Featured Poets:

In this issue, Bellowing Ark offers 5 - 10 poems by each of these poets, comprising the Featured Writers collection:

Jacqueline Hill

James Hobbs

Paula Milligan

Short Stories:

D.T. Cook

Kathie Giorgio

Also in this issue:

 Soul's Evidence, Part 6 (Chapter 10)
In Chapter 1 the narrator, a graduate student in German literature attracted to the “counterculture,” is introduced to the poetry of Paul Celan and undertakes to write her doctoral dissertation about him. In Chapter 2 her first impressions of the poetry are described. In Chapters 3-5 she contemplates the Berkeley environment and her own family past, often in the light of the poems which she is still unable to understand consciously. In Chapter 6 she goes to Munich for a year of study abroad, with the expectation that at some time during this year she will meet the poet in person. Chapters 7 and 8 describe her impressions of Germany and further experiences with the poems, by which she feels ever more powerfully addressed; she writes to the poet and obtains an interview, which is described in Chapter 9. After the interview she returns to the United States.

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