Suzanne Juhasz, Cleo Kocol, Tricia Knoll, Kathy Merlino, Janet Sunderland, Edna Troiano
Responses to Vivian Gornick’s Feminism in These Times (Summer, 2015)

Claire Kahane My Mother’s Story: Memento Mori (Winter, 2021)

Claire Kahane Acolyte (Special Issue, 2022)

Kay Jorgensen, Mary Risala Laird, Rabbi Leah Novick Unfolding: Women’s Spiritual Paths (Winter, 2010)

Suzanne Juhasz Classroom Ballerina: The Sequel (Winter, 2013)

Frances Kappler Monster (Winter, 2015)

Jane Kays Maryann (Winter, 2017)

Barbara Rady Kazdan Don’t Tell Hubby (Winter, 2019)

Barbara Rady Kazdan The Mourning Fog (Winter, 2021)

Deborah Kent Where Is the Ladies’ Room, Anyway? (Fall, 2014)

Gail B. Kent The Bench (Summer, 2022)

Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer My Life in Pieces (Summer, 2015)

Irena Klepfisz and Nancy Stoller Lives of Confinement (Summer, 2010)

Nancy Kline Florida (Summer, 2010)

Nancy Kline Terrifying Tales (Spring, 2020)

Lisa Knopp Lure (Summer, 2019)

Eva Kollisch Father (Fall, 2007)

Edith Konecky Soup (Winter, 2007)

Sophia Kouidou-Giles Under the Azure Sky (Spring, 2016)

Carolyn Kraus Animus (Summer, 2012)

Jane T. Krebs Peaches (Spring, 2021)

Michele Landsberg Activism Is My Modus Operandi (Spring, 2014)

Mary Martha Lappe Dancing with the Stripes (Winter, 2015)

Ellen Leary, Googling Old Boyfriends (Winter, 2023)

Roz Leiser Reluctant Bride (Summer, 2014)

Joan Lester Naps (Fall, 2007)

Sue Leonard and Lilly Rivlin Story
Teller (Spring, 2014)

Sue Leonard and Toshi Seeger Interview (Summer, 2012)

Shoshana Levenberg In My Name (Spring, 2020)

Carol Levine The Fruit of the Apple Tree (Fall, 2015)

Aurora M. Lewis My Cowgirl Blues (Fall, 2017)

Flossie Lewis Maude’s Pill (Winter, 2015)

Sue Fagalde Lick When You Can’t Even Get Drunk (Spring, 2019)

Mardith Louisell The Long Shower (Spring, 2017)

Abby Luby (Summer, 2019)

Barbara Mahone A Tuskegee Story (Summer, 2014)

Melody Mansfield Gouache Rhymes with Squash (Fall, 2020)

Lucy Marx The Reckoning of Junot Diaz (Fall, 2019)

Responses to Lucy Marx The Reckoning of Junot Díaz (Winter, 2020)

Catherine Mathews The Girl by the Door (Summer, 2021)

Caroline Ames McCoy The Story of Asher (Summer, 2010)

Stephanie Wilson Medlock Keeping Score (Summer, 2013)

Debbie L. Miller But, I’m a Girl (Fall, 2017)

Nina Mishkin A Story (Spring, 2010)

Susan Moon What If I Never Have Sex Again? (Summer, 2008)

Jean P. Moore Finding Charles (Summer, 2011)

Jane P. Morgan The Normal Aging Process (Fall, 2013)

Christina Mowle The Distorting Eye (Summer, 2017)

Lisa Mullenneaux The Vanishing Point: Artists Respond to Climate Change (Spring, 2017)

ruie Mullins At the Plaza (Winter, 2015)

Daphne Muse Gettin’ Sixty (Spring, 2007)

Susan Neville Billow (Fall, 2020)

Emily Newberry The First Steps (Winter, 2016)

Sally Nielsen The Bootleg Daughter (Fall, 2011)

Sally Nielsen Profundity (Fall, 2018)

Hope Nisly Never Take a Drop of H2O Lightly (Winter, 2020)

Lee Haas Norris A Woman’s Got to Do (Winter, 2011-12)

Lee Haas Norris BFF (Fall, 2016)

Patty Anne O’Hara A Hot Couple? (Winter, 2018)

Jane O’Reilly Diary of a Political Education (Fall, 2016)

Elaine Neil Orr Falling (Winter, 2018)

Paula Phipps That Invisible Door Between Us and the Homeless (Fall, 2014)

Lenore Pimental First Sit Up Straight (Fall, 2012)

Melba Pitts God Nodded (Summer, 2018)

Leanne Phillips Growing an Avocado Tree from Seed (Winter, 2022)

Letty Cottin Pogrebin Cover-Up Creep (Summer, 2015)

Eileen Pollack The True Game of Tennis (Special Issue, 2022)

Patricia Pomerleau Gay March (Fall, 2015)

Joan Potter Turning Elderly (Winter, 2022)

Barbara Presnell, Home Boy (Winter, 2023)

Anna Rabkin Southern Sixties (Summer, 2012)

Margaret Randall Coyote Grin (Fall, 2011)

Elizabeth Reed A Map of Marriage on Monhegan Island (Fall, 2022)

L. J. Reed The Cribbage Master (Spring, 2012)

Bethany Reid About a Marriage, from A to Zed (Fall, 2021)

Ruth Resch Through the Eyes Of… (Fall, 2009)

Ruth Resch Travel Agent (Spring, 2016)

Ruth Resch Requiem for My Beloved (Summer, 2018)

Phyllis Jane Rose Sisters: A Digital Story (Spring, 2010)

Carole Rosenthal Whose Lie Is This? (Summer, 2007)

Deborah Ross Barbie’s Bleak House; or, Married with Furniture (Spring, 2021)

Mediha Saliba Quilts in Life (Winter, 2013)

Adina Sara Holy Days (Fall, 2021)

Roussel Sargent Reaching Ninety (Summer, 2009)

Stephanie Schamess, Howling at the Moon (Winter, 2023)

Adrienne Sciutto The Sophie Stories (Fall, 2019)

Shizue Seigel Of Christmas and Karma (Winter, 2016)

Stephanie B. Shafran, Wheels (Winter, 2023)

Jacquelyn Shah Mutant (Special Issue, 2022)

Alice Shalvi Point of (No) Return (Summer, 2012)

Kaelin McGee Shipley Letting Go (Spring, 2019)

Harriet Squier The ICU (Summer, 2019)

Patricia Temple The Windmill (Summer, 2020)

Phyllis Todisco The Reluctant Caretaker (Special Issue, 2022)

Jo Ann(e) Valentine (Pascoe) Simson (Smith) What’s in a Name? (Spring, 2015)

Ann Warren Smith Getting to the Heart (Fall, 2014)

Ann St James Ed Is Dead (Spring, 2013)

Laura Tamakoshi “The White Woman Will Eat You!” (Spring, 2015)

Lynn Taylor “AC” (Spring, 2015)

Monona Wali The Resistance of Shakuntala (Summer, 2021)

Mary C. Waters Weaving Lesson (Winter, 2013)

Mary Watkins Learning from Liberace (Spring, 2008)

Gayle Ann Weinstein Meet Me on the Corner (Winter, 2014)

Mary-Lou Weisman Ms Me (Special Issue, 2022)

Mary-Lou Weisman, Longevity (Winter, 2023)

Ernestine Whitman Musical Themes (Winter, 2021)

Nancy Wick Just Like Me (Winter, 2017)

Laurey Williams Twins (Fall, 2021)

Katy Wright A Rose by Any Other Name (Fall, 2022)

Sherri Wright What is Essential — Every Single Day (Summer, 2022)

Mitsuye Yamada Red Shoes and Milk Baths (Summer, 2011)

Sondra Zeidenstein Old Woman, New Poems (Spring, 2010)

Mary Zelinka Boundaries (Winter, 2019)

Elizabeth Zimmer North Wing (Spring, 2013)

Jean Zorn Nothing is Sure in This World: When Title IX Became a Political Football (Special Issue, 2022)

Music, Dance & Theatre

Terry Joan Baum Mom Comes Out (Fall, 2012)

Alina Bloomgarden Jazz Visionary (Spring, 2021)
interviewed by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Jane Ira Bloom Jazz Saxophonist and Composer (Summer, 2021)
interviewed by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Serena Benedetti Musical Trailblazing: Interview (Special Issue, 2022)
interviewed by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Martha Boesing Song of the Magpie (Summer, 2007)

Laurie Carney Interview (Summer, 2022)
interviewed by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Donna Weng Friedman Stories from the Piano (Winter, 2022)
Interview by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Yoko Takebe Gilbert Mothering Musicians (Spring, 2022)
Interview by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Tania León In Motion (Summer, 2016)

Tania León, In Motion
Saluting Our Pulitzer Prize Winner, by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Margaret Leng Tan Toi, Toi, Toy (Fall, 2018)

Emily Levine Off to the Races (Fall, 2012)

Naomi Newman Five Scenes (Spring, 2008)

Gena Raps An Interview with Thea Musgrave (Spring, 2009)

