Vol. 14, No. 1: "LEGACIES"
Several times a year we create an online Raven which mirrors our print issue(s). This is a condensed, excerpted version of our print issue. Our online magazine also features work (like Art Attack) unique to our web site and not found in print anywhere.
Table of Contents: Legacies
Raven NotesCredits & Acknowledgments, 96
Graphic Artists' Bios, 96
Beyond Borders: Mapping the Terrain
Kathleen Alcala, 06, The Illegal Alien as Flaneur, Essay
Thomas Hubbard, 08, Citizen, Subject, Slave, Essay
Memorials
Judith Roche, 57, Pat and Mary , Poem
Food & Culture
Greta Aart, 15, China , Poem,
David Bolduc, 16, December Perennial, Poem
Joe Mills, 18, The Shapes of Childhood, Essay
Nature Writing
Carolyne Wright, 13, Heading for Cover: Great Salt Lake, Utah, Poem
Chavawn Kelley, 14, 13 Ways of Living with Corvids, Poem
The Northwest
Martha Grover, 20, The 4 Elements of Hip Hop, Portland, Oregon..., Essay
Martha Grover, 22, Element One: Graffiti, This Place Existed Now, Essay
Poetics
Elizabeth Myhr, 27, Reaching into Chaos: The Immanence of Fracture in
Contemporary American Poetry, Essay
Prison Writings: Inside & Out
Shon R. Hopwood, 81, You Still Have Time To Move, Story
David Matlin, 85, It Might Do Well With Strawberries,
Introduction & excerpt from forthcoming book
Rants, Raves & Reviews
Jody Aliesan 88, True North/Nord Vrai ,
Reviewed by Cal Kinnear
J.W. Marshall, 89, Meaning A Cloud,
Reviewed by Elizabeth MyhrDerick Burleson, 90, Never Night,
Reviewed by Elizabeth MyhrLuke Warm Water, 91, Iktomi's Uprising,
Reviewed by Thomas HubbardMegan A. Volpert, 93, domestic transmission:
poems for the next generation of housewives,
Reviewed by Janet Edwards
Spoken Word
Steve Potter, 33, Deer Season, Pennsylvania, circe 1978, Poem
Steve Potter, 34, Ben Riley Monk Legacy Septet, Poem
Paul Hunter, 35, Something But What, Poem
Paul Hunter, 36, Life at the End of the Road, Poem
Larry Laurence, 37, low grassy benches which bore them having washed away:
Beach 3, La Push, WA, Poem
Feature: Legacies
Anna Balint, 38, Alexander "Sandy" Taylor, Essay
Anna Balint, 42, Vera Grace Balint, 1924-2007, Essay
Vera Grace Balint, 43, Your Flight is Calling, Named, 2 Poems
Priscilla Long, 44, Elegy for Roz, Essay
Donna Miscolta, 46, The Little Brown Man from Los Banos, Essay
Elizabeth Smither, 49, Two adorable things about Mozart, Poem
Walter Mercer, 50, His story, as told to Trudy Mercer, Spoken Word
Allen Braden, 55, The Spook House, Poem
Jesse Minkert, 56, The Legacy of Jack Straw, Essay
Michael Hureaux, 58, Alfredo Valenzuela, 1937-2008, Prose Poem
Gary Greaves, 59, Abe Osheroff, Bob Reed & Dutch Schultz, Essay
Larry Matsuda, 63, Higo's Five and Dime, Poem
Paul Nelson, 64, On Charles Potts Laffing Water (Water) from Walla (Walla), Essay
John Olson, 66, What Next?, Essay
Wendy Call, 69, The Last Five Years, Essay
Kaye Linden, 71, A Homeless Legacy, Flash Fiction
Lois Rosen, 73, The Sons of Judea's Chanukah Dinner, Fiction
Patrick Carrington, 98, Scrubbing Macgillycuddy's Reeks, Poem
Art & Artists
Jesse Bernstein: 97, 99, Drawings
Vittorio F. Cavalli: 7, 9, 82, Drawings
Yvonne Garcia: 3, 19, 35, Photos
Martha Grover: 21, 23, 25, 26, Photos
I.H. Kuniyuki: 15, 33, 41, 56, 72, 77, 80, 87, Photos
Nikolai Lesnikow: 17, Photo
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