Sentence 5 includes:

- The Prose Poem in Asia, a special Sentence Feature edited by Steve Bradbury, Andrea Lingenfelter, Jeffrey Angles, and Don Mee Choi

- Prose poems from China by Lu Xun, Shang Qin, Liu Kexiang, Hsia Yü, Xi Chuan, Jiao Tong, Hung Hung, Ye Mimi, and He Chuanfu; essay and translations by Steve Bradbury and Andrea Lingenfelter

- Prose poems from Korea by Ch’oe Sŭng-ja, Yi Yŏn-ju, and Kim Hyesoon; essay and translations by Don Mee Choi

- Prose poems from Japan by Kasuya Eiichi, Takahashi Mutsuo, Suzuki Shirōyasu, Itō Hiromi, Hirata Toshiko, Yuko Minamikawa Adams, Abe Hinako, and Tatehata Akira; essay and translations by Jeffrey Angles, with additional translations by Sawako Nakayasu and Hiroaki Sato

- Additional prose poems by Mark Yakich, Robert Strong, Andrew Neuendorf, Steve Myers, Kevin Cantwell, D. E. Steward, Chloë Daimyo, Eileen Tabios, Erica Anzalone, Nick Twemlow, Ravi Shankar, Robert Hill Long, James Grinwis, Catherine Sasanov, Emma Ramey, Carrie Etter, Tanesia Hale-Jones, Angela Jane Fountas, Kelle Groom, Kass Fleisher, Alexandra van de Kamp, Jon Davis, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Karen Holman, Brian Johnson, David Lazar, Michael Meyerhofer, Michael Koshkin, Christine Gelineau, Liana Scalettar, Neil de la Flor, James Fowler, Jay Snodgrass, Siobhán Scarry, Richard Gwyn, Julia Story, Monique van den Berg, Mark Cunningham, Christopher Buckley, Sandy McIntosh, Edward Bartók-Baratta, Ed Orr, Wayne Sullins, Jill Khoury, Jenny Browne, Charles Fort, Kevin Haworth, Kalev Hantsoo, Kazim Ali, Ann Howells, Kristin Ryling, Virgilio Piñera, Rauan Klassnik, James R. Scrimgeour, Jessy Randall, David James, Peter Conners, Luke Kennard, Daniel Grandbois, George Kalamaras, Brooke Horvath, Alex Galper, Steve Timm, Geoff Bouvier, Bill Berkson, Richard Kostelanetz, Daniel Borzutzky, Raymond L. Bianchi, and Joe Ahearn

- Views and Reviews by Brian Johnson, Joe Ahearn, Sally Ashton, Brian Brennan, Thomas Fink, Brooke Horvath, Matthew W. Schmeer, Ellen McGrath Smith, Rebecca Spears, Jerry McGuire, and Chris Murray

Sentence #4

Guest-editor Peter Johnson has selected prose poems for this issue from Robert Alexander, John Allman, Nin Andrews, Margaret Atwood, Walter Bergen, Chad Bartlett, Louis E. Bourgeois, John Bradley, Jen Bryant, Laura Chester, Killarney Clary, Peter Conners, Matthew Cooperman, Andy Cox, Talia Danesi, Cortney Davis, Michel Delville, Denise Duhamel, Jamey Dunham, Tom Dvorske, Russell Edson, Richard Garcia, Scott Glassman, Georges Godeau (tr. Kathleen McGookey), Ray Gonzalez, Nolan Heinz, Cecil Helman, Friedrich Holderlin (tr. Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff), Louis Jenkins, Brian Johnson, Roxane Beth Johnson, Alice Jones, Christine Boyka Kluge, Ginger Knowlton, Mary A. Koncel, Gerry LaFemina, David Lehman, P. H. Liotta, Rachel Loden, Gian Lombardo, Eric Lorberer, Robert Lunday, Morton Marcus, Campbell McGrath, Joyelle McSweeney, Jay Meek, Christopher Merrill, Robert Miltner, Michelle Noteboom, Nina Nyhart, Ethan Paquin, Jane Lunin Perel, Chris Propst, Kerry Reilly, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Maureen Seaton, David Shumate, Barry Silesky, James Tate, Ryan van Cleave, Mark Vinz, Liz Waldner, Rosmarie Waldrop, Thom Ward, Charles Harper Webb, Bruce Weigl, Tom Whalen, Elizabeth Willis, Max Winter, Peter Wortsman, Kirby Wright, and Gary Young.

S4 also features essays by Marjorie Perloff, Peter Johnson, and Rolf Hughes. Also, Joe Ahearn reviews Sight Progress, by Zhang Er; Sally Ashton reviews Povel, by Geraldine Kim; Jarret Green reviews The Feast, by Walter Bargen; Brooke Horvath reviews Heart of Anthracite, by Campbell McGrath; Gian Lombardo reviews two books by Carlos M. Luis and Derek White; Ellen McGrath Smith reviews The Richard Nixon Snow Globe, by Rachel Loden; Jerry McGuire reviews Even the Java Sparrows Call Your Hair, by George Kalamaras; Chris Murray reviews nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement (she, by Sawako Nakayasu; Ravi Shankar reviews Precise Machine, by Dennis Barone; and Rebecca Spears reviews The After-Death History of My Mother, by Sandy McIntosh. Also included is a bibliography of recent articles and books on prose poetry, prose poets, and the poetics of the prose poem.

