50th Anniversary Archives

Poems, stories, essays, and artifacts from SHR’s first fifty years in print

We’ve published some of America’s finest writers over the past fifty years, which leaves us with file cabinets full of editorial correspondence, promotional materials, and internal documents chronicling a rich history in publishing. Here, we’ll cull the best pieces from our archives and share them with you—including the poems, stories, and essays from SHR’s past that demand a second life online.
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POETRY

Cathy Smith Bowers
Ada 1912
VOL 15.4, FALL 1981

Fred Chappell
Latencies
VOL 18.4, FALL 1984

Richard Foerster
Street Scene
VOL 12.2, SPRING 1978

William Heyen
While We Are Still Alive
VOL 20.4, FALL 1986

Denise Levertov
Caedmon
VOL 19.3, SUMMER 1985

Sharon Olds
I Could Not Tell
VOL 14.1, WINTER 1980

Mary Ruefle
Arturo’s Song
VOL 13.4, FALL 1989

Louis Simpson
A Bramble Bush
VOL 19.4, FALL 1985

Julie Suk
A Cut in the Mountain
VOL 17.3, SUMMER 1983

Miller Williams
Guided Tour
VOL 1.1, SPRING 1967
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FICTION

Ivo Andric
Death in Sinan’s Monastery
VOL 21.4, FALL 1987

Donald Hall
Princess Ostrich
VOL 22.1, WINTER 1988

Greg Johnson
A & P Revisited
VOL 24.3, SUMMER 1990

Jesse Lee Kercheval
Gravity
VOL 27.4, FALL 1993

R. T. Smith
Wade
VOL 24.3, SUMMER 1990

Joyce Carol Oates
A Lecture Upon the Shadow
VOL 2.1, WINTER 1968

Kevin Wilson
Tiller Family Soup
VOL 41.4, FALL 2007
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ESSAYS

Noam Chomsky
Class War: The Attack on Working People
VOL 30.1, WINTER 1996

Vicki Covington
The House Within
VOL 26.1, WINTER 1992

Lydia Davis
“Remember the Van Wagenens”
VOL 33.1, WINTER 1999

Gary Fincke
The Faces of Christ
VOL 29.3, SUMMER 1995

Patricia Foster
The Hopscotch Girl
VOL 30.1, WINTER 1996

Donald Hall
Baseball-Time
VOL 20.3, SUMMER 1986
WITH AUDIO!

Jerald Walker
How to Make a Slave
CULTURAL MEMOIR ISSUE
BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2014

Lee Zacharias
Buzzards
VOL 41.2, SPRING 2007
BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2008
ARTIFACTS

1966 Promotional Poster
FROM THE FILE CABINET

R. T. Smith
On Fifty Years of SHR
REMARKS FROM AWP 2017

SPECIAL THANKS TO CAROLINE BARR, CHASE FRALEY, J. J. NELSON, HANNAH SKJELLUM, AND CHARLES F. STERCHI IV FOR THEIR INVALUABLE ASSISTANCE IN COMPILING OUR ELECTRONIC ARCHIVES.