
Welcome to our Winter Issue 2022
The Quilt/The Home/The Town/The Land

Alison Meyers: My Library Memories
The Executive Director of Writers & Books, (the literary arts center in Rochester, NY) and prior Executive Director of Cave Canem Foundation (Brooklyn, NY) on the shared love of reading and growing up with a two-room public library in the rural hamlet of Readfield, Maine.

King
A Poem by Rethabile Masilo

David Mills: Three Poems
David Mills shares three poems from BONEYARN; his latest collection which psychologically excavates the biographies of New York’s African Burial Ground–America’s oldest and largest slave cemetery

The Wonderful World of Beverly Hills
Anthony J. Mohr reflects on growing up in Beverly Hills in the ’60’s.

After the Play
A poem by Victoria Korth

Mockery
a poem by James Croal Jackson

Two Poems
by Robbie Gamble

Meet George Grace
Artist George Grace tries to separate himself, in terms of subject matter and style, from other representational artists while paying homage to so many who came before him.

Lost or Found
Filmmaker Mara Ahmed and art historian Claudia Pretelin share a tender epistolary dialogue about art, memory, language and becoming

Sic Terminus
a poem by Robert Penick

The Rational Animal
a poem by David O’Connell

Murph Sits Cross-Legged and Sings His Blues
a poem by Geoff Sawers

Down Harbor Way
a poem by Tobi Alfier

Shadows
a poem by Cameron Morse

Patchwork
a poem by Sandra Anfang

Rainmaker
a poem by Stephen Barile

Overwintering
a poem by Jeffrey Alfier

Scout Finch still dreams about Boo Radley
by Celeste Schantz

Two Poems
by Steven Ray Smith

Coleslaw
a poem by Harold Ackerman

The Color White
“There was a faraway village, thousands of years old, one I could trace my bloodlines back to. Sogha was a place where my ancestors drew water from a well and stored earthen crocks of kimchi deep in the ground, where medicinal herbs were plucked alongside the river and dispersed to young and old, where babies were born at sunrise only to be buried by sunset, where tiny graves dotted flowering hillsides in spring.”

Two Poems
by Ann Howells

Selecting a Burial Plot in Amicus, Our Home Town
a poem by Frederick Wilbur

My Sister Wears Five Gold Barrettes and Smells of Mint and Cigarette Smoke
a poem by Erin Wilson

Branches and Vines (After Ernastine Zaumsil’s quilt, 1875)
a poem by Monica Fuglei

Two Poems
by Carol L. Deering

One Day on Blackberries
a poem by DS Maolalai

Outside My Old House
a poem by Cordelia M. Hanemann

Out to the Farm in July
a poem by Tonya Lailey

Two Poems
by Kathleen Wedl

Two Poems
by Barbara Krasner

Garage
by Jane Desmond

Two Poems
by Ed Coletti

Plastic Breath
By Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi
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