Autobiographies

INCLUDING: Bruce Bennett   Jean Biegun   Lorna Knowles Blake   Shaune Bornholdt   Polly Brown   Mary Buchinger   Barbara Siegel Carlson   Maria Ceferatti   Thomas DeFreitas   Chard deNiord   William Doreski   Vincent Dorio   Donna Emerson   K. Michelle E'toile   Leila Farjami   Richard Fein   Bridget Seley Galway   Helen K. Heineman   Robert K. Johnson   Robert Knox   Jean L. Kreiling   David Landon   D. S. Maolalai   David P. Miller   Sheila Murphy   James B. Nicola   Marge Piercy   Sharon Portnoff   Denise Provost   Ted Richer   Hilary Sallick   Joan S. Soble   Michael Todd Steffen   W. Arnold Yasinski   Joyce Wilson  

PROSE: Editors NOTE  Update: On Two African American Churches   Album: Spring Valley Church

In Memoriam: Louisa Solano    Ted Richer    Links: Voices from Ukraine  

Lorna Doone: Novels, Names, and Biscuits , an essay by Lorna Knowles Blake.    If By Song by Marcia Karp and Tremors by Cammy Thomas, reviewed by Joyce Wilson.

POETRY: Seven by William Doreski:        The Box-Man Cometh        At the Fireworks Factory        The Winter Variant Arrives        Metal Detecting        The Tiny People        Sea Rise in the City        From This Angle or That Three by Thomas DeFreitas:        Audrey        Psalm for C        A Meditation Two by Hilary Sallick:        Sightings        Our Project Three by Robert Knox:        Veil of Tears        Birds of Winter        No One Expects the Barbarians Eight Movements in a Life by Robert K. Johnson Five by Marge Piercy:        Her miscarriage        It's hard to explain        A fleeting shadow        A statue at the party        My wishes swim like fishes A Saddle for Aunt Pat by Michael Todd Steffen Resilience by Jean L. Kreiling Fragile Child by Bridget Seley Galway Murmuration by Joan S. Soble Two by Mary Buchinger:        The Day My Father Died        The Demolition of the Old Hotel Six by Richard Fein:        What do you know?        Genesis        From My Study        The Scholar        The Veil        Trains and Old Movies

Seven by Helen Heineman:        Self Portrait        First Encounters        Transformations        Maraschino Cherries        Capes        If. . .        Ineffable Loss Three by Bruce Bennett:        Brief History        The Call        My Own Love Affair with Piano by Donna Emerson A Grand Tour by Sharon Portnoff A Forest Remnant by Barbara Siegel Carlson Two by Chard DeNiord:        This Was My Test        From Beneath the Oak Tree A Sequence of Five Poems by Vincent Dorio The Light Within by K. Michelle E'toile Woman Retreatant Perusing the Convent Library by Jean Biegun Three by D. S. Maolalai:        Light, falling like oranages        How can you write?        A cast iron railing Two by Leila Farjami:        Grind and Whirl        Metamorphosis Two by W. Arnold Yasinski:        Brothers        Ursa Minor Eight by Ted Richer:        A Speck of Earth        Wonder        Pray to Whom        Lesson        Tale        Truth        Chosen        Poetry

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SPECIAL FEATURE: The Sonnet Scroll

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