Well, the Fall 2014 issue is printed and is set to be published online this afternoon! Looking at this issue as a single collection of work, I feel it absolutely holds a torch to any we’ve produced before–as it should, based on our receiving more submissions than any previous year! This opinion is based nearly entirely …
Happy 2014! As managing editor, I’m proud to announce that today, starting at 12 PM (Central Time Zone), the Coe Review’s newest poetry issue will go online! Throughout the hour, the poems will be individually published on our blog, and you can find links to every poem on our Current Issue page. This year, we’ve also included …
With January 1st right around the corner, it seemed wrong to not post about our successful publication release earlier this month. The Coe Review took over the PUB on campus for our release. We had food catered by Sodexo, coffee galore, and a fair amount of students and staff who came out to see our newest issue. …
Welcome to the Coe Review online. We are a bi-annual magazine, publishing poetry in the fall and fiction in the spring. Started in 1971, the magazine is managed and edited by students from Coe College. These students sign up to be a part of the Coe Review, receiving credit and experience in putting together a …
A man awoke in his flat, two streets north of the deli and one street south of the red line bus. His night shirt was damp with sweat and it clung to his heaving chest as he collected himself from his unconsciousness. He could not recall what it was that put him in such a … Continue reading
After reading Mulberry Child by Jian Ping I was reminded of Night by Elie Wiesel through the broad message it was sending. Both are marketed as memoirs, so they are rooted in truth in some regard, and both have subjects that face impossible inhumane events in their lives and overcome them. I think Jian Ping’s … Continue reading
Taking the young-adult fantasy world by storm, The Throne of Glass series is one of the most well-known books in this genre. Everyone who keeps up with young adult fiction has either read or heard of this story that Sarah J. Maas has created. With the first book, Throne of Glass, coming out in 2012, … Continue reading
CHARACTERS DR. LIZ VICIOUS: CEO of Machinations, Inc. Eccentric, evil, and just a tiny little bit unhinged. Pronounces “evil” incorrectly. BEN THE INTERN: Machinations, Inc.’s newest employee. Fresh out of college with a BA in English, just looking for something to pay the bills. YEETBOT: DR. VICIOUS’s trusty robotic assistant. Its main job is to … Continue reading
When I first picked up John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down, it was for two reasons. First, turtles are my favorite animal, and no book with them in the title could do them wrong, right? And second, out of a sense of fairness, I supposed I’d give John another chance. Readers of John Green … Continue reading
I was supposed to be the heir to a new world, and I had no say in the matter. From the moment of my birth, I was destined for greatness. My very existence signaled the end of Berktraz’s reign over my people, and with it the beginning of a continental rejuvenation. I was told this … Continue reading
I’d driven fifteen hours, things broken back there or refusing to break—not the things with which I’d stocked the converted carport where I fried rice & cooked coffee, no—things: Love, Work, Money, Innocence (that stubborn fucker most of all). I was home again, nowhere to stay, mother dead, father somewhere, brother north, sister … Continue reading
I am writing to you in the moments you’re missing Wondering if I miss you You’ve been absent since I was young – The difference now is permanence I wonder if you knew What you were becoming If you were as scared as I am Of becoming you Everytime my lips touch … Continue reading
Hiding a body is easy. First—silence the still-small voice with the butt of your cigarette. Tuck the teeth into a cellophane sack. Invert the remainder into a lucky charm in the pack of 19 numbly remembered moments. You will let them bum it off you, give it away, eat your heart out. … Continue reading
It happens so quickly, the men smoking in the tea shop have only moments to stub out their Turkish cigarettes. A mother squeezes her fussing son against her breast, his whimpering inaudible beneath the bombs’ sizzle and thud. Tracers thread the slightly cloudy sky as scooters and sputtering trucks speed south. Rise Up! … Continue reading
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