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FICTION, NONFICTION, AND POETRY SAMPLES

For twenty years the Chrysalis Reader has featured many writers and artists, including new work by Robert Bly, Kate Chappell, Susan Cheever, Larry Dossey, Wyn Cooper, John Eccles, William Kloefkorn, Raymond Moody, Richard Moskowitz, Linda Pastan, Stephen Larsen, Wesley McNair, Franklin Reeve, Bernie Siegel, Pat Schneider, Virgil Suárez, Wilson Van Dusen, and many others.

The contents of our two most recent issues are listed below their cover images. Samples of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can be viewed by clicking on a highlighted article or poem. (Not all articles and poetry are available for viewing.)

To view poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from other issues, click on the book's title below:


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EMBRACING RELATIONSHIPS (2005)
Editor's Note
Report from the Hive: The Heavenly Hookup
  by Robert F. Lawson
 
PREFACE
Old Friend
  by Terry Marotta
 
PART I: SEEKING
New Math
  by Jean L. Arnold
The Question
  by Walter R. Christie
Packing Up, Heading Out (poem)
  by Phayvanh Luekhamhan
He Is Not Her Donald
  by Susan Ferguson
The Embrace (poem)
  by R.G. Cantalupo
In My Own Life (poem)
  by Tim Mayo
Chrysalis
  by Marielena Zuniga
Heaven's Gate (poem)
  by J. Stephen Rhodes
 
PART II: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
Pallone and the Homeless Poet
  by Terry Mullins
Mayhem (poem)
  by Susan Wheatley
The Man in the Pinstripe Suit
  by Zarah Blair
Swing Dance (poem)
  by William Hagen
Rosa's Offer
  by Benjamin DaSilva
In the Footsteps of the Australopithecine (poem)
  by Stuart Arotsky
Beautiful
  by Joe Canzano
 
PART III: PARTNERS
Volunteers (poem)
  by Chris Bunsey
When Two Became One
  by Sandra K. Heggen
Plowing (poem)
  by Barry Ballard
To the Foundations
  by Nancy Tilly
Partners
  by Bernie Siegel
Expecting (poem)
  by Charlotte McCaffrey
Solid Line
  by Vivian Lawry
Dancing at Midnight
  by Elizabeth Engstrom
Perennials (poem)
  by Art Stein
The Gnostic and the Atheist
  by Tereza Coraggio
 
PART IV: FRIENDS AND FAMILY
Papergirl
  by Vincent DeCarolis
For Myers (poem)
  by Susan Scott Thompson
Fishing Lessons
  by Lisa Leshaw
Inheritance (poem)
  by Mary P. Chatfield
Stretch Marks
  by Joe Lunievicz
The Three Musketeers
  by Henry G. Miller
What a Cute Little Psycho Dog
  by Lani Wright
Lem's Café, 1968
  by Carol Lem
Family Album (poem)
  by Sally Sullivan
 
PART V: FINDING
Abode of Simplicity
  by Tom Hansen
Range of Light: My Life with John Muir
  by Duane Tucker
Bee Dance (poem)
  by Celia Stuart-Powles
Making Peace with the Turks
  by Kay Mouradian
Elegy (poem)
  by Tom Lombardo
Peak Seasons, Off Seasons
  by Phoebe Baker Hyde
Backyard Music (poem)
  by Deborah H. Doolittle
When the Words Blur (poem)
  by Sylvia Shaw
 
Embracing Relationships is available for purchase.

  
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LETTING GO (2004)
Editor's Note
New Windows for an Old House
  by Robert F. Lawson
 
PREFACE
Isle of Mystery and Promise
  by Melanie B. Smallie
 
PART I: THE BIG PICTURE
Understanding Why
  by Bernie Siegel
Generations
  by Kathleen Curzie Gajdos
The Causes of War: Indifference (poem)
  by F.D. Reeve
An East-West Reflection on Detachment
  by Linda Brown Holt
Dionysus at Tengboche
  by Jeffrey S. Rasley
Remembrance
  by Donna Massie Ownby
Thorn by Thorn (poem)
  by Diane LaRae Bodach
Fetching My Guru
  by Lucy Aron
Letting the Universe Inside
  by John L. Hitchcock
Summer Zendo (poem)
  by Carol Lem
The Stone Buddhas
  by Lani Wright
 
PART II: ON THE FENCE
Embraced
  by Ralph Emerson Pray
Choosing to Feed on the Wind
  by Linda Lancione Moyer
A Pedestrian Incident
  by Patte LeVan
The Independent (poem)
  by Eileen Berry
El Niño
  by Penny Susan Rose
Outing (poem)
  by K.E. Duffin
Happy to See You
  by Ronna Wineberg
Well-paired (poem)
  by Barry Butson
Three Faces
  by Diane Halsted
How Many Breaths?
  by Wendy L. Brown
I Am Putting the Rattle of Happiness Down (poem)
  by Asher Pucciarello
 
PART III: LETTING GO
Unconditional Release (poem)
  by Craig Challender
Shall We Gather at the River?
  by Catherine Lazers Bauer
Indian Motorcycle (poem)
  by Jean C. Howard
Letting Go-Life's Greatest Challenge
  by Glenda Hawley
To the Man Who Died Trying to Take Flight (poem)
  by Elizabeth Oakes
Othello and Miss Farley
  by Naomi Gladish Smith
Crickets
  by Laura Mueller
My Father (poem)
  by Vincent DeCarolis
In the End, Heroes
  by R. H. Herzog
Ladakh Time (poem)
  by Art Stein
Jagged Lines
  by Rita Quinton
 
PART IV: NEW GROWTH
Geronimo!
  by Jean L. Arnold
Silken Threads (poem)
Eleanora Patterson
Willing
  by Traci L. Slatton
A Civilized Thanksgiving with the Ex (poem)
  by Carl Auerbach
The One that Got Away
  by Charlene Wakefield
Dejar (poem)
  by Virgil Suárez
"Hot Metalmorphosis"
  by Jonathan Fry
 
Letting Go is available for purchase.