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Tennessee Williams
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One of America’s greatest playwrights, Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911. His plays include The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Camino RealCat on a Hot Tin Roof, and The Night of the Iguana, among many others. His work garnered two Pulitzer Prizes, four New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, and a Tony Award, and has been widely translated and performed around the world.

The Caterpillar Dogs and Other Early Stories (New Directions) is edited and introduced by Tom Mitchell: theater director, noted Tennessee Williams scholar, and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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Numina: The Enchantment Issue
Fall 2023
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March 27, 2024
On my day off, I drove my aging father to his death in the quaint town he had frequented after the navy when he was bouncing between jobs. On the phone, two nights before the fated trip, was the first I had heard him speak of this place. Though I believed him, doubts soon set in, and I wondered whether his claim was a phantom of his condition.
March 20, 2024
Christmas Night lies bitter cold and silent over the capital, and all life seems frozen. Even the wind is still, and the stars flicker like minuscule fires that strive to keep life going. 
March 13, 2024
Ariadne struck the mast

Enraged. She     couldn’t sail, no

One had ever bothered to


Teach her, but the ship wouldn’t

Be still.     She had awoken

To find Thesus dead, his crew


Dead,     and at first she had felt

Relief.