April 2012 Issue 436

Departments

Contributors

Correspondence

Sunbeams

The Sun Interview

The Butterfly Effect
Julia Butterfly Hill On Activism, Tax Resistance, And What She Learned From A Thousand-Year-Old Redwood

Leslee Goodman

Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Communion Of Strangers
Brian Jay Stanley

Benedicta
Sarah Braunstein

Reading The Water
Michael Copperman

Fall
Nancy Coleman

The Lonely Bull
Jerry D. Mathes II

Fiction

Imagination
Sigrid Nunez

Poetry

Getting Ready
Mark Smith-Soto

Selected Poems
Tony Hoagland

The Return
Ruth L. Schwartz

The Dog-Eared Page

from Grist For The Mill
Ram Dass with Stephen Levine

Readers Write

The Best Feeling In The World