Waterways
Poetry in the Mainstream
volume 39 (2018-19)

For volume 39, the monthly issues featured drawings
by Wayne Hogan, Thomas Nast, Barbara Fisher
and Richard Spiegel.

Wayne Hogan's drawing of a man standing under a microphone. His pants that has a white leg and a red leg. The cartoon bubble indicates the man is saying, "I notice that stan-up comics say the word 'red' a lot. I don't get it . . . What's so funny about 'red'?"Thomas Nast caricature of Boss Tweed with a money bag for a headBarbara Fisher's drawing of a squirrel with a bushy tailRichard Spiegel's drawing a lady wearing glasses in front of a panel of peopleWayne Hogan's drawing of a dog wearing a bow tie. The dog's dialogue bubble indicates the dog is saying, "Nobody ever asks me about the finer points of shopenhauerian equinimity about which helegianism and spinozanism are in such near-tenuous disaccord."Thomas Nast's caricature of Santa ClausBarbara Fisher's drawing of a one eyed catRichard Spiegel's drawing of a shlemielWayne Hogan's drawing of a man with a chicken. The caption above the illustration reads: "Albert lives happily alone with his literary duck." A balloon in the illustration indicates the duck is saying, "Orwell...Frost...Welty....Shakespeare...Eliot...Whitman...Baldwin...Keats...Faulkner...O'Hara...Steinbeck...Carver...Fitzgerald...Didion...Matthew...Mark...Luke"Barbara Fisher's drawing of two birds chirpingRichard Spiegel's drawing of a face with an abstract hat


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