Volume 38, Issue 1
FRONT COVER:
PORTRAIT OF HERMAN MELVILLE,
A copy by Pietro Pezzati of the original
painting by Joseph O. Eaton, 1870.
Courtesy of the Berkshire Atheneum,
Pittsfield, MA.
Photograph by Jerome Liebling.
Table of Contents
Instant Combat Kit; Field Service Postcard, Poetry by Jane Satterfield
Melville’s Literary Cartographies of the South Seas, Non-Fiction by Juniper Ellis
Empty Windows, Poetry by Chase Twichell
Ten Lunar Months, Fiction by Tamara Grogan
The Reply of the Sheperdess to the Shepherd; The Road, Prose-Poetry by Jean-Pierre Rosney, Translated by J. Kates
Fits and Starts: Notes on (Yet) Another Writer’s Beginnings, Non-Fiction by Leslie Lawrence
Wigilja, Fiction by Mary Slowik
Inventory; The Worlds in this World, Poetry by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Historical Memory and a New National Consciousness: The Amistad Revolt Revisited in Sierra Leone, Non-Fiction by Iyunolu Osagie
Missing You #1, #2, #3, Poetry by Emily Wheeler
Astral Navigation Through An Open Shuttered Lens, Fiction by George Clark
March 23; Ceci N’est Pas Un Ange, Poetry by Lisa Beskin
Relapse, Fiction by Martha Conway
Drive-By; The Bracelet, Poetry by Sharon Preiss
Luck, Fiction by Sheila Kohler
“No Secrets Were Safe From Me”: Situating Hanif Kureishi, Non-Fiction by Donald Weber
Instead; Getting, Poetry by Stefanie Marlis
Contributors
Lisa Beskin won the 1996 Joseph
T. Langland/Academy of American
Poets Prize; her poems have appeared
in Spoon River Poetry Review, New
York Quarterly, and Gulf Coast.
Laure-Anne Bosselaar’s book of
poems The Hour Between Dog and
Wolf, is due out this spring from BOA
Editions; she teaches in the writing
program at Emerson College.
George Clark spent two years in
the South African Defense Force in
Angola and is a Kingsbury Fellow; he
has had stories in Glimmer Train,
Apalachee Quarterly, et. al. White
Pine Press will publish a collection of
his stories next year.
Martha Conway has had stories published
in Carolina Quarterly, Folio, Puerto del Sol,
andThe Quarterly.
Juniper Ellis is an Andrew W. Mellon
Fellow and has published articles in
Centennial Review, Ariel, Journal of
New Zealand Literature, et. al.
Tamara Grogan grew up in the
North Carolina mountains, a hundred
yards from the Appalachian Trail, and
has taught French and English in the
Great Dismal Swamp.
J. Kates is a poet and literary translator
living in Fitzwilliam, NH.
Sheila Kohler has published three books;
her fiction has appeared in Ploughshares,
Fiction, and other magazines, as well as
in the O’Henry Awards.
A recipient of fellowships from the Massachusetts
Artists Foundation and the NationalEndowment
for the Arts, Leslie Lawrence has published fiction,
essays, and poetry in many journals, and has
most recently taught at Emerson College and
Brookline High School.
Stefanie Marlis, who works as a
copywriter in California, has received
a number of literary awards; her most
recent collection, Slow Dog, was published
last year by Univ. of Wisconsin Press.
Iyunolu Osagie teaches at Pennsylvania
State Univ., where she specializes in
Diasporic Studies.
Currently teaching writing and literature
in Arizona, Sharon Preiss has published
essays as well as poems in various journals.
Jean-Pierre Rosnay joined the Resistance
in France when he was sixteen. He has
published six collections of poems as well as
three novels. He is the Proprietor of the Club
des Poètes in Paris, and hosts radio and
television poetry programs.
Poems by Jane Satterfield have appeared in
North American Review, Antioch
Review, American Poetry Review, and
other magazines.
Mary Slowik teaches at Pacific
Northwest College of Art in Oregon;
she has published essays on several
writers.
Chase Twichell’s most recent
collection, The Ghost of Eden, was
published by Ontario Review Press
in 1995.
Donald Weber, who teaches
English and American Studies at
Mount Holyoke College, is currently
at work on a study of comparative
ethnic expression, “Civility and Table
Manners.”
While working on an MFA degree at
Warren Wilson College, Emily Wheeler
has published poems in Ploughshares,
Calliope, Seneca Review and various literary
magazines.