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- Jeannine Hall Gailey's essay on the use of the persona in poetry, "Why We Wear Masks"
- Ingrid Wendt's review of Diane Lockward's What Feeds Us
- Tom Hunley's review of Lee Passarella's The Geometry of Loneliness, plus four fantastic debuts
AND FEATURING PERSONA POEMS ON:
- Frankenstein [Diana Adams ]
- Fairy Godmother [Mary Alexandra Agner]
- Baba Yaga & Red Riding Hood [Lana Hechtman Ayers ]
- Pastor Jackson and an Attorney [Deborah Bogen ]
- Xiaomei [Ching-In Chen ]
- Eros in the Heartland [Larry Colker ]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson [Mark Cunningham ]
- A horn player [Michelle Estile ]
- A museum guide and a couple of interesting wives [Pat Fargnoli ]
- Three Japanese folk-tale heroines [Jeannine Hall Gailey ]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson's second wife & Jane Carlyle [Lucia Galloway ]
- Photographer August Sander [Ellen Goldstein ]
- Ernestine & Dougie [Grace Marie Grafton ]
- A retired minister with Alzheimer's [David Graham]
- Pablo Neruda [Alex Grant]
- A doctor, a meter reader, and a scarecrow [Bob Hicok]
- An empowered damsel [Luisa A. Igloria]
- Sun Ra [Major Jackson]
- La Malinche [Bridget Kelley-Lossada]
- Olympia [Dorianne Laux]
- Lady Liberty [Christina Lovin]
- A grieving wife & mother [Catherine MacDonald]
- Anne B to Henry 8 [Sarah Maclay]
- Twins in utero [Frances Ruhlen McConnel]
- A student [Lee Passarella]
- A carnie's girl [Sarah Perrier]
- Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron [Andrea Potos]
- An ice pilot [Susan Richardson]
- Hermes [Stan Sanvel Rubin]
- Edwardsburg [Diane Seuss]
- A witness giving her testimony, and Mr. Bettendorf [Shoshauna Shy]
- The Little Mermaid Gets Real [Janice D. Soderling]
- A Civil War widow & a child with polio [Lynn Strongin]
- The Night, and Marie Laveau [Chris Tusa]
- Hamlet [Lesley Wheeler]
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