PAST ISSUES

Present – 2010

  • Cover artwork of River Styx 109

    River Styx 109: Posthuman

    What makes us human—what makes us human now, on a planet that feels increasingly hostile to life—is the central question of River Styx 109: Posthuman.

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    River Styx 108: Chronicles

    River Styx 108: Chronicles excavates the buried past from the desert sands.

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  • Cover artwork of River Styx 107

    River Styx 107

    Featuring new writing by Jake Fournier, Katya Apekina, Mark Mayer, Fortunato Salazar, James Crews, Sarah Viren, Jane Wong, and more.

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  • Cover artwork of River Styx 105/106

    River Styx 105/106

    Featuring Susan Perabo, Brian Simoneau, Kasey Jueds, Siew David Hii, Amy M. Alvarez, Ann Hudson, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 103/104.

    River Styx 103/104

    Featuring Jacqueline Berger, Lyn Li Che, Gary Fincke, Adrian Matejka, Michael Byers, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 102.

    River Styx 102

    Featuring Lee Martin, Michelle Peñaloza, Donald Platt, Marjorie Stelmach, John Samuel Tieman, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 101.

    River Styx 101

    Featuring Idris Anderson, Walter Bargen, Oliver de la Paz, Bibhu Padhi, Mary Troy, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 100.

    River Styx 100

    Featuring Ena Djordjevic, Allison Joseph, David James Poissant, John McNally, Francesca Bell, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 99.

    River Styx 99

    Featuring Sonia Greenfield, Ray Osborn, Chelsea Woodard, Kate Click, Phong Nguyen, Alex Myers, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 98.

    River Styx 98

    Featuring D. M. Aderibigbe, Kate Click, Rusty Morrison, Janelle Bassett, Tim Lane, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 97.

    River Styx 97

    Featuring David Wagoner, Jeff Worley, Sunil Iyengar, Jared Harel, Sharon Hashimoto, Jeffrey Hammond, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 96.

    River Styx 96

    Featuring Steven Schreiner, Daniel Bourne, Susan Elizabeth Howe, William Trowbridge, Francesca Bell, Albert Goldbarth, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 95.

    River Styx 95

    Featuring Cate Lycurgus, Thomas Lux, Amit Majmudar, Cornelius Eady, Michael Czyniejewski, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 94.

    River Styx 94

    Featuring Maryann Corbett, Martha Zweig, Ned Balbo, David Clewell, Margaret Hermes, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 93.

    River Styx 93

    Featuring Thomas R. Moore, Albert Goldbarth, Noel Crook, Ted Kooser, Catherine Rankovic, Richard Burgin, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 91/92.

    River Styx 91/92: 39th Anniversary Issue

    Featuring Kim Addonizio, Stephen Dunn, Ted Kooser, Andrew Kozma, Dorianne Laux, Lee Upton, David Stevens, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 90.

    River Styx 90: American Odes

    Featuring Lucinda Roy, Charles Harper Webb, Al Maginnes, Pamela Painter, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 89.

    River Styx 89

    Featuring Brenna Lemieux, Judith Barrington, Mark Wisniewski, Amanda Churchill, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 88.

    River Styx 88: End of the World

    Featuring Lee Upton, Albert Goldbarth, Juliana Gray, Jeffrey Hammond, George Singleton, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 87.

    River Styx 87

    Featuring George Bilgere, Travis Mossotti, Francesca Bell, Albert Goldbarth, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 86.

    River Styx 86

    Featuring Elton Glaser, Marianne Kunkel, Tim Mayo, Robert Levy, Lucinda Roy, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 85.

    River Styx 85: Circles of Hell

    Featuring A.E. Stallings, Christopher Todd Anderson, R.S. Gwynn, Jacob Newberry, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 84.

    River Styx 84

    Featuring Craig Beaven, Joanna Pearson, Rhina P. Espaillat, James Valvis, Gillian King, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 83.

    River Styx 83

    Featuring Sara Burge, Rachel Christilles, Ted Kooser, Maura Stanton, Pir Rothenberg, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 81/82.

    River Styx 81/82: 35th Anniversary Issue

    Featuring Stephen Dunn, R.S. Gwynn, Katherine Min, Qiu Xialong, and more.

