Volume 38, Issue 3
Table of Contents
Radio; Running for a Train, Poetry by Jean Valentine
Animals, Fiction by Mandeliene Smith
A Winter’s Story, Poetry by Jan Freeman
The Barn, Non-Fiction by Suzanne Whedon
Margin of Error; Top Dog, Poetry by Barbara Ras
Arts of the Possible, Non-Fiction by Adrienne Rich
Maria Magdalena’s Extreme Unction; “Dante and Beatrice are 57 Today,” Poetry by Frank Lima
A Song in the Manner of Hildegard Von Bingen; Vigils, Poetry by Erika Baxter
Braiding Bread, Fiction by Leslie Pietrzyk
Are You Experienced?; Ecology, Poetry by Tony Hoagland
From The Story of S., or of the green dress, Fiction by Anna-Maria Carpi, Translated by Alide Cagidemetrio
Mario, Poetry by Frank Montresor
The Volcano Lover, Fiction by David Borofka
The Hudson River School, Poetry by David Starkey
“Oriental Peaceful Penetration”: Gertrude Stein and the end of Europe, Non-Fiction by Shawn H. Alfrey
Summer, Fiction by Mary Luvisi
Responding to “Mother Tongue,” Non-Fiction by Steve Ruhl, with twenty-five panels
Contributors
Shawn H. Alfrey is on the faculty of the Department of English at the University of Colorado at Denver.
Erika Baxter was recently awarded an honorable mention in the Academy of American Poets contest at Oberlin College, where she is a senior.
An English instructor at Kings River Community College, David Borofka has published in a number of journals. His collection, Hints of His Mortality, won the 1996 Iowa Award for Short Fiction, and his first novel, The Island, is forthcoming from MacMurray & Beck.
Alide Cagidemetrio is Professor of American Literature at the University of Udine.
Anna-Maria Carpi, a professor of German at the University of Venice, is the author of two volumes of poetry and a recent novel, E sarai per sempre giovane (“And Stay Forever Young“).
Jan Freeman is the director of Paris Press. Her new collection of poems is A Little American Music.
Winner of the 1997 James Laughlin Prize for Donkey Gospel, Tony Hoagland teaches at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces and in the Warren Wilson M.F.A. program. He has new poems in Ploughshares, Gettysburg Review, and Harvard Review.
Frank Lima has published three books of poetry. He is a teacher at the New York Restaurant School.
Originally from Boston, Mary Luvisi lives in Hollywood and is at work on a novel. Her publications include New England Review, Epoch, Other Voices, Santa Monica Review, and Portland Review.
A recent graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Frank Montresor lives in Portland, Maine.
Leslie Pietrzyk‘s fiction has appeared in Iowa Review, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, New England Review and other journals,
Barbara Ras is the 1997 winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for Bite Every Sorrow, to be published by Louisiana State University Press. She edited Costa Rica: A Traveler’s Literary Companion.
The author of many works of poetry and prose, Adrienne Rich is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Yale Series of Younger Poets, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and the Dorothea Tanning Prize awarded by the Academy of American Poets. Ms. Rich lives in California.
Steve Ruhl is a Zen practitioner. A former arts editor of the Amherst Bulletin, he has received a Poetry Fellowship from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation.
Mandeliene Smith is a graduate of Hampshire College and the Sarah Lawrence graduate writing program.
David Starkey, who teaches creative writing at North Central College in Illinois, edited Teaching Writing Creatively and co-edited an anthology of Chicago literature.
Jean Valentine is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Growing Darkness, Growing Light. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the 92nd St. Y.
Suzanne Whedon lives in Vermont and has worked as a free-lance writer and as a grant writer for a Native American nation.
Co-directors of Mother Tongue Mary Bernstein, Felice Caivano, and Terry Rumble, have offered work shops in a number of western Massachusetts high schools. They have also arranged exhibits at various galleries and museums including the College of the Atlantic and the University of Maine, Augusta, in Maine; Springfield Technical College, and Westfield State College; The Heritage State Park Museum and the Canal Gallery in Holyoke.