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Art



   (Winter 2026)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Judith Inglese: Murals as Dialogue"

Joan Thorne    (Fall 2025)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Joan Thorne, Revolutionary Painter of Color and Light and Space"

Alice Briggs    (Summer 2025)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Conversation with Alice Briggs: Greeting Card Maker and Illustrator"

Betti Franceschi    (Spring 2025)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Betti Franceschi: A Role Model for Any Age"

Bascha Mon    (Winter 2025)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "The Very Colorful Bascha Mon at 92"

Alessandra Comini    (Fall 2024)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Tribute to a Polymath: Alessandra Comini"

Howardena Pindell    (Summer 2024)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Redux: Art by Howardena Pindell"

Johanne Bryant-Reid    (Spring 2024)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Advocate for the Arts: Johanne Bryant-Reid"

Jae Jarrell    (Winter 2024)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Jae Jarrell: Revolutionary Fashion Designer"

Federal Art Project Murals    (Fall 2023)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Restoring Unique American Art: My Work on Federal Art Project Murals"

Barbara Dale, Artist    (Summer 2023)

Martha H. Kennedy, "Working Woman: Barbara Dale, Cartoonist and Fine Artist"

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Introduction: Guest Editor Martha Kennedy"

Marilyn Church, Artist    (Spring 2023)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "My Story/Their Story: The Art of Marilyn Church"

Rebecca Allan, Artist    (Winter 2023)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "That Energy that Spins the World: The Art of Rebecca Allan"

Diane Churchill, Artist    (Fall 2022)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Diane Churchill: Musicality, Complexity, and Interconnections"

Carol Steen, Artist    (Summer 2022)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Carol Steen: Evolving Synesthetic Worldscape"

Nancy Worthington, Artist    (Winter 2022)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "A Dialogue with the Art of Nancy Worthington"

Susan Schwalb, Artist    (Fall 2021)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Susan Schwalb: A Contemporary 'Old Master'"

Howardena Pindell, Artist    (Summer 2021)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "The Political and Autobiographical Art of Howardena Pindell"

Grace Graupe-Pillard, Artist    (Spring 2021)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "The Dialectical Art of Grace Graupe-Pillard"

Rose Cabat, Artist    (Winter 2021)

Editor, "Touchie Feelies Redux"

Women in Public Sculpture    (Fall 2020)

Sue Leonard, Editor, "Women in Bronze (and Copper)"

Liliana Golubinsky, Artist    (Summer 2020)

Editor, "Playful in Buenos Aires"

Janice Mehlman, Artist    (Spring 2020)

Editor, "Photographs: Sensory Allusions and Intimate Truths"

Valerie Mendelson, Artist    (Winter 2020)

Editor, "Painter"

Millicent Young, Artist    (Fall 2019)

Editor, "Sculptor"

Jenny Tango, Artist    (Summer 2019)

Editor, "Jenny Tango Is Still Painting Herself"

Marcia Smilack, Artist    (Spring 2019)

Greta Berman, Art Editor, "Marcia Smilack: Synesthesia: The Involuntary Joining of the Senses"

Elise F. Stanley, Artist    (Winter 2019)

Editor, "Wildlife Glimpses"

Kate Missett, Artist    (Fall 2018)

Editor, "Canopic Jars"

Irmari Nacht, Artist    (Summer 2018)

Editor, "Saved Books"

Ellen Nathan Singer, Artist    (Spring 2018)

Editor, "Honoring Immigrants"

Elaine Lorenz, Artist    (Winter 2018)

Editor, "Seedpods: The Future?"

Marion Coleman, Artist    (Fall 2017)

Editor, "African American History and Culture in Story Quilts"

Victoria Crowe, Artist    (Summer 2017)

Editor, "Spiritual Landscapes"

Alison Saar, Artist    (Spring 2017)

Editor, "Alison Saar Swings Low in Harlem: The Harriet Tubman Memorial"

Jane Dickson, Artist    (Spring 2017)

Editor, "Revelers"

Ellen Wiener, Artist    (Winter 2017)

Editor, "Book as Art, Art as Book"

Sally Frank, Artist    (Fall 2016)

Editor, "Visual Memories"

Kathran Siegel, Artist    (Summer 2016)

Editor, "Carving a Life"

Kay WalkingStick, Artist    (Summer 2016)

Editor, "This Is Our Beloved Land"

Nilima Sheikh, Artist    (Summer 2016)

Editor, "Delectable Art for Every Day"

Nobuho Nagasawa, Artist    (Summer 2016)

Editor, "Weaving Light Sound Bodywaves"

Rita Mendes-Flohr, Artist    (Summer 2016)

Editor, "Gorges From Within"

Yvonne Jacquette, Artist    (Spring 2016)

Gena Raps, Music Editor, "Yvonne Jacquette: Views from the Heavens"

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Artist    (Winter 2016)

Editor, "Poetry in Painting"

Mimi Smith, Artist    (Fall 2015)

Editor, "Being Female in Society"

Robin Gross, Artist    (Fall 2015)

Editor, "Photographing Passion"

Betty Blayton-Taylor, Artist    (Summer 2015)

Editor, "Spiritual Artist, Spirited Educator"

Nancy Hagin, Artist    (Spring 2015)

Editor, "Sumptuous Realist"

Joyce J. Scott, Artist    (Winter 2015)

Editor, "Beading for Her Life"

Rose Cabat, Artist    (Fall 2014)

Editor, "Touchie Feelies"

Isabelle de Borchgrave, Artist    (Summer 2014)

Editor, "Haute Couture de Papier"

Guerrilla Girls, Artists    (Spring 2014)

Editor, "Art as Activism"

Mary Beth McKenzie, Artist    (Winter 2014)

Editor, "Contemporary Realism"

Suvan Geer, Artist    (Winter 2014)

Editor, "Shall Remain Nameless"

Gail Postal, Artist    (Fall 2013)

Editor, "Fantasy Life"

Janet Goldner, Artist    (Summer 2013)

Editor, "Art and Life"

Ellen K. Levy, Artist    (Spring 2013)

Editor, "Stealing Attention"

Susan Unterberg, Artist    (Spring 2013)

Editor, "Behind the Mask"

Harriet W. Lesser, Abbe Stahl Steinglass, Artists    (Winter 2013)

Editor, "The Third Artist: Painting in Collaboration"

Sheila Hicks, Artist    (Fall 2012)

Editor, "The Grande Dame of Textile Art"

Dorothea Rockburne, Artist    (Summer 2012)

Editor, "Geometry, Astronomy and Angels"

Regina Silveira, Artist    (Spring 2012)

Editor, "Perspectives"

Eleanor Rubin, Artist    (Winter 2012)

Editor, "Dreams of Repair: A Decade of Images"

Wilda Gerideau Squires, Artist    (Fall 2011)

Editor, "Photography as Abstract: Fourteen Images"

Shirley Faktor, Artist    (Summer 2011)

Editor, "Paintings: The Cyclical Nature of Life"

Ester Hernandez, Artist    (Spring 2011)

Editor, "A Visual Dialogue"

Judy Pfaff, Artist    (Winter 2011)

Editor, "Sculptural Paintings"

Elizabeth Catlett, Artist    (Fall 2010)

Editor, "Recent Prints"

Patricia Tobacco Forrester, Artist    (Summer 2010)

Editor, "Eleven Watercolors"

Joan Roth, Artist    (Spring 2010)

Editor, "Photographs of Centenarians"

Hung Liu, Artist    (Winter 2010)

Moira Roth, "Hung Liu: Then and Now: Paintings and Installations"

May Stevens, Artist    (Fall 2009)

Moira Roth, "May Stevens: Paintings"

Yolanda López, Artist    (Summer 2009)

Moira Roth, "Yolanda López: Women's Work is Never Done"

Judy Chicago, Artist    (Spring 2009)

Editor, "Hands in Glass"

Henrietta Mantooth, Artist    (Winter 2009)

Mary Frank, "Henrietta Mantooth: A Risk-Taking Artist"

Lorraine Bonner, Artist    (Fall 2008)

Yasmin Sayyed, "Introduction to Lorraine Bonner"

Joan Snyder, Artist    (Spring 2008)

Cornelia Schulz, "Contemplating the Work of Joan Snyder"

Mayumi Oda, Artist    (Spring 2008)

Lane Olson, "Mayumi Oda: Images of the Floating World"

Nicole Hollander, Artist    (Winter 2008)

"Sylvia Cartoon Strips"

Judith Arcana, "Nicole Hollander: Laughing and Thinking at the Same Time"

Flo Oy Wong, Artist    (Fall 2007)

Melanie Herzog, "Flo Oy Wong: On Voice and Memory"

Faith Ringgold, Artist    (Summer 2007)

Moira Roth, "About Faith Ringgold"

Melanie Manchot, Artist    (Spring 2007)

Editor, "Photography: Look at You Loving Me"

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Back of the Book

Welcome to the Website     (Winter 2026)
Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Sally Buffington

ArtsMart at Sixteen     (Fall 2025)
Jean Zorn, Publisher

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Corona Supplements 2020

Love in a Time of Corona No. 1: Poetry     (Corona Issues 2020)
Karen Brennan, Marian Mathews Clark, Nancy Collins-Warner, JP DiBlasi, Charlotte Mandel, Lynn Roberts, Susan Sailer, Unc4gina, Laura Budofsky Wisniewski
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Francesca King
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor, Carol Wincenc

Love in a Time of Corona No. 1: Prose     (Corona Issues 2020)
Elaine Barnard, Patricia Gallagher, Nan Fink Gefen, Editor, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor, Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer, Carol Nadell, Jane O’Reilly, Eleanor Rubin, Carol Westreich Solomon
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Music by Francesca King

Love in a Time of Corona No. 2: Poetry     (Corona Issues 2020)
Karen Brennan, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor, Diana Livi, Charlotte Mandel, Claire Massey, Elaine Piper, Joyce Ritchie, Sherri Wright
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Susan V. Mills, Angela Rizzuti, Barbara Woods

Love in a Time of Corona No. 2: Prose     (Corona Issues 2020)
Julia Ballerini, Kitty Cunningham, Marcy Darin, Caroline Ellis, Edvige Giunta, Alyce Guynn, Rita Mendes-Flohr, Hope Niman Prosky, Sue Won
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Jeannette DesBoine, Barbara Wallace
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Love in a Time of Corona No. 3: Poetry     (Corona Issues 2020)
Peggy Aylsworth, Luci Huhn, Sarah Kotchian, Ellen Reynard, Claire Scott, Peggy Shumaker, Amy Small-McKinney, Pam Uschuk
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Susan Katz, Jane P. Perry, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Melanie Tervalon
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Love in a Time of Corona No. 3: Prose     (Corona Issues 2020)
Pat Carr, Margo Davis, Judith Emilie, Susan Lundgren, Ronna Magy, Elaine Nussbaum, Susan Rees, Judy S. Richardson, Mia Kirsi Stageberg
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Mary Schelling Burke, Elsa Lichman, Gena Raps, Music Editor
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor, Carol Wincenc

Where I Live: Coping with Corona No. 4     (Corona Issues 2020)
Nancy Bauer-King, Margo Berdeshevsky, Carol Edelstein, Sharon Frame Gay, Louise Nayer, Lalita Noronha, Vicki Pieser, Lynne Reitman, Lois Roma-Deeley, Ann Folwell Stanford, Nancy Allen Wolter, Elizabeth Zimmer
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Teresa Fasolino, Susan Mills
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor
Reading by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

Where I Live: Coping with Corona No. 5     (Corona Issues 2020)
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Julie Gardner, Mary Hood Hart, Sally Hess, Susan Hoffman, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor, Lorelei Kay, Susan Lundgren, Jane Shlensky, Joanna Sit, Stephanie Stevens, Joyce Winslow, Joyce Zonana
Art by Nancy Henningsen, Sally Hess, Gena Raps, Music Editor

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Editor's Page

Chiaroscuro, Resilience, Regeneration     (Winter 2026)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Lynn B. Connor

It is better to speak…     (Fall 2025)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

"Mind the Light"     (Spring 2025)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

Milestones     (Summer 2025)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

Mind the Light     (Spring 2025)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Merry Song

“permanent, intolerable uncertainty”     (Winter 2025)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

Kaleidoscopes, Sunsets, Seasons     (Fall 2024)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Sue Sherrill

On Balance     (Summer 2024)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

. . . to astonish a mean world     (Spring 2024)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Phyllis Green

“Let no charitable hope…”     (Winter 2024)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Nancie Warner

Personal Touches     (Fall 2023)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Lynn B. Connor

What Stays Written     (Summer 2023)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Natalie Levy

Women Holding Things     (Spring 2023)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

Interesting Times     (Winter 2023)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Linda Briskin

Women's Rights: The Challenges We Face     (Special Issue 2022)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Jo Ann Hoffman

Equinox - and an Invitation     (Fall 2022)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Carol M. Highsmith

Turn, Turn, Turn     (Summer 2022)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

Wrapping It All Up     (Spring 2022)
Sue Leonard, Editor

What's Next?     (Winter 2022)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Shutting Down     (Fall 2021)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Opening Up     (Summer 2021)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Heroics     (Spring 2021)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Seriously     (Winter 2021)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Turn it All Around     (Fall 2020)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Enough!     (Summer 2020)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Variety     (Spring 2020)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Gloria Says...     (Winter 2020)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Knowing Toni Morrison     (Fall 2019)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Summer 2019     (Summer 2019)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Spring 2019     (Spring 2019)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Winter 2019     (Winter 2019)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Fall 2018     (Fall 2018)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Summer 2018     (Summer 2018)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Spring 2018     (Spring 2018)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Winter 2018     (Winter 2018)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Fall 2017     (Fall 2017)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Summer 2017     (Summer 2017)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Spring 2017     (Spring 2017)
Sue Leonard, Editor

