From the Editor

“It is better to speak…” by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
 

Fiction

Margaret Camille Berliant, Chameleon

Anne Hotta, Jetty

Carol J. Luther, Cotton Mill Girl

Elizabeth Murphy, Knife in Shining Armor

Kelly Piner, Class Reunion

Ruth Beaumont Cook, Melvin vs. Marilyn

NonFiction

Jane Hale, Agnes

Polly Cleveland, That Time of Year

Karen Zey, Hello, My Name is Karen

Jenny Moye, The Western View

Deborah Burke Henderson, Summer’s End

Ann V. Klotz, Walking the Circle

Back of the Book

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by Jean Zorn, Publisher

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The Creative Life

Nell Joslin, Measure of Emotion

Sara Etgen-Baker, A Treatise on Fishing and Writing

Poetry

To Make the Broken Whole: On the Poetry of Alison Hawthorne Deming
by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
From Blue Flax and Yellow Mustard Flower
by Alison Hawthorne Deming

Art

Joan Thorne, Revolutionary Painter of Color and Light and Space
by Greta Berman, Art Editor

Music

From Behind a Desk to the Front of the Stage
Introduction by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Short Takes

Putting It All Away
Introduction by Linda Barrett Osborne, Guest Short Takes Editor
Prose and Poetry by Helen Bar-Lev, Joan E. Bauer, Andrea Carter Brown, Nancy Dillingham, Mary Donnelly, Jeanne Emmons, Nancy Glowinski, Carole Johannsen, Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, Linda E. Lucas, Charna Meyers, Gerry Moohr, Jen O’Connor, Denise Osso, Sylvia Ramos Cruz, Felice Rhiannon, Margie Wildblood
Art by Ruth Halpern

Persimmon Tree Forum

Censoring History
Introduction by Margaret Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
Janet Aguilar, Elaine Alarcon, Marcy Arlin, Corine Beauseigneur, Helen Beer, Mary Schelling Burke, Celestine Candida, Ruth Beaumont Cook, Michelle Dinnick, Karen Elias, Elaine Elinson, Karen FitzGerald, Julia Griffin, Cate Fosl, Ines Hernandez-Avila, Martha Ellen Johnston, Valerie Mathews, Malia McCarrick, Kathy Miller, Pauline Nunez, Margaret C. Pearson, Teresa Peipins, Claire Reutter, Lisa Schiff, Mary Ann Shank, Rosie Sorenson, Robin Mayer Stein, Barbara Valente, Diane M. Webber, Debra J. White
Protest photography by Merry Song

 
Illustrations by Sally Buffington, Claudia Cameron, Judith Beth Cohen, Darlene Detienne, Autry Dye, Karen Fitzgerald, Jill Fortney, Melinda P. Gordan, Ruth Halpern, Laurie Kuntz, Nancy Murray, Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Diane Rakocy, Sherry Shahan, Merry Song, Jenny Thornburg, Karen Walker
Edited by Carrie Stein and Jean Zorn

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