This issue of Third Coast features eight short stories, poems by 17 writers and the interview conducted with Merwin. Among the writers featured are Richard Jackson, Allan Peterson, Richard Robbins and Scott Withiam. Jackson, a Fulbright exchange poet to Yugoslavia, has written several books and won four Pushcart Prizes. His work has been exhibited throughout the world and is included in the collections of The Upjohn Institute, Albion College, Michigan State University, the Boston Museum and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. Third Coast's editorial board is made up of graduate students in the department's creative writing program.
Faculty members serve as advisory editors.
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