From The Editor

Margaret E. Wagner, Women’s Rights: The Challenges We Face

Hope and Persistence

Alice Benson, Hope and Persistence

Nan Gefen, The Long View: A Tribute to Marcia Freedman

Challenges

Touching upon some of the difficult issues women face at all stages of life, often without any reliable safety nets. A situation exacerbated by recent Supreme Court and state actions.

Daniela Gioseffi, A Death-Defying Illegal Abortion Nearly Destroyed Me

Laurie Harriton, Abortion

Julie Brinkmann, Struggling for Equality in the Catholic Church

Alexandra Geiger Morgan, Triptytch: Three Explorations of Abuse

Claire Kahane, Acolyte

Amy Champeau, Unleashed

Jacquelyn Shah, Mutant

Phyllis Todisco, The Reluctant Caregiver

Mary-Lou Weisman, Ms Me

Eileen Pollack, The True Game of Tennis

Jean Zorn, Nothing is Sure in This World: When Title IX Became a Political Football

Poetry

Fourteen Poems
Cynthia Hogue, Introduction – Rejecting Despair: Poems of Lament, Rage and Resistance

Music

Gena Raps, Musical Trailblazing: Interview with Serena Benedetti

Persimmon Tree Forum

Speaking of Rights: Our Readers Comment

Women’s Rights: Resources

Fall 2022 Issue

Fiction, Essays, Poetry, and More
Persimmon Tree’s Fall 2022 issue is still available in its entirety.

 
Illustrations by Suzanne Cottrell, Gaye Gambell-Peterson, Daniela Gioseffi, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Elaine Happnie, Joyce Hoffman, Margaret Karmazin, Judith R. Robinson, Wendy Lou Schmidt, Marcella Simon, Julia C. Spring, Jeri Theriault, RM Yager

Submit your poetry, fiction, non-fiction or Short Take (prose, poetry or art) to Persimmon Tree.

Subscribe to Persimmon Tree. (It’s free!)

Advertise in Persimmon Tree.

Read the Fall 2022 issue of Persimmon Tree

Donate to Persimmon Tree.