The Blue Penny Quarterly
Cover Art (by Diane Fenster)

Summer 1996
Guest Editor: Robert Sward Special Issue: On Families and the West Coast
Cover Artist: Diane Fenster

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Letter from Doug Lawson

interview

"Breaking the Language Barrier"
A Conversation with Harold Brodkey
Jordan Elgrably

fiction

When You Swim At Night
Dion Farquhar
The Dangerous Uncle
James D. Houston
Wind Across the Breaks
by Lisa Norris

nonfiction

Piano Lessons
Elissa Alford

Empathy and Education:
Enemies and Alliances
David Swanger

poetry

Jill Battson
Ruth Daigon
Bob Holman
Kurt Klipschutz
Bernice Lever
Robert Priest
Sal Salasin
Tilly Washburn Shaw
Barry Spacks
David Swanger
Robert Sward

reviews

CD-ROM: The Beat Experience (Voyager Company 1996)
Reviewed by Richard Kohlman Hughey
Mind Writing Slogans by Alan Ginsberg
Reviewed by June Owens
Sensual Math by Alice Fulton
Reviewed by Edward Falco
Murderous Music by Anneliese Wagner
Reviewed by June Owens
20th Century Russian Poetry edited by Albert C. Todd
and Max Hayward (with Daniel Weissbort)
Reviewed by June Owens
Flamingo Watching Poems by Kay Ryan
Reviewed by June Owens
Between Families and the Sky by Alan Cumyn
Reviewed by Sarah Shey

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