Volume 40, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: John Ruskin
STUDY OF A FLOWERING VINE, 1950
PENCIL HEIGHTENED WITH WHITE ON GRAY-WASHED PAPER
8 3/4 X 5 15/16 INCHES
Table of Contents
Oak, Poetry by Jennifer Barber
Translation of the Self: Ruskin and Wharton, Non-Fiction by Mary Ann Caws
Charlene-N-Booker 4Ever, Poetry by Forrest Hamer
In the Reeds, Fiction by David Shrayer-Petrov, Translated from the Russian by Maxim D. Shrayer and Victor Terras
Absences; Imperfections, Fiction by Aida Bahr, Translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster
Yellow Sweater; The Messenger, Poetry by Sharon Kraus
Among Sorrows and Songs, Poetry by Judith Nacca
Rachel Flies Alone, Non-Fiction by Jane Bernstein
Changes, Poetry by Ruth Stone
Massachusetts, California, Timbuktoo, Fiction by Stephanie Rosenfeld
Three Keys, Poetry by Lidia Torres
The Omelet King, Fiction by Paul Mandelbaum
Virtue; The Invasion of Canada, Poetry by Cynthia Huntington
Trying Not to Drown Out One’s Own Voice, Poetry by Christopher Davis
Another Country, Non-Fiction by Jane Satterfield
Big Bus, Fiction by Julia Hanna
Half the Music, Poetry by Betsy Sholl
Reading, Translating, Flying: Reflections at 33,000 Feet, Poetry by Leslie Morris
Return to Mumbai, Poetry by Ravi Shankar
The Naked Ape, Fiction by Sabina Murray
Contributors
Aida Bahr directs Ediciones Oriente in Santiago de Cuba and writes screenplays for Cuban cinema. Her short story collections are There’s a Cat in the Window, Women at Night, andMirror and Mirage.
Founding and current editor of Salamander, Jennifer Barber is the author of the chapbook Vendeval and has a selection of poems appearing in Four Way Reader #2.
Jane Bernstein has published a memoir, Loving Rachel, as well as a novel and a young adult novel; she teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.
Mary Ann Caws is on the faculty of The Graduate School and University Center, the City University of New York; her latest book is Women of Bloomsbury.
Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Dick Cluster is the translator of Alejándro Hernandez Díaz’s The Cuban Mile and co-translator of CUBANA: Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women; his latest novel is Obligations.
Christopher Davis is at work on a third collection of poems, A History of the Only War; his poems have recently appeared in Denver Quarterly, Boston Book Review, and other journals.
Winner of the 1995 Beatrice Hawley Award, Forrest Hamer is the author of Call and Response.
Julia Hanna‘s fiction has appeared in Pleiades; she is a graduate of the MFA Program at Washington Univ. and lives in St. Louis.
Cynthia Huntington‘s latest collection of poems is The Fish Wife; she is Professor of English at Dartmouth College and on the MFA faculty at Vermont College.
Sharon Kraus teaches at Queen’s College, CUNY; her collection of poems is Generation.
Fiction writer Paul andelbaum is the editor of First Words; he teaches in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.
Assistant Professor of German at the Univ. of Minnesota, Leslie Morris writes on Holocaust literature; she is currently a Fulbright fellow in Frankfurt.
Sabina Murray teaches creative writing at the University of Texas Extension in Austin and is the author of Slow Burn, a novel.
Judith Nacca lives in Northampton, Massachusetts and has poems forthcoming in Verse, Connecticut Review, and Cutbank.
Stephanie Rosenfeld lives in Salt Lake City and makes her living as a pastry chef; her stories appear in Other Voices and Cream City Review.
Jane Satterfield‘s essay “The Disquieting Muses,” was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize; her first collection of poems, Shepherdess with an Automatic, is forthcoming.
Ravi Shankar is currently translating Sanskrit poets.
Betsy Sholl‘s most recent collection, Don’t Explain, was winner of the 1997 Felix Pollak Prize; she teaches at the Univ. of Southern Maine and is on the faculty at the MFA Program at Vermont College.
David Shrayer-Petrov‘s novel, Herbert and Nelly, was nominated for the 1993 Russian Booker Prize; his latest novel is French Cottage and his latest collection of poems is Doge of Petersburg.
Maxim D. Shrayer teaches Russian Literature at Boston College and is the author of The World of Nabokov’s Stories.
Ruth Stone is Professor of English at SUNY Binghamton; her eleventh collection of poems, Ordinary Words, will be published this summer.
Victor Terras is Professor Emeritus of Russian and Comparative Literature at Brown.
Lidia Torres lives in Brooklyn, New York.