Winter 2004

• The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison • Roger Wilkins and Mary Zwiep argue affirmative action • Kevin Young’s poems for collages by Romare Bearden • Memoirs by Sebastian Matthews and Reuel K. Wilson • Dispatch from Kyrgyzstan by Simone Poirier-Bures • Fiction by Steve Almond, Aimee Phan, and R. T. Smith • Poetry by Betty Adcock, David Baker, Quan Barry, Linda Bierds, Rebecca Black, Debra Bruce, Peter Cooley, Mekeel McBride, Maurice Manning, William Matthews, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Alan Shapiro • Translations by Aliki Barnstone and Michael Collier
Winter 2004

Volume 80, Number 1

Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2004 cover
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Table of contents

Reporting 
Essays 
Criticism 
Fiction 
Poetry 
Interviews 
Editor's Desk 

Contributor Profiles

Toni Morrison’s (1931–2019) numerous awards include the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved, and a National Book Award for Song of Solomon.

Maurice Manning’s first collection, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (2001), was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.

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