“Happy and Comfortable” Is a Horrible Myth     (Winter 2017)
Christine Stewart

Fall 2016     (Fall 2016)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Summer 2016     (Summer 2016)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Spring 2016     (Spring 2016)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Winter 2016     (Winter 2016)
Sue Leonard, Editor

Fall 2015     (Fall 2015)
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Summer 2015     (Summer 2015)
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Spring 2015     (Spring 2015)
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Winter 2015     (Winter 2015)
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Fall 2014     (Fall 2014)
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Summer 2014     (Summer 2014)
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Spring 2014     (Spring 2014)
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Winter 2014     (Winter 2014)
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Fall 2013     (Fall 2013)
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Summer 2013     (Summer 2013)
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Spring 2013     (Spring 2013)
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Winter 2013     (Winter 2013)
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Fall 2012     (Fall 2012)
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Summer 2012     (Summer 2012)
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Spring 2012     (Spring 2012)
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Winter 2012     (Winter 2012)
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Fall 2011     (Fall 2011)
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Summer 2011     (Summer 2011)
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Spring 2011     (Spring 2011)
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Winter 2011     (Winter 2011)
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Fiction


Winter 2026

Karen G. Berry, Mysteries of June and August    
Art by Berta Morgan

Liz deBeer, Regeneration: Two Flash Stories    
Art by elizabeth cassidy

Tua Laine, Snail Mail    
Art by Gerburg Garmann

Gillian Isaacs Russell, February    
Art by Lavina Blossom

Matson Sewell, Will’s Hands    
Art by Carol Ober

Deborah Douglas Wilbrink, Decay of the Dark    
Art by Jennifer Shneiderman


Fall 2025

Margaret Camille Berliant, Chameleon    
Art by Melinda P. Gordan

Ruth Beaumont Cook, Melvin vs. Marilyn    
Art by Jennifer Thornburg

Anne Hotta, Jetty    
Art by Jill Fortney

Carol J. Luther, Cotton Mill Girl    
Art by Claudia Cameron

Elizabeth Murphy, Knife in Shining Armor    
Art by Sherry Shahan

Kelly Piner, Class Reunion    
Art by Jennifer Pratt-Walter


Summer 2025

Paula Bernstein, A Week in the Life of Mrs. Stanley Sokoloff    
Art by Nanilee Robarge

Ann Boaden, What You Know, What You Don’t Know    

Alice Cross, Braille    
Art by Ellen Becker

Chandra Gair, Places I Remember    
Art by Ellen Agger

Barbara Phillips, What You Know, What You Don’t Know    

Sarah Rossiter, Juneau’s Trinity    
Art by Margie Wildblood

Angela Young, Myles, Roxie, and the Dog    
Art by Mercedes Castillo Terrell


Spring 2025

Patricia Ann Bowen, Game of Interludes    
Art by Alison Jennings

Zoe Burke, New Moons    
Art by Beth Kanell

C. David Guerra, The Monolith    
Art by Linda Mikolayenko

Alison Jennings, Game of Interludes    
Art by Alison Jennings

Jennifer Thomas, Queen Anne’s Lace    
Art by windflower

Susan Wells, The Prank    
Art by Jennifer O’Neill Pickering


Winter 2025

Marie Anderson, The Christmas Bell Ringers    
Photograph by Deborah Beauchamp

Rae Dumont, How could he?    
Art by Rae Dumont

Yvonne Fein, Unreliable Chronicles    
Art by Marcella Peralta Simon

Sue du Feu, Sailing into the Wind    
Photograph by Heddy Breuer Abramowitz

Beth Goobie, Good Concert    
Art by Victoria Hamlin

Lois Keane, My Father’s Daughter    
Photograph by Jane Soodalter


Fall 2024

Marcy Arlin, Flower Widows    
Art by Marcy Arlin
Art by Marcella Peralta Simon

Kat St. Claire, Dora’s Notebook    
Art by Rachel E. Brown

Jo Anne Moser Gibbons, Now You Don’t    
Art by Nancie Warner

Jill Koenigsdorf, Salve    
Art by Shelly Reed Thieman

Linda Barrett Osborne, Losing Sal    
Art by Mary Schelling Burke

Eva Silverfine, Midnight Stroll    
Art by Jennifer Pratt-Walter


Summer 2024

Terri Watrous Berry, Saint Natalie of the Too Soon Departed    
Art by Judith R. Robinson

Perdita Buchan, Dog Wedding    
Art by Marcella Peralta Simon

Louise A. Dolan, Lucky Bud    
Art by Elsa Lichman

Vesna Main, A Woman in a Newsagent Shop    

Janice Lynch Schuster, Glitter and Dust    
Art by Elaine Croce Happnie

Lynne Shaner, Rush Hour    
Art by Nancie Warner

Lois Spencer, Sea Change    
Art by Susan Pollett

Gerry Wilson, Tell Me Anything    
Art by Gaye Gambell-Peterson


Spring 2024

Elinor Davis, The Broom Maker    
Art by Marilyn Johnston

Rae Dumont, Dreamers    
Art by Rae Dumont

Elaine Elinson, No Monument Stands    
Art by Olivia Beens

Lynn Gazis, Leaving the Party    
Art by Donna Bauman

Rosalind Goldsmith, SMH    
Art by Merry Song

Anna Gotlieb, The Unraveling    
Art by Susan Pollett

Jayna Locke, Riptide    
Art by Marcella Peralta Simon


Winter 2024

Jann Everard, The Neighbor Boy    
Art by Gaye Gambell-Peterson

Yvette Viets Flaten, Making Change    
Art by Janice Lynch Schuster

Linda Mary Guyette, The Long Way Around    
Art by Marilyn Papayanis

Linda Jane, Anna    
Art by E.E. King

Jane Manaster, Intentions    
Art by Phyllis Green

Jill J. Morin, All That I Carry    
Art by Cindy Waszak Geary


Fall 2023

Lois Ann Abraham, Day 72    
Art by Marilyn Papayanis

Anne Gruner, It Might Have Happened Otherwise    
Art by Kathy Haynes

Anne Hotta, Frank and Shirley    
Art by E.E. King

Megeen R. Mulholland, Diana Disrobes    

Margaret J. Swanson, Two Goddesses and a Child: An imagined incident on ancient Crete    

E. C. Traganas, Chopin Unraveled: Valldemossa, Winter 1839    

Keltie Zubko, Smoothing the Wrinkles    
Art by Robin Eileen Bernstein


Summer 2023

Maureen Hossbacher, The View from Beach Plum Drive    
Art by Kathy Taylor

Anne Hotta, The Visitor    
Art by Merry Song

Ann Minnett, A Temporary Guest    
Art by Marcella Peralta Simon

Diane Payne, Old School    
Art by Marilyn Whitehorse

Kathryn D. Temple, 5D    
Art by Marilyn Whitehorse

Lyn Westbrook, Empty Glass    
Art by Marilyn Whitehorse


Spring 2023

Ann Boaden, Felicity Dying    
Art by Eleanor Rubin

Marilis Demirel, Raw Oysters    
Art by Linda Murphy Marshall

Gill James, Grace and Simon    
Art by Niraja Lorenz

Sheila Kinsella, Zoe    
Art by Judith R. Robinson

Susan Thomas, The Occupation of Magdalen House    
Art by Marcella Peralta Simon


Winter 2023

Linda Briskin, The Lost Libido    
Art by Linda Briskin

Nancy Chek, Post Office    
Art by Betsy Jaeger

Rosanne Dingli, Joy Needs No Memories    
Art by Jenny McKinnon Wright

Kerry Langan, The Ladies Grove    
Art by Jo Ann Hoffman

Carol Wobig, Please, No Tears    
Art by Robin Eileen Bernstein


Fall 2022

Claire Chow, Birthday Celebration    
Art by windflower

Donna Geer, Sometimes There Are No Words    
Art by Judith R. Robinson

KJ Hannah Greenberg, Returning Home to Die    
Art by KJ Hannah Greenberg

Renée Henning, The Place of No Return    
Art by Linda Simone

Kathleen Sampson, Eggcitement    
Art by Margaret Karmazin


Summer 2022

Phyllis Carito, Passing Fancy    
Art by Lakshmi Gill

Anne Hosansky, The Tree Child    
Art by Teresa Fasolino

Jude Reese, The Third Chakra at Gate 26    
Art by Marcella Peralta Simon

Lois Spencer, Unfamiliar Places    
Art by Elsa Lichman

Mary-Lou Weisman, Dating Doctors    
Art by Mary Beth O’Connor


Spring 2022

Ann Boaden, Ripping Nails, Breaking Light    
Art by Mary Beth O’Connor

Christie Cochrell, Child of Sky and Earth    

Cynthia Graae, Breakthrough    
Art by Susan Bryant

Barbara Ridley, Double Latte    
Art by Elsa Lichman


Winter 2022

Opal Palmer Adisa, My Mother Taught Herself to Drive    
Art by Paula Schultz

Debra Kennedy, The Marriage of True Minds    
Art by Judith Peck

Mary Beth O’Connor, House Guests    
Art by Judith Peck

Keltie Zubko, More than Twelve    
Art by Cynthia Yatchman


Fall 2021

Nancy McMillan, To the River    
Art by Paula Schultz

Alice Sherman Simpson, Eldridge Street, 1902    

Meredith Sue Willis, Grandma Shiksa    
Art by Cynthia Yatchman

Chila Woychik, The Rural Chronicles: Love    
Art by Paula Schultz


Summer 2021

Becky Boling, Birthday No. 61    

Carolyn Coyle, The New Director    
Art by Emily Thornton Calvo

Prudence Lev, Perky    

Priscilla Long, The Rubble That Is the Past    
Art by Teresa Fasolino


Spring 2021

Barbara Carey, Assurance and Insurance    
Art by Nan Sanders Pokerwinski

Elaine Handley, Hooked Up    
Art by Nancy Wolitzer

Linda Maki, Water    
Art by Nancy Wolitzer

Eleanor Fay Snyder, Of George    


Winter 2021

Jacqueline Ariail, First Date    
Art by Milton Avery

J.F. Gross, If Not Now, When?    
Art by Judith Peck

Laura Davis Hays, Pride    
Art by Julia C. Spring


Fall 2020

J. Carol Goodman, What Happened to Ruth    
Art by Julia C. Spring

Darlene D. Stickel, Fred and Her Big Gift    

Linda Weimer, What Will I Be Today?    
Art by Teresa Fasolino


Summer 2020

L. Shapley Bassen, The Rains Down in Africa    
Art by Robin Gross

Nancy Bourne, Frozen Laughter    
Art by Teresa Fasolino

Patricia Temple, The Windmill    
Art by Teresa Fasolino


Spring 2020

Susan Duke, The Rendevous    

Nancy Werking Poling, Afterlife    

Eleanor Rubin, Rete Mirable    


Winter 2020

L. M. Harrod, That Mess of Pottage    

Charlotte Morgan, What? Tell Me, What?    


Fall 2019

Marie Anderson, Lunch Lady Sings the Blues    

Carolyn Geduld, The Bad Thing    


Summer 2019

Sharon Frame Gay, Seasons    

Gill James, Locker 13    

Jacqueline Masumian, The Rehearsal    


Spring 2019

Melinda Burns, English Garden    

Audrey Ferber, West Coast Swinger    

Judith Haran, Forbidden Elegy    

Carol J. Luther, Play Pretties    


Winter 2019

Barbara McGillicuddy Bolton, Happiness Is…    

Bell Gale Chevigny, Sometimes Glad, Sometimes Sorry: Eighty-two-year Inventory    

Diana L. Walters, The Way of the Sparrow    


Fall 2018

Kathleen Rollins, It Doesn’t Matter What You Say. Babies Just Like the Sound of Your Voice    

Eleanor Swent, Crape Myrtle    

Avra Wing, The Anchored Wife    


Summer 2018

Rita Ariyoshi, The First Kiss    

Nancy Bourne, Fading    

Jacqueline Doyle, Charlotte’s Puzzle    

Carol Nadell, In His Own Time    

Ann Zimmerman, Time Enough    


Winter 2018

Carolyn Banks, How I Personally and Perhaps Finally Broke Bad, and Yes, the Names Have Been Changed Because I Am Not Exactly a Dolt    