Gena Raps Creative Collaboration: Elinor Armer and Ursula Le Guin (Fall, 2010)

Gena Raps An Interview with Evangeline Benedetti (Fall, 2012)

Gena Raps Carol Winsenc: The Magician of the Flute (Winter, 2013)

Gena Raps Pianist to Pianist: Gena Raps interviews Ursula Oppens (Spring, 2017)

Oxana Yablonskaya, Gena Raps A Musical Life From Moscow to New York (Fall, 2013)

Marta Renzi Choreographer and Independent Filmmaker (Summer, 2016)

Dorothy Roberts I Loved Him (Fall, 2015)

Elizabeth Zimmer An Interview with Anita Hollander (Sprint, 2020)

Poetry

Frances Payne Adler, Guest Editor International Poets (Summer, 2015)
Frances Payne Adler, Margo Berdeshevsky, Lakshmi Gill, Shareen Knight, Lesley Lababidi, Gila Landman, Anita Lerek, Althea Romeo-Mark

Dare I Call You Cousin, poetry by Frances Payne Adler (Spring, 2022)
The Way of the Matriot: On the Poetry of Frances Payne Adler, an introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

Judith Arcana, Guest Editor Northeast Region Poetry (Fall, 2008)
Annette Basalyga, Barbara Crooker, Susan Donnelly, Lynnel Jones, Jacqueline Lapidus, Elizabeth Lara, Alicia Ostriker, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Becky Dennison Sakellariou, Sondra Zeidenstein

Poetry of Jane Augustine (Fall, 2022)
Introduction: Reality Is My Estate: On the Work of Jane Augustine, by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Poems from Traverse, by Jane Augustine

Christianne Balk, Guest Editor West Coast Poetry (Summer, 2018)
Kathleen Joy Anderson, Marri Champié, Linda Conroy, Ginger Dehlinger, Suzanne Edison, Gail Entrekin, Susan Landgraf, Joan Moritz, Penelope Scambly Schott, Judith Skillman, Stephanie Striffler

Cynthia Hogue and Devreaux Baker, Introductions Poets from the West Coast (Summer, 2020)
Poetry by Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Devreaux Baker, Carol Barrett, Gail Entrekin, Lorraine Jeffery, Sigrun Susan Lane, Eileen Malone, Judith Montgomery, Melanie Perish, Judith Quaempts, Kenith Simmons, Pat West, windflower
Photographs by Robin Gross; Illustration by Teresa Fasolino
Musical Interlude presented by Evangeline Benedetti and Pedja Muzijevic

Wendy Barker, Guest Editor International Poetry (Fall, 2010)
Margo Berdeshevsky, Jo Carroll, Tamra Hays, Jennifer Hedges, Lisa Katz, Katharine O’Flynn, Becky Sakellariou, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

Wendy Barker Eleven Poems (Spring, 2013)
Introduction: Alicia Ostriker, An Introduction to Wendy Barker’s Poetry

Aliki Barnstone, Guest Judge Seventeen Poems:
Poetry from the Central States (Winter, 2021)
Aliki Barnstone, Nancy Lael Braun, Jacqueline Brogan, Wendy Cleveland, Jeanne Emmons, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Margaret Hasse, Pauletta Hansel, Judith Sanders, Annette Sisson, Rebecca A.
Spears, Bonnie Larson Staiger, Dawn Terpstra, Drucilla Wall, LaWanda Walters, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Introducing Aliki Barnstone by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Music by Gena Raps

Dr. Tina Barr, Guest Judge Poets from Elsewhere (Summer, 2021)
Introducing Tina Barr by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Tina Barr, Margo Berdeshevsky, Nicole Brossard, Lam Thi My Da, Dubravka Djuric, Elizabeth Mornin, Liana Sakelliou, Susan Wicks, Linda Stern Zisquit

Margo Berdeshevsky, Guest Editor Poems from the Central North States (Winter, 2015)
Kathleen Dale, Mary Moore Easter, Susan Fox, Mary Hotlen, Linda Maki, Beverly Offen, Mary Kay Rummel, Barbara Kreader Skalinder, Gayle Ann Weinstein

Chana Bloch Twelve Poems (Winter, 2009)
Introduction: Anita Barrows, Writing a Woman’s Life

Chana Bloch Fifteen Poems (Spring, 2015)
Interview: Wendy Barker, Chana Bloch’s Swimming in the Rain: Writing a Woman’s Life

Beverley Bie Brahic, Guest Judge Poems from the Central States (Spring, 2012)
Liz Abrams-Morley, Jane Harrington Bach, Dorothy Brooks, Penny Hackett-Evans, Susan Mallory, Charlene Neely, Susan W. Peters, Nancy Paddock, Patti Capel Swartz, Judith Weir, M.J. Werthman White

Jill Breckenridge, Guest Editor Poems from the Southern States (Fall, 2009)
Nancy Calhoun, Margery Cunningham, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Jane Ellen Glasser, Rand (Silverbear) Hall, Joan Mazza, Merimee Moffitt, Margaret S. Mullins, Gail Peck, Diana Pinckney, Barbara Rockman, Sue Walker

Fleda Brown, Guest Editor International Poets (Fall, 2012)
Margo Berdeshevsky, Fleda Brown, Malinda Crispin, Eva Eliav, Mori Glaser, Chellis Glendinning, Lois Elaine Heckman, Venie Holmgren, Jo Milgrom, Lalita Noronha, Katharine O’Flynn, Althea Romeo-Mark, Barbara A Taylor

Fleda Brown Ten Poems (Fall, 2014)
Introduction: Wendy Barker, Introduction to Fleda Brown’s Poetry

Marilyn Chin Erudite Poet (Fall, 2018)

Lucille Lang Day, Guest Editor Poetry from the Central States (Winter, 2017)
Mary Jo Balistreri, Judith Waller Carroll, Maria Crabtree, Lucille Lang Day, Janet Ruth Heller, Judy Johnson, Dawn McDuffie, Donna Pucciani, Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld, Ruth Schmidt-Baeumler, Ann Falwell Stanford, Judith Weir, Veronica Zuege

Alice Friman, Guest Editor Poems from the Northeast Region (Summer, 2013)
Annette Basalyga, Alice Casey, Jean-Marie J. Crocker, Christina Wos Donnelly, Penny Harter, Kathleen M. Kelley, Jacqueline Lapidus, Christine O’Connor, Paula Phipps, Sb Sobel

Alice Friman, Guest Editor Central States Poets (Winter, 2019)
Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Judith Waller Carroll, Wendy Cleveland, Jane Desmond, Gail Goepfert, Amy Haddad, Pam Kreis-Dunn, Sigi Leonhard, Dawn McDuffie, Donna Pucciani, Catherine Senne Wallace

Andrea Hollander, Guest Editor North Central States Poetry (Spring, 2010)
Maril Crabtree, Penny Hacket-Evans, Eve Hooker, Deena Linett, Nancy Paddock, Linda Robiner, Mary Kay Rummel, Elizabeth Schultz, Catherine Wallace, M.J. White

Lucille Clifton Twelve Poems (Winter, 2008)
Introduction: Toi Derricotte, About Lucille Clifton

Martha Collins Twelve Poems (Spring, 2014)
Introduction: Wendy Barker, Introduction to Martha Collins

Rita Dove Twelve Poems (Winter, 2012)
Introduction: Erika Meitner, Introduction to Rita Dove

Toi Derricotte Poems (Fall, 2007)
Introduction: Madeline Tiger, Introduction

Ali Friman Eleven Poems (Fall, 2015)
Introduction: Wendy Barker, On the Poetry of Alice Friman

Joy Harjo Twelve Poems (Fall, 2013)
Introduction: Wendy Barker, An Introduction To Joy Harjo

Linda Hogan Nine Poems (Fall, 2017)
Introduction: Peggy Shumaker, Introduction to Linda Hogan’s Poetry

Fourteen Poems Fourteen Poems (Special Isue, 2022)
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

Cynthia Huntington The Holiday Suicides (Spring, 2019)
Introduction: Cynthia Hogue, Introduction to the Poetry of Cynthia Huntington

Tess Gallagher Eleven Poems (Summer, 2008)
Introduction: Alice Derry, Tess Gallagher: An Audacious Poet

Tess Gallagher Fourteen Poems from Is, Is Not (Fall, 2021)
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

Sandra M. Gilbert Ten Poems (Winter, 2010)
Introduction: Susan Gubar, Introducing Sandra Gilbert’s Poetry

Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Guest Editor West Coast Poetry (Winter, 2014)
Donna L. Emerson, Christine Horner, Dallas Huth, Joanne Jagoda, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Dian Gillmar, Aurora M. Lewis, Carolyn Martin, Penny Perry, Judith Kelly Quaempts, Elizabeth Stoessl

Mary Gilliland, Guest Judge Poetry from the East Coast (Winter, 2022)
Introduction to Mary Gilliland by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Introduction to East Coast Poets, by Mary Gilliland, Guest Judge
Pamela Ahlen, Irene Apostoleris, Rachel Elion Baird, Regina Dilgen, Jan Freeman, Debra Kaufman, Sandra Kohler, Monifa Love, Janet MacFadyen, Kate Ravin, Harriet Shenkman, Pamela Wax