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2009 – 1995

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    River Styx 80: Games

    Featuring Sherman Alexie, Ross Gay, Claudia Barnett, Kat Gonso, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 79.

    River Styx 79

    Featuring Holly Karapetkova, April Linder, Christina Socorro Yovovich, Albert Goldbarth, Avni Vyas, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 78.

    River Styx 78

    Featuring Stuart Frieburt, Paul Guest, Kim Addonizio, Tammy Delatorre, Kathleen Finneran, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 76/77.

    River Styx 76/77: A Readable Feast

    Featuring Diane Wakoski, Catherine Rankovic, Richard Spilman, Mary Louise Penaz, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 75.

    River Styx 75

    Featuring Keetje Kuipers, Sally Van Doren, Jim Wyatt, Patricia Foster, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 74.

    River Styx 74

    Featuring Philip Metres, Mary Jo Bang, Kathryn Schwille, Robert Finch, and others.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 73.

    River Styx 73: The Last Laugh

    Featuring Helen Cho, Robert Nazarene, Mary Troy, Ira Sukrungruang, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 72.

    River Styx 72

    Featuring Jay Bridgers, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lisa Pepper, Eric Gabriel Lehman, Jim Mense, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 71.

    River Styx 71

    Featuring Jane O. Wayne, ZC Sifuentes, Michael Lundell, J. David Stevens, Debra Monroe, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 69/70.

    River Styx 69/70: 30th Anniversary Issue

    Featuring Rodney Jones, Marcela Sulak, Paulette Roeske, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Cleopatra Mathis, William H. Gass, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 68.

    River Styx 68

    Featuring David Clewell, Lucille Lang Day, Albert Goldbarth, Melissa Kwasny, Angela M. Balcita, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 67.

    River Styx 67

    Featuring Liz Ahl, Ted Kooser, Elaine Sexton, Jeanie Thompson, Leslie Su Cheng, Amy Benson, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 66.

    River Styx 66: The Route 66 Issue

    Featuring Kendra Hamilton, Nancy Krygowski, Gloria Vando, Eamonn Wall, Cathy Day, Lori Jakiela, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 65.

    River Styx 65

    Featuring Kurt S. Olsson, Molly Peacock, Mia Leonin, Steven Schreiner, Marjorie Kemper, Allison Amend, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 63/64.

    River Styx 63/64

    Featuring Pamela White Hadas, David Clewell, Mark Taksa, Sabina Chen, Elaine Fowler Palencia, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 62.

    River Styx 62: The Monster Issue

    Featuring Fred Muratori, Virgil Suarez, Elizabeth Ebert, Brian Cochran, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 61.

    River Styx 61

    Featuring Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Rafael Campo, Sharon Olds, Dennis Vannatta, Li Bai, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 60.

    River Styx 60

    Featuring Forrest Hamer, William Kloefkorn, Helen Frost, Margaret Shipley, Tom Sleigh, Wislawa Szymborska, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 58/59.

    River Styx 58/59

    Featuring Patiann Rogers, Andy Cox, Donald Hall, Wanda Coleman, Robert Boyd, Katherine Min, Philip Graham, Pamela Painter, Saadi Youssef, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 57.

    River Styx 57

    Featuring Khaled Mattawa, Peg Peoples, Edward Bartok-Baratta, Paul Lisicky, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 56.

    River Styx 56: The Visual Word

    Featuring Virgil Suarez, Amanda Yskamp, Nicole Cuddeback, Curtis Judge, Anthony Di Renzo, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 55.

    River Styx 55

    Featuring Martha Zweig, A. F. Thomas, Kevin Moffett, Marin Sorescu, Torquato Tasso, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 54.

    River Styx 54: The River Styx Television Companion

    Featuring Paulette Schmidt, Andy Cox, Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Peter Orner, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 53.

    River Styx 53

    Featuring Julia Alvarez, Marilyn Hacker, Nanora Sweet, C. B. Adams, Antonio Machado, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 52.

    River Styx 52

    Featuring Joshua Braff, Trent Busch, Atar Hadari, Marilene Phipps, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 51.

    River Styx 51: Sweet Dreams & Bad Sex

    Featuring Katsue Suzuki, Carl Phillips, James Reed, an interview with Jayne Anne Phillips, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 50.

