Volume 34, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Ludwig Szyman, c. 1918
Table of Contents
Recovered Land, Non-Fiction by Alicia Nitecki
The Kite, Poetry by Shannon Hamann
From the Bridal Book II, Poetry by Fatima Lim-Wilson
I Follow My Wife, Fiction by Edith Pearlman
Staying out Late, Poetry by Gail Reiger
Where English Speaks More Than One Language: Accents in Gertrude Stein’s “Accents in Alsace”, Non-Fiction by Michaela Giesenkirchen
When the Lord God Gathered Up the Spirit of Virginia Woolf, Poetry by Beth Houston
Rage Begins at Home, by Mary Ann Caws
Love in the Time of AIDS, Poetry by Susan Rich
One of the Professors, Poetry by E. J. Miller Laino
Catching the Last Público, Fiction by Bárbara Selfridge
At the Synchrotron Lab, Poetry by Wendy Battin
Ideology and Ambiguity in Cinema, Non-Fiction by Philip Green The Management of Dolls, Poetry by Regina McBrid
Until She Returns, Poetry by Reginald Shepherd
Pick-Up, Fiction by Elin Hilderbrand
Pain Killers, Poetry by Sheryl St. Germain
WITNESS: Shrapnel in the Liver: The Third Balkan War, Non-Fiction by Josip Novakovich
Contributors
Wendy Battin, who teaches at Smith College, has received grants from the NEA, Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center. Her book, In the Solar Wind, was published in the National Poetry Series by Doubleday.
Distinguished Professor of English, French and Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate School, Mary Ann Caws is the author of many books on literature and art, including The Eye in the Text and The Art of Interference.
Michaela Giesenkirchen is completing a Master’s degree in English and history in Germany.
The author of The Pursuit of Inequality and Retrieving Democracy, Philip Green is Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College.
Shannon Hamann is a poet, filmmaker, and advocate for children’s rights. Her work has appeared in Borderland, Texas Poetry Review, and other journals.
Elin Hilderbrand has work forthcoming in Seventeen and Potpourri.
Recent poems by Beth Houston have appeared in Chicago Review, The Literary Review, and elsewhere.
The mother of two young daughters, E. J. Miller Laino has published work in Slow Dancer, Killiope and many other magazines.
Fatima Lim-Wilson‘s first book of poetry, Wandering Roots/From the Hothouse, won the 1991 Colorado Book Authors’ Award. She teaches English at Shoreline Community College in Seattle.
Yarrow Field, by Regina McBride, won the 1990 American Book Series Award. She teaches at Hunter College, and has just received an NEA fellowship.
Alicia Nitecki teaches non-fiction prose and travel writing at Bentley College. Her work has appeared in a variety of journals and magazines.
Josip Novakovich, who emigrated from Croatia sixteen years ago, has received a number of awards including an NEA fellowship.
Edith Pearlman‘s work has received two O. Henry prizes, two PEN awards, and a Distinguished Story Citation from Best American Short Stories.
Gail Regier teaches at the University of Central Florida. Her work has appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, and other magazines.
Susan Rich, whose work has appeared in a number of publications, is Northeast Program Coordinator for Amnesty International USA.
Bárbara Selfridge, who has received fellowships from the NEA, Poets & Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares and The Caribbean Writer, among other journals.
Poems by Reginald Shepherd have recently appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of journals including The Kenyon Review and Agni.
Sheryl St.Germain is poet in-residence at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Her most recent collection, Making Bread at Midnight, was published in 1992.