Summer 2013: Poetry
Three True Stories
by Penelope Scambly Schott
On an old rice plantation in the last hour of slavery a Negro in a red head rag serves a blue-coated officer French brandy she pours from a crystal decanter. In her dining room in the ’fifties my grandmother’s toe presses a bell under the carpet to summon the maid we all pretend is invisible in her white lace apron. In the owners’ box at Yankee Stadium in the 1980s a Black maid in a black uniform and a white apron offers the guests greasy hot dogs from a silver tray. I sat in the leather chair shaped like a catcher’s mitt licking my fingers.
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Rich, strong, poignant, humorous and inspiring. We’ve caught twenty never-before-published poems by sixteen unique voices. |
Seven talented women search for themselves in their bodies, their family, themselves. |
Established dynamos and aspiring voices add colorful visions to our third issue. |
Language leaps off the page in the poetry and prose of five young authors who delight in sensory detail. |
Meet the authors and artists who make this Summer 2013 edition a rich, varied and engaging experience. |
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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
POETRY Abandoned Church by Tanya Jarvik Commencement by Kelly Running Depoe Bay by Wendy Thompson Directive by Cristina White Hawk Moth by Wendy Thompson How to Recycle Love Letters by Jennifer Dorner I Swapped a '74 Mustang for This by Jennifer Fulford Polaroid of My Mother by Cindy Stewart-Rinier Lover, Molester, and Maidens (Haibun) by Margaret Chula Savory by Pat Phillips West Seascape by Marjorie Power Suspended by Grace Kuhns The Hand-Off by Pattie Palmer-Baker The Ride by Linda Ferguson The Ticking Shirt by Tricia Knoll Three Facts about Sperm by Ursula Whitcher Three True Stories by Penelope Scambly Schott Today at the Library by Pat Phillips West Trapped Birds by Grace Kuhns You, who will be alive and reading after I'm gone by Penelope Scambly Schott PROSE After the World Ends by Kait Heacock Something Permanent by Ashley-Renée Cribbins Your Hand at Your Throat by Karen Guth Black Sharpie by Anne Gudger Diagnosis by Helen Sinoradzki For He's a Jolly Good Fellow by Laura Stanfill Breathing Underwater by Valerie Wagner ART Unity by Anne John Rearguard by Anne John Speculation by Anne John Wire by Jocelyn White Taitian Trio by Nani Chesire Catch Your Breath by Nani Chesire YOUNG VOICES We Will Read to You by Rebecca Cleveland-Stout Strawberry Party by Natalie Lerner A Young Night by Clara Beaumont Beach Wanderer by Isabella Waldron Light and Dark by Colette Au CONTRIBUTORS |