Paper Graders

There is no doubt then that all of the contributors [to Paper Graders] demonstrate considerable courage in having their work included in an anthology that will be offensive to college and university chancellors, presidents, provosts, deans, directors, and chairs who prefer the truth be managed, manipulated, or simply mauled into silence.   The unadulterated, unabridged, and uncensored truth in essays by Cayle, Christina McVay, Ben Satterfield, and David Starkey; the fiction of Jean Anderson, Richard Hill, A. L. Reilly, and Mary Rohrer-Dann; the poetry of Kat Snider Blackbird, Mark Hillringhouse, Charles Hood, Maria Theresa Maggi, Naomi Rachel, Carolyn Foster Segal, Julia Stein, and Judy Wells all confirm what the Michigan Quarterly Review editor wrote to me on   January 3, 1993, in his rejection note for "The Only Good Writer is a Dead Writer."  "I receive enough essays of this kind," Laurence Goldstein wrote,  "to persuade me that something is rotten in the state of academia, not just Oregon State."