From the Editor

“Mind the Light” by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
 

Fiction

C. David Guerra, The Monolith

Patricia Ann Bowen, Game of Interludes

Susan Wells, The Prank

Zoe Burke, New Moons

Jennifer Thomas, Queen Anne’s Lace

NonFiction

Lori Gershun, Olga, Tolstoy, and Me

Amy Smyth Miller, What Lies Within

Ann Levin, Stir-fry Cancer

Shirlee Jellum, Offerings

Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, Minding the Light

The Creative Life

Essays on the many aspects of artistic creation –
To be presented every spring, when the flowers bloom.

Linda Holland Rathkopf, New and Updated

Diane Elayne Dees, Touching Transcendence

Vicki Lindner, Becoming Berenice

Patricia Crisafulli, In the Shoes of Nancy Drew

Poetry

The Courage to Sing: On the Poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye
by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

Poems
by Naomi Shihab Nye

Art

Betti Franceschi: A Role Model for Any Age
By Greta Berman, Art Editor

Music

Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots
By Gena Raps, Music Editor

Short Takes

Legacies—An Introduction, by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Prose and Poetry by Shanti Chandrasekhar, Susana Gonzales, B. Fulton Jennes, Gurupreet K. Khalsa, Alexis Krasilovsky, MJ Malleck, Ruth Nicholson, Clare O’Brien, Denise Lewis Patrick, Julie Patten, Barbara Reynolds, Penny Righthand, Kerstin Schulz, Norma Smith, Jane Soodalter, Naomi Stenberg, Jody Stewart
Art by Alice Sherman Simpson

Persimmon Tree Forum

Surviving Climate Disasters
Members of the Persimmon Tree community share their experiences of climate catastrophes.
Introduction by Margaret Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
Barbara Azzoli, Tina Barr, Denise Beck-Clark, Glori Chaika, Kathryn I. Lucas, Linda E. Lucas, Karen McAferty Morris, Mary Russell, Mediha Saliba, Marguerite Schneider, Nancy Spiller, Suzanne Travis, Debra J. White, Shirley Wimbish Gray, Nancy H. Williard
Photographs by Merry Song

 
Illustrations by Susan Burgess-Lent, Carolyn Campbell, Mona Curtis, Diane Elayne Dees, gaye gambell-peterson, Shirlee Jellum, Alison Jennings, Marilyn Johnston, Beth Kanell, Maro Lorimer, Linda Mikolayenko, Maria B. Olujic, Jennifer O’Neill Pickering, Linda Rathkopf, Janice Lynch Schuster, Marcella Peralta Simon, Alice Sherman Simpson, Merry Song, windflower

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