"A bird doesn't sing
because it has an answer,
it sings because it has a song."

(Maya Angelou)









Spring 2008

Fiction

Charlotte Painter
Rings

Martha Roth
Grandma Season

Nonfiction

Marcia Freedman
Going Back

Poetry

Diana O'Hehir
Carolyn Kizer's Poetry

Carolyn Kizer
Nine Poems

Art

Mayumi Oda
Ten Images



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