Volume 20, Issue 4
FRONT COVER: Wang Hui-Ming
from SMALL IS NOT LITTLE, 1978
WOODCUT
Table of Contents
Advent, Fiction by Marian Novick
Letter to Joan Mercuryindividual, Poetry by Michael Benedikt
The End of World War One, Poetry by Sharon Olds
Noburu’s Bullet, Fiction by William F. Van Wert
Imaginary Ancestors: What Makes or Breaks Them; Ulysses S. Grant, Poetry by Madeline DeFrees
Keys, Poetry by Glen Rockwell
Ice Fishing Above the Dam, Poetry by Thomas Reiter
Sisters, Fiction by J. Kobin
The Rustling of Foliage, The Memory of Caresses, a signature of 15 poems, by James Tate
Loving the Albatross, Fiction by Ted Bent
The Strange One; Another Matter, Poetry by Donald Finkel
Judy and the Real Estate Agent; The Pallet, Poetry by Jill Neimark
Dandelion Greens, Poetry by Jane Flanders
Tea, Fiction by Francine Prose
Lumps, Fiction by Harriet Malinowitz
Hard Winter, Fiction by Sally George
The Land of Cockaigne, Poetry by David L. Fisher
Contributors
Poet, editor, teacher, Michael Benedikt is at work on a new collection, tentatively called Family Blessings, Family Curses.
Ted Bent, formerly an editor at Atheneum, is now a freelance writer, and reader for publishers; he lives in New York.
Author of several collections of poems, Madeline DeFrees has just joined the University of Massachusetts faculty, Amherst.
Donald Finkel‘s recent book of poems is Endurance & Going Under, published by Atheneum.
David L. Disher is the winner of the Poetry Society of America’s first annual William Carlos Williams award.
In 1978 Jane Flanders received an N.E.A. writer’s grant; her poems have appeared in a number of magazines including The Nation and Poetry Now.
Sally George‘s stories have been published in Redbook, The North American Review, Ms. and other magazines.
A writer and psychotherapist, Joann Kobin has published stories in Aphra and The Remington Review.
Harriet Malinowitz, a student in the M.F.A. program, University of Massachusetts, writes theatre reviews for The Valley Advocate; she won the Harvey Swados Fiction Prize in 1978.
Jill Neimark, a student at Barnard College, has published in The Smith.
A fiction writer and teacher, Marian Novick is back packing through Europe and writing a collection of travel essays.
Sharon Olds has published poems in Poetry, The Nation, The Paris Review, and Prairie Schooner.
Francine Prose‘s recent novel, Animal Magnetism, was published by Putnam’s.
Thomas Reiter teaches at Monmouth College; his first book of poems, River Route, was published in 1977.
Glen Rockwell grew up on Cape Cod, graduated from the University of Massachusetts, and is currently employed by the City of Northampton.
James Tate has published numerous volumes of poetry, including The Lost Pilot, The Oblivion Ha-Ha, Hints to Pilgrims, Absences, Vifer Jazz and most recently, Riven Doggeries; he teaches at the University of Massachusetts and lives in Pelham, Mass.
As well as publishing fiction and poetry in a number of journals, William F. Van Wert has written several books on film.