Sentence #3

S3 features a special section on The Prose Poem in Great Britain, edited and introduced by N. Santilli, with work by Andy Brown, John Burnside, Vahni Capildeo, B. Catling, Patricia Debney, Roy Fisher, Alan Halsey, Cecil Helman, Rolf Hughes, Norman Jope, Rupert M. Loydell, Rod Mengham, Christopher Middleton, David Miller, Geraldine Monk, Christopher North, Brian Louis Pearce, Peter Reading, Peter Redgrove, Peter Riley, Gavin Selerie, Andrew Shelley, Ken Smith, and Aaron Williamson.

Other S3 contributors include Joe Ahearn, Radu Andriescu, Sally Ashton, Ben Azul, Carol Bardoff, Edward Bartók-Baratta, Reva Blau, Joe Bonomo, Susan Briante, John Briggs, Christopher Buckley, Maxine Chernoff, Paul Colinet, Margarito Cuéllar, Robin Cunningham, Catherine Daly, Robin Dare, Cortney Davis, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Russell Edson, kari edwards, Elisabeth Frost, Arturo Giovannitti, Dennis Gonzalez, Noah Eli Gordon, Jeff Harrison, Michael Helsem, Bob Heman, Brooke Horvath, Theo Hummer, Tateo Imamura, George Kalamaras, Janet Kaplan, Charles Kesler, Milton Kessler, Gerry LaFemina, Juliana Leslie, Rachel Levitsky, Rebecca Lilly, Marjorie Manwaring, Michael Martone, Jerry McGuire, Derek McKown, Chris Murray, Daniel Nester, John Olson, Papa Osmubal, Shin Yu Pai, Rochelle Ratner, Andrew Michael Roberts, Matthew W. Schmeer, Leonard Schwartz, Dale Smith, Ellen McGrath Smith, Alan Sondheim, Adam J. Sorkin, Rebecca Spears, Hugh Steinberg, Steven J. Stewart, Charles Harper Webb, and Stephanie Woolley-Larrea.

A Gathering of Contemporary British Prose Poets

Participants in the Sentence #3 Launch Event and Reading. Hosted by Nikki Santilli at Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell Close, London, England, November 25, 2005.

From left to right, back row: Andy Brown, Brian Louis Pearce, Brian Catling, Rod Mengham, Aaron Williamson, and Brian Clements. Front row: David Miller, Nikki Santilli, Cecil Helman, Patricia Debney, Vahni Capildeo, Gavin Selerie, Geraldine Monk, and Alan Halsey. MORE PHOTOS

Sentence #2

Firewheel Editions is proud to present the second issue of Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics, featuring Vicente Aleixandre, Sally Ashton, Tia Black, John Bradley, Brian Brennan, Susan Briante, Sean McLain Brown, Luis Cernuda, Paul Christensen, Lyndsey Cohen, Peter Conners, Ángel Crespo, Michel Delville, Paul Dickey, Matthew Dickman, Linh Dinh, kari edwards, Keith Ekiss, Mauricio Espinoza, Elisabeth Frost, Gloria Frym, Alice George, Maria Giachetti, Arielle Greenberg, Mark Halperin, Susan Holahan, Brooke Horvath, Peter Johnson, Stephen Kessler, Tahseen al Khateeb, Ann Killough, Christine Boyka Kluge, Phyllis Koestenbaum, Lesle Lewis, Rachel Loden, Gian Lombardo, Robert Hill Long, Robert Lowes, Deanna Kern Ludwin, Dennis Maloney, Dan Manchester, John Martone, Kathleen McGookey, Jerry McGuire, Sandy McIntosh, Ben Miller, Gabrielle Mistral, Craig Moodie, Christine Murray, Amjad Nasser, Pablo Neruda, Cynthia Nichols, Eunice Odio, Carlos Edmundo de Ory, Philip Pardi, John Richards, R. L. Rimas, Dan Rzicznek, Jaime Sabines, Davis Schneiderman, Leonard Schwartz, Daryl Scroggins, Michele Shauf, Barry Silesky, Dale Smith, Ellen McGrath Smith, Christopher Soden, Rebecca Spears, Joseph Starr, Steven J. Stewart, Chris Stroffolino, Mark Terrill, Anthony Tognazzini, Mark Tursi, Kyle Vaughn, Phil West, Tom Whalen, Scott Withiam, and Clark Zlotchew.

Sentence #1

Congratulations to Jamey Dunham! His prose poem, "Urban Myth" from Sentence No. 1, has been selected for publication in Best American Poetry 2005.

The premier issue of Sentence: a Journal of Prose Poetics features Joe Ahearn, Eric Anderson, Edward Bartók-Baratta, Brian Brennan, Beth Archer Brombert, Maxine Chernoff, Paul Christensen, Catherine Daly, Chad Davidson, Jeff Davis, Ana Delgadillo, Michel Delville, Matthew Dickman, Denise Duhamel, Jamey Dunham, Russell Edson, Mary Feeney, Jean Follain, Richard Garcia, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Ray Gonzalez, Noah Eli Gordon, Joshua Green, Gabriel Gudding, Jeff Harrison, Jocelyn Heaney, Michael Helsem, Brooke Horvath, Theo Hummer, Max Jacob, David James, Peter Johnson, nwenna kai, Janet Kaplan, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Mary A. Koncel, William T. Kulik, Lewis LaCook, Gerry LaFemina, David Lehman, Gian Lombardo, Morton Marcus, William Matthews, Ann E. Michael, Jane Lunin Perel, Francis Ponge, P. F. Potvin, Matthew Roth, Mary Ruefle, Kristin Ryling, Matthew W. Schmeer, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Susan M. Schultz, Leonard Schwartz, Daryl Scroggins, Alan Sondheim, Rebecca Spears, Donna Steiner, Gregg Thompson, John A. Ward, Ian Randall Wilson, Cecilia Woloch, Gary Young, and Zhang Er.