Volume 9, Number 3, Summer 2008 FOREBEARS ISSUE This issue is the third in a series documenting the rich literary history of Washington, DC. This special issue includes essays that celebrate individuals and locations important to their writing: a photo essay on DC AUTHOR'S HOUSES by Kim Roberts and Dan Vera Taquiena Boston and Vera J. Katz on OWEN DODSON M.A. Schaffner on AMBROSE BIERCE Grace Cavalieri on ANN DARR Olivia Barbee on GWENDOLYN BENNETT Kathi Morrison-Taylor on JOAQUIN MILLER Myra Sklarew on LEON-GONTRAN DAMAS Merrill Leffler on GABRIELLE EDGCOMB Elisavietta Ritchie on JOHN PAUKER Mark Opsasnick on JIM MORRISON and BEAT COFFEEHOUSES