76: 2024 Passager Winter Issue
Soft cover | 164 pages
This issue 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?
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
Editors
Mary Azrael
Kendra Kopelke
assistant editor
Rosanne Singer
managing editor & art director
Christine Drawl
guest readers
Karen Bashkirew
Stephen Hollaway
Laurie Pfister
interns
Amber Campbell-Wheeler
Sarah Rubin
cover painting
April 28, 2024: 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. Watch the recording on YouTube.