Lorrie Goldensohn, Guest Editor West Coast Poetry (Spring, 2009)
Anne Barrows, Ellen Bass, Gail Rudd Entrekin, Marcia Falk, Cooper Gallegos, Dorothy Gilbert,
Muriel Karr, Sally Allen McNall, Judith Montgomery

Marilyn Hacker Ten Poems (Summer, 2012)
Introduction: Alicia Ostriker, Marilyn Hacker: Poetry of Anger and Love

Barbara Hamby Ten Poems (Fall, 2016)
Introduction: Wendy Barker, The Razzle-Dazzle of Barbara Hamby

Patricia Spears Jones The Poetry of Patricia Spears Jones (Fall, 2019)
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue

Carolyn Kizer Poems (Spring, 2008)
Introduction: Diana O’Hehir, Carolyn Kizer’s Poetry

Maxine Kumin Poems (Winter, 2007)
Introduction: Alicia Ostriker, Maxine Kumin: An Introduction

Bonnie Lyons, Guest Editor Poetry from the Western States (Summer, 2016)
Carol Barrett, Brenda Bellinger, Joanne Brown, Catharine Clark-Sayles, Jeanie Greensfelder, Cynthia Hoffman, Tricia Knoll, Lori Levy, Eileen Malone, Catherine McGuire, Nancy L. Meyer, Nan Rush

Charlotte Mandel, Guest Editor East Coast Poetry (Winter, 2016)
Kathleen Corcoran, Darcy Cummings, Susan Deer Cloud, Laurel Ferejohn, Penny Harter, Adele Kenny, Claire Keyes, Charlotte Mandel, Susanna Rich, Helen Ruggieri, Marianne Schloss, Carole Stone, Davi Walters

Marilyn Nelson Poems (Spring, 2018)

Naomi Shihab Nye Twelve Poems (Winter, 2013)
Introduction: Wendy Barker, An Introduction to Naomi Shihab Nye’s Poetry

Alicia Ostriker Poems (Summer, 2010)
Introduction: Wendy Barker, Penetrating Surfaces

Diana O’Hehir Poems (Summer, 2009)

Grace Paley Poems (Summer, 2007)
Introduction: E.M. Broner, My Pal Paley

Hilda Raz, Guest Editor International Poets (Summer, 2017)
Caroline Cottom, Meredith Escudier, Sharon Goodier, Lois Elaine Heckman, S.E. Ingraham, Ellen S. Jaffe, Kath Jonathan, Benita Kape, Sarah Thomson, Joanne Veiss-Zaken.

Kay Ryan Sixteen Poems (Summer, 2011)
Introduction: Chana Bloch, Kay Ryan’s Poems

Peggy Shumaker, Guest Editor Poems from the Southern States (Summer, 2014)
Judith Waller Carroll, Wendy White Cleveland, Jo Ann Steger Hoffman, Ann Neuser Lederer, Janet McCann, Elizabeth Oakes, Diana Pinckney, Elena Lelia Radulescu, Susan Shaw Sailer, Mary Kay Schoen, Bonnie Stanard, Peggy Shumaker, Memye Curtis Tucker, Alice Toporoff Wallace, Sarah Webb, Dede Wilson, Sally Zakariya

Peggy Shumaker Ten Poems (Spring, 2017)
Introduction: Wendy Barker On the Poems of Peggy Shumaker

Maurya Simon, Editor East Coast Poetry (Winter, 2018)
Pamela Ahlen, Henrietta Dahlstrom, Anne Harding Woodworth, Josephine Hausam, W.J. Herbert, Kathryn Kelly, Sandra Kohler, Susan Kress, Jacqueline Lapidus, Ethel Paquin, Deborah Pfeffer, Meredith Trede.

Patricia Smith A Dozen Poems (Spring, 2016)
Introduction: Wendy Barker, Introduction to Patricia Smith’s Poetry

Sue Standing East Coast Poets (Winter, 2020)
L.R. Berger, Paula Bonnell, Debra Cash, Barbara Daniels, Merrill Oliver Douglas, Kate Flaherty, Amy Gottlieb, JoAnn Hoffman, Claire Keyes, Jacqueline Lapidus, Ann Taylor, Sarah Brown Weitzman, Sue Standing.

Hannah Stein, Guest Editor East Coast Poetry (Spring, 2011)
Sasha Ettinger, Sandra Kohler, Janet Krauss, Diana Pinckney, Marjorie Norris, Susan Roche, Ada Jill Schneider, Dorothy Schiff Shannon, Carole Stone, Dale Tushman

Ruth Stone Poems (Spring, 2007)
Introduction: Sandra Gilbert, On Ruth Stone

Julie Suk, Guest Editor Poetry from the Western States (Fall, 2011)
Katy Brown, Margaret Chula, Joanne M. Clarkson, Gail Rudd Entrekin, Grace Marie Grafton, Taylor Graham, Kelley Jácquez, Meredith Kunsa, Penelope Scrambly Schott, Edythe Haendel Schwartz, Florence Weinberger, Pat Phillips West

Heather Thomas, Guest Editor International Poets (Summer, 2019)
Karen Alkalay-Gut, Patricia Díaz Bialet, Audrey Chin, Margaret Hollingsworth, Wendy Klein, Marianne Larsen, Marion Leeper, Krystyna Lenkowska, Althea Romeo Mark, Irina Mashinski, Diti Ronen, Susan Wismer

Laura Tohe Eight Poems (Fall, 2020)
My Soul Immense with the Millennia of Rocks and Stars: The Poetry of Laura Tohe
by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

Eleanor Wilner Nine Poems (Spring, 2020)
Introduction: Cynthia Hogue, The Necessity of Witness: On the Poetry of Eleanor Wilner

Kathleen Winter, Guest Judge Poetry from the Western States (Summer, 2022)
The Transformative Capacity: Introducing Kathleen Winter, by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Kathleen Joy Anderson, Judy Clarence, Rebecca Foust, Jodi Hottel, Barbara Johnstone, Moira Magneson, Sara McAulay, Alice Campbell
Romano, Joan Stepp Smith, Victoria Stefani, Susan Terris, Lynne Thompson

Ann Fisher-Wirth, Guest Poetry Judge Poets of the Central States (Winter, 2023)
Introduction: Cynthia Hogue, “The Sap-Rich Glory”: The Poetry of Guest Judge Ann Fisher-Wirth

Art

No Immigrants, No Art (Spring, 2018)

Greta Berman Synesthesia: The Involuntary Joining of the Senses (Spring, 2019)

Greta Berman “That Energy that Spins the World”: The Art of Rebecca Allan (Winter, 2023)

Betty Blayton-Taylor Spiritual Artist, Spirited Educator (Summer, 2015)

Lorraine Bonner Sculpture (Fall, 2008)
Introduction: Yasmin Sayyed, Introduction to Lorraine Bonner

Isabelle de Borchgrave Haute Couture de Papier (Summer, 2014)

Rose Cabat Touchie Feelies (Fall, 2014)

Rose Cabat Touchie Feelies Redux (Winter, 2021)

Elizabeth Catlett Recent Prints (Fall, 2010)

Judy Chicago Hands in Glass (Spring, 2009)

Diane Churchill Musicality, Complexity, and Interconnections, by Greta Berman, Art Editor (Fall, 2022)

Marion Coleman African American History and Culture in Story Quilts (Fall, 2017)

Jane Dickson Revelers (Spring, 2017)

Shirley Faktor Paintings: The Cyclical Nature of Life (Summer, 2011)

Patricia Tobacco Forrester Eleven Watercolors (Summer, 2010)

Sally Frank Visual Memories (Fall, 2016)

Suvan Geer Shall Remain Nameless (Winter, 2014)

Janet Goldner Art and Life (Summer, 2013)

Liliana Golubinsky Playful in Buenos Aires (Summer, 2020)

Grace Graupe-Pillard Art as Dialectic (Spring, 2021)
Introduction: Greta Berman, Art Editor, The Dialectical Art of Grace Graupe-Pillard

Howardena Pindell An Intersectional Artist Before the Fact (Summer, 2021)
Introduction: Greta Berman, Art Editor

Robin Gross Photographing Passion (Fall, 2015)

Guerrilla Girls Art as Activism (Spring, 2014)

Nancy Hagin Sumptuous Realist (Spring, 2015)

Ester Hernandez A Visual Dialogue (Spring, 2011)

Sheila Hicks The Grande Dame of Textile Art (Fall, 2012)

Nicole Hollander Sylvia Cartoon Strips (Winter, 2007)
Introduction: Judith Arcana, Laughing and Thinking at the Same Time

Yvonne Jacquette Views from the Heavens (Spring, 2016)
Introduction by Gena Raps

Women in Bronze (and Copper) (Fall, 2020)
Introduction by Sue Leonard, Editor

Abbe Stahl Steinglass and Harriet W. Lesser The Third Artist: Painting in Collaboration (Winter, 2013)