Connie Bedgood, The Hummingbird and Sam    

Charlotte G. Morgan, Prehistoric Heart    

Joyce H. Munro, Be Jubilant My Feet    

Mimi Schwartz, Fix-It Fantasy    


Fall 2017

Susan B. Apel, And I Cannot Bear to Think About the Books    

Jennifer Clements, Contempt    

Clynthia Burton Graham, Unlikely Arrow    

J.L. Wynne, Shakespeare’s On It    


Summer 2017

Patricia Boomsma, Suspect    

Julie Brickman, The Rampvan, the Skateboard and the Wheelchair    

Patty Dann, Lord Byron on My Phone    

Katharine O’Flynn, When the Time Comes    


Spring 2017

Mary J. Breen, Finders Keepers    

Melodie Corrigall, Helen    

Lesléa Newman, Maidel    


Winter 2017

Nancy Smith Harris, Jury Duty    

Joan Newburger, A Bad Day in the Promised Land    

Julia C. Spring, River of Women    

Lorain Urban, Corpora Caelestia    


Fall 2016

Susan Dworkin, Marty’s Version – A Monologue    

Ruth Gais, The Great Blue    

Marilyn Ogus Katz, Witness to History    

Edith Lank, A Day in the Life    

Linda A. White, On Strike    


Spring 2016

Rachel Biale, The Hungarians    

Gail Fishman Gerwin, The Lost Child    

Lois Marie Harrod, No. 2 Pencil    

Edna Troiano, The Secret in the OldTrunk    


Winter 2016

E.M. Broner, The Dancers    

Lorraine Jeffery, This Ain’t Nothin’    

Vesna Main, Baking for Love    

Ann Tracy, Quiet Girls, 1960    

Linda Garman Weimer, Shrub It    


Fall 2015

Judith Arcana, Eva Has Cancer    

Melody Mansfield, Fertilizer    

Joyce Pfeiffer, Predator    

Gail A. Webber, Never Waste A Good Hole    


Summer 2015

Ruth Charney, The Old Bag    

Catharine Lucas, Prize Day    

Irene Wittig, A Night at the Opera    


Spring 2015

L.S. Bassen, Portrait of a Rotary Phone    

Judith Day, Royal Flush    


Winter 2015

Liz Betz, To Love Andy    

Nell Joslin, The Wild Swans    

Graziela Pimental, Aunt Rose    


Fall 2014

Susan Adam, Sins of Omission    

Linda Chavez, The Vigil    

Jacqueline Doyle, Mary Most Contrary    

Carol Solomon, Heartache    


Summer 2014

Frances Hay, A Stake in the Future    

Mary Lewis, A Good Session    

Moira Sauvage, The Summer Deck / La Terrasse    

Bonnie Sedgemore, Buying Love    

Barbara Smith, The Heir    


Spring 2014

Nancy Bourne, Memorial Mansion    

Roberta Albom Liebler, Reluctant Sanctuary    

Judie Rae, A Commitment to Change    

DeEtte Beghtol Waleed, On the Bridge    


Winter 2014

Lakshmi Gill, Holy Fool    

Julia Sommer, Clippings    

Meredith Sue Willis, Feral Grandmothers: Little Red’s    

Carol Wobig, What Choice Do We Have    


Fall 2013

Ann Doyle, A Tale of Two Lobsters    

Joy Rathgeb, The Proper Way to Prepare Conch    

Sarah Rossiter, Where Will All Come Home    

Betty J. Sayles, Self Defense    


Summer 2013

Barbara McGillicuddy Bolton, Sister Love    

Mary J. Breen, A Criminal Menopause    

Renee Howard Cassese, Rose    

Martie Collins, Relations and Friends    


Spring 2013

Anne Batzer, The Woman Next Door    

Teddy Jones, Spring Storms    

MJ Roberts, Stick Figures    


Winter 2013

Gillian Bennett, Snow    

Sue Kesler, The Neighbors    

Elizabeth Mapstone, Singing the Serpentine Blues    

Toni Martin, Sara and Us    

Christine Stewart, A Good Tradition    


Fall 2012

Julia Ballerini, Gloria    

Hallie Moore, The Unemployed Nymph and The Glass Ceiling    

Rita Plush, Can We Talk?    

Martha Kilgore Rice, Furthermore, She Had Never Read Anais Nin    


Summer 2012

Rochelle Distelheim, Comfort Me with Apples    

Rose Perlmutter, Pot Roast    


Spring 2012

Karen Mandell, Repotting    

Hollis Seamon, The Trojan Cat    


Winter 2012

Joan Diamond, The Long View    

Kathryn Nasuti, Cabbage Roses    

Lenora Salvucci, Bless the Child    


Fall 2011

Lucie Ogilvie, Damaged    

Rona Yohalem, Dance With a Stranger    


Summer 2011

Lois Bassen, Mrs. Dalloway Isn’t Shallow    

Margot Adler Welch, Now For The Rest    


Spring 2011

Sara Kay Rupnik, A Study of Light    

Ann G. Thomas, Mrs. Brown    

Lucy Warner, Drowning Kittens    


Fall 2010

Miriam Louise Gardener, The Night the Earth Shook    

Jan Maher, Turn, Turn, Turn    

Carol Scott-Conner, A Life of Flames    


Summer 2010

Gail Gilliland, Ramona the Starlet    

Lalita Noronha, Indelible Lines    


Spring 2010

Drema Hall Berkheimer, Gypsy Skirt    

Tessa Dratt, Orphan    

Emma Goldman, Reflections on Aging    


Winter 2010

Carol Bergman, The Bridge    

Deborah Shouse, Beyond the Dunes    


Fall 2009

Roberta Hartling Gates, What Babysitters Do    

Rolaine Hochstein, The Scam    

Norah Holmgren, Sunrise Over Dolores Park    

Florida Scott-Maxwell, From The Measure of My Days    


Summer 2009

Gilda Haber, The Man in the Mink Hat    

Kathryn Shaver, The Armoire    


Spring 2009

Marion Menna, An Enormous Child    

Susan Robbins, A Breath Away    


Winter 2009

Kathleen Ford, Joan’s Counsel    

Margaret Karmazin, Risk    


Fall 2008

Elizabeth Morris, Wrack Line    

Louise Smith, Heartsong’s Mother    


Summer 2008

Brenda Webster, Blind Spots    


Spring 2008

Charlotte Painter, Rings    

Martha Roth, Grandma Season    


Winter 2008

Jean Cavrell, Early Bird Special    

Susan Dworkin, The Powerhouse in Khuzestan    

Faith Reyher Jackson, Window on Tomorrow    

Susan Yankowitz, Stuntwoman    


Fall 2007

Melanie Kaye / Kantrowitz, Walk on the Wild Side    

Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer, The Ash Tree    

Liz Strachan, Holding on with Love    


Spring 2007

E.M. Broner, Life’s Adventures    

Marilyn French, The Love Children    

Inheritance    
Jane Lazarre

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Forum

Resilience—Moving Forward     (Winter 2026)
Celestine Candida, Glori Chaika, Ellen Chapnick, Ruth Beaumont Cook, Caroline Cottom, Patricia Dutt, Karen FitzGerald, Gerburg Garmann, Linda Gelbrich, Susan Glassman, Beverly Gologorsky, Jane Hale, Marianne Lonsdale, Ellen K. Reichman, Ellen Hirning Schmidt, Aline Soules, Carole Tyrrell, Gina Valdes, Susan Young
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Merry Song

Censoring History     (Fall 2025)
Janet Aguilar, Elaine Alarcon, Marcy Arlin, Corine Beauseigneur, Helen Beer, Mary Schelling Burke, Celestine Candida, Ruth Beaumont Cook, Michelle Dinnick, Karen Elias, Elaine Elinson, Karen FitzGerald, Cate Fosl, Julia Griffin, Ines Hernandez-Avila, Martha Ellen Johnston, Valerie L. Mathews, Malia McCarrick, Kathy Miller, Pauline Nunez, Margaret C. Pearson, Teresa Peipins, Claire Reutter, Lisa Schiff, Mary Ann Shank, Rosie Sorenson, Robin Mayer Stein, Barbara Valente, Diane M. Webber, Debra J. White
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Merry Song

The Assault on the Cultural and Intellectual Life of America     (Summer 2025)
Denise Beck-Clark, S. G. (Sandy) Benson, Nina Carroll, Leslie Clark, Marcy Darin, Patricia Dirlam, Rae Dumont, Tina Engelfried, Karen FitzGerald, Patricia Fuschetti, Susan Glassman, Julia Griffin, Mary Hiland, Shirlee Jellum, Lucy Jerue, Martha Ellen Johnston, Martha H. Kennedy, Joann Kielar, Laurie Kuntz, Julie Landsman, Rose Levinson, Margaret McCaffrey, Nancy Werking Poling, Ellen K. Reichman, Claire Reutter, Nan Rush, Carole Tyrrell, Ellen Ulken, Nanci Lee Woody, Susan Young
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Suzanne S. Austin-Hill, Paula Bernstein, Sandy Morris, Susan Pollett, Flalala Sandytime, Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

Surviving Climate Disasters     (Spring 2025)
Barbara Azzoli, Dr. Tina Barr, Denise Beck-Clark, Glori Chaika, Shirley Wimbish Gray, Kathryn I. Lucas, Linda E. Lucas, Karen McAferty Morris, Mary Russell, Mediha Saliba, Marguerite Schneider, Nancy Spiller, Suzanne Travis, Debra J. White, Nancy H. Williard
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Merry Song

Post-Election Hopes for the Future     (Winter 2025)
Gail Arnoff, Meryl Baer, Denise Beck-Clark, S. G. (Sandy) Benson, Sylvia Ramos Cruz, Jude Ellis, Karen FitzGerald, Jan Freeman, Deborah Fries, Susan Glassman, Ronnie Hess, Angie Minkin, Ellen Reichman, Natalie Reid, Claire Reutter, Michelle Rogers, Susann Rose, Barbara A. Rouillard, Priscilla Tilley, Lynda Webb, Gayle Ann Weinstein, Emily West, Heather B. Wood, Sue Young
Photographs, Merry Song
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

V-Day: Hopes and Fears Surrounding the November 5 Election     (Fall 2024)
Sally Mansfield Abbott, Denise Beck-Clark, Deb Bowen, Rev. Lyn G. Brakeman, Ruth Beaumont Cook, Wendy Eisner, Linda Falcão, Julia Griffin, Teresa Burns Gunther, Roxanne Lien, Julie Lomoe, Elizabeth Minihan, Linda F. Piotrowski, Anna Villegas, Johanna Wald, Judy Wells, Linda C. Wisniewski
Photographs, Pam Martin
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

Election 2024: Discerning Truth in an Age of Disinformation     (Summer 2024)
Denise Beck-Clark, Rev. Lyn G. Brakeman, Sharon Brandon, Nancy Chek, Judy Clarence, Valerie Cullers, Martha Ellen, Marta Elva, Mary Gilliland, Marianne Goldsmith, Julia Griffin, Lisa Hewitt, Mary Hiland, Bernadette Inclan, Jacqueline Lapidus, Julie Lomoe, Elizabeth MacLeish, Susan McCabe, Carol Murphy, Deborah Schmedemann, Ellen Hirning Schmidt, Sharon Scholl, Celia Schorr, Gayle Ann Weinstein, Sharon Wood Wortman
Photographs, Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

Visions for America in this Election Year     (Spring 2024)
Sally Mansfield Abbott, Rita Ariyoshi, Suzanne S. Austin-Hill, Denise Beck-Clark, Dr. Elizabeth Barbara Brown, Patricia Burgess, Mary Schelling Burke, Maril Crabtree, Valerie Cullers, Sylvia Fioelli, Susan Glassman, Julia Griffin, Mary Hiland, Margaret Hutchens, Joanne Jagoda, Marilyn June Janson, Barbara Johnson, Julie Lomoe, Hope Niman Prosky, Rosetta Radtke, Norma S. Tucker
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Illustrations by Anastasia Andersen, Ciel Downing

The Everywhere Wars     (Winter 2024)
Gail Arnoff, Denise Beck-Clark, Barbara McGillicuddy Bolton, Linda Budan, Patricia Chaloux, Patricia Dutt, Sylvia Fioelli, Marcia Calhoun Forecki, Susan Glassman, Marianne Goldsmith, Anna Gotlieb, Julia Griffin, Anke Hodenpijl, Janis Butler Holm, Marilyn June Janson, Shirlee Jellum, Dr. Susan Jhirad, Beth Kanell, Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, Audrey Minutolo Le, Lisa Suhair Majaj, Carol Nadell, Linda F. Piotrowski, Concetta Pipia, Rosetta Radtke, Cynthia Stock, Kathy Taylor
Illustrations by Sandra Morris
Art by Kerfe Roig

Government Support for the Arts     (Fall 2023)
Jan Miller, Concetta Pipia, Eleanor Rubin, Sally Palmer Thomason, Ph.D.
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Linda Allison, Lynn B. Connor, Lilian Hill, Elsa Lichman, L Maristatter

Censorship and Book Banning     (Summer 2023)
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor

