Table of Contents
Prose
- John Gilgun, “Mother Bear”
- Don B. Cullimore, “The Double Cross”
- Leonard Orr, “Les Reveries du Promeneur Solitaire”
- Joyce Renwick, “Arley Fugato”
- Tom Yori, “Why Floyd’s Brother Didn’t Get His Bank Loan”
- Kikuo Itaya & Noboku Tsukei Keith, “A Telescope”
Poetry
- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, “Away,” “The Old Lady Speaks,” “Harvest”
- Jay Bradford Fowler, Jr., “A Stone On The Road To Heaven,” “The Empty Page”
- Simon Perchik, “Untitled”
- Barbara F. Lefcowitz, “Negations,” “I AM NOT- A Mirror,” “I AM NOT- A Smoothe,” “I AM NOT- A Paper Doll”
- Elizabeth Herron, “Closer Than Our Breath”
- Frederick E. Steinway, “Lesson In Naming At The School Of The Green Mage”
- Marjorie Dieter Keyishian, “Fear,” “I’ve”
- Albert Stainton, “You Can Expect”
- Lyn Lifshin, “Mrs. Sutter,” “Early,” “Friday,” “4th of July,” “Christmas Eve“
- Doris Radin, “Stopping On A Climb Up Eagle Mountain,” “The Enlightenment”
- Len Roberts, “And It Does,” “Or Less”
- Pat Keuning Urioste, “Black Elk Speaks,” “Poem of Beached Blood”
- Michael McMahon, “The Gift,” “Memento Mori”
- Ian Krieger, “Venice- 1976,” “Lover”
- C.S. Giscombe, “Travelers’ Song,” “30th September,” “The Hummingbird L & N Train Between Cincinnati and New Orleans Changing Cars in Nashville, Tennessee”
- William Virgil Davis, “Weather Warning,” “Fear of Frost,” “Mirage”
Art
- Bruce Meader
- Larry Martin
- Samuel J. O’Neal, Jr.
- Kim Klein
- Wayne Treichel
- David Halliday
- Bernadette Carwile
- Pete Lyon
- Robert Hickey
- Thomas Cox
Book Reviews
- Margaret Gibson and Richard McCann’s “Landscape and Distance: Contemporary Poets From Virginia,” Reviewed by Joyce Renwick
- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer’s “Granite Lady,” Reviewed by Ann Elizabeth Poe
For some reason when I see a quiescent jet-ski, I think of the bit in Day of the Triffids where they taint the fuel in the fascist guy’s half-track (with sugar or something, don’t really remember). I know it wouldn’t work, but it’s a nice dream.
These are the lines that made me cry. He contains within him the contradictions – the good and the bad – of the community that he has served diligently for so many years.I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.I realize that I didn’t need anything else from the speech than this.