Fall 2022
Fiction
Donna Geer, Sometimes There Are No Words
KJ Hannah Greenberg, Returning Home to Die
Renée Henning, The Place of No Return
Claire Chow, Birthday Celebration
Phyllis Carito, Passing Fancy
Kathleen Sampson, Eggcitement
NonFiction
Elizabeth Reed, A Map of Marriage on Monhegan Island
Leslie Contos, Pillbug Soul
Katy Wright, A Rose by Any Other Name
Louise A. Dolan, Departures
Ellyn Bache, Firstborn
Poetry
Poetry of Jane Augustine
Introduction: Reality Is My Estate: On the Work of Jane Augustine, by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Poems from Traverse, by Jane Augustine
Art
Diane Churchill, Musicality, Complexity, and Interconnections, by Greta Berman, Art Editor
Short Takes
Turning Points
Introduction: And Turn Again, by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Prose & Poetry by Mona Anderson, Dianne Apter, Caroline Bassett, Helen Beer, Margo Berdeshevsky, Lisa K. Buchanan, Lillian Hallberg, Joanna Clapps Herman, Jo Ann Hoffman, Lorraine Jeffery, Cherryl Jensen, Jackie Langetieg, Dr. Dorothy C. Miller, Victoria Phillips, Merryn Rutledge, Stephanie B. Shafran, Abby Staberg, Patricia Temple
Illustrations by Jennifer O’Neill Pickering
Music by Linda Shear, Gena Raps
From the Editor
Equinox — and an Invitation to Readers, by Margaret (Peggy) Wagner
WOMEN; RIGHTS, RESISTANCE, RESILIENCE
A Special Issue of Persimmon Tree
Illustrators: Lakshmi Gill, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Nancy Hage, Carol M. Highsmith, Christa Iceforest, Margaret Karmazin, Elsa Lichman, Salley McInerney, Jennifer O’Neill Pickering, Judith R. Robinson, Linda Simone, Sarah Sutro, Indu Varma, windflower
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Issue 63, Fall 2022