Saltonstall grant awardees represented in the current issue:
Marianne Barcellona, Judith Baumel, Elaine Defibaugh, Shelley Ettinger, Paul Farinacci, Lisbeth Firmin, Eric Gansworth, Naomi Guttman, Tatana Kellner, Nancy Kline, Nancy Sirkis, and Sylvia de Swaan.
The four W.D. Snodgrass poems printed in this issue come from his collection Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2006), and are used with permission of the publisher.
“Whisk Broom 50,” “Again That,” “Hatred,” and “He Needs” are from the forthcoming book Dark Things, poems by Novica Tadić, translated by Charles Simic, (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2009), and are used with permission of the publisher.
This publication has been awarded a regrant from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, supported in turn by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Cover Art: Brendan (Icon) by Jon Christopher Gernon, egg tempera and 23k gold leaf on wood panel, 11"x11", 2005, Colelction of Deidre Healy.