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Guest Column

Daddy’s Girls     (Fall 2023)
Mary-Lou Weisman
Art by Elsa Lichman

Traveling With My Inner Child     (Summer 2023)
Mary-Lou Weisman

iRant     (Spring 2023)
Mary-Lou Weisman
Art by Marcella Peralta Simon

Longevity     (Winter 2023)
Mary-Lou Weisman
Art by Betsy Jaeger

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Immigration

Neighbors     (Winter 2020)
Ann Vander Stoep

Full Circle     (Fall 2018)
Mediha Saliba

The Juggler     (Fall 2018)
Joyce Winslow

An American Dream     (Summer 2018)
Daniela Gioseffi

Apple Strudel     (Summer 2018)
Mary Jane (MJ) Roberts

Matriarchs and Monarchs     (Summer 2018)
Margie Patlak

Small Mercies     (Summer 2018)
Lenore Pimental

An American Dream     (Spring 2018)
Niomi Roth Phillips

Catalina, Mi Amor     (Spring 2018)
Maria Espinosa

How to Cross the Border     (Spring 2018)
Chellis Glendinning

The Liberation of Heavenly Bodies     (Spring 2018)
Marie Anderson

Working With Refugees     (Spring 2018)
Judy S. Richardson

Wreckage of the Human Heart     (Spring 2018)
Gail B. Frank

Xoyatla Is a Proper Noun     (Spring 2018)
Cynthis Inman Graham

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In Memoriam

Katharine Spalding Cunningham     (Winter 2024)
Elizabeth Zimmer

Marcia Freedman     (Fall 2021)
Nan Fink Gefen, Editor, Sue Leonard, Editor

Our Esther     (Fall 2011)
Marcia Freedman, Sue Leonard, Editor

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Insurrection - Inauguration

A Special Section on the Extraordinary Events of January 2021     (Winter 2021)
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Liz Abrams-Morley, Dori Appel, Susan Baskin, Margo Berdeshevsky, Ann Boaden, Carol Dorf, Christine Emmert, Patricia Feeney, Marilyn June Janson, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios, Alice Marks, Valerie L. Mathews, Lyn May, Elaine Nussbaum, Nancy Poling, Mary Russell, Rochelle Jewel Shapiro, Nina Tassi, Melody Wilson
Art by Margo Berdeshevsky, Judith Fox Goldstein, Elsa Lichman, windflower
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor

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Music, Dance, Theatre

Interview with Susan Kane     (Fall 2025)
Gena Raps, Music Editor

Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots     (Spring 2025)
Gena Raps, Music Editor

Josephine Mongiardo-Cooper: So You Want to Be a Singer     (Winter 2025)
Gena Raps, Music Editor

Diplomats of Equilibrium     (Fall 2024)
Sally Hess

Miyoko Lotto, Pianist     (Summer 2024)
Gena Raps, Music Editor

One of a Kind: Harpist Nancy Allen     (Winter 2024)
Gena Raps, Music Editor

Punk Pioneer Exene Cervenka: Her Life in Music and Words     (Fall 2023)
Sharon M. Hannon, Guest Music Editor

Our Guest Editor’s Music Picks     (Summer 2023)
Joan Behrens-Berman
Art by Sally Buffington

Editor's Music Picks     (Spring 2023)
Gena Raps, Music Editor
Art by Helen Fitzgerald

Musical Trailblazing: Serena Benedetti     (Special 2022)
An interview with Serena Benedetti, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Gena Raps, Music Editor

Laurie Carney     (Summer 2022)
An interview with Laurie Carney, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Gena Raps, Music Editor

Mothering Musicians: Yoko Takebe Gilbert     (Spring 2022)
An interview with Gena Raps, Music Editor, Donna Weng, Donna Weng

Stories from the Piano: Donna Weng Friedman     (Winter 2022)
An interview with Gena Raps, Music Editor, Donna Weng, Donna Weng

Jazz Saxophonist and Composer: Jane Ira Bloom     (Summer 2021)
An interview with Jane Ira Bloom, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Gena Raps, Music Editor

Jazz Visionary: Alina Bloomgarden     (Spring 2021)
An interview with Alina Bloomgarden, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Gena Raps, Music Editor
Art by Nancy Wolitzer

Anita Hollander     (Spring 2020)
An interview with Anita Hollander, Elizabeth Zimmer, Elizabeth Zimmer

Toi, Toi, Toy     (Fall 2018)
Margaret Leng Tan

Pianist to Pianist: Ursula Oppens     (Spring 2017)
An interview with Ursula Oppens, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Gena Raps, Music Editor

Choreographer and Independent Filmmaker     (Summer 2016)
Marta Renzi

In Motion     (Summer 2016)
Tania León

I Loved Him     (Fall 2015)
Dorothy Roberts

A Musical Life From Moscow to New York     (Fall 2013)
An interview with Gena Raps, Music Editor, Oxana Yablonskaya, Oxana Yablonskaya

Carol Winsenc: The Magician of the Flute     (Winter 2013)
An interview with Gena Raps, Music Editor, Carol Winsenc, Carol Winsenc

Evangeline Benedetti     (Fall 2012)
An interview with Evangeline Benedetti, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Gena Raps, Music Editor

Mom Comes Out     (Fall 2012)
Terry Joan Baum

Off to the Races     (Fall 2012)
Emily Levine

Creative Collaboration: Elinor Armer and Ursula Le Guin     (Fall 2010)
An interview with Elinor Armer, Ursula Le Guin, Ursula Le Guin, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Gena Raps, Music Editor

Thea Musgrave     (Spring 2009)
An interview with Thea Musgrave, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Gena Raps, Music Editor

Five Scenes     (Spring 2008)
Naomi Newman

Song of the Magpie     (Summer 2007)
Martha Boesing

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Nonfiction


Winter 2026

Cheryl Achterberg, Red Alert: Border Patrol    
Art by Cheryl Achterberg

Dianne Apter, You Just Never Know    
Art by C. David Guerra

Lou-Ellen Barkan, The Unguilt Trip    
Art by Kari Uhlman

Ann Levin, Hard-boiled    
Art by Judi Silvano

Antonia Lewandowski, The Art Lesson    
Art by Teresa Fasolino

Karen Paul, Chocolate Confessional    


Fall 2025

Polly Cleveland, That Time of Year    

Jane Hale, Agnes    

Deborah Burke Henderson, Summer’s End    
Art by Autry Dye

Ann V. Klotz, Walking the Circle    
Art by Nancy Murray

Jenny Moye, The Western View    
Art by Judith Beth Cohen

Karen Zey, Hello, My Name is Karen    
Art by Karen Walker


Summer 2025

Patricia Garrison, My Life in Fashion    
Art by Linda Barbanel

Ada Glustein, Age of Uncertainties    
Art by Eleanor Rubin

Lynn Goforth, Piano Fantasy    
Art by Ziggy Rendler-Bregman

Valeria Mathews, What Delights Await    
Art by Margaret Karmazin

Sondra Perl, At 75, a Dog    
Art by Elena Stone

Jennifer Thornburg, In Which I Learn about Surface Area    


Spring 2025

Lori Gershun, Olga, Tolstoy, and Me    
Art by Mona Curtis

Shirlee Jellum, Offerings    
Art by Maria B. Olujic

Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, Minding the Light    
Art by Janice Lynch Schuster

Ann Levin, Stir-fry Cancer    
Art by Marcella Peralta Simon

Amy Smyth Miller, What Lies Within    
Art by Carolyn Campbell


Winter 2025

Christine Beck, On Joy    
Photograph by Celeste Budwit-Hunter

Mary Donaldson-Evans, La Terreur    
Photograph by Sara Risley

Linda Gambil, Peeling Onions in Africa    
Photograph by Linda Gambil

Nan Fink Gefen, Editor, The Age of Humility    
Photograph by Katharine Weinmann

Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor, Poets of the Central States    

Sonja Mongar, SNAGS, Alligators & the OJ Effect    
Illustration by Dana K. Schuldt Leahy

Jane Rothschild, The First Day    
Illustration by Davney Herriges Stahley


Fall 2024

Rae Dumont, The Kindness of Realism    
Art by L Maristatter

Ginger Keller Gannaway, Falling into a Box    
Art by Emily Thornton Calvo

Lily Iona MacKenzie, Plumbing the Depths: Dreams and My Creative Life    
Art by Anita Pinatti

Victoria Millard, Penelope’s Pockets    
Art by Barbara Gottesman

Eileen Pollack, Erector Set    
Art by Rosanne Ehrlich

Kaelin McGee Shipley, The Descent    
Art by Susann Rose

Judith Sornberger, Declarations of Desks    


Summer 2024

Elizabeth Bird, Shaking the Family Tree: Laura’s Story    

Elizabeth Cohen, Little Girl at the Salad Bar    
Art by Phyllis Green

Judith Fetterley, A Case of the Blues    
Art by Sally Buffington

Julie Hébert, I Can’t Close My Mouth    
Art by Carolyn Schlam

Jane Seskin, In the Company of Others    
Art by windflower

Pat Stafford, La riunione (The Reunion)    

Robin Mayer Stein, Hunger    
Art by Linda Allison


Spring 2024

Nancy L. Glass, Socks for Lola    
Art by Carolyn Schlam

Deborah Burke Henderson, Spa Day    
Art by Helen Bar-Lev

Roz Leiser, Hello and Goodbye    
Art by Elsa Lichman

Catherine Palmer, Spleeny    
Art by Jeannette DesBoine

Diana Rosen, Lerissa’s Monologue    
Art by Carmen Germain

Mary Zelinka, Thirty-four Years to Graduation    
Art by Carolyn Schlam

Ariela Zucker, Twenty-one Seconds    
Art by Marilyn Papayanis


Winter 2024

Deborah-Zenha Adam, Trail Prophecy    
Photographs by Sheree Stewart Combs

Rosalind Brackenbury, We Were Here    
Photograph by windflower

Paula Brown, Because Heaven    
Photograph by Carmen Urrutia

Elizabeth Cohen, Flammable    

Julie Hébert, Picking Cherry Tomatoes in the Apocalypse    

Sue Fagalde Lick, Tuna Noodle Casserole    
Art by Carmen Germain

Rita Mendes-Flohr, Swim for the Dark Spots    

Felice Rhiannon, The Candelabra    
Art by Lilian Hill
Photograph by Rita Mendes-Flohr


Fall 2023

Janie Braverman, Apocalypse/How to Fold 1,000 Paper Cranes    

Rae Dumont, Still Waters    
Art by Judith Fox-Goldstein

Susan McCarthy, Buried Treasure    
Art by Dawn Li, Ph.D.

Patricia McTiernan, Lessons from the Death Café    
Art by Sheree Stewart Combs

Fay Robinson, House    
Art by Elsa Lichman

Miriam Sagan, January    
Art by Gaye Gambell-Peterson

Carol Solomon, They’re Digging Dirt in My Family Room    
Art by Dietra Reid


Summer 2023

Dr. Tina Barr, The Turtleneck    
Art by Merry Song

Véronique Béquin, Flight    
Art by Sandy Morris

Eileen Finley, Something New    
Art by Sandy Morris

Rita Jane Gabbett, Gorilla 13    
Art by Sandy Morris

Susan Hodara, Paul on the Floor in the Dark    
Art by windflower

Crystal W. Pillifant, A Dud Isn’t Always a Dud    
Art by Sandy Morris


Spring 2023

Karen Beatty, Messaging Plants    
Art by Suzanne Cottrell

Louise A. Dolan, Diamonds in the Universe    
Art by Merry Song

Mary Dingee Fillmore, The Story I Had to Write    

Constance Garcia-Barrio, Vivid Vengeance    
Art by Indu Varma

Anne Kaier, A Window Outside the Wall    
Art by Lisa Braxton

Miriam Mandel Levi, The Hedge    
Art by Sarah Sutro


Winter 2023

Alice Bloch, A Tale of Two Trees    
Art by Judith R. Robinson

Ellen Leary, Googling Old Boyfriends    
Art by Clare Olivares

Barbara Presnell, Home Boy    
Art by Kate Missett

Stephanie Schamess, Howling at the Moon    
Art by Marilyn Johnston

Stephanie B. Shafran, Wheels    


Special 2022

Alice Benson, Hope and Persistence    
Art by Wendy Lou Schmidt

Julie Brinkmann, Struggling for Equality in the Catholic Church    
Art by Joyce Hoffman

Amy Champeau, Unleashed    
Art by Gaye Gambell-Peterson

Daniela Gioseffi, A Death-Defying Illegal Abortion Nearly Destroyed Me    
Art by Daniela Gioseffi

Laurie Harriton, Abortion    
Art by Suzanne Cottrell

Claire Kahane, Acolyte    
Art by Marilyn Johnston

Alexandra Geiger Morgan, Triptych: Three Explorations of Abuse    
Art by RM Yager

Eileen Pollack, The True Game of Tennis    
Art by KJ Hannah Greenberg

Jacquelyn Shah, Mutant    
Art by Gaye Gambell-Peterson

Phyllis Todisco, The Reluctant Caretaker    
Art by Marcella Peralta Simon

Mary-Lou Weisman, Ms Me    
Art by Julia C. Spring

Jean Zorn, Publisher, Nothing is Sure in This World: When Title IX Became a Political Football    
Art by Joyce Hoffman


Fall 2022

Ellyn Bache, Firstborn    
Art by Lakshmi Gill

Leslie Contos, Pillbug Soul    
Art by Elsa Lichman

Louise A. Dolan, Departures    
Art by Christa Iceforest

Elizabeth Reed, A Map of Marriage on Monhegan Island    
Art by Sarah Sutro

Katy Wright, A Rose by Any Other Name    
Art by Salley McInerney


Summer 2022

Lynette Blumhardt, Easily Amused    
Art by Judith R. Robinson

Anne Canright, The Bridge    
Art by Robin Gross

Gail B. Kent, The Bench    
Art by Marilyn Johnston

Sherri Wright, What is Essential — Every Single Day    
Art by Marcella Peralta Simon


