From the Editor

Chiaroscuro, Resilience, Regeneration by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor-in-Chief

NonFiction

Dianne Apter, You Just Never Know 🎧

Lou-Ellen Barkan, The Unguilt Trip

Karen Paul, Chocolate Confessional

Ann Levin, Hard-boiled 🎧

Cheryl Achterberg, Red Alert: Border Patrol

Antonia Lewandowski, The Art Lesson

Fiction

Tua Laine, Snail Mail 🎧

Deborah Douglas Wilbrink, Decay of the Dark

Karen G. Berry, Mysteries of June and August 🎧

Gillian Isaacs Russell, February

Matson Sewell, Will’s Hands

Liz deBeer, Regeneration: Two Flash Stories Missing Pieces and Soiled Landing

Back of the Book

Welcome to the Website
by Jean Zorn, Publisher

Resilience

Nancy H. Williard, Child of Crisis

Dawn Gilchrist, Breaking My Knee While Skipping

Dorian Kingman Chong, Refraction

Holly Burke, The Crack Where the Light Gets In or There’s a Crack in Everything
Including a performance of “Love Is a Traveler”

Poetry

Poets of the Eastern States
The Luminous and Surprising in Poetry, an introduction by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Guest Editors: Katherine Soniat and Gyorgyi Voros
Poems by 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
Art by Sally W. Donatello

Art

Judith Inglese: Murals as Dialogues
Introduction and Interview by Greta Berman, Art Editor

Short Takes

Friendship and Other Gifts
Introduction by Linda Barrett Osborne, Short Takes Editor
Prose and Poetry by Jamilah Ali, Carolyn Chilton Casas, Susan Connelly, Penny Hackett-Evans, Rasma Haidri, Royce Holladay, Linda Culp Holmes, Alison Jennings, Arlene Johnson, Beth Kanell, Arlene Metrick, Sue McGovern, Diana Morley, Becky Mueller, Ellen Notbohm, 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

Persimmon Tree Forum

Resilience—Moving Forward
Introduction by Margaret Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
Entries from Catherine Bourassa, Celestine Smith Candida, Glori Chaika, Ellen Chapnick, Ruth Beaumont Cook, Caroline Cottom, Patricia M. Dutt, Karen FitzGerald, Gerburg Garmann, Linda Gelbrich, Susan K. Glassman, Beverly Gologorsky, Julia Griffin, Jane Hale, Melinda Halpert, Sharon Lee Harkey, Mary Hiland, Marianne Lonsdale, Ellen K. Reichman, Ellen Schmidt, Joan Hyams Schmitz, Aline Soules, Carole Tyrrell, Gina Valdes, Susan Young
Art by Merry Song

Illustrations by Lavina Blossom, Sally Buffington, elizabeth cassidy, Lynn Connor, Sally W. Donatello, Gail Entrekin, Teresa Fasolino, Gerburg Garmann, C. David Guerra, Kim Hanson, Susie Alterman Hauptman, Judy Ireland, Berta Morgan, Carol Ober, Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Jennifer Shneiderman, Judi Silvano, Merry Song, Kim McNealy Sosin, Carrie Stein, Kari Uhlman, Margie Wildblood
Edited by Carrie Stein and Jean Zorn