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This issue features memoir, poetry and fiction by 30 writers from around the US and Canada. It begins with Lori Levy’s poem in a taverna in Rhodes (“All It Took Was a Flower in Rhodes”) and ends with a poem by 93-year-old Jaque Reed, “Rivers Are Forever,” where the speaker observes a boat that
putters ahead
into yesterday
while
half-submerged roots of ancient
fallen trees make filigreed gates
into the future.
And while we know that most people don’t read journals from beginning to end, we like to imagine a reader who does — and then create an experience for them. What is the first sound the journal makes? What is the last?
Contributors
Poetry:
Lana Ayers
New Progressive Lenses
Sue Budin
Detritus
Cheryl Corey
Falling Star
David Galloway
Samagrelo
Olive Kohl Giese
The Melody Lingers On
Tim Gillespie
Great Aunt Maggie
Bill Hollands
How the Conversation Might Have Gone Instead
Susan Carroll Jewell
A Bucket in the Woods
Nikia Leopold
Fires
Lori Levy
All It Took Was a Flower in Rhodes
James Littwin
Pearl
Kerry Rawlinson
The Snow on Rocks
Jaque Reed
Rivers are Forever
Linda Goodman Robiner
Notes to Myself
Annette M. Sisson
Threadbare
Gary Stein
Chance
Jim Tilley
Writing My Obituary
Fiction:
Ellie Anderson
Waiting for the Light
Ruth Dandrea
Yellow
Denisha Naidoo
The Old Woman and the Cottage
James O’Sullivan
Plum Trees
John Picard
Rightsizing
Michael Pikna
Just a Moment
Memoir:
Anne Anthony
Drowning in a Bowl of Alphabet Soup
Eugene Jones Baldwin
The Trail of Tears
Etta Brandt
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Richard Frank Gillum
From Graveyard to Schoolyard
Margarita Meyendorff
Script in Hand
Dian Parker
The Vanished
Parul Shah
Inheritance
Masthead
Mary Azrael, Kendra Kopelke, editors. Rosanne Singer, assistant editor. Christine Drawl, managing editor, art director & design. Karen Bashkirew, Stephen Hollaway, Laurie Pfister, guest readers. Amber Campbell-Wheeler, Sarah Rubin, interns. Diane Dunn, cover painting.
Recordings
Contributors from this issue read their poems, essays and stories. The reading was followed by a conversation about how poems are born, “failed work,” and rediscovering your voice after 50. Featuring cover artist Diane Dunn. Recorded April 28, 2024.