Spring 2022

Donna Bridewell, Molecules    
Art by Eleanor Rubin

Kathleen Collins, Possibilities    
Art by Teresa Fasolino

Mary Donaldson-Evans, Not for Sissies?    
Art by Eleanor Rubin

Jane C. Elkin, Shades of Love and Duty    


Winter 2022

Gail Arnoff, In Another Closet    
Art by Julia C. Spring

Leslie Clark, Snake Rain    
Art by Elsa Lichman

Leanne Phillips, Growing an Avocado Tree from Seed    
Art by Paula Schultz

Joan Potter, Turning Elderly    


Fall 2021

Bethany Reid, About a Marriage, from A to Zed    
Art by Elsa Lichman

Adina Sara, Holy Days    
Art by Paula Schultz

Laurey Williams, Twins    
Art by Cynthia Yatchman


Summer 2021

Patricia Boswell, The Visit    
Art by Mary Rose O’Connell

Catherine Mathews, The Girl by the Door    
Art by Elsa Lichman

Monona Wali, The Resistance of Shakuntala    
Art by Emily Thornton Calvo


Spring 2021

Jane T. Krebs, Peaches    
Art by Nan Sanders Pokerwinski

Deborah Ross, Barbie’s Bleak House; or, Married with Furniture    
Art by Nancy Wolitzer


Winter 2021

Claire Kahane, My Mother’s Story: Memento Mori    
Art by Elsa Lichman

Barbara Rady Kazdan, The Mourning Fog    
Art by Mary Rose O’Connell

Ernestine Whitman, Musical Themes    


Fall 2020

Dora Dueck, Reunion    
Art by Natalie Levy

Melody Mansfield, Gouache Rhymes with Squash    
Art by Teresa Fasolino

Susan Neville, Billow    


Spring 2020

Mary Alice Hostetter, Reclaiming Good Bones    

Nancy Kline, Terrifying Tales    

Shoshana Levenberg, In My Name    


Winter 2020

Sandra Butler, Full Body Scan    

Michelle Cacho-Negrete, On The Fire Escape    

Ruth Hunter, Circles of Hope    

Edith Konecky, Soup    

Responses to Lucy Marx, The Reckoning of Junot Díaz    

Hope Nisly, Never Take a Drop of H2O Lightly    

Christine Stewart, Full Body Scan    

Jane DiVita Woody, The System    


Fall 2019

Lucy Marx, The Reckoning of Junot Diaz    

Adrienne Sciutto, The Sophie Stories    


Summer 2019

Lisa Knopp, Lure    

Abby Luby, The High Note    

Harriet Squier, The ICU    


Spring 2019

Myriam Chapman, Disgust (or What We Do For Love)    

Sue Fagalde Lick, When You Can’t Even Get Drunk    

Kaelin McGee Shipley, Letting Go    


Winter 2019

Susanne Dutton, Medium Well    

Sally Hess, Descartes Appears, We Talk    

Barbara Rady Kazdan, Don't Tell Hubby    

Mary Zelinka, Boundaries    


Fall 2018

Carol Jeffers, Covenant    

Sally Nielsen, Profundity    


Summer 2018

Melba Pitts, God Nodded    

Ruth Resch, Requiem for My Beloved    


Winter 2018

Susan Hoffman, The Anxious Stitch    

Patty Anne O'Hara, A Hot Couple?    

Elaine Neil Orr, Falling    


Fall 2017

Jean Gochros, What to Do About Danielle    

Aurora M. Lewis, My Cowgirl Blues    

Debbie L. Miller, But, I’m a Girl    


Summer 2017

Dawn Downey, The Cleaning Women    

Christina Mowle, The Distorting Eye    


Spring 2017

Sandra Butler, Repairs    

Mardith Louisell, The Long Shower    

Lisa Mullenneaux, The Vanishing Point: Artists Respond to Climate Change    


Winter 2017

Rosanne Ehrlich, Another Disney Fan Bites the Dust    

Daniela Gioseffi, Everything Happens for a Reason?    

Jane Kays, Maryann    

Nancy Wick, Just Like Me    


Fall 2016

Barbara L. Baer, Shadows over the Galapagos    

Lee Haas Norris, BFF    

Jane O’Reilly, Diary of a Political Education    


Spring 2016

Nancy Bauer-King, Recycled    

Sophia Kouidou-Giles, Under the Azure Sky    

Ruth Resch, Travel Agent    


Winter 2016

Gail Arnoff, In Our Mother's Closet    

Emily Newberry, The First Steps    

Shizue Seigel, Of Christmas and Karma    


Fall 2015

Phyllis Dunham, The Things You Held Sacred    

Carol Levine, The Fruit of the Apple Tree    

Patricia Pomerleau, Gay March    


Summer 2015

Suzanne Juhasz, Responses to Vivian Gornick’s Feminism inThese Times    

Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer, My Life in Pieces    

Tricia Knoll, Cleo Kocol, Kathy Merlino, Responses to Vivian Gornick’s Feminism inThese Times    

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Cover-Up Creep    

Janet Sunderland, Edna Troiano, Responses to Vivian Gornick’s Feminism inThese Times    


Spring 2015

Nancy Barnes, I Got to See Their Words    

Jenny Clover, Smog Check    

Vivian Gornick, Feminism in These Times    

Jo Ann(e) Valentine (Pascoe) Simson (Smith), What’s in a Name?    

Laura Tamakoshi, The White Woman Will Eat You!    

Lynn Taylor, AC    


Winter 2015

Frances Kappler, Monster    

Mary Martha Lappe, Dancing with the Stripes    

Flossie Lewis, Maude's Pill    

ruie Mullins, At the Plaza    


Fall 2014

Susan E. Johnson, Edward Nicholas    

Deborah Kent, Where Is the Ladies’ Room, Anyway?    

Paula Phipps, That Invisible Door Between Us and the Homeless    

Ann Warren Smith, Getting to the Heart    


Summer 2014

Linda Baldanzi, Rattled    

Pat Carr, Prom Dress    

Roz Leiser, Reluctant Bride    

Barbara Mahone, A Tuskegee Story    


Spring 2014

Annette Berkovits, Rebel With a Cause    

Martha Boesing, Parker Lake Jail    

Bell Gale Chevigny, Our Robbery    

Michele Landsberg, Activism Is My Modus Operandi    

Sue Leonard, Editor, Lilly Rivlin, Story Teller    


Winter 2014

Patty Cogen, If You Want to Change Your Life, Begin with Your Underwear    

Claudia A. Geagan, Wife    

Nan Fink Gefen, Editor, Down the Rabbit Hole: My Adventures in Publishing    

Gayle Ann Weinstein, Meet Me on the Corner    


Fall 2013

Janet Brof, Holding Ground    

Carol M. Downie, My Snake    

Linda Hirschhorn, Yes I Will Dance    

Jane P. Morgan, The Normal Aging Process    


Summer 2013

Sherry Ruth Anderson, A Secret I Should Be Keeping    

Margo Berdeshevsky, My Lunch with Belochka    

Meredith Escudier, Like it or Not    

Jane Hanser, The Registry    

Stephanie Wilson Medlock, Keeping Score    


Spring 2013

Bell Gale Chevigny, Desire Is the Best Crutch    

Ann St James, Ed Is Dead    

Elizabeth Zimmer, North Wing    


Winter 2013

Margot Adler, Why We Love Vampires    

Ruth Crocker, My Buddy’s Hat    

Suzanne Juhasz, Classroom Ballerina: The Sequel    

Mediha Saliba, Quilts in Life    

Mary C. Waters, Weaving Lesson    


Fall 2012

Barbarann Ayars, The Pie Queen    

Justine Blank, Thelma and Louise (not the movie)    

Lenore Pimental, First Sit Up Straight    


Summer 2012

Carolyn Kraus, Animus    

Sue Leonard, Editor, Interview    

Anna Rabkin, Southern Sixties    

Toshi Seeger, Interview    

Alice Shalvi, Point of No Return    


Spring 2012

Sheryl J. Bize-Boutte, Dead Chickens and Miss Anne    

Nan Fink Gefen, Editor, Change and All That    

L. J. Reed, The Cribbage Master    


Winter 2012

Rev. Lyn G. Brakeman, Becoming a Woman Priest    

Lee Haas Norris, A Woman's Got to Do    


Fall 2011

Sally Nielsen, The Bootleg Daughter    

Margaret Randall, Coyote Grin    


Summer 2011

Jean P. Moore, Finding Charles    

Mitsuye Yamada, Red Shoes and Milk Baths    


Spring 2011

Adriane St. Clare, Karen Frank, Susan Pope, Carrie Lugar Slayback, Pushing Through    


Winter 2011

Susan Griffin, Maxine Hong Kingston, The Open Heart is a Force for Peace    


Fall 2010

Spotted Earth Woman/Gloria Brooks, Yvonne Rand, Victoria Rue, Unfolding: Women’s Spiritual Paths    


Summer 2010

Irena Klepfisz, Lives of Confinement    

Nancy Kline, Florida    

Caroline Ames McCoy, The Story of Asher    

Nancy Stoller, Lives of Confinement    


Spring 2010

Nina Mishkin, A Story    

Phyllis Jane Rose, Sisters: A Digital Story    

Sondra Zeidenstein, Old Woman, New Poems    


Winter 2010

Kay Jorgensen, Mary Risala Laird, Rabbi Leah Novick, Unfolding: Women's Spiritual Paths    


Fall 2009

Ruth Resch, Through the Eyes Of…    


Summer 2009

Katherine Bradway, On Approaching My Hundreth Year    

Dorothy Bryant, Pushing Eighty-Still Pushing Books    

Sandra Butler, Tiptoeing Toward Seventy    

Vivian Gornick, Turning Sixty    

Roussel Sargent, Reaching Ninety    


Spring 2009

Lygia Ballantyne, Cooking by the Book    


Winter 2009

Jane Ariel, Evelyn    

Savitri L. Bess, Unexpected    

E.M. Broner, Mary Gordon, The Writing Life: A Conversation    

Barbara Johnson, Billie Mulkey, Hardscrabble Times    


Fall 2008

Bonnie Lee Black, Youth and Beauty    

Marian Mathews Clark, Getting There    


Summer 2008

Joan Shaddox Isom, Four Laps in August    

Susan Moon, What If I Never Have Sex Again?    


Spring 2008

Marcia Freedman, Going Back    

Mary Watkins, Learning from Liberace    


Fall 2007

Eva Kollisch, Father    

Joan Lester, Naps    


Summer 2007

Paula Gunn Allen, The Perils of Being Paula    

Carole Rosenthal, Whose Lie Is This?    


Spring 2007

Sandy Boucher, Friendship and Change with Tillie Olsen    

Gettin' Sixty    
Daphne Muse

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Poetry

Poets of the Eastern States     (Winter 2026)
Kristine Rae Anderson, Ingrid Arnesen, Joan Barasovska, Helen Beer, Star Black, Nancy Dillingham, Denise Duhamel, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Monika Gross, Gurupreet K. Khalsa, Mindy Lewis, Kathryn Etters Lovatt, Monifa Love, Mary Ellen Redmond, Judith Sanders, Betsy Sholl, Katherine Soniat, Gyorgyi Voros
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Sally W. Donatello

From Blue Flax and Yellow Mustard Flower     (Fall 2025)
Alison Hawthorne Deming
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Karen FitzGerald

International Poets     (Summer 2025)
Shikhandin, Aliki Barnstone, Margo Berdeshevsky, Natalka Bilotserkivets, Hanne Bramness, Anne M. Carson, Rasma Haidri, Ali Kinsella, Alexis Levitin, Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming, Pam Martin, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Deirdre O’Connor, Robin Peace, Anna Reckin, Liana Sakelliou, Leonor Scliar-Cabral, Barbara Geary Truan
Finding Solace: The International Poetry Issue, Deirdre O’Connor
“The gaze unlatched by time”: on the poetry of Deirdre O’Connor, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Merry Song

Poems     (Spring 2025)
Naomi Shihab Nye
The Courage to Sing: On the Poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Maro Lorimer

Poets of the Central States     (Winter 2025)
Miriam Bat-Ami, Annette Billings, Maril Crabtree, Jane Desmond, Cathryn Essinger, Ronnie Hess, Pam Kress-Dunn, Katherine Mitchell, Julie Price Pinkerton, Lee Robinson, Mona Lisa Saloy, Diane Silver, Sandy Soloman, Cynthia Storrs, Gale Walden
Women over Sixty, Living in the Middle, Gale Walden
“Still, We Tell the Tales”: Introducing Poet Gale Walden, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Illustrations by Chea

Selected Poems     (Fall 2024)
Linda Hogan
“To Know the World is a Living Being”: The Poetry of Linda Hogan, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

Poets of the Western States     (Summer 2024)
Kim Addonizio, Rae Armantrout, Andrea Carter Brown, Carol V. Davis, Ann Dixon, Alice Hardesty, Jane Hilberry, Andrea Hollander, Mary Mackey, Carol Moldaw, Kathy Nelson, Marsha de la O, Patty Seyburn, Alice Templeton, Leslie Ullman, Pam Uschuk, Cindy Veach
The Gifts of Age and Nature, Andrea Carter Brown
“With Open Eyes”: On the Poetry of Andrea Carter Brown, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Illustrations by Jennifer Pratt-Walter

“the gift that bright exults”: On the Poetry of Alice Fulton     (Spring 2024)
Alice Fulton, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Illustrations by Sally Buffington

Dare I Call You Cousin     (Winter 2024)
Frances Payne Adler
Photographs, Michal Fattal
Videos, Yossi Yacov

