Winter 2021
Fiction
J.F. Gross, If Not Now, When?
Art by Judith Peck
Jacqueline Ariail, First Date
Art by by Milton Avery
Laura Davis Hays, Pride
Art by Julia Spring
Nonfiction
Claire Kahane, My Mother’s Story: Memento Mori
Art by Elsa Lichman
Ernestine Whitman, Musical Themes
Barbara Rady Kazdan, The Mourning Fog
Art by Mary Rose O’Connell
Poetry
Seventeen Poems
Poetry from the Central States
Introductions by Cynthia Hogue and Aliki Barnstone
Aliki Barnstone, Nancy Lael Braun, Jacqueline Brogan, Wendy Cleveland, Jeanne Emmons, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Pauletta Hansel, Margaret Hasse, Judith Sanders, Annette Sisson, Rebecca A. Spears, Bonnie Larson Staiger, Dawn Terpstra, Drucilla Wall, LaWanda Walters, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Music by Gena Raps
Art
Rose Cabat, Touchie Feelies Redux
Short Takes
Random Acts of Kindness
Christina Buckton, Judith Emilie, Cynthia Good, Elise Kazanjian, Rochelle Linick, Lalita Noronha, Mary Robertson, Sivakami Velliangiri, Ariela Zucker
Introduction by Jean Zorn
Music by Patti Casey
Voices
INSURRECTION – INAUGURATION
A Special Section on the Extraordinary Events of January 2021
Liz Abrams-Morley, Dori Appel, Susan Baskin, Margo Berdeshevsky, Ann Boaden, Carol Dorf, Christine Emmert, Patricia Feeney, Marilyn June Janson, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios, Alice Marks, Valerie L. Mathews, Lyn May, Elaine Nussbaum, Nancy Poling, Mary Russell, Rochelle Jewel Shapiro, Nina Tassi, Melody Wilson
Art by Margo Berdeshevsky, gaye gambell-peterson, Judith Fox Goldstein, Sabiha Iqbal, Elsa Lichman, windflower
Music by Gena Raps
Introduction by Jean Zorn
From the Editor
Seriously?
Sue Leonard
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SHORT TAKES: “Lights at the End of the Tunnel”
POETRY SUBMISSIONS: International Poets
(Click Submissions for details)