Volume 37, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Nina Payne
SPINE #6 (detail)
from Spine series, 1993-94
Photograph by Douglas Salin
The editors express their deep sense of loss at the death in Amherst on Sunday May 5, 1996, of their former colleague, Josephine Corbishly Haven. Mrs. Haven long and memorably served as Secretary to this magazine in its early, heady but often perilous days.
We think of her for her remarkable energies and buoyant imagination; for her valiant sense of enterprise, and her gift of vigorous language to express it.
We remain in her debt. We remember her with respect and deep affection
– John Hicks & Jules Chametzky
for the Editorial Board
Table of Contents
What They Did, Poetry by Vern Rutsala
Sounding, Poetry by Dabney Stuart
Teen Angels, Poetry by Deborah Gorlin
A Lakh of Ears, Non-Fiction by Jeffrey Heiman
The Monastery Orchard in Early Spring; Children of Divorce, Poetry by Kathleen Norris
Picnic on the Grass, Fiction by Rosa Shand
For Women Who Do Not Fear Death, Fiction by Sharon Pomerantz
The Sadness of Failure; The Sadness of Memory; The Sadness of Kids, Poetry by Barbara Ras
Spine, eight works in waxed linen, Art by Nina Payne, with commentary by Nancy Sherman
Thinking Through Others: Prosthetic Fantasy and the Cultural Moment, Non-Fiction by Kirby Farrell
New Hampshire; Mendel’s Lesson, Poetry by Ellen Dudley
What Does She Read, Poetry by Doris Abramson
In the Missing Town, Poetry by James Haug
The Punishment for Felonies in Belize, Fiction by Willard J. Rusch
All the Dead Fathers Fall out of Heaven, Poetry by Teresa Pfeifer
from Broken Land, Poetry by Coral Hull
At the A&W; Glissandos, Poetry by Cheryl Savageau
National Security and the Citizens’ Crusade for a Safe Environment in the United States, Israel, and Czechoslovakia, Non-Fiction by Myron P. and Penina M. Glazer
Sewing in January, Poetry by Suzanne Cleary
Ghazal, Poetry by Agha Shahid Ali
Contributors
Co-owner of the Common Reader Bookshop in New Salem, Doris Abramson is Professor Emeritus of the Univ. of Mass. Theater Dept.
Originally from Kashmir, Agha Shahid Ali is on the MFA faculty at the Univ. of Mass.; his seventh collection, The Country Without a Post Office, will be published by Norton.
Suzanne Cleary‘s work has appeared in many literary magazines including Georgia Review and Prairie Schooner.
A founding editor of the Marlboro Review, Ellen Dudley has published poems in TriQuarterly, Agni Review and other journals.
Kirby Farrell‘s most recent books include Snuff (a novel) and Play, Death, and Heroism in Shakespeare.
Myron P. Glazer, co-director of the project on Women and Social Change at Smith College, and Penina M. Glazer, Professor of History and Vice President of Hampshire College, are at work on a longer study of the crusade for a safe environment.
Co director of the Writing Center at Hampshire College, Deborah Gorlin has had poems published in various magazines.
James Haug‘s first collection, The Stolen Car, was published by the Univ. of Mass. Press.
Jeffrey Heiman is on the Editorial Board of Essays on World Humanity and serves on the adjunct faculty of CCNY.
Poet/Artist Coral Hull lives and works in Australia and publishes her work there and in England, Canada, and the United States.
Kathleen Norris, award winning poet, is an oblate of Assumption Abbey, N.D.; her most recent non-fiction book, The Cloister Walk, was published by Riverhead Books.
Nina Payne is Professor of Writing at Hampshire College; her fiber work has been shown in California and the Northeast and can be seen in the University Gallery at Univ. of Mass, this fall.
Teresa M. Pfeifer grew up in Western Massachusetts where she still lives and works; Poetry East, Minnesota Review, Peregrine and other journals have printed her work.
Sharon Pomerantz lives and works in NYC; her non-fiction has appeared in Village Voice, New York Newsday and other magazines.
Barbara Ras, who edited Vol. I of Costa Rica: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, has published poems in American Scholar, Boulevard and other journals.
Willard J. Rusch teaches at the Univ. of Southern Maine; his fiction has appeared in various regional magazines as well as in The William & Mary Review.
Vern Rutsala‘s collection, Little Known Sports, won the Univ. of Mass. Press Juniper Prize in 1994.
Cheryl Savageau lives and writes in Worcester, Mass.; her book of poems, Home Country, was published by Alice James in 1992.
Rosa Shand‘s fiction has received various awards and been published in numerous journals; she has been a Fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell.
Nancy Sherman‘s poems and essays have previously appeared in these pages as well as in other national magazines,
Dabney Stuart‘s most recent book, Second Sight: Poems for Paintings by Carroll Cloar, was published by Univ. of Missouri Press; he teaches at Washington and Lee University.