Recently added articles from Prairie Schooner:
Baby Boomer Issue(s).(Baby Boomer Issue)(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Maybe it was all the recent news stories about the very first baby boomers on the verge of retirement--and the warnings about the financial havoc this was bound to wreak upon Social Security and the national economy, which was already in pretty dire straits. Or the headlines, one after the ...
What Might Life Be Like in the 21st Century?(Baby Boomer Issue)(Short story)
Sep 22, 2009; ... My mother probably didn't expect him to have black hair and blue, blue eyes. Parent-teacher night: no other reason she'd have talked to Mr. Science, who would have looked past her to the other mothers, even if I'd built an atom smasher behind the school. The topic of discussion was my ...
Where We Were and What We Were Doing.(Baby Boomer Issue)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; ... August 19, 2003 <Pre> In traffic, changing stations, sick of the news where a woman with a rich European contralto commemorates her friends, their great hearts and their souls at this moment departing. We had our own years of where-we-were and what-we-were-doing, do we need ...
The Day Before the Day Before Thanksgiving.(Baby Boomer Issue)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; ... <Pre> In English 203, the sophomores do not know what napalm is, what Chicano means, or why-- in a poem titled "Vacation, 1969"-- "black children" would have a reason to "loot fire hydrants / under sinus gray skies." For 19-year-olds, ...
For Dan, After a Party.(Baby Boomer Issue)(Poem)
Sep 22, 2009; ... after Frank O'Hara <Pre> You do not always know what I am thinking. Last night in the chill spring air while I was talking nonstop about the war & the President & how he will be the ruin of us, it was love for you that set me on fire. Isn't that the way of things? ...