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Twelfth Issue
October 21-December 21, 2002
It's hard to believe it's fall again-- cool mornings, shorter days, cold nights spent ... I won't go there. It really is frightening how quickly the days pass, though. It was just spring--I was wanting to plant tomatoes (never got around to it)--and now it's October! Ah, it really is a dream within a dream within a dream ....
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Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin is the author of thirteen books of poems, most recently The Long Marriage, Connecting the Dots, and Looking for Luck; a memoir titled Inside the Halo and Beyond: Anatomy of a Recovery; three essay collections; a collection of short stories; four novels; and an animal rights murder mystery. She has received numerous awards, including the Aiken Taylor Prize, the Poets' Prize, the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize (in 1973) for Up Country, her fourth book of poems. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress before that post was renamed Poet Laureate of the United States, and as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1989 to 1994. She has taught at numerous colleges and universities, including Princeton, Columbia, Brandeis, MIT, and the University of Miami. Together with fellow poet Carolyn Kizer, she first served on and then resigned from the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Bringing Together: Uncollected Early Poems 1958-1988 will be released by Norton in June 2003. |
Photo courtesy
of P.J. Shulman
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Kelly Billette and Shelley Eichholz
Kelly Billette's work has been compared to that of Joan Miro and Paul Klee, although her creative process is more subconsciously driven. She is represented by Agora Gallery in New York. Shelley Eichholz, in addition to being a digital artist, is an award-winning photographer. In the 1990s she co-produced a video that was broadcast on MTV. Both artists, through diverse methods, deal heavily with themes regarding contemporary life and the perennial struggle for identity. |
Photo courtesy of
Shelley Eichholz
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