Ellen K. Levy Stealing Attention (Spring, 2013)

Elaine Lorenz Seedpods: The Future? (Winter, 2018)

Hung Liu Then and Now: Paintings and Installations (Winter, 2010)

Yolanda López Women’s Work is Never Done (Summer, 2009)

Melanie Manchot Photography (Spring, 2007)

Henrietta Mantooth Paintings and Installations (Winter, 2008)
Introduction: Mary Frank, A Risk-Taking Artist

Janice Mehlman Photographs: Sensory Allusions and Intimate Truths (Spring, 2020)

Valerie Mendelson Painter (Winter, 2020)

Rita Mendes-Flohr Gorges From Within (Summer, 2016)

Marybeth McKenzie Contemporary Realism (Winter, 2014)

Kate Missett Canopic Jars (Fall, 2018)

Irmari Nacht Saved Books (Summer, 2018)

Nobuho Nagasawa Weaving Light Sound Bodywaves (Summer, 2016)

Mayumi Oda Ten Images (Summer, 2008)
Introduction: Lane Olson, Images of the Floating World

Alicia Ostriker Poems from the Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems, 2002-2019 (Spring, 2021)
Introduction: Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor, Making Beauty Like That: On the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker

Judy Pfaff Sculptural Paintings (Winter, 2010)

Gail Postal Fantasy Life (Fall, 2013)

Faith Ringgold Visual Art (Summer, 2007)
Introduction: Moira Roth, About Faith Ringgold

Dorothea Rockburne Geometry, Astronomy and Angels (Summer, 2012)

Joan Roth Photographs of Centenarians (Spring, 2010)

Eleanor Rubin Dreams of Repair: A Decade of Images (Winter, 2011-12)

Alison Saar Alison Saar Swings Low in Harlem: The Harriet Tubman Memorial (Spring, 2017)

Joyce J. Scott Beading for Her Life (Winter, 2015)

Susan Schwalb A Contemporary “Old Master” (Fall, 2021)
Introduction by Greta Berman, Art Editor

Nilima Sheikh Delectable Art for Every Day (Summer, 2016)

Kathran Siegel Carving a Life (Summer, 2016)

Regina Silveira Perspectives (Spring, 2012)

Ellen Nathan Singer Honoring Immigrants (Spring, 2018)

Marcia Smilack A Reflectionist (Spring, 2019)

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Poetry in Painting (Winter, 2016)

Mimi Smith Being Female in Society (Fall, 2015)

Joan Snyder Paintings (Spring, 2008)
Introduction: Cornelia Schulz, Contemplating the Work of Joan Snyder

Wilda Gerideau Squires Photography as Abstract: Fourteen Images (Fall, 2011)

Elise F. Stanley Wildlife Glimpses (Winter, 2019)

Carol Steen Evolving Synesthetic Worldscape by Greta Berman, Art Editor (Summer, 2022)

May Stevens Paintings (Fall, 2009)

Jenny Tango Jenny Tango Is Still Painting Herself (Summer, 2019)

Susan Unterberg Behind the Mask (Spring, 2013)

Kay WalkingStick This Is Our Beloved Land (Summer, 2016)

Ellen Wiener Book as Art, Art as Book (Winter, 2017)

Flo Oy Wong Art Installations (Fall, 2007)
Introduction: Melanie Herzog, On Voice and Memory

Nancy Worthington Art, Play, and Politics (Winter, 2022)
Introduction to Nancy Worthington, by Greta Berman, Art Editor

Millicent Young Sculptor (Fall, 2019)

Video

Joy Krauthammer Persimmon Drying (Spring, 2012)

Short Takes

First Thing in the Morning (Summer, 2010)
Helene Constant, Karen Dale, Joanne Eddy, Estelle Glass, Kathryn Jens, Georgia Post, Patricia Sullivan, Hilda Wales

Thrills (Winter, 2010)
Marty Carlock, Lynne Davis, Constance Garcia-Barrio, Linda Gartz, Celia Miles, Natalie Safir, and Carol Walkner

Taking a Stand (Summer, 2011)
Ingrid Briles, Maril Crabtree, Deborah Nedelman, Marti Watterman, Marianne Goldsmith, Mary Ellen Michna

The Next Step (Winter, 2011-12)
Terri Watrous Berry, Jill Cook, Misha Herwin, Deborah Jordan, Martha Mendelsohn, Mary Kay Schoen, Margaret Miller Volpe, Linda A. Wright

Milestones (Summer, 2012)
Sylvia Gutmann, Mary Izzo, Laura T. Jensen, Carolyn Litwin, Ruth Pike, Ann St James, Annita Sawyer

Sports (Fall, 2012)
Nan Hilsinger, Ann Neuser Lederer, Carolyn Meagher, Lola Ready, Marjorie Sell Stewart, Ann St James

Gossip (Winter, 2013)
Jo Barney, Joan Cappello, Beatrice G. Davis, Phyllis Douglas, Phyllis Jean Green, Pamela Manché Pearce, Lita E. Plopinio

Guilty Pleasures (Spring, 2013)
Grace Babakhanian, Mary A. Berger, Rochelle Distelheim

Money (Summer, 2013)
Penny Hackett-Evans, Priscilla Tilley, Madelyn F. Young, Ruth Codier Resch, Ann Batchelor Hursey, Robyn Marshall

Sex (Fall, 2013)
Marilyn A. Gelman, Lynne Sparrow, Norma Smith, Jo Barney, Sb Sowbel, Lauren Shenfield, Hannah Louise Abbett, Carolyn Lee Arnold

Jewelry (Winter, 2014)
Lois Baer Barr, Sunny Glessner, Ann Batchelor Hursey, Carolyn Meagher, Barbara Rockman

Prose [Activism] (Spring, 2014)
Phyllis Berentsen, Joanna Mary Bressler, Michael angel Johnson, Karen Keltz, Barbara Milgrom Melrose, Niomi Rohn Phillips

Poetry [Activism] (Spring, 2014)
Margo Berdeshevsky, Elizabeth J. Coleman, Jacqueline Kudler

Summer (Summer, 2014)
Sue Ellis, Lisa Holzkenner, Debby Mayer, Glenda Munson, Lynne Sparrow

Still Working (Fall, 2014)
Estelle Glass, Mary Martha Lappe, Ronna Magy, Elaine G. Schwartz

Social Media (Winter, 2015)
Edith Lank, Judie Rae, Barbara Schramm, Priscilla Tilley, Elizabeth Zimmer

Boiling Points (Spring, 2015)
Carla Fellers, Edith Lank, Nan Mick, Jean Zorn

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Poems from the Central States

Selected by Alice Friman, Guest Editor

It was an honor to be asked, once more, to judge a Persimmon Tree contest as well as a pleasure to read so many fine poems. On such different topics. Nature poems, political poems, travel poems, poems about one’s job, one’s marriage, one’s happiness, one’s angst. I’m glad to say that we women of a certain age are all over the map. And that’s only good. But what I noticed especially this time – not necessarily in the poems I picked to feature, but in the whole batch of them – were the many poems about mothers. Not so much about being a mother, but poems about one’s own mother. Funny, isn’t it, how we can never seem to get out of the old stewpot that was our childhood, no matter how old we get. And the older we get, it seems the closer are our ties to our mothers, dead or alive, for good or ill.

Perhaps that’s one of the reasons I was struck with how this batch of poems seemed to reflect a certain ambiguity – the gray area of ambivalence that poetry often comes out of and thrives in. Reading these poems was a treat. Thank you, Persimmon Tree, for the opportunity.

Twelve Poems

Donna Pucciani

Snow in March

Yesterday we hung up the birdhouse
on a bare elbow of the backyard maple.

Today, snow whitened its small roof,
its open circle large enough
only for wrens fleeing the city,
not for the fat robin
who will lay her eggs in a nest
above our back door.

It was a light snowfall,
like the feathers
of the birds themselves,
airy enough to let
the birdhouse swing slightly
in dark gusts of wind.

Where to land, to stay,
which domicile or island
to inhabit, is the question
we ask ourselves—which
disappearing glacier,
which hillside that slid down
the mountain in the rain,
which cracked earth in a war zone,
which town built on a fault,
which country that does
or does not like strangers?

We’ve settled here with the birds,
just outside Chicago.
Wanting light and warmth,
we’ve set the clocks ahead,
hoping to breathe spring
into the garden, to seduce
the green tips of crocus
into a purple bloom
right through the snow’s
last call, up towards
the dancing birdhouse with
its little hole inviting wrens.

Wendy Taylor Carlisle

Sticky

I grew up southern with the South’s casual cruelty
and sticky love. I learned from the past

as it was passed to me and leaned on Evvie
who, when I was post partum, took me over

and crooned about spider web tea and how
it would be alright, honey, who never stopped

moving, petting, rocking, straightening, chopping.
In those days I lived with mom-worry

and a small bone of husband-fear.
Evvie’s face in the screen door was a soothe,

her palm on the sheets an ease. I leaned into her
bright blouse. We had little. She had less.