Poets of the Eastern States     (Winter 2024)
Rachel R. Baum, Jan Freeman, Jane Ann Fuller, Janlori Goldman, Beth Kanell, Joan Larkin, Donna Kennedy Maccherone, Janet MacFadyen, Jennifer Martelli, Mary Cuffe Perez, Celeste Pflister, Rosetta Radtke, Jody Stewart, Elaine Terranova, Rhett Watts, Yvonne
Guest Poetry Editor, Jody Stewart
Poetry Editor, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

The Gentle Force of Female Wisdom: A Memorial Tribute to Wendy Barker     (Fall 2023)
Wendy Barker
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Merry Song

International Poets     (Summer 2023)
Sharon Alexander, Ann Bar-Dov, Aliki Barnstone, Margo Berdeshevsky, Natalka Bilotserkivets, Hanne Bramness, Wendy Dickstein, Dubravka Djuric, Janis Galway, Janice Greene, Barbarta Kamler, Althea Romeo Mark, Frances Owen, Pit Pinegar, Frances Presley, Liana Sakelliou
Introduction to International Poetry by Pit Pinegar
Art by Helen Bar-Lev

Black Creole Chronicles: Poems     (Spring 2023)
Mona Lisa Saloy
Introduction: Guardian of the Creole Groove: The Poetry of Mona Lisa Saloy by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Merry Song

Poets of the Central States     (Winter 2023)
Nancy Lael Braun, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Barbara Crooker, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Rebecca Foust, Karen L. George, Ronnie Hess, Susan Sailer, Roberta Schultz, Amy Small-McKinney
Guest Editor, Ann Fisher-Wirth
Introduction: The Sap-Rich Glory: The Poetry of Guest Judge Ann Fisher-Wirth by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Suvan Geer

Fourteen Poems     (Special 2022)
Frances Payne Adler, Aliki Barnstone, Karen Brennan, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Tess Gallagher, Mary Gilliland, H.T. Harrison, Patricia Spears Jones, Monifa Love, Ronna Magy, Alicia Ostriker, Pamela Uschuk, Eleanor Wilner, Kathleen Winter
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Jeri Theriault

Poetry of Jane Augustine     (Fall 2022)
Jane Augustine
Introduction: Reality Is My Estate: On the Work of Jane Augustine by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Indu Varma

Poetry from the Western States     (Summer 2022)
Kathleen Joy Anderson, Judy Clarence, Rebecca Foust, Jodi Hottel, Barbara Johnstone, Moira Magneson, Sara McAulay, Alice Campbell Romano, Joan Stepp Smith, Victoria Stefani, Susan Terris, Lynne Thompson, Kathleen Winter
Guest Editor, Kathleen Winter
Introduction: The Transformative Capacity: Kathleen Winter by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Donnarae Aiello, Mary O’Brien

Dare I Call You Cousin     (Spring 2022)
Frances Payne Adler
Introduction: The Way of the Matriot: On the Poetry of Frances Payne Adler by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Michal Fattal, Yossi Yacov

Poetry from the East Coast     (Winter 2022)
Pamela Ahlen, Irene Apostoleris, Rachel Elion Baird, Regina Dilgen, Jan Freeman, Mary Gilliland, Debra Kaufman, Sandra Kohler, Monifa Love, Janet MacFadyen, Kate Ravin, Harriet Shenkman, Pamela Wax
Guest Editor, Mary Gilliland
Introduction: Mary Gillilan by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Paula Schultz

Fourteen Poems from Is, Is Not     (Fall 2021)
Tess Gallagher
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Cynthia Yatchman

Poets from Elsewhere     (Summer 2021)
Dr. Tina Barr, Margo Berdeshevsky, Dorothy Brooks, Nicole Brossard, Lam Thi My Da, Dubravka Djuric, Elizabeth Mornin, Liana Sakelliou, Susan Wicks, Linda Stern Zisquit
Guest Editor, Dr. Tina Barr
Introduction: Introducing Tina Barr by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Emily Thornton Calvo

Poems from the Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems, 2002-2019     (Spring 2021)
Alicia Ostriker
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Art by Nan Sanders Pokerwinski

Eight Poems     (Fall 2020)
Laura Tohe
Introduction: My Soul Immense with the Millennia of Rocks and Stars: The Poetry of Laura Tohe by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

Poets from the West Coast     (Summer 2020)
Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Devreaux Baker, Gail Entrekin, Lorraine Jeffery, Sigrun Susan Lane, Eileen Malone, Judith Montgomery, Melanie Perish, Judith Quaempts, Kenith Simmons, Pat West, windflower
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Illustrations by Teresa Fasolino
Art by Teresa Fasolino, Robin Gross
Music by Evangeline Benedetti, Pedja Muzijevic

Nine Poems     (Spring 2020)
Eleanor Wilner
Introduction: The Necessity of Witness: On the Poetry of Eleanor Wilner by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

East Coast Poets     (Winter 2020)
L.R. Berger, Paula Bonnell, Debra Cash, Barbara Daniels, Merrill Oliver Douglas, Kate Flaherty, Amy Gottlieb, Jo Ann Hoffman, Claire Keyes, Jacqueline Lapidus, Sue Standing, Ann Taylor, Sarah Brown Weitzman
Guest Judge, Sue Standing
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

The Poetry of Patricia Spears Jones     (Fall 2019)
Patricia Spears Jones
Introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

International Poets     (Summer 2019)
Karen Alkalay-Gut, Patricia Díaz Bialet, Audrey Chin, Margaret Hollingsworth, Wendy Klein, Marianne Larsen, Marion Leeper, Krystyna Lenkowska, Althea Romeo Mark, Irina Mashinski, Diti Ronen, Heather Thomas, Susan Wismer
Guest Editor, Heather Thomas

The Holiday Suicides     (Spring 2019)
Cynthia Huntington
Introduction: The Poetry of Cynthia Huntington by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor

Central States Poets     (Winter 2019)
Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Judith Waller Carroll, Wendy Cleveland, Jane Desmond, Alice Friman, Gail Goepfert, Amy Haddad, Pam Kreis-Dunn, Sigi Leonhard, Dawn McDuffie, Donna Pucciani, Catherine Senne Wallace
Guest Editor, Alice Friman

Erudite Poet     (Fall 2018)
Marilyn Chin

West Coast Poetry     (Summer 2018)
Kathleen Joy Anderson, Christianne Balk, Marri Champié, Linda Conroy, Ginger Dehlinger, Suzanne Edison, Gail Entrekin, Susan Landgraf, Joan Moritz, Penelope Scambly Schott, Judith Skillman, Stephanie Striffler
Guest Editor, Christianne Balk

Poems     (Spring 2018)
Marilyn Nelson

East Coast Poetry     (Winter 2018)
Pamela Ahlen, Henrietta Dahlstrom, Josephine Hausam, W.J. Herbert, Kathryn Kelly, Sandra Kohler, Susan Kress, Jacqueline Lapidus, Ethel Paquin, Deborah Pfeffer, Maurya Simon, Meredith Trede, Anne Harding Woodworth
Guest Editor, Maurya Simon

Nine Poems     (Fall 2017)
Linda Hogan
Introduction: Linda Hogan’s Poetry by Peggy Shumaker

International Poets     (Summer 2017)
Caroline Cottom, Meredith Escudier, Sharon Goodier, Lois Elaine Heckman, S.E. Ingraham, Ellen S. Jaffe, Kath Jonathan, Benita Kape, Hilda Raz, Sarah Thomson, Joanne Veiss-Zaken
Guest Editor, Hilda Raz

Ten Poems     (Spring 2017)
Peggy Shumaker
Introduction: On the Poems of Peggy Shumaker by Wendy Barker

Poetry from the Central States     (Winter 2017)
Mary Jo Balistreri, Judith Waller Carroll, Maria Crabtree, Lucille Lang Day, Janet Ruth Heller, Judy Johnson, Dawn McDuffie, Donna Pucciani, Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld, Ruth Schmidt-Baeumler, Ann Falwell Stanford, Judith Weir, Veronica Zuege
Guest Editor, Lucille Lang Day

Ten Poems     (Fall 2016)
Barbara Hamby
Introduction: The Razzle-Dazzle of Barbara Hamby by Wendy Barker

Poetry from the Western States     (Summer 2016)
Carol Barrett, Brenda Bellinger, Joanne Brown, Catharine Clark-Sayles, Jeanie Greensfelder, Cynthia Hoffman, Tricia Knoll, Lori Levy, Bonnie Lyons, Eileen Malone, Catherine McGuire, Nancy L. Meyer, Nan Rush
Guest Editor, Bonnie Lyons

A Dozen Poems     (Spring 2016)
Patricia Smith
Introduction: Patricia Smith's Poetry by Wendy Barker

East Coast Poetry     (Winter 2016)
Susan Deer Cloud, Kathleen Corcoran, Darcy Cummings, Laurel Ferejohn, Penny Harter, Adele Kenny, Claire Keyes, Charlotte Mandel, Susanna Rich, Helen Ruggieri, Marianne Schloss, Carole Stone, Davi Walters
Guest Editor, Charlotte Mandel

Eleven Poems     (Fall 2015)
Ali Friman
Introduction: On the Poetry of Alice Friman by Wendy Barker

International Poets     (Summer 2015)
Margo Berdeshevsky, Lakshmi Gill, Shareen Knight, Lesley Lababidi, Gila Landman, Anita Lerek, Althea Romeo-Mark
Guest Editor, Frances Payne Adler

Fifteen Poems     (Spring 2015)
Chana Bloch
Introduction: Chana Bloch's Swimming in the Rain: Writing a Woman’s Life by Wendy Barker

Poems from the Central North States     (Winter 2015)
Margo Berdeshevsky, Kathleen Dale, Mary Moore Easter, Susan Fox, Mary Hotlen, Linda Maki, Beverly Offen, Mary Kay Rummel, Barbara Kreader Skalinder, Gayle Ann Weinstein
Guest Editor, Margo Berdeshevsky

Ten Poems     (Fall 2014)
Fleda Brown
Introduction: Fleda Brown’s Poetry by Wendy Barker

Poems from the Southern States     (Summer 2014)
Judith Waller Carroll, Wendy White Cleveland, Jo Ann Hoffman, Ann Neuser Lederer, Janet McCann, Elizabeth Oakes, Diana Pinckney, Elena Lelia Radulescu, Susan Shaw Sailer, Mary Kay Schoen, Peggy Shumaker, Bonnie Stanard, Memye Curtis Tucker, Alice Toporoff Wallace, Sarah Webb, Dede Wilson, Sally Zakariya
Guest Editor, Peggy Shumaker

Twelve Poems     (Spring 2014)
Martha Collins
Introduction: Martha Collins by Wendy Barker

West Coast Poetry     (Winter 2014)
Donna L. Emerson, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Dian Gillmar, Christine Horner, Dallas Huth, Joanne Jagoda, Aurora M. Lewis, Carolyn Martin, Penny Perry, Judith Kelly Quaempts, Elizabeth Stoessl
Guest Editor, Maria Mazziotti Gillan

Twelve Poems     (Fall 2013)
Joy Harjo
Introduction: An Introduction To Joy Harjo by Wendy Barker

Poems from the Northeast Region     (Summer 2013)
Annette Basalyga, Alice Casey, Jean-Marie J. Crocker, Christina Wos Donnelly, Alice Friman, Penny Harter, Kathleen M. Kelley, Jacqueline Lapidus, Christine O’Connor, Paula Phipps, Sb Sobel
Guest Editor, Alice Friman

Eleven Poems     (Spring 2013)
Wendy Barker, Wendy Barker
Introduction: Wendy Barker's Poetry by Alicia Ostriker

Naomi Shihab Nye's Poetry     (Winter 2013)
Introduction by Wendy Barker

Twelve Poems     (Winter 2013)
Naomi Shihab Nye

International Poets     (Fall 2012)
Margo Berdeshevsky, Fleda Brown, Malinda Crispin, Eva Eliav, Mori Glaser, Chellis Glendinning, Lois Elaine Heckman, Venie Holmgren, Jo Milgrom, Lalita Noronha, Katharine O’Flynn, Althea Romeo-Mark, Barbara A Taylor
Guest Editor, Fleda Brown

Marilyn Hacker: Poetry of Anger and Love     (Summer 2012)
Alicia Ostriker

Ten Poems     (Summer 2012)
Marilyn Hacker

Poems from the Central States     (Spring 2012)
Liz Abrams-Morley, Jane Harrington Bach, Beverley Bie Brahic, Penny Hackett-Evans, Susan Mallory, Charlene Neely, Nancy Paddock, Susan W. Peters, Patti Capel Swartz, Judith Weir, M.J. Werthman White
Guest Editor, Beverley Bie Brahic

Seventeen Poems: Poetry from the Central States     (Winter 2012)
Aliki Barnstone, Nancy Lael Braun, Jacqueline Brogan, Wendy Cleveland, Jeanne Emmons, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Pauletta Hansel, Margaret Hasse, Judith Sanders, Annette Sisson, Rebecca A. Spears, Bonnie Larson Staiger, Dawn Terpstra, Drucilla Wall, LaWanda Walters, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Guest Editor, Aliki Barnstone
Introduction: Introducing Aliki Barnstone by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Twelve Poems     (Winter 2012)
Rita Dove
Introduction: Rita Dove by Erika Meitner

Poetry from the Western States     (Fall 2011)
Katy Brown, Margaret Chula, Joanne M. Clarkson, Gail Rudd Entrekin, Grace Marie Grafton, Taylor Graham, Kelley Jácquez, Meredith Kunsa, Penelope Scrambly Schott, Edythe Haendel Schwartz, Julie Suk, Florence Weinberger, Pat Phillips West
Guest Editor, Julie Suk

