Table of Contents
Voices de la Luna, Volume 8, Number 2
Editor’s Note, James R. Adair3
Cover Page Art, Deborah Keller-Rihn4
Featured Poet
Your Prayer Rug – Waiting for the Medical Examiner,
7 a.m. – The Committee – Cat Meditation,
Martha K. Grant5
You Are the Home I Come To, Martha K. Grant7
Featured Interview
Questions for Pamela Winfield, Lauren Walthour6
Collaboration in Literature & the Arts
Creative Writing Reading Series
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Roland Barthes Reading Group
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The Nature of Fabric, Lindsey Hall9
Innocence, Sissy Bradford
If—, Rudyard Kipling
Bhagavad Gita (excerpts from Chapter 3)
I Asked of Destiny, Rabindranath Tagore
Keep Me Fully Glad, Rabindranath Tagore
Concord Hymn, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Editors’ Poems
Upon Viewing Charles Umlauf’s Mother and Child at
the Witte Museum, Joan Strauch Seifert
I Can’t: A Sonnet, James R. Adair
Taking Down the Tree, Carol Coffee Reposa
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International Poems
Qué noche la de aquel año, Laura Ruiz Montes (What a
Night That Year, trans. Margaret Randall)20
Be Gentle with Lovers! Majid Naficy
(!‫شاب نابرهم ناقشاع اب‬, trans. Majid Naficy)21
Im Winterwind, Hejo Müller (Winter Winds, trans.
James Brandenburg)21
Book Reviews
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr), Brigitte
B. Saidi11
The Beauties of Blackbirds in the Classroom: Review of
One Blackbird at a Time (Wendy Barker), Cyra S.
Dumitru11
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack and Other
Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution (Ian Tattersall),
James R. Adair12
Poetry Therapy
Obligated, Joyce Collins
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Sasha Know It, True, Sasha Guzman26
Untitled, Florida Galloway
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Wait, Rashmi Gupta26
The Flowers on Our Farm, Milo Kearney27
A Prose Response in Haven for Hope, Dale G. Tremper27
What We Project, Vivian Kearney27
Art & Culture in the City
Institute of Texan Cultures
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Chloe René Castillo: A Young San Antonio Pianist, Mo H
Saidi13
Diwali Festival Lights Up San Antonio
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Art Therapy
I’m a Bear in a Cage, Amanda Collins27
Hope, Vali McGrath
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Did You? Frances R. Ford28
Mandala, Alba Gallegos28
Bather, Tara Layer29
H-E-B Youth Poetry Contest Winners
Liberate, Meghan (First Place)
I Wish I Had a Sister, Nimsi (Second Place)
My Cancer Poem, Hannah (Third Place)
Midnight, Ashleigh (Fourth Place)
Poetry & Dreams
Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream, James Brandenburg29
The Divine Child, James Brandenburg
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Select Poems
Zimbabwe Images 2015, Clyta Coder
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The Gift of India, Sarojini Naidu
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Waiting for the Diagnosis, Michelle Price
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He Dreamt of Her, James Piatt
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Clouds and Waves, Rabindranath Tagore
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More Life to Lead, More Books to Read, Hank Jones16
Friday Midnight Rain, Jane Dare17
Cracking an Egg, Chris Ellery17
Danny Deever, Rudyard Kipling
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Ocean Tao, Chris Yan
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Blood Moon, Fernando Esteban Flores
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Alchemy, Mobi Warren
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Moving Canvas, Lois Heger
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Mucha’s Women – Drawings at Terezín, Chip Dameron 23
Nightfall in the City of Hyderabad, Sarojini Naidu
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Do You Hear John Deere? John Grey
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Poet Pretender, Julie Gates
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Leaning Back, Eugene “Gene” Novogrodsky24
Just before the Draft, Harold Rodinksy
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Cheshire Monk, Barbara Jean
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Voices de la Luna, 15 February 2016
News & Notes
Indian Stepwells: Hidden Architectural Treasures
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Laurie Ann Guerrero Named to Leadership Position
at Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
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Malala Yousafzai, Advocate for Women’s and Girls’
Education10
George Orwell, Author and Social Critic
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Mother Teresa Set for Canonization
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Stone in the Stream/Roca en el Rio
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Essay
A Voyage to India, Mo H Saidi30
Short Fiction
Desert Hope, Terri M. Tucker33
Reunion, Peter Holland
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Henrietta Esparza, Bryan Grafton
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The Monkey and the Crocodile: A Jataka Tale of the
Buddha in a Former Life, trans. Ellen C. Babbit
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Serialized Novel
The Marchers, Chapters 29 and 30, Mo H Saidi38