Who knows what she thought? I didn’t ask.
We had our ways to be and if she questioned mine,

she never said. For me, her kindness was the way it was
and if it wasn’t love between us, I never guessed.

Sigi Leonhard

the day I envied the cows

            around the bend of the highway, on the hillside
            suddenly, the cows: large bodies, parallel
            to each other, as if posing for a picture, all looking
            in the same direction. the prairie grass, withered
            to September white, trembled in synch
            with the fuzz inside their ears. could it be
            that they all lifted their heads into the breeze
            as if to taste it, to sense the possibility of adventure
            out here on the prairie? that they greeted
            the luminous day rising above their field? what do we know
            of the cows except for their milk, and their flesh
            when we need it? cow consciousness – it never seemed
            more obvious than that day on the highway
            when I looked at them with envy, then drove on
            into town, to a job, a desk, a purpose

Wendy Cleveland

Didn’t Quilt for Pretty

Women bend over a wooden frame piecing quilt scraps –
feed sacks, faded jeans, cotton and wool – tired and threadbare.

Strip by strip the worn stuff is joined in fading light,
light that flows through the dusty west window

and basks on backs of those who have labored all day,
backs bent under hard Alabama sun beating on babies slung

in muslin or carried in wombs that lean toward the dirt.
The garden hoed and beans pulled, women baste backing

with even stitches to cotton batting, thick and soft
to lie beneath when frost clings to frozen ground.

Elbow to elbow women croon and quilt their worn fabric
with knotted thread to cover both the living and the dead.

Dawn McDuffie

Walking West on the Selden Street Bridge

I’m ready for my own street: young chestnut leaves,
chilled daffodils unready to bloom. I’m careful
not to step into snack wrappers or picked over
chicken bones. But this pale young man slumped
in clutter, limp as road kill, round-faced as a child,
seems asleep but not asleep, his inhalation shallow,
syringe fallen away from his palm. I call the police
and watch his frail breath, dandelion hair fanning
out like sunlight, like the headdress young King Louis
wore to dance Apollo’s triumph over darkness
in the Court Ballet of the Night. This youth could be
a royal twin dressed in jeans, dazzling in red cowboy
boots. Sirens gather until technicians carry him out
from his nest of trash and scraps. Below, traffic never
slows or stops. I whisper, Don’t slip under. Attendants
rub his wrists, make him stand. He won’t die today
on his couch of winter leaves and tin foil stars.

Gail Goepfert

Hunger

They won’t last long—
            these two-dollar February daffodils.
Buds tight at first,
            then swift to bloom.

I’m not ashamed of my reaching—
            always combing
                        for light and luster.

I need these fistfuls of beauty to survive.

            In the in-betweens
I teach myself to breathe
                        mouth these words—
Allow the wisdom of the body
                        to release what it no longer needs.
            Give it to the sky to hold for you.

And then with a two-fisted reach, I gather
                        what’s offered
            fingers snagging
                        all they can hold.

The sky, the horizon a double-sweet
                        trifle of color
            dawn and dusk.

The lark. The larksong.

My eyes rivet on the pond’s
circling koi    splotchy
                        orange and black
                                    white and red
bodies like loaves—
                        not knowing
            they are food
for the ravenous.

Amy Haddad

Cafeteria – 2013

Friday night at the hospital,
way past dinner time.
The Subway counter is dark
behind its metal cage. Vending
machines, always open, hawk junk
food and sodas. What’s left in
the food line is scummy water,
empty steam tables. Lemon
custard drips from the frozen
yogurt machine. The despair
of burnt coffee lingers.
A few shocked souls
in mismatched clothes
stare at turkey breast, corn and
cold fries. We point at food
we don’t want. Go eat. We
are told. You need to eat,
the nurses repeat to get us out
of the unit, out of Mom’s room,
out of their way.
We carry our trays to
tables in straight rows, sit
beside people we don’t know,
holding our forks as if
we have never seen silverware.

Judith Waller Carroll

My Mother Fixing Supper

Every night at suppertime, my mother sang.
Clues to what she was cooking were sprinkled like salt.
Cry Me a River she’d croon as she sliced onions,
slid them into bubbling butter,
We’re in the Money if she’d splurged on steak.
Once the food was on the table and my father seated,
it was napkins on laps and mind your manners,
but while it was cooking, our kitchen
was as raucous as a dance hall,
my sister and I twirling past each other
as we laid out knives and forks,
steam rising around my mother’s face
as she drained the potatoes,
another song beginning
as she scooped flour from a canister,
whisked it into hot grease, and still singing,
turned it into gravy.

Jane Desmond

Morning’s Newspaper

Erdogan is strong-arming again,
changing Turkey’s constitution by decree.

Putin is plotting cyberwar and
Trump is in Moscow, glad-handing.

An eleven-year-old girl in India
is held captive by construction workers
in a luxury compound
and raped for a month.
Parents have no clue.

In Thailand, soccer team boys
get trapped exploring cave,
Divers plot rescue as
World Bates its Breath for days.

Nicaraguans march with placards in the street.
The killings begin.

Even the cedars of Lebanon are
weeping,
ancient history dropping
brittle leaves as climate changes wreak

more havoc than just one
day’s newspaper can contain.

In the backyard
my dog does crazy-eights,
nose down, tracking
last night’s rabbit party’s lingering scent

As the sun rises, and
the day’s horrors from all across the world
scream silently,
leaving bruises
as I slowly
turn the pages of the news,
sipping coffee too hot to swallow.

Pam Kress-Dunn

Sleepwalker

Here to see our daughter,
five-year-old Amy knocked on the door.
Midnight frost hovered

in the night air, about to settle like dust
on the prairie’s broken wheat stems
and her bare arms. In her white

undershirt and panties, she’d tapped
so quietly we almost didn’t hear that
small leaf scudding against the door.

Had my husband still been punishing me,
she might have frozen there. But he let me
take her in, pull a blanket from the sofa

and wrap her up, a tall doll delivering herself
to us, her blue eyes wide,
her blonde hair long and chill.

Clearing his throat, he called her parents,
who came from down the street, talking nervously
of sleepwalking and insufficient locks.

They took her home, and it was quiet.
He got another beer and looked around,
still deciphering that stern, small message.

Catherine Senne Wallace

Hurry

what will you give me
for this moment

just passed
this moment

no longer moment
yet past

what will you bargain
for the moment to come

to come this one
now here
not yet over

how fast will you run
to catch up to the past

that is not yet the now
you seek

and where will you run
to let go of it

Alice Friman

Mirage

Across Kachemak Bay
black mountains rise like judgment
towering above the inlet, black
streaked with snow. Black,
white. Nothing in between.

When suddenly like a phantom
floating across the water,
a fishing boat chugs past, and there
we are again, steaming out of Freeport
with Captain Charlie. Little family
bundled up against the cold.

And it must be close to noon
for there’s Mother doling out
the egg-salad sandwiches loaded
with lettuce for health and green
good fortune. The bay too, a green
bounty crowned by white flashes
of gulls skimming low over the stern
to eye what the wake churned up.
And look, there at the rail, chumming
for fish, that’s my father, roaring
his smutty songs with mother laughing
because they were in the open air
and free to let themselves be—Oh
dare I say it—happy. What difference
if the fluke or flounder weren’t biting,
for wasn’t it fluke enough their being
at peace for just this once? On the scales
of judgment, shouldn’t that day—snatched
from the angry current of the rest—count?
Add up to something? That day when the gulls
weighed in, balancing the light on their wings.

Posted on December 10, 2018January 13, 2020 by admin

Winter 2019

Fiction

Barbara McGillicuddy Bolton, “Happiness Is …”

Diana L. Walters, “The Way of the Sparrow”

Philosophy

Sally Hess, “Descartes Appears, We Talk”

Nonfiction

Mary Zelinka, “Boundaries”

Barbara Rady Kazdan, “Don’t Tell Hubby”

Susanne Dutton, “Medium Well”

A Sketch

Bell Gale Chevigny, “Sometimes Glad, Sometimes Sorry: Eighty-two-year Inventory”

Art

Elise F. Stanley, “Wildlife Glimpses”

Poetry

Central States Poets
Selected by Alice Friman.
Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Judith Waller Carroll, Wendy Cleveland, Jane Desmond, Gail Goepfert, Amy Haddad, Pam Kreis-Dunn, Sigi Leonhard, Dawn McDuffie, Donna Pucciani, Catherine Senne Wallace.

Short Takes

“So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu”
Introduction by Jean Zorn.
Pamela Ahlen, Maria Espinosa, Kate Flaherty, Mary Susan Gast, Robin Gross, Mimi Jennings, Connie Kallback, Adrienne Keller, Carrie Kinsey, Carol Nadell, Alice Simpson, Monique Stampleman, Judy Swann.

