volume III issue 1 - summer 2008
IN THIS ISSUE WE HAVE:
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Jeannine Hall Gailey's essay on the use of the persona in poetry, "Why We Wear Masks"
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Ingrid Wendt's review of Diane Lockward's What Feeds Us
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Tom Hunley's review of Lee Passarella's The Geometry of Loneliness, plus four fantastic debuts
AND FEATURING PERSONA POEMS ON:
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Frankenstein [Diana Adams ]
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Fairy Godmother [Mary Alexandra Agner]
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Baba Yaga & Red Riding Hood [Lana Hechtman Ayers ]
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Pastor Jackson and an Attorney [Deborah Bogen ]
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Xiaomei [Ching-In Chen ]
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Eros in the Heartland [Larry Colker ]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson [Mark Cunningham ]
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A horn player [Michelle Estile ]
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A museum guide and a couple of interesting wives [Pat Fargnoli ]
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Three Japanese folk-tale heroines [Jeannine Hall Gailey ]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's second wife & Jane Carlyle [Lucia Galloway ]
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Photographer August Sander [Ellen Goldstein ]
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Ernestine & Dougie [Grace Marie Grafton ]
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A retired minister with Alzheimer's [David Graham]
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Pablo Neruda [Alex Grant]
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A doctor, a meter reader, and a scarecrow [Bob Hicok]
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An empowered damsel [Luisa A. Igloria]
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Sun Ra [Major Jackson]
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La Malinche [Bridget Kelley-Lossada]
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Olympia [Dorianne Laux]
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Lady Liberty [Christina Lovin]
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A grieving wife & mother [Catherine MacDonald]
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Anne B to Henry 8 [Sarah Maclay]
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Twins in utero [Frances Ruhlen McConnel]
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A student [Lee Passarella]
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A carnie's girl [Sarah Perrier]
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Photographer Julia Margaret Cameron [Andrea Potos]
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An ice pilot [Susan Richardson]
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Hermes [Stan Sanvel Rubin]
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Edwardsburg [Diane Seuss]
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A witness giving her testimony, and Mr. Bettendorf [Shoshauna Shy]
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The Little Mermaid Gets Real [Janice D. Soderling]
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A Civil War widow & a child with polio [Lynn Strongin]
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The Night, and Marie Laveau [Chris Tusa]
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Hamlet [Lesley Wheeler]