From the Editor

“permanent, intolerable uncertainty,” by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
 

Fiction

Marie Anderson, The Christmas Bell Ringers

Yvonne Fein, Unreliable Chronicles

Beth Goobie, Good Concert

Lois Keane, My Father’s Daughter

Rae Dumont, How could he?

Sue du Feu, Sailing into the Wind

NonFiction

Nan Gefen, The Age of Humility

Linda Gambill, Peeling Onions in Africa

Sonja Mongar, SNAGS, Alligators & the OJ Effect

Jane Rothschild, The First Day

Mary Donaldson-Evans, La Terreur

Christine Beck, On Joy

Poetry

Poets of the Central States
“Still, We Tell the Tales”: Introducing Poet Gale Walden by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Women over Sixty, Living in the Middle by Gale Walden, Guest Poetry Editor
Poetry by Miriam Bat-Ami, Annette Billings, Maril Crabtree, Jane Desmond, Cathryn Essinger, Ronnie Hess, Pam Kress-Dunn, Katherine Mitchell, Julie Price Pinkerton, Lee Robinson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Diane Silver, Sandy Soloman, Cynthia Storrs, Gale Walden
Illustrations by Chea

Art

The Very Colorful Bascha Mon at 92
By Greta Berman, Art Editor

Music

Josephine Mongiardo-Cooper: So You Want to Be a Singer
Interview by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Short Takes

Every Year We Write a Letter – Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Prose and Poetry by Phyllis Brotherton, Cathy Cole, Jeannette DesBoine (JD), Glenda Ferguson, Barbara Ford, C. David Guerra, Renée Henning, Kwan Kew Lai, Jane Manaster, Kate McGregor, Melanie Perish, Ellen K. Reichman, Carole Tyrrell
Photographs by Pam Martin

Persimmon Tree Forum

Post-Election Hopes for the Future
Our Readers Express Their Views
Introduction by Margaret Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
Gail Arnoff, Meryl Baer, Denise Beck-Clark, S. G. (Sandy) Benson, Sylvia Ramos Cruz, Jude Ellis, Karen FitzGerald, Jan Freeman, Deborah Fries, Susan K. Glassman, Ronnie Hess, Angie Minkin, Ellen Reichman, Natalie Reid, Claire Reutter, Michelle Rogers, Susann Rose, Barbara A. Rouillard, Priscilla Tilley, Lynda Webb, Gayle Ann Weinstein, Emily West, Heather B. Wood, Sue Young
Photographs by Merry Song

 
Illustrations by Heddy Breuer Abramowitz, Deborah Beauchamp, Celeste Budwit-Hunter, Chea, Sally W. Donatello, Rae Dumont, Linda Gambill, Victoria Hamlin, Judy Ireland, Dana K. Schuldt Leahy, Pam Martin, Sara Risley, Marcella Peralta Simon, Merry Song, Jane Soodalter, Davney Herriges Stahley, Katharine Weinmann, Nanci Woody

Persimmons in the window, oil and graphite on Arches oil paper, by Victoria Hamlin

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