Grécourt Review, the 55th Reunion Issue
Our Once and Future Literary Magazine Rises from Its Ashes
The Grécourt Review’s logo was a phoenix, so how could it be kept down? A quarter-century after its last known issue (and 55 years after the class of 1969 last worked on it) the Grécourt Review is coming back to Northampton to celebrate reunion. Our class writers and artists alike have new ways to look at things now, deeper and more complex. Funnier. Stronger. Absorbing loss and finding beauty.
The 2024 Grécourt Review includes poetry by Susan Bangs Munro, Gale Eaton, Judith Ferster, Susan Hall Mygatt, Paula Hendricks, Rosa Leader Smith, Jean Merrill, Susie Patlove, and that most prolific of all poets, Anonymous. There’s also a collaborative renga, a “Wellness Meander,” with lines by 17 of us.
We have fiction, memoir, and essays on topics large and small. Writers include classmates who contributed to the old GR or served on its editorial staff, as well as some who never even knew we had a literary magazine back in the day. A few essays grew out of the recent meetings of the Smith ’69 Zoomers. Our writers include Gesine Brueckmann Pohl, Marcia Carroll Peterson, Jill Daubenspeck Zifkin, Gale Eaton, Judith Ferster, Deanna Gaunce Nebert, Denise Germain Rabinowitz, Linda Guess Farris, Maureen Kilfoyle, Mandy Merck, Holly Menino, Jan Piper Kornbluth, Mary Seibert Goldschmid, Lynn Slaughter, Christine von Prümmer, Mary Ann Welch Ericson, Margaret Dennis (formerly Peggy Woodbridge), and Pearl Yau Toy.
Jane Baker Holt, Mary Douglas, Ellen Kierr Stein, Katherine Martin, Jill Metcoff Jahns, Marcia Schenk Steckler, and Amy Scott have given us far more art than the old Grécourt Review could ever have printed: paintings in oil and watercolors, drawings and collage, black-and-white and color photographs.
You can order your keepsake edition of the new Grécourt Review through Amazon here or read it for free here.
Yours,
Gale Eaton and Deanna Gaunce Nebert, Editors