Fall 2024
From the Editor
Kaleidoscopes, Sunsets, Seasons by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
Fiction
Kat St. Claire, Dora’s Notebook
Eva Silverfine, Midnight Stroll
Jill Koenigsdorf, Salve
Linda Barrett Osborne, Losing Sal
Jo Anne Moser Gibbons, Now You Don’t
Marcy Arlin, Flower Widows
NonFiction
Victoria Millard, Penelope’s Pockets
Rae Dumont, The Kindness of Realism
Eileen Pollack, Erector Set
Ginger Keller Gannaway, Falling into a Box
Lily Iona MacKenzie, Plumbing the Depths: Dreams and My Creative Life
Judith Sornberger, Declarations of Desks
Kaelin McGee Shipley, The Descent
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Poetry
“To Know the World is a Living Being”: The Poetry of Linda Hogan
By Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Selected Poems
by Linda Hogan
Art
Tribute to a Polymath: Alessandra Comini
By Greta Berman, Art Editor
Dance
Diplomats of Equilibrium
by Sally Hess, Guest Columnist
Short Takes
Listening — Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Prose and Poetry by Jennifer Abod, Ellen Agger, Suzanne S. Austin-Hill, Shawn Aveningo-Sanders, Debra Bruno, Judy Castleberry, Jacqueline Davey, Jeannette DesBoine, Gail Frank, Melinda Gordan, Nancy Gustafson, Nancy Johnston Hall, Arlene Johnson, Kwan Kew Lai, Jade Robinson Myers, Linda Neal, Margie Patlak, Roberta Peets, Celia Schorr, Sally Showalter, Stephanie Stevens, Sue Taylor, Marjorie Williams-Cooper, windflower, Yingchao Xiao
Photographs by Merry Song
Persimmon Tree Forum
V-Day: Hopes and Fears Surrounding the November 5 Election
Our Readers Express Their Views
Introduction by Margaret Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
Sally Mansfield Abbott, Denise Beck-Clark, Deb Bowen, Lyn G. Brakeman, Ruth Cook, Wendy Eisner, Linda Falcao, Julia Griffin, Teresa Burns Gunther, Roxanne Lien, Julie Lomoe, Elizabeth Minihan, Linda F. Piotrowski, Anna Villegas, Johanna Wald, Judy Wells, Linda C. Wisniewski
Photographs by Suzanne S. Austin-Hill and Pam Martin
Illustrations by Suzanne S. Austin-Hill, Rachel E. Brown, Mary Burke, Emily Calvo, Rosannne Ehrlich, Betti Franceschi, Barbara Gottesman, Debbie Hall, L. Maristatter, Pam Martin, Sandy Morris, Anita Pinatti, Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Susann Rose, Sue Sherrill, Marcella Peralta Simon, Merry Song, Shelly Reed Thieman, Nancie Warner
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Issue 72, Fall 2024