Blue Unicorn – Volume 20, Number 1 (Oct. 1996)

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CONTENTS

Frontispiece/Harold Witt/Odysseus at Sea
Harold Witt 1923-1995
Harold Witt/Odysseus at Sea/5
                Ciardi/6
                Misty/6
X.J. Kennedy/Harold Witt/7
Ruth G. Iodice/Towards Ithaca/7
Donald R. Howard/In Memoriam/8
Mel Smith/Harold as the Ghost of Phylum Chordata/8
Gail White/The Engulfed Cathedral/9
June Owens/On Opening and Closing/9
Fileman Waitts/In the Umbra of a Swan/10
E. Stock/The Mourning Dove/10
Herbert J. Risley/Wartime Letters/11
Rhina P. Espaillat/The Quetzal/11
Frederick Robert Norman/Silent Reading/12
R. Culbertson/Altar Altered/12
John Hart/Tuolumne Granite/13
Claire J. Baker/Yosemite Love Song/13
Joseph S. Salemi/La Nonna’s Cracked Clay Jug/14
Evelyn Ritchie/The Sudden Quarry/14
Darlene Mathis-Eddy/Joy in the Morning/15
Ida Fasel/Milton!/15
Mary Peirano/Jane/16
Fred Ostrander/Paul/16
Jim Young/Ninth Inning/17
Mark Mitchell/Lenten Sonnet/17
Alfred Dorn/In Simultaneous Rooms/18
Ronald Wallace/Hostage/18
Burt Porter/Nightsong/19
Daniel J. Langton/Sending Photographs to Country Ireland/19
Harold McCurdy/The Christmas Animals/20
Ila F. Berry/Last Christmas/20
Michael Scofield/Christmas Morning/21
Maria Sassi/A Warring Winter/21
Virginia K. Anderson/On Museum Walls/22
Kurt J. Fickert/Treasures of Art/22
Clif Mason/Lovebound/23
Audrey Allison/Long Winter Rain/23
Dan Campion/New Lights/24
Nelle Fertig/House Hunting/24
Kate Light/Oh It Is All the Work of Getting There/25
Martha Bosworth/A Wake Before Dying/25
Sharon Kourous/Beyond/26
Don Welch/To a Friend Starting a New Poetry Journal/26
R.H. Morrison/Essay on Time/27
Leo Yankevich/Paean/27
George Held/After Shakespeare/28
Dorothy Winslow Wright/The Revised Bible/28
Jerry Gervase/Constancy/29
Norman Kraeft/The Birthday Present/29
Notes on Contributors/30-32
Cover Design by Marvin A. Ehrlich

The cover design by Marvin A. Ehrlich, titled “Editors in Their Youth”, features all of the editors of Blue Unicorn to date garlanding the Blue Unicorn who reads from the special 20th Anniversary All-Sonnets issue of the magazine. Editors from the top, appearing clockwise are: Ruth G. Iodice, Volume I-present; Harold Witt, Volume 1-1995; B. Jo Kinnick, Volume 1-1986; Robert L. Bradley (Art Editor), Volume I-present; Daniel J. Langton, 1986-1995; Martha E. Bosworth, 1995-present; and Fred Ostrander, 1995-present.