Sixteen Poems     (Summer 2011)
Kay Ryan
Introduction: Kay Ryan's Poems by Chana Bloch

East Coast Poetry     (Spring 2011)
Sasha Ettinger, Sandra Kohler, Janet Krauss, Marjorie Norris, Diana Pinckney, Susan Roche, Ada Jill Schneider, Dorothy Schiff Shannon, Hannah Stein, Carole Stone, Dale Tushman
Guest Editor, Hannah Stein

Introducing Sandra Gilbert's Poetry     (Winter 2011)
Susan Gubar

International Poetry     (Fall 2010)
Wendy Barker, Margo Berdeshevsky, Jo Carroll, Tamra Hays, Jennifer Hedges, Lisa Katz, Katharine O’Flynn, Becky Sakellariou, Wallis Wilde-Menozzi
Guest Editor, Wendy Barker

Poems     (Summer 2010)
Alicia Ostriker
Introduction: Penetrating Surfaces by Wendy Barker

North Central States Poetry     (Spring 2010)
Maril Crabtree, Penny Hacket-Evans, Andrea Hollander, Eve Hooker, Deena Linett, Nancy Paddock, Linda Robiner, Mary Kay Rummel, Elizabeth Schultz, Catherine Wallace, M.J. White
Guest Editor, Andrea Hollander
Guest Editor, M.J. White

Ten Poems     (Winter 2010)
Sandra M. Gilbert
Introduction: Writing a Woman's Life by Anita Barrows

Poems from the Southern States     (Fall 2009)
Jill Breckenridge, Nancy Calhoun, Margery Cunningham, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Jane Ellen Glasser, Rand (Silverbear) Hall, Joan Mazza, Merimee Moffitt, Margaret S. Mullins, Gail Peck, Diana Pinckney, Barbara Rockman, Sue Walker
Guest Editor, Jill Breckenridge

Poems     (Summer 2009)
Diana O'Hehir

West Coast Poetry     (Spring 2009)
Anne Barrows, Ellen Bass, Gail Rudd Entrekin, Marcia Falk, Cooper Gallegos, Dorothy Gilbert, Lorrie Goldensohn, Muriel Karr, Sally Allen McNall, Judith Montgomery
Guest Editor, Lorrie Goldensohn

Twelve Poems     (Winter 2009)
Chana Bloch, Chana Bloch
Introduction: About Lucille Clifton by Toi Derricotte

Northeast Region Poetry     (Fall 2008)
Barbara Crooker, Susan Donnelly, Lynnel Jones, Jacqueline Lapidus, Elizabeth Lara, Alicia Ostriker, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Becky Dennison Sakellariou, Sondra Zeidenstein
Guest Editor, Judith Arcana

Eleven Poems     (Summer 2008)
Tess Gallagher
Introduction: Tess Gallagher: An Audacious Poet by Alice Derry

Poems     (Spring 2008)
Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin
Introduction: Maxine Kumin by Alicia Ostriker

Twelve Poems     (Winter 2008)
Lucille Clifton

Poems     (Fall 2007)
Introduction: On Ruth Stone by Sandra Gilbert
Toi Derricotte, Grace Paley, Ruth Stone

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Resilience

Breaking My Knee While Skipping     (Winter 2026)
Dawn Gilchrist
Art by Gail Entrekin

Child of Crisis     (Winter 2026)
Nancy H. Williard
Art by Merry Song

Refraction     (Winter 2026)
Dorian Kingman Chong

The Crack Where the Light Gets In or There’s a Crack in Everything     (Winter 2026)
Holly Burke

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Resources

Women’s Rights: Resources     (Special 2022)

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Short Takes

Friendship and Other Gifts     (Winter 2026)
Jamilah Ali, Carolyn Chilton Casas, Susan Connelly, Penny Hackett-Evans, Rasma Haidri, Royce Holladay, Linda Culp Holmes, Alison Jennings, Arlene Johnson, Beth Kanell, Sue McGovern, Arlene Metrick, Diana Morley, Becky Mueller, Ellen Notbohm, Linda Barrett Osborne, Penny Perry, Julie Pratt, Rosetta Radtke, M.J. Simmering, M. Brooke Wiese
Art by Kim Hanson, Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Kim McNealy Sosin, Carrie Stein, Margie Wildblood

Putting It All Away     (Fall 2025)
Helen Bar-Lev, Joan E. Bauer, Andrea Carter Brown, Sylvia Ramos Cruz, Nancy Dillingham, Mary Donnelly, Jeanne Emmons, Nancy Glowinski, Carole Johannsen, Deborah Kelly Kloepfer, Linda E. Lucas, Charna Meyers, Gerry Moohr, Denise Osso, Jen O’Connor, Felice Rhiannon, Margie Wildblood
Introduction by Linda Barrett Osborne
Art by Ruth Halpern

Celebrating Persimmon Tree at 75     (Summer 2025)
Suzanne S. Austin-Hill, Lisa Baron, Denise Beck-Clark, Carolyn Campbell, Sara Etgen-Baker, Karin Evans, Susan Glassman, Joanne Jagoda, Elise Kazanjian, Kwan Kew Lai, Jane Manaster, Ellen K. Reichman, Nancy Scott, Priscilla Tilley, Susan Young
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by J. I. Kleinberg
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Legacies     (Spring 2025)
Shanti Chandrasekhar, Susana Gonzales, B. Fulton Jennes, Gurupreet K. Khalsa, Alexis Krasilovsky, MJ Malleck, Ruth Nicholson, Clare O’Brien, Denise Lewis Patrick, Julie Patten, Barbara Reynolds, Penny Righthand, Kerstin Schulz, Norma Smith, Jane Soodalter, Naomi Stenberg, Jody Stewart
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Alice Sherman Simpson

Every Year We Write a Letter     (Winter 2025)
Phyllis Brotherton, Cathy Cole, Jeannette DesBoine, Glenda Ferguson, Barbara Ford, C. David Guerra, Renée Henning, Kwan Kew Lai, Jane Manaster, Kate McGregor, Melanie Perish, Ellen Reichman, Carole Tyrrell
Photographs, Pam Martin
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Listening     (Fall 2024)
Jennifer L. Abod, Ellen Agger, Shawn Aveningo-Sanders, Debra Bruno, Judy Castleberry, Jacqueline Davey, Jeannette DesBoine, Gail B. Frank, Melinda P. Gordan, Nancy Gustafson, Nancy Johnston Hall, Arlene Johnson, Kwan Kew Lai, Jade Robinson Myers, Linda Neal, Margie Patlak, Roberta Peets, Celia Schorr, Sally Showalter, Stephanie Stevens, Sue Taylor, Marjorie Williams-Cooper, windflower, Yingchao Xiao
Photographs, Merry Song
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Pockets of Joy     (Summer 2024)
Beth Aviv, Carol Barrett, Syd Bartman, Karina Bergen, Lisa Braxton, Catharine Clark-Sayles, Alice Duggan, Amanda Freymann, Evie Groch, Martha Ellen Johnston, Tricia Knoll, Donna Kennedy Maccherone, Nancy Owen Nelson, Linda Pollard Puner, Roberta Schultz, Marcella Peralta Simon, Helene Smith, Kathryn Taylor, windflower, Karen Zlotnick
Photographs, Merry Song
Video, Kathy Taylor
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Erotica     (Spring 2024)
Jennifer L. Abod, Suzanna de Baca, Jan Bartelli, Miriam Bat-Ami, Denise Beck-Clark, Gayle Bell, Julie H. Bolton, Martha Bordwell, Sharon Brandon, Elisabeth Brennand, Maureen Clark, Shaheen Dil, Mary Alice Dixon, Judith Dorian, Mickey Eliason, Sally Frances, Diane Funston, Patricia Garrison, D. J. Green, Shirlee Jellum, Beth Kanell, Lorelei Kay, Helga Kidder, Sally Kilgore, JoAnn Koozer, Jackie Langetieg, Sally McClellan, Denise Osso, Sara Palmer, Rosetta Radtke, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Judith R. Robinson, Ursula Shepherd, Noelle Sterne, Elizabeth Zimmer
Photographs, Merry Song
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

What I Like/What I Dislike     (Winter 2024)
Denise Beck-Clark, Alice Benson, Annis Cassells, Sheree Stewart Combs, Lynn B. Connor, Carla Manene Cooke, Marie Danniely, Lynne Davis, Rosanne Ehrlich, Irene Fick, Anne Gruner, Penny Hackett-Evans, Melinda Halpert, Elyse Hilton, Beth Kanell, Indra Kapur, Tricia Knoll, Susan Knox, Margaret C. Pearson, Roberta Peets, Melanie Perish, Crystal Pillifant, Rosetta Radtke, Ellen Reichman, Kerfe Roig, S. Rose, Jane Seskin, Ursula Shepherd, Marcella Peralta Simon, Vicki Vogt, Sabine Vorkoeper-Orchard, Kresha Richman Warnock, Margie Wildblood, windflower
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Illustrations by Susan Pollett

Shameless Self-Promotion     (Fall 2023)
Sally Mansfield Abbott, Connie Corcoran, Patricia Crisafulli, Karin Eaton, Sally Hess, Susan Knox, Kwan Kew Lai, Wendy Lukomski, Liz Newberry, Kay Patterson, Jennifer O’Neill Pickering, Ellen Reichman, Li Ruan, Susan Shea, Sabine Vorkoeper-Orchard
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Connie Corcoran, Karin Eaton, Linda Falcão, Janis Butler Holm, Jennifer O’Neill Pickering

Verbal Lightning     (Summer 2023)
Sally Mansfield Abbott, Doris B. Ash, Sarah Barnett, Denise Beck-Clark, Barbara Collentine, Florencia Cortés-Conde, Patricia Fuschetti, Melinda Goodman, Anara Guard, Pamela Hertzog, Lorraine Jeffery, Wendy Freedman Katkin, Pam Kress-Dunn, Gail Mackenzie-Smith, Vaughn Neeld, Melanie Perish, Joanna Richey, Judith Ross, Victoria Lynn Smith, Mary Gayle Thomas, Pat Tyrer
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Merry Song

WTF Is It with This Weather?     (Spring 2023)
Armen Bacon, Denise Beck-Clark, Ann Birch, Martha Bordwell, Phyllis Brotherton, Anna Gall, Gail Ghai, Tobey Hiller, Debra Kaufman, Lois Kiely, Janet McCann, Laurie Rosen, Merryn Rutledge, Roberta Schultz, Stephanie Shafran, Judith Shapiro, Kathryn Taylor, Eileen Trauth, Georgette Unis, Kresha Richman Warnock, windflower
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Sally Buffington
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor

Resistance and Resilience     (Winter 2023)
Maya Balle, Cynthia Bernard, Rev. Lyn G. Brakeman, Melissa D. Burrage, Judith Beth Cohen, Nancy Dillingham, Mary Alice Dixon, Sally Frances, Nina Gaby, Gail Ghai, Kathie Giorgio, Debbie Hagan, Antoinette Kennedy, Deborah Meltvedt, Dana Collins Moriarty, Mary Novaria, Ellen Reichman, Rita ‘Rusty’ Rose, Victoria Lynn Smith, Mari Stachenfeld, Christie Taylor, Dr. Edna Troiano
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Illustrations by Alanna Pass, windflower
Music by Ann Chase, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Linda Shear

Turning Points     (Fall 2022)
Mona Anderson, Dianne Apter, Caroline Bassett, Helen Beer, Margo Berdeshevsky, Lisa K. Buchanan, Lillian Hallberg, Joanna Clapps Herman, Jo Ann Hoffman, Lorraine Jeffery, Cherryl Jensen, Jackie Langetieg, Dr. Dorothy C. Miller, Victoria Phillips, Merryn Rutledge, Stephanie B. Shafran, Abby Staberg, Patricia Temple, Kathryn Bashaar, Penny Campbell, Abby Caplin, Cecile Earle, Beverly Friend, Adele Glimm, Molly Howes, Elise Kazanjian, Kathleen McClung, Fokkina McDonnell, Angie Minkin, Christy Shepard, Clare Simons, Ellen Gerneaux Woods
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Illustrations by Jennifer O’Neill Pickering, Karen Greenbaum-Maya
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor, Linda Shear, Gena Raps, Music Editor

Forgetting     (Spring 2022)
Meryl Baer, Becky Boling, Wynne Brown, Regina Dilgen, Joy Dryer, Jill Evans, Mary Kay Feather, Marjorie Hanft, Beth Kanell, J. I. Kleinberg, Jackie Langetieg, Gerry Moohr, Betsy Nelson, Julie Pratt, Joan B. Reid, Mary C. Rowin, Victoria Lynn Smith, Florida Town, Dorothy Wall, windflower, Ariela Zucker
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Illustrations by Judith R. Robinson
Music by Artur Balsam, Gena Raps, Music Editor

