Persimmon Tree Archive
Fiction

Judith Arcana    Maggie Answers Aunt Sylvia's Question

E.M. Broner    Life's Adventures

Jean Cavrell    Early Bird Special

Susan Dworkin    The Powerhouse in Khuzestan

Marilyn French    The Love Children

Melanie Kaye / Kantrowitz    Walk on the Wild Side

Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer    The Ash Tree

Jane Lazarre    Inheritance

Charlotte Painter    Rings

Martha Roth    Grandma Season

Liz Strachan    Holding on with Love

Brenda Webster    Blind Spots

Nonfiction

Paula Gunn Allen      The Perils of Being Paula

Sandy Boucher      Friendship and Change with Tillie Olsen

Michelle Cacho-Negrete      On The Fire Escape

Marcia Freedman    Going Back

Ruth Hunter      Circles of Hope

Joan Shaddox Isom      Four Laps in August

Eva Kollisch      Father

Edith Konecky      Soup

Joan Lester      Naps

Susan Moon      What If I Never Have Sex Again?

Daphne Muse      Gettin' Sixty

Carole Rosenthal      Whose Lie Is This?

Mary Watkins    Learning from Liberace

Theatre

Martha Boesing      Song of the Magpie

Naomi Newman      Five Scenes

Poetry

Toi Derricotte      Poems
                 (Madeline Tiger, Introduction)

Tess Gallagher      Eleven Poems
                 (Alice Derry, Introduction)

Carolyn Kizer      Poems
                 (Diana O'Hehir, Introduction)

Maxine Kumin      Poems
                 (Alicia Ostriker, Introduction)

Grace Paley      Poems
                 (E.M. Broner, Introduction)

Ruth Stone      Poems
                 (Sandra Gilbert, Introduction)

Art

Melanie Manchot      Photography

Nicole Hollander      Sylvia Cartoon Strips
                 (Judith Arcana, Introduction)

Mayumi Oda      Ten Images
                 (Lane Olson, Introduction)

Faith Ringgold      Visual Art
                 (Moira Roth, Introduction)

Joan Snyder      Paintings
                 (Cornelia Schulz, Introduction)

Flo Oy Wong      Art Installations
                 (Melanie Herzog, Introduction)




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