Poetry, Fiction & Memoir
Soft cover | 160 Pages | $15
The poems, short stories, and memoirs in this issue reflect the skill, passion and the strong creative spark of our writers. And love, too. Read Patrick J. Murphy’s “This Bank and Shoal of Time” and your heart will open. Or “Darts” by Chris Carbaugh. Spend time with Tom Ritchie’s painting (cover) and hear the winter landscape speak to you.
Contributors
Poetry:
Penny Altman
Everyone’s Resurrection Poem
Robert Beveridge
Ermine
[read, above]
Wendy Taylor Carlisle
Hey Diddle, Diddle
Susan Carlson
It’s Not Like a Dance
Johanna DeMay
Oral History Project
Gary McClain Gannaway
Morning Ritual
Bonnie Jacobson
The Mystery of Food and Thought
Ruth M. Kelly
In Medias Res
Elizabeth Klise
Seventeen Questions from the Silverware Drawer
[read, above]
Tracy K. Lewis
Aging Love-Child Looks Ahead
[read, above]
Andy Macera
The Bottom of Your Heart
Mary T. Murphy
Manayunk Alleys
[read, above]
Anne Myles
Arts and Crafts
Jean Nordhaus
Elegy for the Ties
Joe Pacheco
No More Heavy Poems
Dorothy Riehm
Taking the Light
Russell Rowland
Perspective
Becky Sakellariou
. . . until the tree grows, towering
Mylo Schaaf
Rituals of Friends
Kathy Shorr
Bert’s Tree
Naomi Thiers
A Wish for M.H.
Rhett Watts
At Slack Tide
Michele Wolf
My Mother’s Mother
Prose:
Jayne Brown
Her Left Eyebrow
[read, above]
Chris Carbaugh
Darts
Stephen Hollaway
Finding Mom
Craig Hukill & Freddie Lee Wilson
Rivals for My Affections
[read, above]
Patrick J. Murphy
This Bank and Shoal of Time
Roberta Schine
Totó and Marithelma
Kimm Brockett Stammen
The Music of Copenhagen
Riba Taylor
Crossings
Kirk Wareham
Summer of the Fisher
Maureen Murphy Woodcock
Japanese Blowfish and A Wooden SooBoy
Mary Azrael, Kendra Kopelke, editors. Rosanne Singer, assistant editor. Christine Drawl, managing editor. Shirley J. Brewer, Stephen Matanle, Laurie Pfister, Jon Shorr, editorial assistants. Pantea Amin Tofangchi, design. Tom Ritchie, cover painting.