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Leslie Schultz Wondering… 'Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds.' Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists Am I the sum of what I remember and invent? Sun or moon? Tides or uncertain winds? Cloud crescent? The ground I stand on? The maze in my head beckoning? Or all of the above? Resonant heart reckoning? Saxophone for Ken McCullough You can't go home again because this time you see it as it was, no Tooth Fairy, no Santa Claus— dingier, smaller, darker rooms with just a hint of sweet perfumes scenting landscapes lined with tombs. The wailing sax will steer you clear of rosy-tinted yesteryear and coax a clarifying tear. Perhaps the healing power of art is that it steels the yearning heart to face its ignominious start, yet holding still some small surprise— like shards of gold at each sunrise. AUTHOR BIO Leslie Schultz has six collections of poetry; of these, Geranium Lake: Poems on Art and Art-Making (Kelsay Books) is her most recent. Her poetry has appeared widely, in such journals as Poet Lore, Mezzo Cammin, Midwest Quarterly, Able Muse, Naugatuck River Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Pensive, MockingHeart Review. and Blue Unicorn. Twice nominated for Pushcart prizes, she serves as a judge for the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest. In addition to poems, she publishes photographs, essays, and fiction; makes quilts and soups; and happily mucks about in a garden plagued by shade, rabbits, and walnut trees. (Northfield, Minnesota; www.winonamedia.net). POETRY CONTRIBUTORS Melanie Figg Taryn Frazier Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas Julia Griffin Katie Hartsock Ruth Holzer Jenny Isaacs Jen Karetnick Miriam N. Kotzin Susan McLean Ann E. Michael Samantha Pious Leslie Schultz Janice D. Soderling Laura Sweeney Marly Youmans FEATURED ARTIST ARCHIVES LINKS POETRY 32 Poems The Academy of American Poets The Atlantic The Christian Science Monitor The Cortland Review Favorite Poem Project The Frost Place The Iowa Review Light Quarterly Modern American Poetry Measure The Poem Tree Poetry Poetry Daily Poetry Society of America Poets House Raintown Review Slate String Poet Valparaiso Poetry Review Verse Daily Women's Poetry Listserv The Yale Review CONFERENCES AWP Bread Loaf Poetry by the Sea Sewanee PUBLISHERS Barefoot Muse Press David Robert Books David R. Godine Press Graywolf Press Headmistress Press The Johns Hopkins University Press Louisiana State University Press Northwestern Univ Press Ohio Univ Press Persea Books Red Hen Press Texas Tech Univ Press Tupelo Press Univ of Akron Press Univ of Arkansas Press Univ of Illinois Press Univ of Iowa Press Waywiser Press White Violet Press BOOKS Alibris City Lights Grolier Poetry Bookshop Joseph Fox Bookshop Prairie Lights Tattered Cover Bookstore OTHER RESOURCES 92nd Street Y Literary Mothers NewPages.com Poets & Writers 10X10