Volume 36, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Chesley Bonestell
THE CONQUEST OF SPACE, 1949
detail of a painting
Table of Contents
The Dream of Spaceflight: Nostalgia for a Bygone Future, Non-Fiction by Wyn Wachhorst
Sympathizer, Fiction by Edith Pearlman
Caniche Found Smothered by Juifs; Horses at the Front, Poetry by Laurel Speer
The Cellar; Loving You in Flemish, Poetry by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Mystery Drug One, Non-Fiction by David Lenson
Circled Square Drawn to Scale, Poetry by Peter Richards
Gypsy, Poetry by Susan Johnson
Little Orphan Annie Meets Oedipus Rex, Non-Fiction by Ernest Gallo
Swimming Lesson, Poetry by Kirsten Smith
On Earth as It Is in Heaven, Fiction by V. Diane Woodbrown
Sojourners, Settlers, Castaways & Creators: A Recollection of Puerto Rico Past and Puerto Ricans Present, Non-Fiction by Roberto Márquez
This is Practice Planet; The Woman Who Tries to Believe, Poetry by Barbara Daniels
Singlewide, Poetry by E.M. Schorb
An Interview with Ama Ata Aidoo, Non-Fiction by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
Admission, Children’s Unit, Poetry by Theodore Deppe
Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase; Courtyard of the Hospital at Arles, Poetry by Judith Berke
In Memorian-Sidney Kaplan. American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston Park Plaza, November 1993
Introduction, by Jules Chametzky
The Meaning or the Fight: Frederick Douglass and the Memory of the Fifty Fourth Massachusetts, by David W. Blight
Frederick Douglass: The Absent Presence in Glory, by Thomas Cripps
In the Presence of Art, by William McFeely
Contributors
Judith Berke‘s first book, White Morning, was published by Wesleyan Univ. Press. The two poems here are from a longer manuscript in progress.
David W. Blight, Assoc. Professor of History and Black Studies at Amherst College, is the author of Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee (LSU Press, 1989).
Laure-Anne Bosselaar is at work on a manuscript of original poems as well as translating, with her husband poet Kurt Brown, the work of Belgium’s leading poet, Herman de Coninck.
Thomas Cripps, University Distinguished Professor at Morgan State, has published several books, most recently, Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie (Oxford, 1993).
Barbara Daniels teaches English at Camden County College; her poems have appeared in a variety of journals and she received the Richard E. Lantz Poetry Award.
Theodore Deppe‘s first collection of poems, Children of the Air, was published by Alice James Books.
Ernest Gallo teaches in the English Dept., Univ. of Massachusetts, and lives in Hadley with his wife Nadine.
Susan Johnson is presently teaching at Shimer College in Illinois; her poems have appeared in Quarterly West, Nebraska Review, and many other quarterlies.
David Lenson is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the Univ. of Massachusetts; he has published several books, most recently The Birth of Tragedy: A Commentary.
The William J. Kenan Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Mount Holyoke, Roberto Márquez is a translator, editor and literary critic.
William S. McFeely, a Professor of History at the Univ. of Georgia, published a study of Frederick Douglass in 1991; his Grant: A Biography was awarded a Pulitzer and the Parkman Prize.
Anuradha Dingwaney Needham teaches at Oberlin.
Edith Pearlman, who has published more than a hundred stories, has had work awarded an O. Henry and has been listed in Best American Short Stories.
Peter Richards has a B.A. from Hampshire College and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; other poems are forthcoming in Yale Review, Colorado Review and other quarterlies.
Work by E. M. Schorb has appeared in dozens of publications including The American Scholar, Sewanee Review, Southern Review, and various Canadian journals.
Kirsten Smith has published work in Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah and other quarterlies.
Laurel Speer‘s latest poetry publication is a poem pamphlet called The Destruction of Lions.
Wyn Wachhorst, who has taught American history at the Univ. of California and San Jose State, is currently writing speeches for Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Wachhorst’s book, Thomas Alva Edison, was a History Book Club selection.
While completing a collection of short stories, V. Diane Woodbrown works on behalf of social issues for State Representative Mark Roosevelt in San Francisco.