Neshaminy: The Bucks County Literary Journal Fall/Winter 2025, No. 12

by Don Swaim, WilliamJ J. Donahue (Editor), Leigh Stuart (Editor)

In this A detailed look at the torrid romance between American poets Ezra Pound and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) as they came of age in the Pennsylvania suburbs. While H.D. won laurels for her work in her final years, Pound’s career ended disastrously after he was charged as a traitor for making radio broadcasts supporting Hitler and Mussolini during WW2. Jim Brennan and David Stoller remember the late author, journalist, broadcaster, and raconteur Daniel Dorian, with a portrait of Dorian by Bucks County artist Dyan Law. A profile of cover-artist Jennifer Hansen Rolli, and a quick look at the historic Sellersville Theater. Walter Ault details the evolution of a small farm school in Bucks County that grew into Delaware Valley College. William J. Donahue’s memoir about the intersection between the lowest point in his life and a local family who finds hope, love, and even humor in a loved one's struggle with terminal illness. J.I. Zimmerman writes of a grandfather who demonstrates the power of love and death on a river. Don Swaim’s fictional account of 18th century Anglo/Irish author Oliver Goldsmith’s misadventures in America. Poetry by J.A. Lagana, Arlene Geller, Kalman Stein, and Spencer J. Szwalbenest.

156 pages, Paperback

Published October 2, 2025

About the author

Don Swaim is a writer, novelist, journalist, and winner of the 2011 Pearl S. Buck short story prize. His novel, The H.L. Mencken Murder Case (St. Martin's Press), was republished as a trade paperback under the Authors Guild's Back in Print program. Born in Kansas and educated in Ohio, his daily feature "Book Beat" was broadcast on major radio stations through the CBS Radio Stations News Service, and can be heard on the Internet at Wired for Books and at Book Beat:The Podcast. After a career at CBS in New York and Baltimore, Swaim founded the Bucks County Writers Workshop in Pennsylvania. He edits the web's definitive Ambrose Bierce Site. His fiction and articles have been published in small magazines and on the web.