Volume 31, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
Alexander Crummell, 1990
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Table of Contents
Survival Kit, Poetry by Shirley Kaufman
A Funeral in Prague, Non-Fiction by Ivana Edwards
The Happiest Day, Fiction by Victoria Tokareva, Translated by Carol Lynn Ecale
Street of Gold, Poetry by Galway Kinnell
A Visitor, Poetry by Karen Alkalay-Gut
Mahler’s Extraterritoriality, Non-Fiction by Henry A. Lea
Some Enchanted Evening; Misty, Poetry by James Cushing
Milan Kundera and the Limits of Skepticism, Non-Fiction by Igor Webb
Trying to Talk about Sex–I, Poetry by Sandra Kohler
Bones, Fiction by Lucy Ferriss
Preserves, Poetry by Joan Seliger Sidney
Alexander Crummell and the Invention of Africa, Non-Fiction by Anthony Appiah
Infantry Assault; The Wall, Poetry by Doug Anderson
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Personal Memoir, Non-Fiction by John Hope Franklin
Mind-Readers, Drama by Louis Phillips
Lullaby, Poetry by Edward Baratta
Contributors
Karen Alkalay-Gut has lived in Israel since 1972, where she teaches at Tel Aviv University. A new collection of poems, Ignorant Armies, will be published by Cross-Cultural Communications later this year.
Playwright and actor Doug Anderson, also writes fiction and poetry; he is at present teaching playwriting at Hampshire College.
Kwame Anthony Appiah teaches in both the Philosophy and Graduate Literature departments at Duke University; his forthcoming book, Classic African American Narratives will be published by Bantam.
While writing and publishing poems in a number of literary magazines, Edward Baratta works as a counselor at a transitional shelter for homeless men in Cambridge, MA.
James Cushing teaches English at California Polytechnic and hosts a weekly jazz show on National Public Radio; his poems attempt to “fuse the idioms of poetry and jazz improvisation.”
Carol Lynn Ecale has traveled in the Soviet Union and taught English to Soviet students at the Novgorod Pedagogical Institute.
Former newspaper reporter Ivana Edwards is on the editorial staff of Lear’s and is writing a novel set in her native Czechoslovakia.
Lucy Ferriss teaches creative writing at Tufts University; her most recent novel, Philip’s Girl, was published by Schoken.
John Hope Franklin‘s Race and History: Collected Essays, 1938-1988, was published this year. He is the James B. Duke Professor of History Emeritus at Duke University as well as the John Matthews Manly Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago.
Shirley Kaufman has lived in Jerusalem since 1973; she has published five volumes of poetry and several books of translations from the Hebrew.
Galway Kinnell teaches in the New York University writing program; his latest volume of poems, When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone, will be published this fall by Knopf.
Currently the holder of a Fellowship in Poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Sandra Kohler teaches adult education courses in literature and poetry writing.
Henry A. Lea has published a book on Mahler, Gustav Mahler: Man on the Margin.
Louis Phillips has published over twenty-five books for children and adults, including plays, fiction and poetry. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Poet Joan Seliger Sidney teaches at the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut.
Victoria Tokareva is a well known Soviet writer of short stories about contemporary Soviet life.
Born in Czechoslovakia, Igor Webb is Provost of Adelphi University on Long Island.