Posted on November 27, 2012August 24, 2022 by admin

Fiction

Marie Anderson Lunch Lady Sings the Blues (Fall, 2019)

Jacqueline Ariail First Date (Winter, 2021)

Julia Ballerini Gloria (Fall, 2012)

Rita Ariyoshi The First Kiss (Summer, 2018)

Julia Ballerini Gloria (Fall, 2012)

Carolyn Banks How I Personally and Perhaps Finally Broke Bad, and Yes, the Names Have Been Changed Because I Am Not Exactly a Dolt (Winter, 2018)

L.S. Bassen Portrait of a Rotary Phone (Spring, 2015)

Anne Batzer The Woman Next Door (Spring, 2013)

Gillian Bennett Snow (Winter, 2013)

Lois Bassen Mrs. Dalloway Isn’t Shallow (Summer, 2011)

Carol Bergman The Bridge (Winter, 2010)

Drema Hall Berkheimer Gypsy Skirt (Spring, 2010)

Liz Betz To Love Andy (Winter, 2015)

Rachel Biale The Hungarians (Spring, 2016)

Ann Boaden Ripping Nails, Breaking Light (Spring, 2022)

Barbara McGillicuddy Bolton Happiness Is… (Winter, 2019)

Barbara McGillicuddy Bolton Sister Love (Summer, 2013)

Patricia Boomsma Suspect (Summer, 2017)

Nancy Bourne Memorial Mansion (Spring, 2014)

Nancy Bourne Fading (Summer, 2018)

Mary J. Breen A Criminal Menopause (Summer, 2013)

Mary J. Breen Finders Keepers (Spring, 2017)

Julie Brickman The Rampvan, the Skateboard and the Wheelchair (Summer, 2017)

E.M. Broner Life’s Adventures (Spring, 2007)

Melinda Burns English Garden (Spring, 2019)

Renee Howard Cassese Rose (Summer, 2013)

Jean Cavrell Early Bird Special (Winter, 2007)

Ruth Charney The Old Bag (Summer, 2015)

Linda Chavez The Vigil (Fall, 2014)

Jennifer Clements Contempt (Fall, 2017)

Christie Cochrell Child of Sky and Earth (Spring, 2022)

Martie Collins Relations and Friends (Summer, 2013)

Melodie Corrigall Helen (Spring, 2017)

Carolyn Coyle The New Director (Summer, 2021)

Judith Day Royal Flush (Spring, 2015)

Joan Diamond The Long View (Winter, 2011-2012)

Rochelle Distelheim Comfort Me with Apples (Summer, 2012)

Ann Doyle A Tale of Two Lobsters (Fall, 2013)

Jacqueline Doyle Mary Most Contrary (Fall, 2014)

Jacqueline Doyle Charlotte’s Puzzle (Summer, 2018)

Tessa Dratt Orphan (Spring, 2010)

Susan Duke The Rendevous (Spring, 2020)

Susan Dworkin The Powerhouse in Khuzestan (Winter, 2007)

Kathleen Ford Joan’s Counsel (Winter, 2009)

Marilyn French The Love Children (Spring, 2007)

Ruth Gais The Great Blue (Fall, 2016)

Miriam Louise Gardener The Night the Earth Shook (Fall, 2010)

Roberta Hartling Gates What Babysitters Do (Fall, 2009)

Sharon Frame Gay Seasons (Summer, 2019)

Carolyn Geduld The Bad Thing (Fall, 2019)

Gail Fishman Gerwin The Lost Child (Spring, 2016)

Lakshmi Gill Holy Fool (Winter, 2014)

Gail Gilliland Ramona the Starlet (Summer, 2010)

J. Carol Goodman What Happened to Ruth (Fall, 2020)

Clynthia Burton Graham Unlikely Arrow (Fall, 2017)

J.F. Gross If Not Now, When? (Winter, 2021)

Gilda Haber The Man in the Mink Hat (Summer, 2009)

Elaine Handley Hooked Up (Spring, 2021)

Judith Haran Forbidden Elegy (Spring, 2019)

Nancy Smith Harris Jury Duty (Winter, 2017)

Lois Marie Harrod No. 2 Pencil (Spring, 2016)

L. M. Harrod That Mess of Pottage (Winter, 2020)

Frances Hay A Stake in the Future (Summer, 2014)

Laura Davis Hays Pride (Winter, 2021)

Rolaine Hochstein The Scam (Fall, 2009)

Norah Holmgren Sunrise Over Dolores Park (Fall, 2009)

Faith Reyher Jackson Window on Tomorrow (Winter, 2008)

Gill James Locker 13 (Summer, 2019)

Lorraine Jeffery This Ain’t Nothin’ (Winter, 2016)

Teddy Jones Spring Storms (Spring, 2013)

Nell Joslin The Wild Swans (Winter, 2015)

Melanie Kaye / Kantrowitz Walk on the Wild Side (Fall, 2007)

Margaret Karmazin Risk (Winter, 2009)

Marilyn Ogus Katz Witness to History (Fall, 2016)

Debra Kennedy The Marriage of True Minds (Winter, 2022)

Sue Kesler The Neighbors (Winter, 2013)

Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer The Ash Tree (Fall, 2007)

Jane Lazarre Inheritance (Spring, 2007)

Prudence Lev Perky (Summer, 2021)

Priscilla Long The Rubble That Is the Past (Summer, 2021)

Carol J. Luther Play Pretties (Spring, 2019)

Roberta Albom Liebler Reluctant Sanctuary (Spring, 2014)

Mary Lewis A Good Session (Summer, 2014)

Catharine Lucas Prize Day (Summer, 2015)

Jan Maher Turn, Turn, Turn (Fall, 2010)

Vesna Main Baking for Love (Winter, 2016)

Linda Maki Water (Spring, 2021)

Karen Mandell Repotting (Spring, 2012)

Melody Mansfield Fertilizer (Fall, 2015)

Elizabeth Mapstone Singing the Serpentine Blues (Winter, 2013)

Toni Martin Sara and Us (Winter, 2013)

Jacqueline Masumian The Rehearsal (Summer, 2019)

Nancy McMillan To the River (Fall, 2021)

Marion Menna An Enormous Child (Spring, 2009)

Charlotte G. Morgan Prehistoric Heart (Winter, 2018)

Hallie Moore The Unemployed Nymph and The Glass Ceiling (Fall, 2012)

Charlotte Morgan What? Tell Me, What? (Winter, 2020)

Elizabeth Morris Wrack Line (Fall, 2008)

Joyce H. Munro Be Jubilant My Feet (Winter, 2018)

Kathryn Nasuti Cabbage Roses (Winter, 2011-12)

Joan Newburger A Bad Day in the Promised Land (Winter, 2017)

Lesléa Newman Maidel (Spring, 2017)

Lalita Noronha Indelible Lines (Summer, 2010)

Mary Beth O’Connor House Guests (Winter, 2022)

Katharine O’Flynn When the Time Comes (Summer, 2017)

Lucie Ogilvie Damaged (Fall, 2011)

Charlotte Painter Rings (Spring, 2008)

Rose Perlmutter Pot Roast (Summer, 2012)

Joyce Pfeiffer Predator (Fall, 2015)

Graziela Pimental Aunt Rose (Winter, 2015)

Rita Plush Can We Talk? (Fall, 2012)

Nancy Werking Poling Afterlife (Spring, 2020)

Judie Rae A Commitment to Change (Spring, 2014)

Joy Rathgeb The Proper Way to Prepare Conch (Fall, 2013)

Martha Kilgore Rice Furthermore, She Had Never Read Anais Nin (Fall, 2012)

Barbara Ridley Double Latte (Spring, 2022)

Susan Robbins A Breath Away (Spring, 2009)

MJ Roberts Stick Figures (Spring, 2013)

Sarah Rossiter Where Will All Come Home (Fall, 2013)

Martha Roth Grandma Season (Spring, 2008)

Sara Kay Rupnik A Study of Light (Spring, 2011)

Lenora Salvucci Bless the Child (Winter, 2012)

Betty J. Sayles Self Defense (Fall, 2013)

Carol Scott-Conner A Life of Flames (Fall, 2010)

Hollis Seamon The Trojan Cat (Spring, 2012)

Bonnie Sedgemore Buying Love (Summer, 2014)

Kathryn Shaver The Armoire (Summer, 2009)

Deborah Shouse Beyond the Dunes (Winter, 2010)

Alice Simpson Eldridge Street, 1902 (Fall, 2021)

Barbara Smith The Heir (Summer, 2014)

Louise Smith Heartsong’s Mother (Fall, 2008)

Eleanor Fay Snyder Of George (Spring, 2021)

Carol Solomon Heartache (Fall, 2014)

Julia Sommer Clippings (Winter, 2014)

Christine Stewart A Good Tradition (Winter, 2013)

Darlene D. Stickel Fred and Her Big Gift (Fall, 2020)

Liz Strachan Holding on with Love (Fall, 2007)

Eleanor Swent Crape Myrtle (Fall, 2018)

Ann G. Thomas Mrs. Brown (Spring, 2011)

Ann Tracy Quiet Girls, 1960 (Winter, 2016)

Lorain Urban Corpora Caelestia (Winter, 2017)

DeEtte Beghtol Waleed On the Bridge (Spring, 2014)

