From the Editor

Personal Touches by Margaret E. Wagner
 

Fiction

E. C. Traganas, Chopin Unraveled: Valldemossa, Winter 1839

Margaret J. Swanson, Two Goddesses and a Child: An imagined incident on ancient Crete

Megeen R. Mulholland, Diana Disrobes

Keltie Zubko, Smoothing the Wrinkles

Anne Hotta, Frank and Shirley

Lois Ann Abraham, Day 72

Anne Gruner, It Might Have Happened Otherwise

NonFiction

Carol Westreich Solomon, They’re Digging Dirt in My Family Room

Fay Robinson, House

Rae Dumont, Still Waters

Susan McCarthy, Buried Treasure

Miriam Sagan, January

Janie Braverman, Apocalypse/How to Fold 1,000 Paper Cranes

Patricia McTiernan, Lessons from the Death Café

The Column

Daddy’s Girls by Mary-Lou Weisman, Guest Columnist

Poetry

The Gentle Force of Female Wisdom: A Memorial Tribute to Wendy Barker
By Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Poems by Wendy Barker

Art

Restoring Unique American Art: My Work on Federal Art Project Murals
by Greta Berman, Art Editor

Music

Punk Pioneer Exene Cervenka: Her Life in Music and Words
by Sharon M. Hannon, Guest Music Editor

Short Takes

Shameless Self-Promotion
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Prose and Poetry by Sally Mansfield Abbott, Connie Corcoran, Patricia Crisafulli, Karin Eaton, Sally Hess, Susan Knox, Kwan Kew Lai, Wendy Lukomski, Liz Newberry, Kay Patterson, Jennifer O’Neill Pickering, Ellen Reichman, Li Ruan, Susan Shea, Sabine Vorkoeper-Orchard
Illustrations by Connie Corcoran, Karin Eaton, Linda Falcão, Janis Butler Holm, Jennifer O’Neill Pickering

Persimmon Tree Forum

Government Support for the Arts
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Illustrations by Linda Allison, Robin Eileen Bernstein, Sheree Stewart Combs, Lynn B. Connor, gaye gambell-peterson, Judith Fox-Goldstein, Kathy Haynes, Lilian H. Hill, Janis Butler Holm, Judy Ireland, E.E. King, Dawn Li, Elsa Lichman, L Maristatter, Marilyn Papayanis, Dietra Reid, Merry Song

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