John Guzlowski

I’ve been invited to read my poems at the Polish Embassy in Washington, DC. This really means a lot to me. In addition, my first short story in 30-something years has just been published by The Ontario Review. The piece is called "The German," and it's the first chapter of a novel I'm writing about a soldier lost on the eastern front at the end of WWII. I've also published some poems recently. "The Work My Father Did in Germany" appeared in Nimrod, and "Letter from Poland" in Atlanta Review. My book Third Winter of War: Buchenwald was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. And an essay, "All Holocausted Out: On Non-Jews Using the Word 'Holocaust,'" appeared last month in The Vocabula Review.

And don't forget everybody's invited to my blogs at
https://lightning-and-ashes.blogspot.com/ and
https://everythings-jake.blogspot.com/ !

Daiva Markelis

My creative nonfiction essay, “Mongrel Tongue,” has been accepted for publication in the literary journal Talking River. Another essay, “Lithuanian Christmas,” which was published in last year’s Agora, will appear in the journal Bridges this December.

Robin Murray

I would like to thank all of my colleagues for your kind and supportive thoughts and words this semester. They are deeply appreciated.

Katherine Bartel

. . . of the EIU Art Department provided the cover illustration and page backgrounds for this issue of Agora. To see more of her work, visit the May 2004 AGORA. —JK