Coming toward you on the sidewalk, a young woman herds two little girls— pink coats, matching hats with pom-poms that twirl on long tethers and you smile. They’re out of a portrait you’ve seen somewhere—hanging in a museum, or glossy in a magazine or living in a book, where their hair is the richest … Continue reading
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The Metro to Varketli–Timothy B. Dodd
Here is the end of the line where our buildings all rise, cornered in mad and gray pragmatism. With Soviet cloud cover and concrete coats, cucumber crowds creep in little markets picked on by auto fumes. Hidden, high windows frame frail bones — Mother’s old eyes rubbing cats and rugs in cataract. Through black … Continue reading
An Obituary
Corelle B. Owl, 24, of Cedar Rapids, died Thursday after a fall from one of the highest extremities, Mt. Countre. Mr. B Owl was most known for his reliability. His friends have all said that he could handle the responsibility of ensuring clean and safe nutrients for anyone who called upon him. B. Owl is … Continue reading
2017 Reading Challenge
As each new year begins, people make resolutions that will be often abandoned by the end of January. While it wasn’t exactly a resolution, I decided that I wanted to read more for pleasure this year–spend less time playing video games or watching media (which is really hard as a film major!) and try to read … Continue reading
Graphic Novels
There is a tendency within the literary world to consider graphic novels as “lesser” compared to other more classic mediums. Many professors will argue against the use of graphic novels within classroom settings because there is a standing stigma that graphic novels aren’t as academic as “normal” novels. As more and more graphic novels crop … Continue reading
Personification in Fiction and Why Tigers are Nothing to Be Afraid Of
What comes to mind when you think of personification? For most people, talking tigers, spiders, and mice bring them back to stories they read in their childhood: the Cat in the Hat, Aesop’s Fables, Winnie the Pooh, or (if they’re lucky) folk tales like Anansi the Spider or Why Opossum’s Tail is Bare. “Mature” use … Continue reading
Interview with Josh Bell, Poet
On October 19th, I had the great pleasure of attending poet Josh Bell’s reading at the Perrine Gallery in Stewart Memorial Library. Bell is the author of two books of poetry: No Planets Strike and Alamo Theory. Fellow poet Jillian Weise also read at this event on Coe College’s campus. A Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English … Continue reading
Blog Post / fall 2015 / Featured / Issues / Poetry / Poetry 2015 / Review / Uncategorized / volume / Volume 46
Rehearsal—Lauren Bender
You’re the blur of boundary between pot and plant. You are a madness that moves, too motherish. Taken down into the basement where the music is, where the colorful crystals are. You careful-like lift out containers of take-out, I scratch myself on purpose by accident. The TV crackles and smokes and burns the powder. Someone, … Continue reading
Blog Post / fall 2015 / Featured / Issues / Poetry / Poetry 2015 / Review / Uncategorized / Volume 46
The Ocean Carries My Message To You—Melissa Parietti
The tides created all the races; The snapping fish, their jaws are bones varied width, shape and bite by their want; the great wanting. (It comes to you right now) A greater warning for tomorrow’s uncertain perils, the terrors of another’s fearsome jaw. You swallowed me whole. Inside of my every nerve-ending I … Continue reading
Blog Post / fall 2015 / Featured / Issues / Poetry / Poetry 2015 / Review / Uncategorized / Volume 46
Epidural—Derek Sugamosto
I. For a long time after the fact, I pretended to be the jilted lover, scrambling through the mad fits of romance toward the repose of therapy. A hot, hot light was our love, for a matter of months, a light that cast the laying of limbs as a similarity enforced. Winter strolls toward the … Continue reading
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