#35
Gargoyle 35
cover photo (Youth and Age on Holiday)
by Leslie A. Bell
publication date 10/1988
Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Mark Baechtel
• Off Target
• Two from State Street
• Poems of Memory
• Peter Wild Squared
Charles Bukowski
• Feature, w/ letters, poems, interview plus an interview with his German publisher Carl Weissner
•Charles Johnson Interview
Marti Leimbach
• Estranged Dreams
Glenn Moomau
• A Luke-warm Too Hot
• Beyond the Static
• Spirited Stories
Richard Peabody
• Notes from the Bell Tower (editorial)
Peggy Pfeiffer
• The Legacy of Loss
• A Range of Voices
Susan Schultz
• Four Poets of Place
• Death and the Body
• Jonathan Strong Interview
C. Jenise Williamson
• Sense Impressions
• Takes on History
James A. Wu
• Dissident Doodles
• Even More Love Stories
Poetry
Charles Bukowski
• Joe
Sandie Castle
• Warning
Jim Daniels
• Digger’s Territory
Alan Devenish
• Silver Heart Over Chevy Chase Maryland
John Elsberg
• Fragment
Amy Gerstler
• Wish in a War Zone
• Russian Lullaby
Angel Gonzalez
• To Poetry (tr. Steven Ford Brown/Pedro Gutierrez Revuelta)
Paul Grant
• The Ghost of Buck Jones’ Horse, Silver Talks to Reporters About Fire Prevention
• Grand Terrace Shuffle
Jay Griswold
• The Man Whose Eyes See Only Real Things
Johnny Hartner
• When We Learned What 69 Meant
Nigel Hinshelwood
• The Saxophone Player Who Was Tired of Jazz
Reuben M. Jackson
• Voyeurs 1969
Ted Joans
• Him the Bird
Steven Johnson
• What Moves
B. C. Leale
• Highly Intoxicated Clerks
Lyn Lifshin
• Becoming What You’re Called
• Facing Away from Where You’re Going
Patrick McKinnon
• The Glasses Poem
E. Ethelbert Miller
• August Rain
• Growing
Fred Muratori
• Maturity
Naomi Shihab Nye
• French Movies
Laura Oaksmith
• Warnings
• Ash-Tails and Fingers
Simon Perchik
• *
Lee W. Potts
• Tonight I whispered to you that
Kristopher Saknussemm
• Call to Worship
Gregg Shapiro
• Suspicious Honeymoon
Catherine Harnett Shaw
• The Anthropologist Speaks to the Pilot’s Remains
Silvana R. Straw
• no mercy: a love poem
Samuel Rogers Truitt
• 4 poems from Alter
Jim Tucker
• New York Morning
Steve Tyler
• My Cockroach
Fiction
Art
Jennette Bertles
• Margo’s Childhood
Truitt Blassingham
• Release
Meghan Gehman
• Keys
Helen Jones
• Chaperones
Jonathan London
• Hank Williams I Love You So Much
Ben Neihart
• Shake Me
Antonya Nelson
• Ecstasy
Dawn Newton
• Chili
William Reid
• Doing That Outside Dance
Joyce Renwick
• Cuatro Casas
Ellen Summers
• One Foot in Heaven
Susan Weinberg
• In Training
Mary Kay Zuravleff
• The One That Got Away
Leslie A. Bell
• Berlin Idyll (photo)
• Miss Marple’s Only Son (photo)
• Figure/ Ground Relationship (Being Mortal) (photo)
Bobbi Bennett
• 3 photos
Lynn Schmidt
• Offering (painting)
John Dolan
• 3 photos
Carolyn Fischer
• 3 photo
Caty Forden
• 3 illustrations
Michael Montfort
• 8 photos
Charles A. Taormina
• Gargoyle (photo)
#35. Pub date: 10/19/1988
Launch party was an actual party
held at Paul Grant and Joyce Renwick’s home in Bethesda, MD.
The reading took place two months later (12/6/88) at d.c. space (DC) and featured poetry by Sandie Castle, John Elsberg, Paul Grant, Nigel Hinshelwood, Reuben Jackson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Catherine Harnett Shaw, Silvana Straw, Sam Truitt, plus fiction by Joyce Renwick, Susan Weinberg, and Mary Kay Zuravleff.