Contributors
November 1977
Writers
Jimmy Santiago Baca is in prison in Arizona. His poetry has appeared in The Sun before.
moreRob Brezsny writes from Santa Cruz: “I wish you could hear what I hear here in California. A constant Static, a continuous Babble, as if the air were bleeding with millions of voices, yearning, emanating, all asserting their right to be heard. The Silence, some Absence, is what I miss about North Carolina, the clarity and sharp presence of the Moon, which here in California is obscured by the droning astral radio . . . It’s as if the astral plane were more densely populated here. Or that thoughts burst immediately into astral adulthood without doing any growing up. Or maybe the standards have been lowered for what the inner voices are allowed to regard as important. Everyone speaks with shrill insistence, everyone is given equal potency.
moreSteven Ford Brown is the editor of Aura, the literary arts review of the University of Birmingham in Alabama.
moreBetsy Campbell Blackwell has passed the point of no return: she’s working here (more than) full-time.
moreLeaf Diamant is a human awareness counselor who has contributed to The Sun longer and more regularly than anyone, and always at the last minute.
moreCary Fowler writes on the world food problem and is co-director of the Agricultural Resources Center in Chapel Hill.
moreWilliam Gaither landed a job as staff photographer for a daily paper in Clinton, North Carolina.
moreKarl Grossman has had many lifetimes, and this may be one of them.
moreDavid M. Guy is a writer who lives in Durham.
moreBarry Jacobs writes regularly for The Anvil.
moreStephen March is from Chapel Hill. He’s finishing a book and planning a cross-country photography trip.
moreSy Safransky loves his children dearly, and would love for Priscilla to bake cookies for awhile.
moreDavid Searls has miles to go before he sleeps.
morePaul A. Smith just moved to North Carolina from Kansas. He’s been a news writer, an athlete, a bartender, a gas jockey, a social worker, a ditch-digger, and now he teaches composition at Duke while working on his Ph.D. He says this last job pays the least.
moreVal Staples is in the physicians assistant program at Duke University.
moreDavid Terrenoire says he was so delighted at his Sun acceptance he buttonholed passersby, waving his check in their eyes.
moreRobert Volbrecht is co-editor of a recently published anthology, Fired up with You!
moreOn The Cover

From April 1976: Stephen Koons works at Harmony Natural Foods and is active in the National Association of Parents and Professionals for Safe Alternatives in Childbirth.
moreEditor and Publisher
Sy Safransky
Associate Editor
Priscilla Rich Safransky
Assistant Editor
Betsy Campbell Blackwell
Contributing Editors
Leaf Diamant
Karl Grossman
David Guy
Mike Mathers
David Searls
Richard Williams
Printer
Scott Craddock
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