Volume 37, Issue 1
FRONT COVER: Michael Jacobson-Hardy
Prisoner, 1991
Deer Island jail
Winthrop, MA
Table of Contents
A Villanelle, Poetry by Agha Shahid Ali
Blessed, Poetry by Joyce E. Peseroff
Charcoal Sketches for Writing You Nude, Poetry by Crystal Bacon
*; *, Poetry by Simon Perchik
Collapse: A Love Story, Poetry by Corrinne Hales
Ghazal on a Winter Afternoon, Poetry by Reetika Vazirani
Joaquina, Danae, and the Spanish Civil War, Fiction by James E. Maraniss
Two Sonnets of a Woman Working in a Morgue, Poetry by Naomi Wallace
Passing Beyond the Middle Passage: Henry “Box” Brown’s Translations of Slavery, Non-Fiction by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
History’s Posse, Fiction by Honor Ford-Smith
Quarters, Poetry by Paja Faudree
Terrible Liberty, Poetry by Leonard Kress
Witness: Julio, Non-Fiction by Robert Kelsey
Behind the Razor Wire in Massachusetts Jails and Prisons, Non-Fiction by Michael Jacobson-Hardy, an essay with fourteen photographs
Marionizing Massachusetts, Non-Fiction by Bill Newman
Collection Day, Poetry by Natasha Trethewey
33 1/3, Fiction by Kenneth R. Harvey
An Explanation of Six-thirty; An Explanation of Nine-thirty, Poetry by Michael Chitwood
The Man Who Killed Himself to Avoid August, Poetry by Maureen Seaton
The Rings of Our Grandmothers, Non-Fiction by Marietta Pritchard
Shanghai ’87, Poetry by Adrienne Su
Letters to the Dead: Carol Baum, Poetry by Dick Lourie
Eye of a Condor, Poetry by Cyrus Cassells
Model Minorities, Non-Fiction by Phillip M. Richards
Dodr, Poetry by E.J. Miller Laino
Contributors
Agha Shahid Ali‘s volumes of poetry include The Half-inch Himalayas (Wesleyan Univ. Press) and A Nostalgist’s Map of America (Norton).
Crystal V. Bacon teaches at Gloucester County College in New Jersey and has had poems in The Ontario Review and other places.
Cyrus Cassells has published two poetry collections, The Mud Actor (Holt) and Soul Make a Path Through Shouting (Copper Canyon). He has received a number of poetry awards.
Michael Chitwood‘s Salt Works was published by Ohio Review Books in 1992.
Paja Faudree has published poems in many journals, her plays have been produced at Brown University and on WBRU radio in Providence.
Founding writer and director for the Sistren Theatre Collective in Toronto, Honor Ford-Smith is the author of Lionheart Gal: Live-stories of Jamaican Women.
Corrinne Hales‘ most recent books of poems, Underground, was published by Ahsahta Press; she teaches at California State in Fresno.
The photographs of Michael Jacobson-Hardy are exhibited widely in museums and galleries. The Changing Landscape of Labor: American Workers and Workplaces was published by Univ. of Massachusetts Press.
Kenneth R. Harvey‘s work has appeared in several quarterlies; he has received a Massachusetts Artist Fellowship in Fiction.
Robert Kelsey, who has been in prison since 1989, has published work in a number of journals including The Virginia Quarterly and Hudson Valley Echoes.
Leonard Kress has published poems and translations in numerous journals including Missouri Review, New Letters and Quarterly West.
A prevention specialist who works with adolescents in preventing drug abuse, E.J. Miller Laino has published work in various quarterlies and a book, Girl Hurt (Alice James Books).
Dick Lourie is an editor of Hanging Loose press and magazine.
James E. Maraniss, a professor of Romance Languages at Amherst College, has published a book, On Calderon, translations and the libretto for an opera.
Bill Newman is an attorney and heads the Western Massachusetts office of the ACLU.
Author of seven volumes of poetry, Simon Perchik practices law in New Jersey.
Joyce E. Peseroff‘s publications include A Dog in the Lifeboat (Carnegie Mellon) and The Hardness Scale (Alice James Books).
Marietta Pritchard, a freelance journalist and former editor, was born in Hungary and now lives in Amherst.
Phillip M. Richards is an associate professor of English at the Univ. of North Carolina.
Maureen Seaton has published two books of poetry, The Sea among the Cupboard (New Rivers) and Fear of Subways (The Eighth Mountain Press); she has received several awards including an NEA fellowship.
Adrienne Su‘s poems have appeared in various literary magazines; she has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Natasha Trethewey is a member of the Dark Room Collective and has published poems in Agni, The Southern Review and other journals.
Reetika Vazirani‘s White Elephants, selected by Marilyn Hacker for the 1995 Barnard New Women Poets Prize, will be published by Beacon Press.
Naomi Wallace‘s poem appears in her book To Dance a Stony Field, published in the United Kingdom; her play, In the Heart of America, will be published by Wesleyan Press and receive its world premier by the Royal Shakespeare Co. in London.
Cynthia Griffin Wolff has published books on Samuel Richardson, Edith Wharton, and Emily Dickinson. She is currently engaged in research for a literary biography of Willa Cather.