Spring 2023
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From the Editor
Women Holding Things: an Appreciation by Margaret E. Wagner
Fiction
Sheila Kinsella, Zoe
Gill James, Grace and Simon
Denise Osso, Likes to Talk Politics, Loves to Read Poetry
Marilis Demirel, Raw Oysters
Susan Thomas, The Occupation of Magdalen House
Ann Boaden, Felicity Dying
NonFiction
Mary Dingee Fillmore, The Story I Had to Write
Miriam Mandel Levi, The Hedge
Karen Beatty, Messaging Plants
Louise A. Dolan, Diamonds in the Universe
Anne Kaier, A Window Outside the Wall
Constance Garcia-Barrio, Vivid Vengeance
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Guest Column
iRant by Mary-Lou Weisman, Guest Columnist
Poetry
“Guardian of the Creole Groove”: The Poetry of Mona Lisa Saloy
By Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Black Creole Chronicles: Poems
by Mona Lisa Saloy
Art
“My Story/Their Story”: The Art of Marilyn Church
By Greta Berman, Art Editor
Music
Editor’s Music Picks
By Gena Raps, Music Editor
Short Takes
WTF Is It with This Weather?
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Prose and Poetry by Armen Bacon, Denise Beck-Clark, Ann Birch, Martha Bordwell, Phyllis Brotherton, Anna Gall, Gail Ghai, Tobey Hiller, Debra Kaufman, Lois Kiely, Janet McCann, Laurie Rosen, Merryn Rutledge, Roberta Schultz, Stephanie Shafran, Judith Shapiro, Kathryn Taylor, Eileen Trauth, Georgette Unis, Kresha Richman Warnock, windflower
Music by Gena Raps
Persimmon Tree Forum
Challenges of Climate Change
Our Readers Comment
Illustrations by Lisa Braxton, Sally Buffington, Suzanne Cottrell, Kelly DuMar, Helen Fitzgerald, Marilyn Johnston, Niraja Lorenz, Linda Murphy Marshall, Judith R. Robinson, Eleanor Rubin, Marcella Peralta Simon, Merry Song, Sarah Sutro, Indu Varma
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Issue 66, Spring 2023