Volume 26, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Crispin Van de Passe
Sibyls, 1601
Table of Contents
They Are Dreaming a Lot in Warsaw These Days, March 1982, Poetry by Lou Lipsitz
Communion, Poetry by Melissa Croghan
A Good Deal, Poetry by Rosellen Brown
The Head and Hoof Barbershop: “We Sell Shoes, Too,” Poetry by Margaret Szumowski
Of a Feather; Slow Burial, Poetry by Debra Gorlin
Short Story; Death Mars Wedding Party; Prayer, Poetry by Jon Kelly Yenser
Soundings in Feet and Fathoms, Fiction by Meredith Steinbach
Dostoyevsky’s Whore, Fiction by Robert Cohen
Open Windows XVI; Open Windows XVII, Poetry by Marilyn Hacker
Five Sonnets, Poetry by Emmon Bach
A Pinhole of Blue; Once, Poetry by Ellen Watson
Cold Storage, Fiction by Jay Neugeboren
The Goodbye Series: A Memoir, Poetry by Vern Rutsala
Privates; The Demotion, Poetry by D. Nurkse
The President-Reject and the Last Lady, Poetry by Andrew Salkey
Homes and Gardens, Fiction by Frances Kuffel
Mrs. Sims, Fiction by Steve Barthelme
Extract of Angels, Poetry by Lee Upton
Obie, Poetry by Sarah Provost
Contra Botticelli, Poetry by Berry Goldensohn
Kiss the Father, Fiction by Sarah Rossiter
The American Queen, Fiction by Michael Laser
From The Journal of an Unknown Lady-in-Waiting, Poetry by Regina deCormier-Shekerjian
Four Poems for Brontë and Dickinson, Poetry by Susan Snively
Tree Day, Fiction by Sheila Delany
Mercedes, Poetry by Carolyn Beard Whitlow
Un-Buckling The Lines, Poetry by Carol Potter
Mena Keyfer, Poetry by Carole Waterhouse
Contributors
EMMON BACH is a professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts.
STEVE BARTHELME, who teaches at N.E. Louisiana University, has published fiction in various reviews and is now preparing a collection of his stories.
ROSELLEN BROWN has published three novels, a collection of stories and two volumes of poetry.
Now teaching at SUNY Stony Brook, ROBERT COHEN has published fiction in Ascent and the Iowa Review.
MELISSA CROGHAN, whose first published poem appears in this issue of MR, has worked as an editor, a gymnastics teacher and a cattle herdswoman.
REGINA DECOURMIER-SHEKERJIAN, whose poems have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, received a National Jewish Book Award for her collection, Discovering Israel.
While working on a novel, SHEILA DELANY has been selected as one of three writers to be represented in the annual volume, Coming Attractions, to be published in Ottawa in September.
A teacher at Skidmore College, BARRY GOLDENSOHN will soon publish a new collection of poems, The Marrano.
DEBRA GORLIN‘s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, New England Review and other quarterlies; she is a publicist-editor at the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Mass.
Editor of 13th Moon, MARILYN HACKER received the National Book Award in poetry in 1975; her most recent collection, Assumptions, was published this year.
Fiction and poetry by FRANCES KUFFEL, who teaches at Cornell University, have appeared in TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner and other journals.
While working in New York, MICHAEL LASER has published stories in various magazines and has completed a novel.
LOU LIPSITZ teaches Political Science at the University of North Carolina; he has published two books of poems, Cold Water and Reflections on Samson.
JAY NEUGEBOREN is the author of eight books, including The Stolen Jew, which won the American Jewish Committee’s Present Tense Award for Best Novel of 1981. A new novel, Before My Life Began, will appear later this year.
D. NURKSE has received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts; he is working on an historical sequence, Isolation in Action.
CAROL POTTER, whose poems have appeared in several quarterlies, received an MFA from the University of Massachusetts.
SARAH PROVOST has published poetry in Prairie Schooner, Poetry and other journals; her play, The Home Team, has won two New Playwrights awards.
Now at work on a novel, SARAH ROSSITER has had stories published recently in The Ontario Review and The North American Review.
VERN RUTSALA, who teaches at Lewis and Clark College, has published six collections of poems; a seventh, Backtracking, will soon appear.
Jamaican poet and novelist ANDREW SALKEY has published novels, collections of poems and short stories as well as children’s stories and anthologies; he is Professor of Writing at HampsCollege.
SUSAN SNIVELY‘s poems have appeared in various magazines; her collection, From This Distance, appeared in 1981.
MEREDITH STEINBACH, whose first novel Zara appeared in 1982, has completed a second, You/Like the Dust in the Road, and is at work on a third; she teaches at Brown University and has been a Fellow at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute.
MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI, who has taught and traveled in Africa, now lives in New England where she writes poems and raises two children.
A book of LEE UPTON‘s poems, The Invention of Kindness, was published in 1984; she is completing her Ph.D. in English at SUNY Binghamton.
The story in this issue of MR is CAROLE WATERHOUSE‘s first to be published; she teaches at the University of Pittsburgh.
Poet and translator ELLEN WATSON has received an NEA Translation Fellow ship Grant to translate the Brazilian poet Adelia Prado.
CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW teaches poetry and Afro-American literature at Brown University; her work has appeared in 13th Moon, Sojourner, Northeast Journal and other magazines.
JON KELLY YENSER, whose various jobs have included teaching, editing and fundraising, has published poems in Poetry Northwest, Shenandoah, Ohio Review and MR.
NOTE: Craig Lesley’s novel, Winterkill, a chapter of which appeared in MR Winter, 1983, has won two Spur Awards, awarded by the Western Writers of America, for the year’s best Western novel and for the best first novel in 1984.