Summer 1998 Making Media Democratic Robert McChesney:   An informed, participating citizenry depends on media that play a public service function. As James Madison once put it, "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both." But these democratic functions lie beyond the reach of the current American media system. If we are serious about democracy, then, we need to work aggressively for reform ... continued New Democracy Forum Making Media Democratic   Robert W. McChesney Bold Proposals  Ralph Nader The Real World  Lawrence K. Grossman Two Misplaced Objections   C. Edwin Baker Diminishing Hopes?   Doug Schuler Let People Choose   Stephen Ansolabehere Internet Treasure   Andrew L. Shapiro McChesney Responds Poetry Forum On Harold Bloom's "They have the numbers; we, the heights" Visionary Company   Marjorie Perloff Here in Hell   Mark Doty The Extraordinary Hoof   Thylias Moss A Note from Caliban   David Mura Hungry for Spirit   J. D. McClatchy Mrs. B. and Me   Kevin Young Down from the Summits   Donald Revell Criteria   Reginald Shepherd Fear of the New   Suzanne Gardiner Screaming Fire   Rita Dove Slaves of Fashion   Ann Lauterbach War of the Edens   Carol Muske A Fever Dream   Sven Birkets Book Reviews Prose Nicholson Baker: The Everlasting Story of Nory   reviewed by Ed Park Angela Davis: Blues Legacies and Black Feminism   reviewed by Jonathan Gill Poetry Wislawa Szymborska: Poems: New and Collected,1957-1997 reviewed by Frances Padorr Brent Bonnie Costello, ed.: The Selected Leters of of Marianne Moore   reviewed by Kay Ryan Susan Wheeler: Smokes   reviewed by Stephen Burt Microreviews Prose microreviews Poetry microreviews Essays The Toad and the Butterfly   Alan A. Stone An Oscar-winning Dutch film proves that art can survive even in the era of the Titanic The Problem with Thinking Locally   Jay R. Mandle A critique of the Sierra Club's The Case Against the Global Economy Exchange How the Mind Really Works Questionable Tactics   Steven Pinker Berwick and Ahouse Respond Fiction Very, Very, Red   Diane Williams Strip   Marianne Taylor The Pilot   Wade S. Echer Poetry Poet's Sampler:Benjamin Friedlander   Robert Creeley A Photograph of a Crowd   Wislawa Szymborska "The Report of My Death Is an Exaggeration"  Alfred Corn Helen   Anne Carson Victory Must Be a Supremely Glorious Experience   Anne Carson Homage to My Waitress   Matthew Rohrer Paper Sacrifice   Karen Drayne by bicycle   Matthea Harvey Isla Mujeres   Mark Bibbins