Finest of all things I have left is the light of the sun,

Next to that the brilliant stars and the face of the moon,

Cucumbers in their season, too, and apples and pears.

                                                      Praxilla (Greek, 5th century BCE)

                                                      Fragment of a hymn to Adonis, trans. Bernard Knox

Praxilla is pleased to announce its second issue, featuring the following:

Poetry by Eric Bourland, Ann Bracken, Jillian Brall, Patricia Clark, Yoko Danno, Don Freas, Stacey Harwood, Ailish Hopper, Sonja James, Bobbi Lurie, Marilyn McCabe, Leslie McGrath, Mary Meriam, Rebecca Mertz, Joe Milford, Dan Romo, Alexis Rotella, Sarah Stickney, Julia Anne Wagner, Sarah White, and Changming Yuan.

Fiction by Jill Alexander Essbaum, Stacey Harwood, Lane Jennings, David Lehman, Kathryn Milam, and Jean Russell.

Nonfiction by Jody Bolz, Donald D. Gibson and Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, Lorian Hemingway, and Barbara Lefcowitz.

Video by Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

Praxilla would like to thank Leslie McGrath for her advice and friendship while we were putting together this issue.