I'm glad to introduce our twenty-first issue. The Pedestal Magazine is now a qualified charitable organization, and I want to take this opportunity to thank our contributors: Estelle Villas, Beth Partin, Mark Prudowsky, Joseph Green, Isabelle Maynard, Barbara Ann Smith, Thomas E. Anthony, Carol Carpenter, and Malcolm Willison. We also received one "anonymous" donation. Thanks again!
Work by: Andrew Boobier, Kathryn Butler, C.E. Chaffin, Johnson Cheu, Andrea Defoe, Peg Duthie, Ava Leavell Haymon, Pat Hegnauer, Barbara Hendryson, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, David Mills, Marge Simon, Jill Van Epps, and Wang Yun (translated by David Lunde).
Cecilia Woloch's Late reviewed by William Neumire; Nathan Leslie's A Cold Glass of Milk reviewed by Barbara Simon; Amy Small-McKinney's Body of Surrender reviewed by Jeff Stumpo; Marvin Perry and Frederick M. Schweitzer's Anti-Semitism: Myth and Hate from Antiquity to the Present reviewed by Gerard Meister; American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Eds. Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr) reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough.