Feinstein launched the journal in 1996 and it remains the only publication in the country to focus on jazz-related poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.  He has since collaborated with such distinguished poets as Yusef Komunyakaa and Philip Levine, both winners of the Pulitzer Prize.

This new issue includes work by Stephen Dunn, who won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Dunn will also be reading at Lycoming College this coming fall.

The issue also includes a special feature on Blues Poems by Raymond R. Patterson and Henry Dumas.

"It’s a pleasure to feature work by writers who have established great prestige," said Feinstein, "but I think it is equally important to present writers such as Dumas and Patterson who deserve a much wider audience."

Patterson, who died in 2001, founded and directed the Langston Hughes Festival for more than twenty years, at the City College of the City University of New York, where he was a professor.

Dumas, who was killed in 1968 by a New York City Transit policeman in a case of mistaken identity, was the author of several books of stories and poems.

Brilliant Corners includes an interview with Eugene B. Redmond, a nationally recognized poet and chair of the Creative Writing Program at Southern Illinois University, who knew and comments on both the Patterson and Dumas.   Redmond has published six poetry collections, including Eye in the Ceiling: Selected Poems (1993), which received the American Book Award.  He has also received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and Pushcart Prize.  Redmond is the author of Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry--A Critical History (1976) and founding editor of Drumvoices Revue.

The cover presents a portrait of Ella Fitzgerald by Lauren Camp, a fiber artist from New Mexico. Other authors include Virgil Suárez, author of four novels (including The Cutter and Latin Jazz) a collection of short stories, and four collections of poetry; and Charles Suhor, author of Jazz in New Orleans, an anti-censorship activist, and freelance percussionist, writer, and speaker in Montgomery, Alabama. 

The title of the journal, Brilliant Corners, comes from a composition title by famed musician Thelonious Monk.  The journal is published twice a year and is distributed internationally through Barnes and Noble Bookstores, Borders Bookstores, and Tower Records.

More information can be found at the journal’s website:
http:www.Lycoming.edu/BrilliantCorners

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