Tribute to the Greatest Generation

Conversations with
Jane Hirshfield & Jack Kornfield

 

Releasing December 2006, issue #26 celebrated 14 living poets of the Greatest Generation–those born between 1911 and 1924. This was the generation that grew up in the Roaring 20s, tried to find work during the Great Depression, fought in World War II, and gave birth to the Baby Boomers. No generation has had a greater influence on recent American history, and gathering them together to listen to their collective poetic voice is quite worthwhile.

Also in the issue, Alan Fox interviews Jane Hirshfield and Jack Kornfield. In the essay section, Doug Holder profiles Ed Galing, and Gary Lehmann writes about Dorothy Parker.

 

	The Greatest Generation
	Peggy Aylsworth	Beyond the Headlines
	E.G. Burrows	Coast Road
	Fred Fox	Hosanna to Life
	Ed Galing	Visitation Rites
	Colette Inez	Stalking ee in the Fifties
	Bob Johnston	Finished Symphony
	Joyce La Mers	Night Visitor
	Juanita Miller	Fallon, Nevada
	Leonard Nathan	And Have You Also Wished
		When I First Saw
	Susan Rosenberg	Our Adult Grandchildren
	Nan Sherman	Don’t Ask Me Any Questions
	Joan Stern	For Good
	Phyllis M. Teplitz	Everything I Wanted I Had
	Doris Vernon	Crow and the Artist
	Poetry
	Heather Abner	Dog Descending a Staircase
	Arlene Ang	A Driving Student Adjusts the Seat
	Rane Arroyo	The Screenplay I May Never Write
	Walter Bargen	Minor Gods
	Janalynn Bliss	Klimt at the Musée Maillol
	Sally Bliumis-Dunn	Meaning
	Linda Bosson	Over the Skyline
	Siobhan Brannigan	So You Want an Opera Singer…
	Bill Brown	My Mother’s Soul
	R.G. Cantalupo	Igloo
	Joseph Capista	Catch-and-Release Rat Fishing
	Patrick Carrington	Learning History in Nursery School
	Val D. Conder	Dark Edges
	Jack Conway	Songs for Would-Be Suicides
	Nina Corwin	Up Shit’s Creek With No Sense of Smell
	Susan Denning	The Fuchsia, the Orange, and the Dahlias
	James Doyle	The Flippant Zeitgeist
	Bob Drojarski	Home
	Patricia Fargnoli	The Nest at Applewood Apartments
	Claire Fields	Stray Instrument
	Alan Fox	Glimpse
	Patrick Ryan Frank	Thalassophobia
		Nyctophobia
	Robert Funge	Why I Am Not a Scientist
	Kate Gale	Dangerous Blood IV
	Terry Godbey	Poison
	Chris Green	Where Poems Go
	Jared Harel	When Our Parents Fight
	Michael Hettich	The Lesson
	Jane Hirshfield	Those Who Cannot Act
	Tom C. Hunley	I Can’t Sleep so I’ll Tell You a Story
	Lowell Jaeger	His Song
	David Jordan	Let’s Meet Yesterday
	Lynne Knight	Against Order
		Approaching Storm
	Frank LaRonca	The Death of Irony
	Gary Lemons	An Aviary of Notions
	Christopher Parks	Do You Have the Poem?
	JoLee G. Passerini	Not About Anyone’s Hands
	James S. Proffitt	On Being a Carpet Installer
	Dian Duchin Reed	Holy Cats
	Lynn Shapiro	Sloan-Kettering
	Suzume Shi	Swing
	Red Shuttleworth	Postcard to Jerry L. Crawford
	Kathleen Walsh Spencer	First Frost
	Tim Sproul	Altar Boy in Tennis Shoes
	Mark Taksa	Call Loudly When You Leave
	Susan Terris	Moment Ahead of the Moment
	Jeff Vande Zande	Sleep Over
	Martin Vest	The Clinic
	Thom Ward	The Thing in Question
	Charles Harper Webb	Examined Life
	Mike White	Happiness
		Basho, Glimpsed
	Catherine Wiley	Stars and Stripes
	Theodore Worozbyt	Dinner With the Blues
	Rattle Poetry Prize Winner
	Sophia Rivkin	Conspiracy
	Honorable Mentions
	Malcolm Alexander	Beginner’s Lesson
	Steven Brown	Whale Bone
	Tony Brusate	Becoming an Island
	Carey Fries	Asylum
	Diana Goetsch	Recess
	Marcia LeBeau	1:43 PM
		The Making of 1:43 PM
	Ken Meisel	Car Accident
	Glenn Morazzini	Sonny’s Song
	Richard Vargas	And Yet, Another Nature Poem
	Elizabeth Volpe	Brewing in Eden
	Reviews
	Morris Collins
	Barbara Crooker
	Candice Daquin
	Gayatri Devi
	Diane Lockward
	Arthur McMaster
	Joseph Zaccardi
	Essays
	Doug Holder
	Gary Lehmann
	Conversations
	Jane Hirshfield
	Jack Kornfield