Category: Fall 2015 Issue – Sumac Tribute Issue
George Bowering
is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He is the best-known of a group of young poets including Frank Davey, Fred
Carol Bachofner
is the current Poet Laureate of Rockland, Maine. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Cream
Floyce Alexander
grew up in the lower Yakima valley of Washington state, where his father homesteaded a grape farm after working as a coal miner in Arkansas. His
Spirit
by Jim Harrison Rumi advised me to keep my spirit up in the branches of a tree and not peek out too far, so I keep mine in the very tall willows
Cold Sand before the Fire
by Diane Wald Not sure if the buck in the rose garden is a sign or a just buck in the rose garden. He raises his velvet antlers as if he were
THE GHOSTS OF CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL
by Joseph BruChac The ghosts of the Carlisle Indian School are drinking again tonight down by the church. You can hear them chanting the same
Dan Gerber Interview
Six Questions for Dan Gerber (interview conducted via e-mail) Wayne Atherton: Sumac Magazine’s first Editorial Note appeared in issue three,