Spring/Summer 2013 – Vol. 10, No. 1
Contributors
Fiction
Hannah Brooks-Motl “The River”
Kirsty Logan “Momma Grows a Diamond”
Brian Trapp “Michael and Sal”
Anne Valente “A Field Guide to Female Anatomy”
Nonfiction
Amy Bernhard “Tag”
Thomas H. McNeely “The Burning Bed”
Lydia Melby “A Secret Code I Could Never Understand”
Titi Nguyen “Chao Bà Ngoai”
Daniel Story “In Need of Assistance”
Poetry
Brian Barker “The Book of Orders”
Anne Barngrover “Bluetick Hound”
Geri Doran “The Observable World,” “Threshold,” “Inlet,” “Near-In, the World,” “Pure”
Kathy Fagan, “Suburban Canticle”
Tarfia Faizullah, “Self-Portrait as Slinky”
Matthew Gavin Frank, “The Laws of Stasis,” “Inheritance”
Brandi George, “Crone-Ballad”
Miriam Bird Greenberg, “How Loss Inhabits a Body”
Lois Marie Harrod, “Doorknobs”
Lo Kwa Mei-en, “Romance with Red Sky at Morning,” “How to Make Love in the Garden of Good and Evil”
Masin Persina, “Home”
Shelley Puhak, “Guinevere Writes to Lancelot from the Summer Home in Sirmeone,” “Lancelot, at the Home Depot” Dean Rader, “Poem for the World”
Art Features
Remnants of American Industrial Might: Daniel Shea
Courting Ray Johnson: Bob Warner and Miriam Kienle
Where We’re @
Khaleel Gheba, “I-70 as Atomic Model”
Roya Khatiblou, “Men of the Middle West”
Natalie Mesnard, “My Prairie”
Indexes, vols 1-9
Cover Index
Staff Index
Literary Index
Editorial Staff
Editor: Jodee Stanley
Creative Nonfiction Editors: Philip Graham and Janice N. Harrington
Poetry Editor: Michael Madonick
Assistant Editors: Kendra Chapman, Roya Khatiblou, Natalie Mesnard
Editorial Assistants: Laura Adamczyk, Michael Don, Khaleel Gheba, Sara Fan, Ceridwen Hall, Angela Hine, Avery Irons, Sean MacIntyre, Calgary Martin, Greg Rodgers, Rachel Samanie, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Lucilena Williams
Design Staff
Art Director: Matthew Peterson
Designers: Brandon Barker, Lauren Blackburn, Andrew Fishel, Scott Jackson, Evan Jarzynksi, Elaine Palutsis, Daryl Quitalig, Nathalie Rock, Heather Stickney, Michael Zhang
Photographers: Brittany Keating, Jack Kendall, John Menchaca, Megan Roche, Randi Stella
Illustrators: Kamila Glowacki, Colin Mosely
Support at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
College of Fine and Applied Arts
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Department of English
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
LAS Humanities Council
Office of the Chancellor
Office of the Provost
School of Art and Design
Individual Sponsors
Publisher
Richard Powers
Robert Skiba
Friend
Joan Golder
Robert Graves
Kathleen Harleman
Robert and Allison Mesnard
Pamela Saunders
This project is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.
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