Volume 34, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Erica Harth
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Table of Contents
The Book of the Deadman, #15, #16, #17, Poetry by Marvin Bell
Do-It-Yourself, Poetry by Edward Kleinschmidt
Mama, Non-Fiction by Mab Segrest Mercy, Poetry by Kelleen Zubick
Ruthless as a Tibetan Monk, Poetry by Margaret C. Szumowski
A Good Chowder, Fiction by Peter La Salle
Out of the Air, Poetry by Matthew Lippman
Children of Manzanar, Non-Fiction by Erica Harth
Survivors, Poetry by Richard Chess
“What Will Peace Among the Whites Bring?”: Reunion and Race in the Struggle of the Memory of the Civil War in American Culture, Non-Fiction by David W. Blight
A Black Aesthete at Oxford, Non-Fiction by Jeffrey C. Stewart
The Voice; The Taboo, Poetry by Alice Jones
Refugee, Poetry by Sandra Meek Henson
Far from the Coast, Fiction by Castle Freeman
The Fair, Fiction by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Pillow, Poetry by Sara Hong
Talking Dirty; Memories of War and the Vietnam War Novel, Non-Fiction by Renée Epstein
Contributors
Marvin Bell teaches in the Writers’ Workshop, Univ. of Iowa. His most recent collections include The Book of the Dead Man and Iris of Creation.
David W. Blight is a member of the History and Black Studies departments at Amherst College. His most recent book, When This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters of Harvey Brewster, was published by the Univ. of Massachusetts Press.
Poems and essays by Richard Chess have appeared in The American Poetry Review, New Virginia Review and other magazines and journals. He teaches literature at the Univ. of North Carolina and directs the Center for Jewish Studies there.
Renée Epstein lives and works in New York.
The Bride of Ambrose, a collection of stories by Castle Freeman, Jr., was published by Soho Press.
Erica Harth, professor of Humanities and Women’s Studies at Brandeis, writes on early modern France. Her most recent book, Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime, was published by Cornell Univ. Press.
Sandra Meek Henson‘s poetry has appeared in Mid-American Review, Southern Poetry Review, and other magazines.
Sara Hong is interested in Zen Buddhism and her haiku sequences reflect that interest.
Alice Jones is a psychoanalyst practicing in Oakland. Her most recent collection, The Knot, was published by Alice James Books.
Jesse Lee Kercheval was born in France but now lives and teaches in Wisconsin. Her collection, The Dogeater, was the winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award in Short Fiction.
Edward Kleinschmidt teaches English at Santa Clara Univ. His poems have most recently appeared in New England Review, Poetry, Epoch, and Volt.
Peter La Salle‘s fiction includes Strange Sunlight and The Graves of Famous Writers. His work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards.
Matthew Lippman, whose work has appeared in Iowa Review, Seneca Review, and other journals, received the James Michener/Paul Engle Poetry Fellowship from the Univ. of Iowa.
Mab Segrest is a Board Member of the Center for Democratic Renewal, and serves as the Coordinator of the U.S. Urban-Rural Mission of the World Council of Churches.
Jeffrey C. Stewart teaches history at George Mason University. He is currently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, and writing a biography of Alain Locke.
As well as teaching writing at two colleges, Margaret C. Szumowski gives poetry workshops for children. Her own work has appeared in a number of reviews including AGNI, American Poetry Review and Poetry East.
Kelleen Zubick‘s work has appeared in Onthebus, Hayden’s Ferry Review and The Bloomsbury Review.