    River Styx 50

    Featuring Ann Keniston, Elaine Terranova, Alexandra Grilikhes, Speer Morgan, an interview with Isabel Allende, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 49.

    River Styx 49

    Featuring Yusef Komunyakaa, Andrew Hudgins, Peter Leach, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 48.

    River Styx 48: Other Islands

    Featuring Anne Caston, Shelly Gault, Nanora Sweet, Maurice Kenny, Edward L. Schwarzchild, Vincent Montague, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 47.

    River Styx 47: Prescription for Heartache

    Featuring Linda Nemec Foster, Eric Priestley, Anele Rubin, Antler, P. J. Jason, Zsófia Balla, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 46.

    River Styx 46: Family Issue

    Featuring Ha JIn, Mel Freilicher, Howard Schwartz, Catherine Rankovic, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 45.

    River Styx 45

    Featuring Musuo Takahashi, Lee Byrd, Carl Phillips, Lucinda Roy, Victor Hernandez Cruz, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 44.

    River Styx 44

    Featuring Carolyn Ives Gilman, Alvin Greenberg, E. J. Vega, Allan Peterson, Paul Kohl, and more.

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1994 – 1985

  • Cover artwork of River Styx 42/43.

    River Styx 42/43: The Best of River Styx

    Featuring Michael Castro, Cesar Vallejo, Octavio Paz, Arthur Brown, Adrienne Rich, Margaret Atwood, Simon Ortiz, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 41.

    River Styx 41

    Featuring Elaine Terranova, Claudia Keelan, Robert Boyd, Thea Temple, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 40.

    River Styx 40

    Featuring George Kalamaras, Elizabeth Cohen, Bob Hicock, Reginald Shepherd, Rainer Maria Rilke, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 39.

    River Styx 39

    Featuring Joseph Like, Lawrence Pike, Chadwick Allen, André Breton, Jaime Sabines, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 38.

    River Styx 38

    Featuring Gary Soto, Claudia Rankine, Thylias Moss, David Clewell, Mira Kus, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 37.

    River Styx 37

    Featuring Margot Schlipp, Seaborn Jones, Timothy Liu, Laurie Sheck, Wanda Coleman, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 36.

    River Styx 36

    Featuring Janine Pomy Vega, Chris Wiewel, Jayanta Mahapatra, Rosa Maria Arenas, Stuart Dybek, Fanny Howe, Éva Tóth, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 35.

    River Styx 35

    Featuring Katherine Soniat, Victoria Kohn, Diane Wakoski, Man Mohan Singh, Constance Urdang, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 34.

    River Styx 34

    Featuring Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Anca Vlasopolos, Susan Elizabeth Howe, Carl Phillips, Annie Dawid, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 33.

    River Styx 33

    Featuring Qui Xiaolong, David Citino, Cornelius Eady, Carlos Suarez, Fielding Dawson, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 32.

    River Styx 32

    Featuring Barbara Molloy-Olund, Nancy Kricorian, Lucille Clifton, Bonita Friedman, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 31.

    River Styx 31

    Featuring Judy Katz-Levine, Giorgio Manganelli, Katherine Min, Diane Horton, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 30.

    River Styx 30

    Featuring Rita Dove, Marilyn Chin, Max Martins, Tu Fu, Po Chu-yi, Fred Viebahn, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 29.

    River Styx 29

    Featuring Robert Walser, Luis J. Rodriguez, Jan Weissmiller, Lowell Jaeger, Sheryl St. Germaine, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 28.

    River Styx 28

    Featuring Michelle Boisseau, Mark Desiderio, Robert Creeley, Padma Hejmadi, John Brandi, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 27.

    River Styx 27

    Featuring Robert Boyd, Czeslaw Milosz, Ronald B. Tobias, Deborah Bray, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 26.

    River Styx 26

    Featuring Beth Seetch, Tomaz Salamun, Walter Bargen, Jean Thompson, John Edgar Wideman, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 25.

    River Styx 25

    Featuring Susan Ludvigson, Carter Revard, Shirley LeFlore, Earl Lovelace, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 24.

