Category: Summer 2011 – American and Russian Issue

Richard Jackson
teaches creative writing and poetry and humanities in the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga’s interdisciplinary honors program. He is the

Jack Hirschman
born in 1933. Lives in the North Beach district of San Francisco, where he is a member of the Union of Street Poets, a group that distributes

Alicia Fisher
resides in the Portland, Maine area with her husband and two children. Most recently, she won a full scholarship to attend the Stonecoast

Bill Edmondson
continues to teach for City College of San Francisco and has had poems recently published in, Fugue Literary Journal, Field Magazine, Margie: The

Lidija Dimkovska
was born in 1971 in Skopje, Macedonia. She attained a doctoral degree in Romanian literature in Bucharest where she worked as a lecturer of

Laura Behr
lives in Montgomery, Alabama. She is a psychotherapist, partner in HKM a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Neuroscience based consulting group to

Harvey J. Baine
has spent his adult years bouncing between Mississippi, Virginia, and Florida; currently residing in St. Augustine. At the University of North

Called Back
by Lidija Dimkovska You called me back and I had to return. On the Peter Pan bus from New York to Amherst with 50 cents change clutched in my

For Ehren Watada
by Jack Hirschman This warring government having lost its people and having exposed its lies and its twists and turns of the knife in the back of

Hrant Dink
by Jack Hirschman Here truths Hrant Dink, here braves. In our grave mouths the light of his courage pulsates like deathless hearts beating