Diana L. Walters The Way of the Sparrow (Winter, 2019)

Lucy Warner Drowning Kittens (Spring, 2011)

Gail A. Webber Never Waste A Good Hole (Fall, 2015)

Brenda Webster Blind Spots (Summer, 2008)

Linda Garman Weimer Shrub It (Winter, 2016)

Margot Adler Welch Now For The Rest (Summer, 2011)

Linda A. White On Strike (Fall, 2016)

Meredith Sue Willis Feral Grandmothers: Little Red’s (Winter, 2014)

Meredith Sue Willis Grandma Shiksa (Fall, 2021)

Avra Wing The Anchored Wife (Fall, 2018)

Irene Wittig A Night at the Opera (Summer, 2015)

Carol Wobig What Choice Do We Have (Winter, 2014)

J.L. Wynne Shakespeare’s On It (Fall, 2017)

Susan Yankowitz Stuntwoman (Winter, 2008)

Rona Yohalem Dance With a Stranger (Fall, 2011)

Keltie Zubko More than Twelve (Winter, 2022)

A Sketch

Susan Adam Sins of Omission (Fall, 2014)

Opal Palmer Adisa My Mother Taught Herself to Drive (Winter, 2022)

Susan B. Apel And I Cannot Bear to Think About the Books (Fall, 2017)

Judith Arcana Eva Has Cancer (Fall, 2015)

Connie Bedgood The Hummingbird and Sam (Winter, 2018)

Becky Boling Birthday No. 61 (Summer, 2021)

Barbara Carey Assurance and Insurance (Spring, 2021)

Bell Gale Chevigny Sometimes Glad, Sometimes Sorry: Eighty-two-year Inventory (Winter, 2019)

Patty Dann Lord Byron on My Phone (Summer, 2017)

Audrey Ferber West Coast Swinger (Spring, 2019)

Edith Lank A Day in the Life (Fall, 2016)

Susan Gene McCartney Train to Tozeur (Summer, 2020)

Cynthia Graae Breakthrough (Spring, 2022)

Carol Nadell In His Own Time (Summer, 2018)

Kathleen Rollins It Doesn’t Matter What You Say. Babies Just Like the Sound of Your Voice (Fall, 2018)

Eleanor Rubin Rete Mirable (Spring, 2020)

Moira Sauvage The Summer Deck / La Terrasse (Summer, 2014)
En reprise The Summer Deck / La Terrasse (Spring, 2022)

Mimi Schwartz Fix-It Fantasy (Winter, 2018)

Julia C. Spring River of Women (Winter, 2017)

Edna Troiano The Secret in the Old Trunk (Spring, 2016)

Linda Weimer What Will I Be Today? (Fall, 2020)

Chila Woychik The Rural Chronicles: Love (Fall, 2021)

Ann Zimmerman Time Enough (Summer, 2018)

Drama

Susan Dworkin Marty’s Version – A Monologue (Fall, 2016)

Icons

E.M. Broner The Dancers (Winter, 2016)

In Memoriam

Marcia, My Friend, by Nan Gefen, Publisher Emerita (Fall, 2021)

Marcia Snares Me, by Sue Leonard, Editor (Fall, 2021)

Our Esther, by Marcia Freedman, Sue Leonard (Fall, 2011)

Philosophy

Sally Hess Descartes Appears, We Talk (Winter, 2019)

Nonfiction

Margot Adler Why We Love Vampires (Winter, 2013)

Paula Gunn Allen The Perils of Being Paula (Summer, 2007)

Sherry Ruth Anderson A Secret I Should Be Keeping (Summer, 2013)

Jane Ariel Evelyn (Winter, 2009)

Gail Arnoff In Our Mother’s Closet (Winter, 2016)

Gail Arnoff In Another Closet (Winter, 2022)

Barbarann Ayars The Pie Queen (Fall, 2012)

Barbara L. Baer Shadows over the Galapagos (Fall, 2016)

Linda Baldanzi Rattled (Summer, 2014)

Lygia Ballantyne Cooking by the Book (Spring, 2009)

Nancy Barnes I Got to See Their Words (Spring, 2015)

L. Shapley Bassen The Rains Down in Africa (Summer, 2020)

Nancy Bauer-King Recycled (Spring, 2016)

Margo Berdeshevsky My Lunch with Belochka (Summer, 2013)

Justine Blank Thelma and Louise (not the movie) (Fall, 2012)

Annette Berkovits Rebel With a Cause (Spring, 2014)

Savitri L. Bess Unexpected (Winter, 2009)

Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte Dead Chickens and Miss Anne (Spring, 2012)

Bonnie Lee Black Youth and Beauty (Fall, 2008)

Martha Boesing Parker Lake Jail (Spring, 2014)

Patricia Boswell The Visit (Summer, 2021)

Sandy Boucher Friendship and Change with Tillie Olsen (Spring, 2007)

Nancy Bourne Frozen Laughter (Summer, 2020)

Katherine Bradway On Approaching My Hundreth Year (Summer, 2009)

Rev. Lyn G. Brakeman Becoming a Woman Priest (Winter, 2012)

Donna Bridewell Molecules (Spring, 2022)

Janet Brof Holding Ground (Fall, 2013)

Spotted Earth Woman/Gloria Brooks; Yvonne Rand; Victoria Rue Unfolding: Women’s Spiritual Paths (Fall, 2010)

Dorothy Bryant Pushing Eighty-Still Pushing Books (Summer, 2009)

Sandra Butler Tiptoeing Toward Seventy (Summer, 2009)

Sandra Butler Repairs (Spring, 2017)

Sandra Butler Full Body Scan (Winter, 2020)

Michelle Cacho-Negrete On The Fire Escape (Winter, 2007)

Pat Carr Prom Dress (Summer, 2014)

Myriam Chapman Disgust, (or What We Do for Love) (Spring, 2019)

Leslie Clark Snake Rain (Winter, 2022)

Bell Gale Chevigny Desire Is the Best Crutch (Spring, 2013)

Bell Gale Chevigny Our Robbery (Spring, 2014)

Marian Mathews Clark Getting There (Fall, 2008)

Jenny Clover Smog Check (Spring, 2015)

Patty Cogen If You Want to Change Your Life, Begin with Your Underwear (Winter, 2014)

Kathleen Collins Possibilities (Spring, 2022)

Ruth Crocker My Buddy’s Hat (Winter, 2013)

Jane DiVita Woody The System (Winter, 2020)

Mary Donaldson-Evans Not for Sissies? (Spring, 2022)

Dawn Downey The Cleaning Women (Summer, 2017)

Carol M. Downie My Snake (Fall, 2013)

Dora Dueck Reunion (Fall, 2020)

Phyllis Dunham The Things You Held Sacred (Fall, 2015)

Susanne Dutton Medium Well (Winter, 2019)

Rosanne Ehrlich Another Disney Fan Bites the Dust (Winter, 2017)

Jane C. Elkin Shades of Love and Duty (Spring, 2022)

Meredith Escudier Like it or Not (Summer, 2013)

Karen Frank, Susan Pope, Carrie Lugar Slayback, Adriane St. Clare Pushing Through (Spring, 2011)

Marcia Freedman Going Back (Spring, 2008)

Jean Gochros What to Do About Danielle (Fall, 2017)

Vivian Gornick Turning Sixty (Summer, 2009)

Claudia A. Geagan Wife (Winter, 2014)

Nan Fink Gefen Change and All That (Spring, 2012)

Nan Fink Gefen Down the Rabbit Hole: My Adventures in Publishing (Winter, 2014)

Daniela Gioseffi Everything Happens for a Reason? (Winter, 2017)

Jane Hanser The Registry (Summer, 2013)

Linda Hirschhorn Yes I Will Dance (Fall, 2013)

Susan Hoffman The Anxious Stitch (Winter, 2018)

Mary Alice Hostetter Reclaiming Good Bones (Spring, 2020)

Ruth Hunter Circles of Hope (Winter, 2007)

Joan Shaddox Isom Four Laps in August (Summer, 2008)

Carol Jeffers Covenant (Fall, 2018)

Barbara Johnson & Billie Mulkey Hardscrabble Times (Winter, 2009)

Susan E. Johnson Edward Nicholas (Fall, 2014)

Claire Kahane My Mother’s Story: Memento Mori (Winter, 2021)

Kay Jorgensen, Mary Risala Laird, Rabbi Leah Novick Unfolding: Women’s Spiritual Paths (Winter, 2010)

Suzanne Juhasz Classroom Ballerina: The Sequel (Winter, 2013)

Frances Kappler Monster (Winter, 2015)

Jane Kays Maryann (Winter, 2017)

Barbara Rady Kazdan Don’t Tell Hubby (Winter, 2019)

Barbara Rady Kazdan The Mourning Fog (Winter, 2021)

Deborah Kent Where Is the Ladies’ Room, Anyway? (Fall, 2014)

Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer My Life in Pieces (Summer, 2015)

Nancy Kline Florida (Summer, 2010)

Nancy Kline Terrifying Tales (Spring, 2020)

Lisa Knopp Lure (Summer, 2019)

