New Millennium Writings, Volume 5, Issue 1

Volume 5, Issue 1 -- Summer 2000

Contents

Paul Bowles,
Under sheltering skies of the late literary genius
Our Janus File tribute by Mark Terrill, 98

photo by
Becket Logan

Samuel R. Delany
A fabulous, formless darkness ... illuminated
Our NMW writer profile by Vincent Czyz, 130

New Millennium Awards IX
Special Section - Read the Winners, 65 to 97

1st Place, Fiction Katy Grabel, Woman by Chemistry, 67 'Erza disappeared piece by piece; leg, torso, shoulder, head and one pale arm, thin and crooked like a calf leg, bending and folding as she dropped down into the dark little compartment smelling of greasepaint and whiskey.'	1st Place, Nonfiction Annie Rehill, The Drug Run, 82 'In early 1972, I quit my university's year-abroad program in Nice, France , and moved to Amsterdam with my new boyfriend and his partner. They were hash smugglers. Home turned out to be an abandoned storefront.'
1st Place, Poetry, Co-winner John Canaday, Song of Myself, 78 'I am a stubborn ox dreaming of rain as the drover's fingers drum...'	1st Place, Poetry, Co-winner Diane Thiel, Memento Mori in Middle School, 79 'When I was twelve, I chose Dante's Inferno in gifted class - an oral presentation...'
Honorable Mentions, 65 New Contest Guidelines, 97

Cover Painting,
"Out of the Hat",
by Mark Maxwell
Cover Design
by Rhonda Swicegood
of Hart Graphics

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Departments --
Quick Tour, context for contents, by Don Williams, 6
Letters to the Editor, from Readers & Contributors, 8
Illustrations, by Will Rickenbach, 24, & Mark Maxwell, Cover Art & 10, 41, & 66
The Janus File, tribute to Paul Bowles (see above) by Mark Terrill, 98
The NMW Profile of Samuel R. Delany (see above) by Vincent Cyzy, 130
Notes on Contributors, corrections & Acknowledgements, 170
Humor observations by Jim Sullivan & Don Williams, 173
Millennial Moments, photographs by Richard Remine, 175
The Writing Well, advice to writers by Linda Parsons Marion, 176

Featured Writers

A dark whimsy in the wake of war...
Brian Griffin, 11
Boys of Chikamauga
'Me and Martha, we got baptized together last Sunday. She went first and I watched... how her eyes closed tight... how the robe clung to her body when she rose.'

photo by
Ezra Griffin

A lover, the sky, and one sweet boy...
Joan Frank, 25
Universe
'The evening, the evening: Maxfield Parrish blue deepening to ink, behind silhouettes of palms crowding oaks, firs, willows- a Northern California vision...'

Incidental encounters with a legend...
Larry Hill, 40
Saroyan's Bookie
'First rule of gambling is you must have a chance to win every time you put up a wager. Otherwise it ain't gambling- it's robbery...'
'That sounds like something William Saroyan might say...'
'Wild Willie?' Darby smiled wisely. 'He would've told you not to bet with Ronnie B. in the first place. Said Ronnie B. cheated him on a bet years ago...'

NMW First Fiction- Flash Fiction Tina Parker, 54 The Only One 'I say Mama, won't you show me how to shave my legs, and she laughs and stares out the window.'

NMW First Fiction- Disire at the Diner Felicity Pearson, 56 Portraits 'At first, Ada thought the Mystery Man had married or at least found a woman to live with him... but finally realized that it was a mannequin...'

Poetry Suite, Our largest selection yet, 110-129, Recent Poems by
Phillip Corwin, Cheryl Latif, Susan Tepper, Charlotte Pence, Martin Marriott, Candance W. Reaves, Marybeth Boyanton, Ravi Shankar, Christine Boyka Kluge, Elizabeth Gordon, John Mann, Heather Dobbins, Laura Golden Bellotti, Donna Doyle, Michael Atkinson, Stephen Knauth, Michael Chitwood, Greg Nelson, Laura Still, Dennis Saleh, K.S. Marsee and NMW First Verse by new-comer Mone Isaia.

Endings and Beginnings - A Y2K Reader 142 to 169

Barbara Crooker, Nocturne in Blue - 'There's the way the past becomes a stone...' 142

Sue Repko, The Last Sorrow of Cain - 'I am a trembling rabbit in a dark hat...' 143

Belinda Anderson, Twilight Dawn - 'Starlight flows from me to this young woman...' 147

Michael Kuperman, Y2K - 'The millennium's end flirts with restless spirits...' 150

Leslie Nia Lewis, Eternity 34 - 'My first conscious memories of you are in Aswan...' 151

Kyash J. Monsef, The Year 2000 Looms Over East 3rd Street - 'I look up...' 153

David E. Joyner, Timeline - 'The boy awoke to find Segundo's still-warm body...' 157

Paula C. Brancato, earth - '...one note in the melody of darkness... play it slow...' 162

Jim Whelden, Bad Walter's Dream - 'Now moves Earth in good accord...' 163

Jane Guill, Song Before Beginning - 'Venture with me into... a new day...' 166

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