Issue 20 | Contributors | The Sun Magazine

Contributors

September 1976

Writers

Rob Brezsny stands revealed at last. He’s appeared in these pages before under various pseudonyms, but now he’s dropped all pretext and scrubs pots every night.

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David C. Childers is breathing hard.

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Leaf Diamant is an awareness counsellor in Chapel Hill, and is skilled at helping people help themselves.

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William Gaither writes, “Obviously, I am slipping fast, but like Pat Nixon, I’ve got that spark in my eye, I’m a fighter. Also like Pat Nixon I’m a heavy drinker. Come to think of it, she and I are a whole lot alike — we both loathe Richard Nixon and refuse with equal degrees of disgust to sleep with him.”

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L.S. Gilliam is grateful to THE SUN for the recent publication of a number of graphic works executed between 1970 and ’75.

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Karl Grossman is a reporter for the Long Island Press.

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L. believes names should be chosen: “I chose a mark a signal, a single letter, signifying a sharply defined energy broken; perceived, rearranged.”

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Robert H. Long is changing his address; he writes that he’s “still only halfway there (where?) but moving.”

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Virginia L. Rudder farms tobacco in Hurdle Mills and writes a weekly column for the Roxboro Courier Times.

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Marilyn Michael’s poems in this issue are from her book The Moon Peelers, published in 1973 by Minerva Press, Birmingham, Ala.

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Sy Safransky cut his hair and everyone still liked him.

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David Searls’ new job is associate editor of Theta Magazine, published by the Psychical Research Foundation in Durham, with special emphasis on advertising and graveyard reclamation.

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César Vallejo was a Peruvian poet who died in 1938 at the age of 46 in Paris. In his compassion for the poor of the earth, Vallejo had become a communist, and though in exile from both his home country Peru and his adopted Spain, he maintained an active interest in the political struggles of the 1930’s.

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Richard Williams’ expanded volume of poetry, Suburban Blues, will be out in January.

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On The Cover

Leslie Udry is back from Colorado and looking for art and advertising commissions. She’s a first rate talent who shouldn’t go hungry.

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Editor and Publisher
Sy Safransky

Associate Editor
Priscilla Rich Safransky

Production
Julia Hardy
Betsy Martin
Alma Blount
Nina Hill

Contributing Editors
Gregg Coffey
Leaf Diamant
Gayle Garrison
Mike Mathers
Richard Williams

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