    River Styx 24

    Featuring Michael Corr, Michael Castro, Alan Suits, Allen Ginsberg, Wendy Rose, Simon Ortiz, Ismima Nebt’kata, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 23.

    River Styx 23

    Featuring Grace Paley, Howard Nemerov, Mona Van Duyn, Susan Hahn, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Ellen Geist, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 22.

    River Styx 22

    Featuring Derek Walcott, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Hacker, Chinweizu, Sharon Olds, an interview with Mario Vargas Llosa, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 21.

    River Styx 21: "Family Album" by William H. Gass

    A special issue featuring William H. Gass’s story, “Family Album.”

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 20.

    River Styx 20

    Featuring Gu Cheng, Hongo, Luis Cabalquinto, Yuri Kageyama, Ninotchka Rosca, Terry McMillan, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 19.

    River Styx 19

    Featuring two interviews with Toni Morrison, Angela Jackson, Marilyn Hacker, Jessica Hagedorn, Simon Ortiz, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 18.

    River Styx 18

    Featuring Nicanor Parra, Kathryn Van Spanckeren, Jack Hand, Amy Clampitt, Maurice Kenny, Julio Cortazar, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 17.

    River Styx 17: Portraits

    Featuring William H. Gass, Jayne Anne Phillips, Philip Graham, an interview with Susan Sontag, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 16.

    River Styx 16: "A Trumpet in the Morning" by Arthur Brown

    Featuring Arthur Brown’s work, A Trumpet in the Morning.

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1984 – 1975

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    River Styx 15: Women's Issues

    Featuring Margaret Atwood, Adrienne Rich, Paula Gunn Allen, Pamela White Hadas, Mary Carruthers, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 14.

    River Styx 14: Masses

    Featuring Julie Heifetz, Derek Walcott, Rainer Maria Rilke, Ishmael Reed, Gary Soto, Luisa Valenzuela, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 13.

    River Styx 13: Visions & Forms

    Featuring Robert Bly, Anna Akhmatova, Margaret Atwood, Sharon Doubiago, Guillaume Apollinaire, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 12.

    River Styx 12: Geography of Soul

    Featuring an interview with Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Brown, Simon Ortiz, Howard Nemerov, Pamela White Hadas, Shirley LeFlore, Quincy Troupe, Sharon Doubiago, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 11.

    River Styx 11: Divine Comedy: The Surreal

    Featuring Howard Nemerov, William H. Gass, Pamela White Hadas, Allen Ginsberg, Walter Bargen, Nelson Wu, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 10.

    River Styx 10: Divine Comedy: The Comic

    Featuring Quincy Troupe, Mona Van Duyn, Joan Wexler, Irasttaar Lyle, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 9.

    River Styx 9: The Elements

    Featuring Juan Rodolfo, Elizabeth Sewell, Joseph Schuster, Joy Harjo, Arthur Brown, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 8.

    River Styx 8: The Elements

    Featuring Simon Ortiz, Carlos Suarez, Eric Chaet, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dyer, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 7.

    River Styx 7: Space & Movement

    Featuring Ana Castillo, Zoe Rita Anglesey, Paul Portuges, Paul Bufis, Nkenge Mganga Mawusi, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 6.

    River Styx 6: Roads & Paths

    Featuring bell hooks, Robert Dyer, Shirley LeFlore, Tsila Schwartz, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 5.

    River Styx 5: World Myths

    Featuring Dan Spell, Coyote, Jan Garden Castro, Jorge Luis Borges, Ishmael Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Ntozake Shange, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for RIver Styx 4.

    River Styx 4: American Mythmaking

    Featuring an interview with Gary Snyder, Michael Kabotie, Paula Gunn Allen, Ishmael Reed, Galen Green, Will Alexander, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 3.

    River Styx 3: Series & Cycles

    Featuring Madonna Gauding, Pamela Hadas, Tasha Robbins, Ann Vashon, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 2.

    River Styx 2

    Featuring Peter Carlos, Alina Rivero, Cesar Vallejo, Jay Zelenka, and more.

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  • Cover artwork for River Styx 1.

    River Styx 1

    Featuring Michael Corr, Ajule Rutlin, Michael Castro, Jan Garden Castro, Robert Ferguson, Sandi Stein, and more.

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