Winter 2012

The Horn’s Dilemma: Mogadishu, Hargeisa, Dadaab, Nairobi, & Arusha Jason Florio on facing Mogadishu Tom Sleigh on Somalian refugees in Nairobi Major Jackson’s poems on the Dadaab Refugee Camp Tyler Stiem on Somalia’s struggle toward a democratic future Elliott D. Woods on the Egyptian revolution Anthony Ham on the Libyan revolution Fiction by Daniel Alarcón and Ru Freeman
Winter 2012

Volume 88, Number 1

Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2012 cover
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Table of contents

Reporting 
Essays 
Portfolios 
Photography 
Fiction 
Poetry 
Editor's Desk 

Contributor Profiles

Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems (Norton, 2023), The Absurd Man (Norton, 2020), Roll Deep (Norton, 2015), Holding Company (Norton, 2010), Hoops (Norton, 2006), and Leaving Saturn (Georgia UP, 2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review, the New YorkerOrion, the Paris ReviewPloughsharesPoetry, and elsewhere. Jackson is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University and serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.

Tom Sleigh most recent volume of poetry is Space Walk. He teaches in the MFA Program at Hunter College. His essay “The Deeds,” from the Summer 2008 issue of VQR, was selected for Best American Travel Writing 2009.

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