Table of Contents

Spring 2021

Spring 2021

Nonfiction

Jane T. Krebs, Peaches
Art by Nan Sanders Pokerwinski

Deborah Ross, Barbie’s Bleak House; or, Married with Furniture
Art by Nancy Wolitzer

Poetry

Making Beauty Like That: On the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker, by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Alicia Ostriker, Poems from the Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems, 2002-2019
Art by Nan Sanders Pokerwinski

Fiction

Eleanor Fay Snyder, Of George
Art by Nancy Wolitzer

Linda Maki, Water
Art by Nancy Wolitzer

Elaine Handley, Hooked Up
Art by Nancy Wolitzer

Sketch

Barbara Carey, Assurance and Insurance
Art by by Nan Sanders Pokerwinski

Music

Alina Bloomgarden, Jazz Visionary
interviewed by Gena Raps, Music Editor
Art by Nancy Wolitzer

Art

The Dialectical Art of Grace Graupe-Pillard by Greta Berman, Art Editor
Grace Graupe-Pillard, Art as Dialectic

Short Takes

Light[s] at the End of the Tunnel
Mary Ellen Capek, Cynthia Elder, Marjorie Hanft, Joanna Clapps Herman, Melissa Huff, Gurupreet K. Khalsa, Rita Salina Kiernan, Jacqueline Kudler, Angela Lombardo, Marilyn Mazur, Janet Preus, Susanna Rich, Paula Rudnick, JoAnn Sanderson, Deborah K. Shepherd, Ellen Woods
Art by Marjorie Hanft
Music by Carol Wincenc and Gena Raps
Introduction: So How Near the End of the Tunnel Are We? by Jean Zorn, Publisher

From the Editor

Heroics
Sue Leonard

 

 

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