Secrets     (Winter 2022)
Sarah Barnett, Jane L. Becker, Marsha Blitzer, Ann Boaden, Paula Boyland, C. Morgan Flanders, Diane Gorman, Anke Hodenpijl, Lois Kiely, Barbara Krauss, D. L. Landi, Antonia Lewandowski, Susan Lundgren, Amy S. Melman, Dana C. Moriarty, Beth Rosen, Leah Schweitzer, Sarah Dickenson Snyder, Carol Sutherland-Brown, Judy Wells, Paulette Benson, Rebecca Ballew Dockum, Karen L. George, Ronnie Hess, Ann Hultberg, Marilyn Johnston, Pat LaPointe, Kathleen McClung, Kathy Miller, Gloria G. Murray, Vera Kewes Salter, JoAnn Sanderson, Roberta Schultz, Michele Sharpe, Susanne Singleton, Mary Gayle Thomas, Rosanne Trost, Gayle Ann Weinstein
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Illustrations by Marcella Peralta Simon
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor, Carol Wincenc

Heroes     (Summer 2021)
Carol Biederman, Sharon J. Clark, Lynne Davis, Judith Emilie, Maryanne Hannan, Maggie Hill, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Clorisa Phillips, Ellen K. Reichman, Marcia Rutan, Ann Weil, Judy Wells
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Elisabeth De Nitto, Paula Schultz
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor, Carol Wincenc

Light[s] at the End of the Tunnel     (Spring 2021)
Mary Ellen Capek, Cynthia Elder, Marjorie Hanft, Joanna Clapps Herman, Melissa Huff, Gurupreet K. Khalsa, Rita Salina Kiernan, Jacqueline Kudler, Angela Lombardo, Marilyn Mazur, Janet Preus, Susanna Rich, Paula Rudnick, JoAnn Sanderson, Deborah K. Shepherd, Ellen Woods
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Marjorie Hanft
Music by Gena Raps, Music Editor, Carol Wincenc

Random Acts of Kindness     (Winter 2021)
Christina Buckton, Judith Emilie, Cynthia Good, Elise Kazanjian, Rochelle Linick, Lalita Noronha, Mary Robertson, Sivakami Velliangiri, Ariela Zucker
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Music by Patti Casey

Justice     (Fall 2020)
Frances Payne Adler, Subhaga Crystal Bacon, Liz Betz, Jane Desmond, Joanne Kennedy Frazer, Susan Lundgren, Pit Pinegar, Janet Preus, Ellen K. Reichman, Vera Kewes Salter, Judy Wells, Ellen Woods
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher
Art by Elsa Lichman, Julia C. Spring

Election Stories     (Summer 2020)
Becky Boling, Judith Emilie, Susan Emshwiller, Meredith Escudier, Diane Freedman, Leslie Neustadt, Joyce R. Ritchie, Paula Rudnick, Anne-Marie Sutton
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

When I Was 17...     (Spring 2020)
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Gift/ Giving     (Winter 2020)
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Mourning     (Fall 2019)
Helen Beer, Bindy Bitterman, Denise L. David, Katharine Harer, Ann E. Hultberg, Peggy Landsman, Victoria Lewis, Maureen Teresa McCarthy, Janet Merritt, Kathleen Naureckas, Judie Rae, Kathleen Sampson, Karen Schauber, Kathy Steinemann, Gayle Ann Weinstein, Jean Zorn, Publisher
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Life-Changing Moments     (Summer 2019)
Connie Bedgood, Mei Joan Chung-Guyll, Robin Dellabough, Jan Haag, Joan Halperin, Pamela Hartmann, Aurora Lewis, Rosie Sugden, Mary Whetstone, Jean Zorn, Publisher
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Boiling Point     (Spring 2019)
Janet Banks, Berta Morgan, Vivienne Popperl, Miriam Reed, Rhett Watts, Jean Zorn, Publisher
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu     (Winter 2019)
Pamela Ahlen, Maria Espinosa, Kate Flaherty, Mary Susan Gast, Robin Gross, Mimi Jennings, Connie Kallback, Adrienne Keller, Carrie Kinsey, Carol Nadell, Alice Sherman Simpson, Monique Stampleman, Judy Swann
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

My Bag     (Fall 2018)
Rani Drew, Sue Fagalde Lick, Merimee Moffitt, Martina Reaves, Susan Strassburger, Norma S. Tucker, Ann Zimmerman
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

#Me Too/ Me, Too     (Summer 2018)
Susan B. Apel, Carolyn Banks, Beth Dwoskin, Laurie Kuntz, DS Levy, Lalita Noronha, Mary C. Rowin, Mary Ellen Talley
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Border Crossings     (Spring 2018)
Pat Carr, Audrey Chin, Denise David, Lakshmi Gill, Laurie Harriton, Laurie Jurs, Bernadine Lortis, Alice Marks, Lisa Saffron, Dolores Senchak, Norma S. Tucker
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Time     (Fall 2017)
Adrianne Borgia, Wanda Burch, Nancy Gerber, Robin Gross, Mardith Louisell, Patricia Pomerleau, Priscilla Tilley, Judy Wells, Connie Zumpf
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

A Summer of Luscious Fruit     (Summer 2017)
Arlene Borsky, Mary Ann Cook, Judy Harding, Hilary Harper, Judy Hoyer, Joann Kielar, Merimee Moffitt, Dorty Nowak, Sylvia D. Saxon, Patti Swartz
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Getting an Education     (Spring 2017)
Phyllis Douglas, Judy Hoyer, Judy S. Richardson, Lynne Sparrow
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Advice     (Winter 2017)
Daniela Gioseffi, Sheila Grinell, Robin Gross, Beth Mills
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Politics     (Fall 2016)
Sylvia Ramos Cruz, Sophia Kouidou-Giles, Pat Reuss, Anne Mollegen Smith
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Arts & Crafts     (Summer 2016)
Mary Ann Cook, Sharon Frame Gay, Robin Gross, Emi Hattori, Susan Hecht, Dorothy Rice, Lauren Katzowitz Shenfield
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

A Birth Story     (Spring 2016)
Annis Cassells, Bell Gale Chevigny, Robin Gross, Diantha Hull, C.S. Leonard, Rona Simmons
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Presents     (Winter 2016)
Adina Sara, Linda Silver, Elaine Terranova, Elizabeth Van Zandt
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

On Wheels     (Fall 2015)
Kavanaugh, Ronna Magy, Debbie L. Miller, Beverly Offen
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Shoes     (Summer 2015)
Juanita Kirton, Grace Mattern, Niomi Phillips, Norma S. Tucker
Introduction by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Boiling Points     (Spring 2015)
Carla Fellers, Edith Lank, Nan Mick, Jean Zorn, Publisher

Social Media     (Winter 2015)
Edith Lank, Judie Rae, Barbara Schramm, Priscilla Tilley, Elizabeth Zimmer

Still Working     (Fall 2014)
Estelle Glass, Mary Martha Lappe, Ronna Magy, Elaine G. Schwartz

Summer     (Summer 2014)
Sue Ellis, Lisa Holzkenner, Debby Mayer, Glenda Munson, Lynne Sparrow

Activism     (Spring 2014)
Margo Berdeshevsky, Phyllis Berentsen, Joanna Mary Bressler, Elizabeth J. Coleman, Karen Keltz, Jacqueline Kudler, Barbara Milgrom Melrose, Niomi Rohn Phillips

Jewelry     (Winter 2014)
Lois Baer Barr, Sunny Glessner, Ann Batchelor Hursey, Carolyn Meagher, Barbara Rockman

Sex     (Fall 2013)
Hannah Louise Abbett, Carolyn Lee Arnold, Jo Barney, Marilyn A. Gelman, Lauren Shenfield, Norma Smith, Sb Sowbel, Lynne Sparrow

Money     (Summer 2013)
Penny Hackett-Evans, Ann Batchelor Hursey, Robyn Marshall, Ruth Codier Resch, Priscilla Tilley, Madelyn F. Young

Guilty Pleasures     (Spring 2013)
Grace Babakhanian, Mary A. Berger, Rochelle Distelheim

Gossip     (Winter 2013)
Jo Barney, Joan Cappello, Beatrice G. Davis, Phyllis Douglas, Phyllis Jean Green, Pamela Manché Pearce, Lita E. Plopinio

Sports     (Fall 2012)
Nan Hilsinger, Ann St James, Ann Neuser Lederer, Carolyn Meagher, Lola Ready, Marjorie Sell Stewart

Milestones     (Summer 2012)
Sylvia Gutmann, Mary Izzo, Ann St James, Laura T. Jensen, Carolyn Litwin, Ruth Pike, Annita Sawyer

The Next Step     (Winter 2012)
Terri Watrous Berry, Jill Cook, Misha Herwin, Deborah Jordan, Martha Mendelsohn, Mary Kay Schoen, Margaret Miller Volpe, Linda A. Wright

Taking a Stand     (Summer 2011)
Ingrid Briles, Maril Crabtree, Marianne Goldsmith, Mary Ellen Michna, Deborah Nedelman, Marti Watterman

First Thing in the Morning     (Summer 2010)
Helene Constant, Karen Dale, Joanne Eddy, Estelle Glass, Kathryn Jens, Georgia Post, Patricia Sullivan, Hilda Wales

Thrills     (Winter 2010)
Marty Carlock, Lynne Davis, Constance Garcia-Barrio, Linda Gartz, Celia Miles, Natalie Safir, Carol Walkner

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Sketch

Train to Tozeur     (Summer 2020)
Susan Gene McCartney
Art by Natalie Levy

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Special Supplement

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Celebrating the 75th Issue     (Summer 2025)
Greta Berman, Art Editor, Nan Fink Gefen, Editor, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor, Gena Raps, Music Editor, Elizabeth Zimmer, Jean Zorn, Publisher
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Marcia Smilack

Women En/Counter Violence     (Summer 2024)
Introduction by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Sharon Brandon, Caroline Cottom, Elaine Elinson, Amelia Diaz Ettinger, Gail B. Frank, Daniela Gioseffi, Julia Griffin, Ronnie Hess, Jo Ann Hoffman, Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor, Shirlee Jellum, Susan McCabe, Linda F. Piotrowski, Jude Rittenhouse, Christine Schoefer, Nancy Shiffrin, Barbara Stanton
Photographs, Merry Song

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The Creative Life

A Treatise on Fishing and Writing     (Fall 2025)
Sara Etgen-Baker
Art by Darlene Detienne

Measure of Emotion     (Fall 2025)
Nell Joslin
Art by Laurie Kuntz

Circling the Continent, Finding Home: The Creative Journeys of Photographer Dona Ann McAdams and Dancer Naomi Goldberg Haas     (Summer 2025)
Elizabeth Zimmer

Becoming Berenice     (Spring 2025)
Vicki Lindner
Art by Marilyn Johnston

In the Shoes of Nancy Drew     (Spring 2025)
Patricia Crisafulli

New and Updated     (Spring 2025)
Linda Holland Rathkopf
Art by Linda Holland Rathkopf

Touching Transcendence     (Spring 2025)
Diane Elayne Dees
Art by Diane Elayne Dees

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The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court v. American Democracy     (Summer 2022)
Margaret E. Wagner, Editor
Art by Carol M. Highsmith

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Tribute

The Long View: Marcia Freedman     (Special 2022)
Nan Fink Gefen, Editor

Ruth Bader Ginsburg     (Fall 2020)
Becky Boling, Mary Schelling Burke, Lucy Griffith, Ann Hedreen, Tricia Knoll, Jacqueline Kudler, Laurie Kuntz, Jacqueline Lapidus, Sue Leonard, Editor, Angie Minkin, Berta Morgan, Mary K O’Melveny, Susanna Rich, Susan Shaw Sailer, Ariel Smart, Debbie Theiss
Music selection, Gena Raps, Music Editor

Gerda Lerner     (Spring 2013)
Kathryn Kish Sklar

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Troublemakers

Troublemakers in Action     (Summer 2017)
Catherine Aks, Pat Carr, Sylvia Ramos Cruz, Sophia Kouidou-Giles, Ronna Magy, Patricia Pomerleau, Cynthia Ward

Long Form     (Spring 2017)
Cynthia Carbone, Melody Mansfield, Ann Vander Stoep

Short Form     (Spring 2017)
Carol A. Amato, Myrna Loy Ashby, Pat Carr, Kitty Cunningham, Sandra Enos, Sophia Kouidou-Giles, Debbie L. Miller, Patricia A. Pomerleau

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Ukraine

A Message to Our Readers     (Spring 2022)

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Video

Persimmon Drying     (Spring 2012)
Joy Krauthammer, Issue Number, Section

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What We're Reading

Short Reviews (Issue 5)     (Spring 2009)
Judy Gumbo Albert, E.M. Broner

Short Reviews (Issue 4)     (Winter 2008)
Nan Fink Gefen, Editor, Alice Herb, Martha Roth

Short Reviews (Issue 3)     (Fall 2007)
Judith Arcana, Anita Barrows, Marcia Freedman, Jane Lazarre

Short Reviews (Issue 2)     (Summer 2007)
Sandy Boucher, Sandra Butler, Rosie Rosenzweig, Sandra Shwagner Sanchez, Ellen Siegelman

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Winner's Circle

Solo Pas de Deux     (Summer 2024)
Andi Penner

Home Front     (Summer 2024)
Jane Zakrzewski
Art by Cindy Waszak Geary

Valentine     (Summer 2024)
L Maristatter
Art by Davney Herriges Stahley

Gratitude     (Summer 2023)
Judy Collinson
Art by Judith Fox-Goldstein

One the Death of a Friend     (Summer 2023)
Honey Rand
Art by Lynn B. Connor

She Flew     (Summer 2023)
Ann Stanford
Art by Eleanor Rubin

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