Volume 16, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: E. E. Cummings
DANCING GIRL, LEANING LEFT
PEN AND INK DRAWING
11.25 X 12 INCHES
The Dial Collection, Worcester Art Museum
Table of Contents
Getting Up, Fiction by Alan V. Hewat
Houses/My House, Poetry by Robert Hahn
Yellow Woolen Socks, Poetry by Ameen Alwan
The Communication of Nature, Poetry by John Hay
A Slightly Moving Figure, Poetry by James Sacré, Translated by David Ball
American Dream, Poetry by Vern Rutsala
Riffraff, Fiction by Susan Engberg
JUNIPER PRIZE POEMS
Diamond Reo; The Death of Jazz; Housework; Always; The Common Fate of Objects, Poetry by Eleanor Herman
W. D. Snodgrass: The Mild, Reflective Art, Non-Fiction by J. D. McClatchy
The Anarchist Heart, Poetry by Bill Tremblay
An Interview with Maxine Kumin, by Martha George Meek
1934, Poetry by George Bogin
E.E. Cummings as an Artist, Non-Fiction by Robert Tucker; Notes on the Dial Collection, by Dagmar Reutlinger; Seventeen drawings by E.E. Cummings
Developmental Psychology and the Arts, Non-Fiction by Richard W. Nolan
Solstice; In Margaret’s Garden; Timing, Poetry by Audre Lorde
Red Rosa: Bread and Roses, Fiction by Sheila Delany
Borges’ Orbis Tertius, Non-Fiction by Sheldon Brivic
The Last Covenant; Scenes from Life, Poetry by Naomi Lazard
Contributors
Ameen Alwan‘s poems have appeared in MR, Tri-Quarterly, and other journals.
A member of the French Dept. at Smith College, David Ball is both poet and translator.
George Bogin has just completed a book of poems, Alone in the House.
A teacher at Temple University, Sheldon Brivic has finished a psychoanalytic study of the works of James Joyce.
The poetry of E. E. Cummings was the subject of an earlier special section published in MR vol. IV, 3 for Spring 1963.
Sheila Delany teaches at Simon Fraser University; she has published two books as well as a number of essays in the literary journals.
Susan Engberg‘s fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review and O. Henry Prize Stories.
Robert Hahn‘s new collection of poems, Routine Risks, will soon be published.
Poet and naturalist John Hay is Director of The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History; he received the Conservationist of the Year Award in 1970, and his newest book, Spirit of Survival, was published last year.
Alan V. Hewat has published both fiction and non-fiction in Esquire, Time Out and other magazines.
A teacher and book reviewer, Naomi Lazard‘s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, American Review, and various other journals.
Eleanor Lerman‘s collection of poems, Come the Sweet By and By, will soon be published by Univ. of Massachusetts Press and has received their Juniper Prize.
New York Head Shop and Museum, Audre Lorde‘s most recent collection of poems, was published this year.
J. D. McClatchy is completing an opera libretto based on Ford’s The Good Soldier.
A doctoral candidate at Syracuse, Martha George Meek is currently teaching there in English.
Richard W. Noland is Director of Graduate Studies in English at U. Mass. (Amherst).
Dagmar Reutlinger is Curator at the Worcester Art Museum.
In 1975, Vern Rutsala received the Northwest Poet’s Prize from Northwest Review.
The work of James J. Sacré has appeared in many French journals and anthologies.
Bill Tremblay‘s first collection of poems Crying in the Cheap Seats came out in 1971; he is Director of the Creative Writing program at Colorado State Univ.
Robert Tucker, poet and teacher at U. Mass. (Amherst), editor at MR, has written frequently on the poetry of E. E. Cummings.