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INDEX OF ARTISTS AND POETS, ONLINE EDITIONS
Original Art in the Online Editions of On The Issues Magazine (alphabetically by last name of Artist)
Emma Amos:
--Fall 2009 "Identity"
--Fall 2009 "Curly Topsy, Topsy Curly"
--Fall 2009 "All I know of Wonder"
Audrey Anastasi:
--Summer 2008
Healther Ault:
--Fall 2011
--Fall 2011
Helène Aylon:
--Fall 2011
Susan H Baker:
--Spring 2010
C Bangs:
Joan Barber:
--Winter 2010 "Skin"
Jesus Barraza:
--with Melanie Cervantes, Fall 2011
Siona Benjamin:
--Fall 2008
Meredith Bergmann:
--Winter 2010 "Sweetness and Light" and "Silent Head"
Norma Bessouet:
--Winter 2011
--Winter 2011
Cecile Brunswick:
--Spring 2010
Reina Mia Brill:
--Spring 2009
Judith K Brodsky:
--Spring 2009 Art Perspective
Stephanie Brody-Lederman:
--Winter 2009 "Rover Has Soft Ears"
Cathy Cade
--Fall 2011
Susie Cagle
--Fall 2011 "What Every Woman Should Know"
Rodriguez Calero:
--Winter 2011
Tammy Rae Carland:
--Summer 2009 Art Perspective
Melanie Cervantes:
--Fall 2011
--with Jesus Barraza, Fall 2011
Elisa Decker:
--Winter 2011
Roz Dimon:
--Summer 2010
--Summer 2010
Ella Dreyfus:
Ula Einstein:
--Spring 2010
--Spring 2010
Achtung Fittor
--Fall 2011
Fran Forman:
--Summer 2009 "Blue Egg," "Sisters," and "Fig-17"
Natalie Frank:
--Fall 2009
Leslie Fry:
--Winter 2011
Robin Gaynes-Bachman:
--Summer 2010
Janet Goldner:
--Fall 2009 "Can We Acknowledge?"
Guerilla Girls:
--Fall 2011
Jil Guyon:
Carter Hodgkin:
--Winter 2009 "Oopsidaisy"
Gloria Holwerda-Williams:
--Fall 2009
Carol Hunt:
--Fall 2008
Edith Isaac-Rose:
--Spring 2009
Rajkamal Kahlon
--Fall 2011
--Fall 2011
Carole Kahn:
--Winter 2011
Joyce Kozloff:
--Winter 2009 Art Perspective
Bea Kreloff:
Diana Kurz:
--Winter 2010 "Freedom Fighters"
Suzanne Lacy:
--Summer 2008 Art Perspective
Aimee Lee:
Gwyneth Leech:
--Fall 2009 "Amy with Her Children Maya and Calder"
Jana Leo:
--Fall 2008
Barbara Lubliner:
--Summer 2010 "Egg Rider" and "Hugs & Kisses"
Kathleen Migliore-Newton:
Danielle Mailer:
--Winter 2010 "The Good Daughter" and "Dreaming in Color"
Tiana Marova-Gold:
-- Summer 2008 "Talking to a potential customer," "A sex worker in Hunt's Point looks out the window of her apartment" and "Waiting for customers in the street at night"
Brenda Oelbaum:
-- Spring 2010
Irene Hardwicke Olivieri:
--Winter 2011
--Winter 2011
Victoria Pacimeo:
--Summer 2010
Christine Peloquin:
--Winter 2010 "Hold These Truths" and "StartInside"
--Winter 2010 "Placid"
Ellen Pliskin:
--Winter 2010
Inga Poslitur:
--Summer 2010
Marjorie Price:
--Summer 2010
Barbara Rachko:
--Winter 2009
Faith Ringgold:
--Fall 2009
--Fall 2009, Art Perspective
Aminah Lynn Robinson:
--Winter 2011
Favianna Rodriguez:
-- Fall 2011
Martha Rosler:
--Fall 2008, Art Perspective
Joan Roth:
--Fall 2008
--Fall 2008
Gavin Rouille:
Helene Ruiz:
--Fall 2009
--Fall 2009
Anne Sager:
--Fall 2008
Miriam Schapiro:
--Winter 2010, Art Perspective
Ran Shapira:
--Spring 2010
Sca Shilova:
--Summer 2009
Clarissa Sligh:
--
Summer 2009
Linda Stein:
--
Winter 2011
-- Winter 2010
--Winter 2010
--
Winter 2010 Café
--Spring 2008, Art Perspective
Michelle Stuart:
--
Spring 2010, Art Perspective
Robin Tewes:
--
Spring 2010
Deborah Ugoretz:
--
Summer 2010
Deborah Van Auten:
--Winter 2011
--Winter 2011
--Winter 2011
Pamela Vander Zwan:
