By the Editor Occasional Notes: Matilda Joslyn Gage 6
Neglected Help: Independent Thinkers: Emily Dickinson and Robinson Jeffers 104
Cover: “PHILADELPHIA SKYLINE Silhouetted against the twilight of evening, the fabulous modern skyline of Philadelphia rises into the night. Photo: Greg Benson”
Associate Editors: Donna Spector, Steve Abbott, James De Monte, Intern: Kailen Nourse
Jan Bowman Kindness 38
Paul Hostovsky Staring at the Blind 56
Julee Newberger Missing Parts 66
Christina Guillen Thoreau and the P.O. 85
William Siavelis The Greek Suitor 94
POETRY I: FROM THE HELEN KAY CHAPBOOK Poetry CONTEST
Winner: Patti Sullivan: At the Booth Memorial Home For Unwed Mothers 1966
Post Summer Blues 12
The Stories They Tell 13
Along Comes Mary 15
Home Away from Home at 17 17
Visiting Hours 18
The Most Beautiful Dress in the World 20
Going Over 21
Limbo 23
Forget About It—Why Can’t You 25
Notes on the Booth Memorial Home 26
Finalist: Peggy Trojan, Home Front: Childhood Memories of WWII
Home Front 28
Pen Pal 29
Bible Study 31
The Holocaust 32
Roosevelt Dies 33
Finalist: Annette Opalczynski, Friends and Family
Them 34
Killing Flies 35
The Walk Home 36
POETRY II
Sharon Lask Munson Marriage 1950 52
Sheryl L Nelms Grandma Carey’s Bavarian China 53
Stripping Cotton 54
William Miller Black Sharecroppers, 1930 60
Lianne Spidel Instead of Me 62
Sue Ring deRosset Wapiti Women 64
Neal Dwyer The Violin Bridge 65
Laura Sweeney Why I Enrolled in Graduate
School 83
Nathan Whiting July Returns after a Shiver 84
Jena Smith Coming of Age in the
Twentieth Century 88
The Conductor 90
Ronald Moran Betty Jean 92
Judith Sornberger Beneath the Sugar Maple, Late October 93
Penelope Scambly Schott Confidence 101
Why I Got Up at 4:30 a. m and Flew Across the Country to Help You Babysit Your Grand-daughters 102
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