
DIAMOND JUBILEE ISSUE
Summer 2025
From the Editor
Milestones by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
Fiction
Ann Boaden, What You Know, What You Don’t Know
Sarah Rossiter, Juneau’s Trinity
Angela Young, Myles, Roxie, and the Dog
Alice Cross, Braille
Paula Bernstein, A Week in the Life of Mrs. Stanley Sokoloff
Chandra Gair, Places I Remember
NonFiction
Sondra Perl, At 75, a Dog
Patricia Garrison, My Life in Fashion
Jennifer Thornburg, In Which I Learn about Surface Area
Ada Glustein, Age of Uncertainties
Lynn Goforth, Piano Fantasy
Valeria Mathews, What Delights Await
Special Section
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Celebrating the 75th Issue
A collection of essays and reminiscences by Persimmon Tree’s current and former editors.
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
Essays by Greta Berman, Nan Gefen, Cynthia Hogue, Gena Raps, Elizabeth Zimmer, Jean Zorn
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Poetry
International Poets
“The gaze unlatched by time”: on the poetry of Deirdre O’Connor, by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Finding Solace: The International Poetry Issue, by Deirdre O’Connor, Guest Poetry Editor
Poetry by Aliki Barnstone, Margo Berdeshevsky, Natalka Bilotserkivets, Hanne Bramness, Anne M. Carson, Rasma Haidri, Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming, Pam Martin, Deirdre O’Connor, Robin Peace, Liana Sakelliou, Leonor Scliar-Cabral, Shikhandin, Barbara Geary Truan
Translations by Ali Kinsella, Alexis Levitin, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Anna Reckin
Art by Merry Song
Art
Conversation with Alice Briggs: Greeting Card Maker and Illustrator
by Greta Berman, Art Editor
Creative Lives
Circling the Continent, Finding Home: The Creative Journeys of Photographer Dona Ann McAdams and Dancer Naomi Goldberg Haas
by Elizabeth Zimmer, Dance and Line Editor
Short Takes
Celebrating Persimmon Tree at 75
Looking Back and Looking Ahead – An Introduction, by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Prose and Poetry by Suzanne S. Austin-Hill, Lisa Baron, Denise Beck-Clark, Carolyn Campbell, Sara Etgen-Baker, Karin Evans, Susan K. Glassman, Joanne Jagoda, Elise Kazanjian, Kwan Kew Lai, Jane Manaster, Ellen K. Reichman, Nancy Scott, Priscilla Tilley, Susan Young
Music by Gena Raps
Art by J.I. Kleinberg
Persimmon Tree Forum
The Assault on the Cultural and Intellectual Life of America: Our Readers Comment
Introduction by Margaret Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
Denise Beck-Clark, S. G. Benson, Nina Carroll, Leslie Clark, Marcy Darin, Patricia Dirlam, Rae Dumont, Tina Engelfried, Karen FitzGerald, Patricia Fuschetti, Susan K Glassman, Julia Griffin, Mary Hiland, Shirlee Jellum, Lucy Jerue, Martha Ellen Johnson, Martha H. Kennedy, Joann Kielar, Laurie Kuntz, Julie Landsman, Rose Levinson, Ph.D., Margaret McCaffrey, Ellen K. Reichman, Claire Reutter, Nan Rush, Carole Tyrrell, Ellen Ulken, Nancy Werking Poling, Nanci Lee Woody, Susan Young
Art by Suzanne Austin-Hill, Paula Bernstein, Sandy Morris, Susan Pollet, Flalala Sandytime, M. E. Wagner
Illustrations by Ellen Agger, Suzanne Austin-Hill, Linda Barbanel, Ellen Becker, Paula Bernstein, Judy Ireland, Margaret Karmazin, J.I. Kleinberg, Dona Ann McAdams, Sandy Morris, Barbara Phillips, Susan Pollet, Ziggy Rendler-Bregman, Nanilee Robarge, Eleanor Rubin, Flalala Sandytime, Merry Song, Elena Stone, Mercedes Castillo Terrell, M. E. Wagner, Gayle Ann Weinstein, Margie Wildblood
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Issue 75, Summer 2025