Volume 24, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Martha Graham
Lamentation (detail), 1935
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Table of Contents
Learning to Ride the Elephant, Poetry by Mary Koncel
Billie Holiday, Photograph by Lotte Jacobi
While Chopping Green Cabbage, Poetry by Robyn Supraner
To El Salvador, Poetry by Lynne T. Hanley
Shopping in Santiago; Fever, Poetry by Mary Crow
Embroideries of Life and Death, Non-Fiction by Betty LaDuke
Making It, Poetry by Magdalena Gomez-Gomolka
Zulema, Fiction by Roberta Fernandez
The Colors of Home: Native American Women’s Poetry.
Introduction by Rayna Green
Rainy Night; The Woman Hanging from the 13th Floor, Poetry by Joy Harjo
November; Saint Coyote, Poetry by Linda Hogan
When I Cut My Hair; Mexico City Hand Game, Poetry by Rayna Green
Barbara Morgan & Sophia Maslow: Dialogue w/photographs, Eight photos by Barbara Morgan; talks with Lisa Baskin
Playing from Memory, Poetry by Jane O. Wayne
Aunt Bertha’s Poem, Poetry by Barbara Tritel
Seventeen: A Theatre Piece, Non-Fiction by Beatrice Roth
Fleshing In, Poetry by Debra Gorlin
Starr Ockenga’s Nudes: Some Notes on the Genre, Photography by Starr Ockenga, notes by Estelle Jussima
From “Northern Elegy,” Poetry by Anna Akhmatova, Translated by Mary Maddock
Didactic Sestina For White Belts, Poetry by S. Ben-Tov
The Great Miramichi Fire, Poetry by Joanne Dobson
Lotte Jacobi: Shaker Women in New Hampshire, Photography by Lotte Jacobi, commentary by Anne Haley
Women, Music, and Ethel Smyth: A Pathway in the Politics of Music, Non-Fiction by Elizabeth Wood
Terms, Poetry by Lorrie Goldensohn
Daughters, Drama by Clare Coss, Sondra Segal & Roberta Sklar
Blue Roses, Poetry by Martha Collins
First Night, Old Vic, Poetry by Catherine Heath
Two Actresses: Betty Chancellor and Claire Neufeld, Interviews by Doris Abramson
The Dramas of Caryl Churchill: The Politics of Possibility, Non-Fiction by Helene Keyssar
Romance and Capitalism in the Movies, Poetry by Joan Joffe Hall
Interview with Jackie Raynal, by Catherine Portuges
Louise Bourgeois: Sculpture as Happening, Non-Fiction by Rosette Lamont
In Defense of Fallen Comrades: Halicarnassus, Non-Fiction by Eleanor Hakim
Contributors
DORIS ABRAMSON teaches in the Theatre Dept., Univ. of Mass., and is co-owner of the Common Reader Bookshop, New Salem, Mass.
Persecuted, denied publication, ANNA AKHMATOVA nevertheless continued to make poetry until her death in Russia in 1966.
After a seven-year residence in England, LISA BASKIN, bibliophile and artist, returns to America this summer.
S. BEN-TOV received first prize in the 1982 National Poetry Competition.
Poet and critic MARTHA COLLINS is editing a collection of essays on Louise Bogan.
CLARE COSS‘ most recent play, Growing Up Gothic, was produced in New York City this year.
MARY CROW spent part of 1982 on a Fulbright Research Grant in Peru and Chile.
Poet JOANNE DOBSON is writing her doctoral dissertation on Emily Dickinson.
ROBERTA FERNANDEZ is visiting lecturer in Women’s Studies (U. Mass.) and Afro-American Studies (Smith College).
LORRIE GOLDENSOHN ‘s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker and other magazines; her critical essays have appeared in Ploughshares and Parnassus.
Program Supervisor and instructor of Creative Dramatics for children at the East Harlem Music School, New York City, MAGDALENA GOMEZ-GOMOLKA has been reading and performing her own work since 1972.
DEBRA GORLIN is publicist-editor for the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum in Springfield, Mass.
RAYNA GREEN, of Cherokee descent, is a consultant in Third World scientific/technical development.
ELEANOR HAKIM‘s “Halicarnassus” is one of a series of essays from “In Defense of Fallen Comrades.”
JOAN JOFFE HALL of the Univ. of Connecticut has published three collections of poems.
ANNE HALLEY‘s most recent volume of poems is The Bearded Mother (Univ. of Mass. Press.); she spent the past half year teaching in Berlin.
LYNNE HANLEY has taught at various colleges, and published short stories as well as essays on major novelists.
Born in Oklahoma, JOY HARJO‘s latest collection of poems, She Had Some Horses, was published by Thunder’s Mouth Press.
CATHERINE HEATH lives in London; two of her five novels have been adapted for BBC radio.
LINDA HOGAN, a Chickasaw, has published poetry, had a play produced, and has completed a novel.
LOTTE JACOBI has photographed many of the great public figures of our time; Shaker women photographs are reproduced here for the first time.
ESTELLE JUSSIM is professor for film and visual communication at Simmons College Library School.
Chair of the Dept. of Communication and Drama, Univ. of Calif at San Diego, HELENE KEYSSAR‘s forthcoming books include a biography of Anna Louise Strong and Landscapes of the Feminist Theatre.
Poet MARY KONCEL received an MFA degree from the Univ. of Massachusetts.
BETTY LA DUKE teaches art at Southern Oregon State College, and is studying the art of Third World cultures.
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Queens College, ROSETTE LAMONT is in France this year on a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.
MARY MADDOCK‘s Your Name Is A Bird: 3 Russian Women Poets will be published in 1984.
SOPHIE MASLOW danced with Martha Graham from 1931 to 1944.
BARBARA MORGAN is a distinguished photographer of the dance.
Director of Women’s Studies at Massachusetts, CATHERINE PORTUGES has co-edited Feminist Pedagogy Reader.
BEATRICE ROTH is a writer and performer in NYC; Seventeen is the first part of a trilogy and was presented in 1982 in New York and Princeton.
SONDRA SEGAL, writer, performer, director, was co-founder, with Clare Coss and Roberta Sklar, of the Women’s Experimental Theater.
ROBERTA SKLAR‘s experimental works have toured the Middle East, Western Europe and the USA; her work is dedicated to developing a feminist theatre.
Writer ROBYN SUPRANER lives with her family in Brooklyn.
BARBARA TRITEL is working on a novella set in Arctic Alaska.
Poet JANE WAYNE teaches creative writing at Webster Univ., St. Louis.
Australian born ELIZABETH WOOD is a musicologist and writer living in New York City.
This issue of MR was partially supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, and with special financial assistance from Amherst, Mount Holyoke and Smith Colleges, the University of Massachusetts, and Five Colleges, Inc.
The Editors wish to thank Lotte Jacobi, Sophie Maslow and Barbara Morgan for their generosity in sharing their time with us and allowing us to reproduce their photographs. We also thank Norman Wood and the staff of Commonwealth Press for special assistance.
Finally, the Editors of this issue are warmly grateful, not only for editorial help but for unfailing moral support, to their colleagues John Hicks, Fred Robinson, Carol Fetler, Emma and Sidney Kaplan, and Leonard Baskin.