a journal on the writer's role in society edited by esther altshul helfgott ____________________ Contributors are invited to address the question: What is the writer's responsibility to self & society? ____________________ Ted McMahon has lived and worked in the Northwest since 1972. He currently practices pediatrics half-time in Ballard, and devotes the other half to writing. His poetry has appeared in the Seattle Review, Convolvulus, and the Journal of the Americian Medical Association. In 1999 he received the Carlin Aden Award for formal verse from the Washington Poets Association, and he is a co-editor of Floating Bridge Press, publishing the work of Washington State poets. ____________________ |
a journal on the writer's role in society edited by esther altshul helfgott ____________________ Contributors are invited to address the question: What is the writer's responsibility to self & society? ____________________ Ted McMahon has lived and worked in the Northwest since 1972. He currently practices pediatrics half-time in Ballard, and devotes the other half to writing. His poetry has appeared in the Seattle Review, Convolvulus, and the Journal of the Americian Medical Association. In 1999 he received the Carlin Aden Award for formal verse from the Washington Poets Association, and he is a co-editor of Floating Bridge Press, publishing the work of Washington State poets. ____________________ |
9-11 by Ted McMahon Just today, four days after the attack, my eyes tear up when Ray Charles sings "America the Beautiful" on oldies radio. I have to stop the car. From sea to shining sea we try to comprehend the world has changed. Perhaps it takes a jet-fuel inferno, 1600 degrees to purge our petty hates, our puerile road-rage. Soon we'll have burned clean, bright with resolve to change the old world order. Pray it is done with mercy for the wide-eyed children. Pray it is done with mercy. September 15, 2001 |
