Jon Goode writes. On April 1, Goode performed a selection of spoken word poems at Coe College, but he reiterates that he can write everything, including “poems, short stories, ransom notes.” He has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and CNN’s Black in America, and says he is inspired by writers as diverse as Zora … Continue reading
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We’re Back!
Good news! Coe students are back in class, which means The Coe Review team is back and ready to read some poetry! We had our first meeting the first day of school, August 26th. When I arrived on the third floor of Hickok, I was pleasantly surprised to be greeted by many old and new faces. … Continue reading
Literary Readings
Jessica Pressman, “Electronic Literature: Literary Studies in/of the 21st-Century” Coe College February 21, 2013 4:00pm Kessler Lecture hall Sally Keith & Dan Quick– Thurs. Feb. 21, 2013 7:00 pm Poets Sally Keith and Dan Beachy-Quick will read from their work. Sally Keith’s most recent book is Fact of the Matter. Moving from the mundane to … Continue reading
Review of Ellie Kemper’s “How Aleksandr Knew What He Knew, and How I Knew That He Knew”
Fiction Is A Fun-House By: Christa Angelios, Coe College sophomore More often than not, the stories that perk my ears are the ones that defy all expectations – not in a completely random way, but in a way that makes sense to the story and reveals, in its juxtaposition, some universal truth. Okay, so maybe … Continue reading
Nostalgia for a Valley Unseen — Terrell Jamal Terry
Some part just wants to move like powder, and go where no other’s prying punctures a private instinct of whispering when sounding out the names. Dangling dusk colluding with green. The reduction of complexity forms a clearer understanding, as an after smell of rain wrung out hovers above the heart. Eyes cut lines to meet … Continue reading
Light Empowers — Vinati Bhola
Opulently perched On the horizon’s vista There resides light blithely. Look! How the night sulks, Accepts the defeat, walks out barefoot, Genuflects lithely. Continue reading
2 Men Kiss/A Dollar & A Dream (or the odds of unequal & opposite attraction) — Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
love song for male pattern baldness, the open bottle of Lunesta on a nightstand — Chloe Reichelt
Late nights you sleep thin and restless, your eyes rolling like odometers beneath lids too pulpy to still them. One day you will not wake up and you know this. In the mornings, you knot your own brightly colored noose over a white buttoned shirt. You grow older with vegetable frailty. Each morning the greens … Continue reading
Barbed Wire, Electric — Sioned Curoe
When I was a child Climbing the rusty gate was an easy task To toughen small feet, soft hands Until I slipped Under barbed wire, electric Burning flesh, hair tangling When I was a child I knew blood was red in air Blue veins went somewhere else When the door tore my hand Flapping skin, … Continue reading
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