Volume 17, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: James Trenchard
GREAT SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES, 1786
Columbian Magazine, I
Table of Contents
How the Puritans Won the American Revolution, Non-Fiction by Sacvan Bercovitch
Conflict in a New England Town Meeting, Non-Fiction by Jane J. Mansbridge
Waiting Room at the Breast Clinic, Poetry by Tamara Watson
AWARD POEMS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION:
Paul Cuffe: Indian Blood, Poetry by Everett Hoagland
Poem Without Head or Tail, Poetry by Ifeanyi Menkiti
Alfonso Lacklustre, Poetry by James Tate
To the Couple on the Red Line, Poetry by Marla Zarrow
I Live, Poetry by Kathi Aguero
Bas Relief: Bacchante, Poetry by Sandra M. Gilbert
Lear, Non-Fiction by Arthur F. Kinney
When it Was; Arrival, Poetry by Jeannine Dobbs
Snodgrass on Eliot, Fiction by Rima King
Witness: The School Maker, Non-Fiction by Thomas J. Cottle
Preparing for Winter, Poetry by James Wade
The Advancement of Women in Giscard d’Estaing’s Advanced Liberal Society, Non Fiction by Gordon Shenton
Prescriptions from Sleeplessness, Poetry by Rika Lesser
The Wrestler Considers His Heritage, Poetry by Ron Slate
Liberation and Stalemate, Non-Fiction by David Riseman
Medea, Poetry by W. H. Chaplin
Contributors
Kathi Aguero, formerly in the Creative Writing program at Boston University, currently teaches in the Poets-in-the-Schools program in New Hampshire.
Sacvan Bercovitch is author of Puritan Origins of the American Self and professor of English and Comparative literature at Columbia University; the essay published here is “dedicated with gratitude and affection to the fellows and staff of the National Humanities Institute (1975-76)” at Yale.
W. H. Chaplin‘s publications include poems and essays on Classical and Renaissance drama; he died in 1974 at the age of 30.
Thomas J. Cottle is affiliated with the Children’s Defense Fund of the Washington Research Project; his books include Black Children, White Dreams and A Family Album, while Life Time and Barred From School are forthcoming.
Jeannine Dobbs teaches writing at Harvard; in addition to poetry she also writes fiction and non-fiction.
Sandra M. Gilbert teaches in literature and Women’s Studies at the University of California at Davis; her poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in The Nation, The New Yorker, Poetry and other magazines.
Everett Hoagland is at Southeastern Massachusetts University; his work appears in New Black Voices and other anthologies.
Rima King has a recently completed novel entitled Alice in Racetrackland; Snodgrass on Eliot is her first published fiction.
Arthur F. Kinney is Editor of English Literary Renaissance, and his work in this field is widely known; he is currently on a Fulbright Research Grant at Oxford.
Rika Lesser‘s poems and translations have appeared in American Review and Poetry as well as in MR.
Jane J. Mansbridge is a political scientist and an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago.
Ifeanyi Menkiti teaches Philosophy at Wellesley College; Affirmations, a book of his poems, appeared with Third World Press (1971).
David Riesman has long been a distinguished observer of the American scene and a dedicated teacher of American undergraduates. His forthcoming book (with Gerald Grant) is entitled The Volatile College: Educational Reform in America (University of Chicago Press, 1977).
Gordon Shenton has taught French literature at Harvard and Brown; he is presently living in France at Saint Etienne.
Ron Slate is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin; his poems appear frequently in little magazines.
Viper Jazz is James Tate‘s latest book of poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1976); he is a Guggenheim Fellow for 1976? 1977 and is living in Spain.
James Wade teaches high school English part time and manages a restaurant; he is a graduate of the Writing Program at Indiana.
Tamara Watson studied at Juilliard and is currently in preparation for an operatic debut.
Marla D. Zarrow is a feminist psychotherapist; her poems have previously appeared in Focus.