Eva Kollisch Father (Fall, 2007)

Edith Konecky Soup (Winter, 2007)

Sophia Kouidou-Giles Under the Azure Sky (Spring, 2016)

Carolyn Kraus Animus (Summer, 2012)

Jane T. Krebs Peaches (Spring, 2021)

Michele Landsberg Activism Is My Modus Operandi (Spring, 2014)

Mary Martha Lappe Dancing with the Stripes (Winter, 2015)

Roz Leiser Reluctant Bride (Summer, 2014)

Joan Lester Naps (Fall, 2007)

Shoshana Levenberg In My Name (Spring, 2020)

Carol Levine The Fruit of the Apple Tree (Fall, 2015)

Aurora M. Lewis My Cowgirl Blues (Fall, 2017)

Flossie Lewis Maude’s Pill (Winter, 2015)

Sue Fagalde Lick When You Can’t Even Get Drunk (Spring, 2019)

Mardith Louisell The Long Shower (Spring, 2017)

Abby Luby (Summer, 2019)

Barbara Mahone A Tuskegee Story (Summer, 2014)

Melody Mansfield Gouache Rhymes with Squash (Fall, 2020)

Catherine Mathews The Girl by the Door (Summer, 2021)

Caroline Ames McCoy The Story of Asher (Summer, 2010)

Stephanie Wilson Medlock Keeping Score (Summer, 2013)

Debbie L. Miller But, I’m a Girl (Fall, 2017)

Nina Mishkin A Story (Spring, 2010)

Susan Moon What If I Never Have Sex Again? (Summer, 2008)

Jean P. Moore Finding Charles (Summer, 2011)

Jane P. Morgan The Normal Aging Process (Fall, 2013)

Christina Mowle The Distorting Eye (Summer, 2017)

Lisa Mullenneaux The Vanishing Point: Artists Respond to Climate Change (Spring, 2017)

ruie Mullins At the Plaza (Winter, 2015)

Daphne Muse Gettin’ Sixty (Spring, 2007)

Susan Neville Billow (Fall, 2020)

Emily Newberry The First Steps (Winter, 2016)

Sally Nielsen The Bootleg Daughter (Fall, 2011)

Sally Nielsen Profundity (Fall, 2018)

Hope Nisly Never Take a Drop of H2O Lightly (Winter, 2020)

Lee Haas Norris A Woman’s Got to Do (Winter, 2011-12)

Lee Haas Norris BFF (Fall, 2016)

Patty Anne O’Hara A Hot Couple? (Winter, 2018)

Jane O’Reilly Diary of a Political Education (Fall, 2016)

Elaine Neil Orr Falling (Winter, 2018)

Paula Phipps That Invisible Door Between Us and the Homeless (Fall, 2014)

Lenore Pimental First Sit Up Straight (Fall, 2012)

Melba Pitts God Nodded (Summer, 2018)

Leanne Phillips Growing an Avocado Tree from Seed (Winter, 2022)

Letty Cottin Pogrebin Cover-Up Creep (Summer, 2015)

Patricia Pomerleau Gay March (Fall, 2015)

Joan Potter Turning Elderly (Winter, 2022)

Anna Rabkin Southern Sixties (Summer, 2012)

Margaret Randall Coyote Grin (Fall, 2011)

L. J. Reed The Cribbage Master (Spring, 2012)

Bethany Reid About a Marriage, from A to Zed (Fall, 2021)

Ruth Resch Through the Eyes Of… (Fall, 2009)

Ruth Resch Travel Agent (Spring, 2016)

Ruth Resch Requiem for My Beloved (Summer, 2018)

Phyllis Jane Rose Sisters: A Digital Story (Spring, 2010)

Carole Rosenthal Whose Lie Is This? (Summer, 2007)

Deborah Ross Barbie’s Bleak House; or, Married with Furniture (Spring, 2021)

Mediha Saliba Quilts in Life (Winter, 2013)

Adina Sara Holy Days (Fall, 2021)

Roussel Sargent Reaching Ninety (Summer, 2009)

Adrienne Sciutto The Sophie Stories (Fall, 2019)

Shizue Seigel Of Christmas and Karma (Winter, 2016)

Alice Shalvi Point of (No) Return (Summer, 2012)

Kaelin McGee Shipley Letting Go (Spring, 2019)

Harriet Squier The ICU (Summer, 2019)

Patricia Temple The Windmill (Summer, 2020)

Jo Ann(e) Valentine (Pascoe) Simson (Smith) What’s in a Name? (Spring, 2015)

Ann Warren Smith Getting to the Heart (Fall, 2014)

Ann St James Ed Is Dead (Spring, 2013)

Laura Tamakoshi “The White Woman Will Eat You!” (Spring, 2015)

Lynn Taylor “AC” (Spring, 2015)

Monona Wali The Resistance of Shakuntala (Summer, 2021)

Mary C. Waters Weaving Lesson (Winter, 2013)

Mary Watkins Learning from Liberace (Spring, 2008)

Gayle Ann Weinstein Meet Me on the Corner (Winter, 2014)

Ernestine Whitman Musical Themes (Winter, 2021)

Nancy Wick Just Like Me (Winter, 2017)

Laurey Williams Twins (Fall, 2021)

Mitsuye Yamada Red Shoes and Milk Baths (Summer, 2011)

Sondra Zeidenstein Old Woman, New Poems (Spring, 2010)

Mary Zelinka Boundaries (Winter, 2019)

Elizabeth Zimmer North Wing (Spring, 2013)

Voices

Vivian Gornick Feminism in These Times (Spring, 2015)

Suzanne Juhasz, Cleo Kocol, Tricia Knoll, Kathy Merlino, Janet Sunderland, Edna Troiano
Responses to Vivian Gornick’s Feminism in These Times (Summer, 2015)

Lucy Marx The Reckoning of Junot Diaz (Fall, 2019)

Responses to Lucy Marx The Reckoning of Junot Díaz (Winter, 2020)

Insurrection – Inauguration (Winter, 2021)
A Special Section on the Extraordinary Events of January 2021
Liz Abrams-Morley, Dori Appel, Susan Baskin, Margo Berdeshevsky, Ann Boaden, Carol Dorf, Christine Emmert, Patricia Feeney, Marilyn June Janson, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios, Alice Marks, Valerie L. Mathews, Lyn May, Elaine Nussbaum, Nancy Poling, Mary Russell, Rochelle Jewel Shapiro, Nina Tassi, Melody Wilson
Art by Margo Berdeshevsky, gaye gambell-peterson, Judith Fox Goldstein, Sabiha Iqbal, Elsa Lichman, windflower
Music by Gena Raps
Introduction by Jean Zorn

Corona Supplements 2020

Ukraine

A Message to Our Readers, Jean Zorn, Publisher (Spring, 2022)

Immigration

Marie Anderson The Liberation of Heavenly Bodies (Spring, 2018)

Maria Espinosa Catalina, Mi Amor (Spring, 2018)

Gail B. Frank Wreckage of the Human Heart (Spring, 2018)

Daniela Gioseffi An American Dream (Summer, 2018)

Chellis Glendinning How to Cross the Border (Spring, 2018)

Cynthis Inman Graham Xoyatla Is a Proper Noun (Spring, 2018)

Margie Patlak Matriarchs and Monarchs (Summer, 2018)

Niomi Roth Phillips An American Dream (Spring, 2018)

Lenore Pimental Small Mercies (Summer, 2018)

Judy S. Richardson Working With Refugees (Spring, 2018)

Mary Jane (MJ) Roberts Apple Strudel (Summer, 2018)

Mediha Saliba Full Circle (Fall, 2018)

Ann Vander Stoep Neighbors (Winter, 2020)

Joyce Winslow The Juggler (Fall, 2018)

Troublemakers

Making Trouble (Winter, 2017)
The Editorial Board

Short Form (Spring, 2017)
Carol A. Amato, Myrna Loy Ashby, Pat Carr, Kitty Cunningham, Sandra Enos, Sophia Kouidou-Giles, Debbie L. Miller, Patricia A. Pomerleau

Long Form (Spring, 2017)
Cynthia Carbone, Melody Mansfield, Ann Vander Stoep

Troublemakers in Action (Summer, 2017)
Catherine Aks, Pat Carr, Sylvia Ramos Cruz, Sophia Kouidou-Giles, Ronna Magy, Patricia Pomerleau, Cynthia Ward

Marion Coleman’s Tee (Fall, 2017)

Tribute

Kathryn Kish Sklar Gerda Lerner (Spring, 2013)

Classics

Emma Goldman Reflections on Aging (Spring, 2010)

Florida Scott-Maxwell From
The Measure of My Days (Fall, 2009)

Conversation

E.M. Broner and Mary Gordon The Writing Life (Winter, 2008)

Susan Griffin & Maxine Hong Kingston The Open Heart Is a Force For Peace (Winter, 2010)

Irena Klepfisz and Nancy Stoller Lives of Confinement (Summer, 2010)

Sue Leonard and Lilly Rivlin Story Teller (Spring, 2014)