Negative Capability: Volume XIV, Number 3, 1995

by Marilyn Krysl

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Mercy by Marilyn Krysl 2. Twirling by Patricia Foster 3. Alaska by Tom Franklin 4. A Wind From the Past by Francine Julian Clark 5. Papa Rabbi Nathan by Catherine Wright 6. War Is a Holiday by Joe Scuderi 7. Leaving Home by Sylvia Brownrigg 8. Speaking in Tongues by Janice Decker 9. My Summer Vacation By Nikia Jackson by Daisy Maxey 10. The Clydesdale Flight by Patrick O'Neill 11. Song of My Son by Webb Harris, Jr. 12. Painting the Elders by Kennette Wilkes 13. Conch Salad by Gwen Strauss 14. 9 O'clock Class by Rachel Corday 15. The Best Gift by Daryl Wilson 16. Foreign Ghosts by Emily Hanchett 17. What I See by Barbara Westwood Diehl 18. The Satanic and the Moral in Muriel Spark by Richard C. Kane 19. First Class Suitcases, Working Class Baggage by Larry Burton 20 Dorothy Is Living Killing You?

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Published January 1, 1995

About the author

Marilyn Krysl is an American poet, short story writer, and activist. She has published four collections of stories, and seven volumes of poetry. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, Best American Short Stories 2000, O. Henry Prize Stories, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her collection of short fiction, DINNER WITH OSAMA, won Notre Dame’s 2008 Sullivan Prize, and Foreword Magazine’s 2008 Book of the Year Bronze Medal. She has taught ESL in the People's Republic of China, served as Artist in Residence at the Center for Human Caring in Denver, worked as an unarmed bodyguard for Peace Brigade International in Sri Lanka, and volunteered at the Kalighat Home for the Destitute and Dying administered by Mother Teresa's Sisters of Charity in Calcutta.