Issue #5
Heroes
July 28th, 2020
Cover Image: Untitled, from the Homage to Medical Frontliners series by Janet Biehl, inspired by photographs by Philip Montgomery.
Table of Contents
Editorial
Letter from the Editor: Heroes All Around Us
COVID-19
In addition to our regular issue, we are featuring a special COVID-19 section
with short stories, poetry, and nonfiction
that grapples with the pandemic and
its effects on people’s lives.
Poetry
Letter from the Poetry Editor: Of Heroes, Poets, & Prophets
Prayer for a Pandemic | Dina Greenberg
These Hands Must Speak | Rebecca Ramsden
Darnella | Michael Giorgio
Washing Hands with Florence Nightingale | Pamela Cranston
View Out My Window | Catherine Klatzker
Tribute to Henrietta Lacks | Jill Jennings
Patience | Ermelinda Makkimane
Get Angel Wing Tattoos Like It’s the Late 1990s | Stephanie Valente
Review: Obit | Steve Granzyk
Nonfiction
Exhaustion | Brenda Arthur
Thank My Lucky Scars | Rachel Stone
Being Well Having Cancer | Raymond Wlodkowski
An Affair of the Heart | Joseph K. DeRosa
An Ambulance Across the River Styx | Kasia Kalinowska
Fallen Hero | Hilton Koppe
We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded a grant by the Maryland Humanities for our coming editorial year.
Fiction
Letter from the Fiction Editor: Heroes
The Dilemma of Old Furnaces | Justin Alcala
Spidey | Austin Manchester
James | Jane Snyder
The End Is Within Sight | Maria Wolfe
What She Wears | Liz Betz
Lies I Tell My Father | JG Alderisio
Interview
Strange Creatures: PSM Talks with Vikram Paralkar
Art
Cover: Homage to Medical Frontliners series | Janet Biehl
Creating During COVID-19, Hospital Edition | Juliana E. Muchinyi
Perfect Physical Distances | Alan Bern
The Corona Chronicles | Thomas Ferrella
My Comrades | Gayle Kirschenbaum
We Salute Our Heroes | Patricia Tiffany Morris
We are grateful for the continued support of the MedStar Institute for Quality & Safety.
Film
Local Legends of COVID-19 | Jayme Joyce
My Name Is Sami | Daniela Lucato
Empty America | Barry Walton