--Spring 2010
Taryn Wells:
--Fall 2009
Liz Whitney Quisgard:
--Spring 2009
Mary Wings:
--Spring 2008
Tamara Wyndham:
--Winter 2010
Ming-Yi Sung Zaleski:
-- Summer 2009
POETS in the Online Editions of On The Issues Magazine
(alphabetically, by last name):
Meena Alexander, Muse, Spring 2010
Judith Arcana, What if your mother; Birth Control, Spring 2009
--(Arcana),Poem Honoring Slain Abortion Doctor – Again, Summer 2009
Mina Assidi, No, Now is the Time To Do Battle, Spring 2008
Judith Barrington, Looking for Gender, Summer 2009
Emily Brand Breitner, Heads High: Three Poems of Unsung Women, Winter 2010 Café
Carmen Calatayud, All That Is - Washington, DC, Summer 2011
Grace Cavalieri ANNA'S ESTATE, The Poet's Eye Winter 2011The Poet's Eye, Grace Cavalieri, Elizabeth Potter, Sonya Renee Taylor, Winter 2011
Cheryl Clarke, Between meditations on Washington, DC, Fall 2009
Heather Davis, From Armenia, Winter 2010
Toi Derricotte, on a picture of the buddhist monk Pema Chodron, Summer 2009
--The Choice, Fall 2011
Marian Cannon Dornell, Naomi’s Harvest, Fall 2009
--Susquehanna Baptism, 1954, Fall 2009
Juditha Dowd, Female Perspective, Daily News Fall 2008
Susan Eisenberg, Partner #3, Winter 2010
Kathy Engel, Horse and Fire Dream, Summer 2011
Julie Enszer, Absolutely No Car Repairs in the Parking Lot, Summer 2009
Annie Finch, Your Forest: A Prayer for the Planet, Winter 2009
Renny Golden, Bring in the Clowns: Kip Tiernan, Founder of Rosie's Place, Winter 2010
Renny Golden, Troubling the Waters, Winter 2010
Ursula K. Le Guin, Peace Vigil, Fall 2011
Meg Hamill, piestewa, lori, Summer 2011
Suheir Hammad, Sister Star, Spring 2010
Suheir Hammad, What I Will, Spring 2010
Gale Jackson, Conversations with Love: 25 and her sister's dead; Conversations: other angels, May 2008
Lynnel Jones, Varieties of Rapture, Fall 2011
Diane Lockward, The Missing Wife, Winter 2009
Lisa Suhair Majaj, NO, Summer 2011
Maureen McNeil, Aung San Suu Kyi Acts on Love, A Poem, Winter 2010 Café
Gcine Mhlophe, Praise to Our Mothers, Winter 2010 Café
Nimah I Nawwab, Gentleness Stirred, Spring 2009
Donna Nelson, A Poem: Barrettes, Bandages and Butterflies, Summer 2009 Cafe
Maria Padhila, Abundance (from Lilith Poems), Summer 2010
Grace Paley, Responsibility, Spring 2009
Marge Piercy, Moving on up, Winter 2009
Marge Piercy, My Heroines, Winter 2010 Café
Elizabeth Potter Walking the edge of the windowpane, The Poet's Eye Winter 2011
Minnie Bruce Pratt, Selling Women, Summer 2008
Margaret Randall, Ever Ready to Fly, Spring 2010
Claire Reed, A Poem About Bella: Under the Big Hat, Winter 2010 Café
Kirsten Rian, Reading Poems By Girl Mothers in Sierra Leone; On The Way To Liberia, Fall 2008
Lois Rosen, Cherries Bananas and A Little Black Veil, Winter 2009
Penelope Scambly Schott, Ex-Husband, Summer 2010
E. F. Schraeder, igive, Fall 2011
Christine Stark, Broken Box, Summer 2008
Suzanne Stutman, A Prayer for the Girl Child, Summer 2010
Sonya Renee Taylor What We Deserve, The Poet's Eye Winter 2011
Wendy Vardaman, Choreography, Summer 2010
Erin Whitfield, Miracle Mile; What We Do After A Night of Whoring, Summer 2008
Sondra Zeidenstein, Subjection of Women, Summer 2010
--History, Fall 2011
Lauren Zuniga To the Oklahoma Lawmakers: Poem, video Winter 2011
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