Introducing… What We Read Wednesday! I was recommended a few novels to read over the summer by my writing professor, Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife (enjoyable, but I had the plot twists somewhat ruined since I’d seen the movie in my high school years) and Deborah Harkness’s, A Discovery of Witches. A Discovery of Witches caught … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Call for Cover Art
It’s that time of year again, when we put the poetry briefly to the side to make sure we have an image that represents the issue as a whole. That means we’re looking for potential cover art for our Fall 2015 poetry edition! The magazine is published online and in print format, and it’s a great way to … Continue reading
The Reading Challenge
As an English student, I find my summers to be incredibly exciting. I not only have time to read for myself, but I also get to choose what I want to read. I have a Goodreads.com account, with a want to read list of over 1200 books, so I have no shortage of material, however, I have a … Continue reading
Four Daily Do’s — Richard Lee Zuras
It starts like this: a man, thirty-two, a woman, thirty-one. Youngest kids in their families. Three of their four parents alive. His father recently dead. A slow, quiet hospital coma. Then: a long, hot cross-country trip in a Jeep with no air-conditioning. Conception in her parent’s house. Everyone’s first grandchild. Newspapers, journals and magazines will … Continue reading
Dog Catcher Day: 1982 — Nick Bertelson
1: Any Means Necessary Sheriff McKenzie called me around six in the morning before the restaurant I lived above opened for the day. The rotary phone on the table beside my bed blared out half a ring before I wrestled with my blankets and knocked the receiver off its base so the damn thing didn’t … Continue reading
Fall 2009 / Issues / Poetry 2009 / Volume 40
Afflicted — Raul Clement
Doxycycline, Ciprofloxacin, Ranitidine — the names remind me of distant stars whose light I will never see or else just what they are, wishes instead of cures. The doctor sticks a gloved finger up my ass with one quick motion. Not quick enough. It is cold with jelly, like the finger of an alien, an … Continue reading
Fall 2009 / Issues / Poetry 2009 / Volume 40
Dali’s Dream — Ellie Grossman
Find me in the morning, in sun and heat; know me in midday by hunger, in nighttime my moon and yawn. You can hold a piece of me in your palm, or feel my presence in your chest. I will let you paint my portrait and hang me out to dry beside the Pyrenees’ golden … Continue reading
Fall 2009 / Issues / Poetry 2009 / Volume 40
My Mother’s Bones — C B Follett
Inside her skin my mother’s bones are crumbling into shards. Only taut skin seems to hold her skeleton together. In her tenth decade the body is in retreat. In June, she fell first one way, then the other banging against everything she had against everything she owned landing on a hip porous as pumice. No … Continue reading
Fall 2009 / Issues / Poetry 2009 / Volume 40
Fleda Brown Removes “the parade” From Her Poem — C B Follett
no fife, no drumbs, no merry piccolo, no crepe paper wound thru bike wheels, no anal drum majorettes, no lemonade in a silvery thermos with flaky green torso, no glittering trombones, no yappy dogs, no nasty smelling snake bombs, no pinwheels of spinning stars, no cap pistols with the delicious scent of cordite, no lady … Continue reading
Fall 2009 / Issues / Poetry 2009 / Volume 40
Autumn Furlough 1943 — Jeanette I. Winthrop
Uncle Dave is home from the war to take my brother and me to Revere beach where we claim our childhood in happy wandering. We search for shells in the crusted sand, count our footprints until we find, half-buried, a lobster trap we want to dig up and lug through the subway. Uncle Dave says … Continue reading
Coe Review 