Volume 28, Issue 2
Table of Contents
Le Sacre du Printemps, Poetry by Marge Piercy
Demagogy in the Musée, Poetry by James Scully
Vermeers, Poetry by Lloyd Schwartz
The Visualizers, Fiction by Patricia E. Powers
Courts as Readers, Non-Fiction by John Atherton
The Beyond, Poetry by Michael Pettit
To Deify, Poetry by Susan Wheeler
I Said, Poetry by Donald Berger
INTERVIEWS:
Chinua Achebe, with J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada
Maya Angelou, with Carol Neubauer
The Hurt, Poetry by J. Martin
The Re-birth of the Nation, Non-Fiction by Howard N. Meyer
Rain, Fiction by Dave Shaw
Observer: Louis Sullivan Woke Up Here, Fiction by Paul M. Wright
Close to the Vein; Something to Love; We Who Have Found Wisdom, Poetry by Christopher Howell
Disciple Pigeons, Fiction by John Smolens
Approaching the Millenium, Non-Fiction by Richard Adams Carey
Leda, Poetry by Dorie La Rue
Lost in the Shine; October, Poetry by Laurel Trivelpiece
Contributors
The fifth volume of MAYA ANGELOU‘s autobiography, All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes, was published last year by Random House.
CHINUA ACHEBE will join the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Massachsuetts as a Distinguished Fellow in September 1987.
JOHN ATHERTON teaches American Studies at the University of Tours, France.
DONALD BERGER has just spent a year in West Germany, teaching English.
Free-lance writer RICHARD ADAMS CAREY has published work on Alaskan Native issues in the Boston Globe Magazine, New England Monthly, and other magazines.
CHRISTOPHER HOWELL is currently poet-in-residence at Pittsburg State University, Kansas; his fourth book, Sea Change, was published in 1985 by L’Epervier Press.
Louisianan DORIE LARUE has poetry and fiction recently published and forthcoming in several literary magazines.
Pulitzer Prize nominee HOWARD N. MEYER is a Labor Panel Arbitrator and civil rights historian and speaker.
CAROL E. NEUBAUER teaches English at Bradley University, has written on Maya Angelou and Maxine Hong Kingston, and is writing a book on her Fulbright year in China.
J.O.J. NWACHUKWUAGBADA is a lecturer in the English Department of Anambra State College of Education in Nigeria.
MICHAEL PETTIT‘s second book of poems, Cardinal Points, will be published soon; he has poems current and forthcoming in the Missouri Review, et al.
Gone to Soldiers, MARGE PIERCY‘s latest novel, has just been published by Summit; she has edited an anthology of American women poets, Early Ripening.
Ireland-born PATRICIA POWERS lives and writes fiction in New York.
JAMES SCULLY‘s most recent book of poems, Apollo Helmet, was published by Curbstone Press; he is a member of the English Department, University of Connecticut.
Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Classical Music Editor for the Boston Phoenix, LLOYD SCHWARTZ has published a collection of poems, a book on Elizabeth Bishop and numerous essays on music.
A native of Michigan, DAVE SHAW writes both poetry and fiction.
JOHN SMOLENS has completed one novel and is at work on another, set in Newburyport, where he worked on the restoration of that city’s old houses.
LAUREL TRIVELPIECE has published poems in a number of literary magazines as well as several young adult novels, short stories and a play.
SUSAN WHEELER is the Director of Printed Matter, Inc., a non-profit distributor of artists’ books, and is preparing her first volume of poems.
A Fellow at the McCormack Institute of Public Affairs in Boston, PAUL M. WRIGHT is writing a biography of John W. McCormack.