Volume 33, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Michael Jacobson-Hardy
José Cumba, “‘Pulling’ the bleached boilers at Parsons Paper Company,” 1990
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Table of Contents
How She Matters Now, by Mary Ann Caws
A Revelation, Poetry by Joyce Peseroff
Going Home, Fiction by Henry H. Roth
Red Twilight, Poetry by Kenneth Rosen
In The Blind Eye of Love’s Shiny Moon; Drawing in the Dark — A Jazz Monochrome –, Poetry by Colleen J. McElroy
1938, Poetry by Tom Rockwell
Faces, Machines, and Voices: The Fading Landscape of Papermaking in Holyoke, Massachusetts, with a commentary and ten photographs by Michael Jacobson-Hardy and a Historian’s Afterword by Robert E. Weir
“Man with Van,” Fiction by Ian Woollen
Exodus, Poetry by Kurt Brown
Critique of the Upright Self: Everett, Webster, Calhoun and the Logic of Oratory, Non-Fiction by Steven A. Wartofsky
Epistemology; Menstruation, Poetry by Beth Houston
Recovery; I Saw the Face, Poetry by Eachan Holloway
Octo in Amber, Fiction by Roger Yepsen
Table for Four, Poetry by Enid Shomer
WITNESS: Ruminations of a Vegetarian, Fiction by Alexander George
The Persistence of Fatherhood, Poetry by Paul J. Zimmer
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (in Galway), Fiction by Philip Brady
The Green; (untitled), Poetry by Katayoon Zandvakili
Contributors
Philip Brady, whose work has appeared in various magazines, has received an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Newhouse Award, and a Thayer Fellowship in the Arts.
Kurt Brown is the director of the Aspen Writers’ Conference.
Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature in the Graduate School, CUNY, has published four books and edited two collections. One of her recent books, Women of Bloomsbury, was published by Routledge.
While teaching philosophy at Amherst College, Alexander George has published articles and essays on philosophy topics and contemporary affairs, as well as two books. A new work, Mathematics and Mind, will be published by Oxford University Press.
Eachan Holloway, a recent graduate of Hampshire College, will be a research assistant at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the fall.
Beth Houston teaches creative writing at San Francisco State; her work has appeared in Chicago Review, The Literary Review, Feminist Studies, and many other journals.
Michael Jacobson-Hardy, a freelance photographer/writer living in Northampton, Mass., has exhibited widely; he received a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities for his project “Men, Women and Machines: Portraits of Pioneer Valley Factory Workers.”
Colleen J. McElroy has published six collections of poems and two collections of short stories, among them What Madness Brought Me Here: New and Selected Poems, 1968-88 (Wesleyan Univ. Press) and Driving Under the Cardboard Pines and Other Stories.
Joyce Peseroff teaches at Emerson College; her most recent book of poems, A Dog in the Lifeboat, was published by Carnegie Mellon in 1991.
Tom Rockwell has published children’s books as well as poetry.
Visiting Professor of English and Acting Director of Creative Writing at Syracuse University, Kenneth Rosen has published four collections of poems. Henry H. Roth has published fiction in Partisan Review, American Review and other journals; his novel, The Cruz Chronicle, was published by Rutgers Univ. Press.
Enid Shomer‘s second book of poems, This Close to the Earth, will be published by the Univ. of Arkansas Press in September 1992; she received the Iowa Prize for Short Fiction for her collection Imaginary Men, which will be published in spring 1993.
Steven A. Wartofsky teaches American Literature at Loyola University, Chicago, and is working on “a study of the argument with Sentimentalism in a range of canonical works in American literature.”
Robert E. Weir teaches in the History Dept. at Smith College and in Labor Relations Sc. Research at the Univ. of Massachusetts.
Ian Woollen, whose stories have appeared in various magazines, received this year’s Sherwood Anderson Prize.
Roger Yepsen is working on three children’s books as well as a novel.
Born in Iran, Katayoon Zandvakili is co-editor of the journal One Meadway; other work has appeared in Five Finger Review, The Dallas Review, and other magazines.
Paul J. Zimmer, who has established poetry series for several university presses, has himself published six collections; The Great Bird of Love (Univ. of Illinois Press) was selected by William Stafford as a National Poetry Series award book.