Outstanding stories and other speculations on God, men and women, John Updike, kudzu, the Music of the Spheres, sex and drugs, the search for Elvis, the Age of Reason, Emily Dickinson, the Devil in Decline, Richard Nixon and... Millennial Moments, prize-winning poetry, graphic arts, humor, advice to writers, first fiction and more.
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| QUICK TOUR, 7 Oscillating in Emerson's Rainbow Mission statement and a word about contributors |
JOHN UPDIKE, 9 On God, Sex & Writing... And A Very Worried Rabbit Interview by DON WILLIAMS | |
Special Section |
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| Winners of the first... |
New Millennium Awards, 21 |
| Fiction: JOHN BAIRD, Sycamore Heart, 23 ANTHONY WALLACE, April 27, 1994, 33 |
| Poetry: JULIE NOVAK-MCSWEENEY, Marrying Bear, 50 NATHALIE F. ANDERSON, Baggage, 52 |
| Essay: SUSAN VREELAND, Saluting the Sacred, 56 JOAN CONNOR, The Devil in Decline |
| Honorable Mentions, 21. New contest guidelines, 67 |
Departments |
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| Millennia Moments photos PAUL EFIRD & STACY SMITH, 156 Funnier than Fiction cartoon & light verse CHARLIE DANIEL, 155 The Janus File 'To Emily Dickenson' SUSAN VREELAND, 158 The Writing Well advice to writers LINDA PARSONS, 160 Illustrations, 22, 69, 84, 114, and 132 by MARK MAXWELL Notes and Acknowledgments, 152-154 Display Ads, 3, 6, 20, 31, 32, 49, 51, 131. Classifieds, 151. |
Featured Writers | |
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| From National Book Award nominee MADISON SMARTT BELL, 68 All Souls' Rising Arnaud had brought her the girl as a gife, he said, a lady's maid, a touch of luxury to color her days on the Plantation...' |
Prize-winning poetry by LISA COFFMAN, 82 'The mind comes to the morning glittering like snow/ and the mind thinking of death is like snow in blue shadows...' |
| Passage from a novel in progress NICHOLAS DELBANCO, 85 Rumford: His Book 'Ben walked from Salem School; he carried both satchel and hat. Low creatures scuttled helter-skelter to accompany his progress...' |
Story by DAVID HUNTER, 100 Kudzu 'I watch from my picture window as my half-brother pulls himself laboriously from the front seat of a red Cadillac...' |
| Sensual poetry by MARILYN KALLETT, 110 '... golden and sweet a sugary sun
slipping under your educated tongue...' |
First poetry by TIM RICHARDSON, 113 Sometimes I Say God 'It's the night, huge and intimate...' |
| A fable by D.S. SULAITIS, 123 Girl in Field of Pleasure 'On the train between Greenvale and Sea Cliff, she reaches over, takes his thumb, and begins to suck it. "I'd like to show you my egg collection," she says.' |
A mystical tale by JON MANCHIP WHITE, 133 Crystal 'He hadn't intended to leave the cottage that afternoon...' |
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