Fall/Winter 2014-15 – Vol. 11, No. 2
Fiction
Justin Bigos, To the Management at IKEA:
Naira Kuzmich, Woman Amid Ruins
Andrew Milward, What is to be Done?
Laura Van Etten, Questions Before we Start
Charles Wilkinson, How Can We Eat Amongst the Dead?
Nonfiction
Liz Arnold, After a Suicide, A Search
Nathan Jandl, Studs
Michael Larson, A Colossal Swell
Mara Naselli, Horse in Hand
Lynda Sexson, Melancholy Meat
Kate Washington, Abide With Me
Poetry
Sarah Barber, The Only Imagery is Frost or Fire
Grady Chambers, The Life; Explaining the Resurrection in Simple Words; Syracuse, October
Jennifer S. Cheng, from Letters to Mao
Benjamin Goldberg, The Comedian’s Therapy Session; On Meeting Your New Roommate in an Adolescent Psych Ward
Benjamin S. Grossberg, Facing It
Sara Eliza Johnson, Rapture
Taylor Harrison Micks, Imago
David Mohan, Portrait with a Dog
Susannah Nevison, My Father Dreams of Horses; My Father Dreams of Horses (II)
James Schiller, Poetry Friends Forever/Mammal Holocaust, Afterward
Matt Sumpter, Wind Up
Jake Syersak, Orison Was an Either-image, Arisen; If There Was any Iota, It Was Roiling Too; Stretching Nil to Nail to Hammer out a Whole; In Which Of Is More Centrifugal than Dove; Of Is the Zero the Horizon Makes, if World-Shaped
Noel Thistle Tague, Theory of the soul in storm, 1909-2013
P.J. Williams, My Father Grows Up with a Black Dog Named Nig
2014 Contest Winners
Poetry: Anders Carlson-Wee, The Low Passions; Dynamite
Fiction: Rachel Goldman, Steps
Creative Nonfiction: Nick Neely, The Book of Agate
Literature in Translation: Ho Nansorhoon, Poem Given to a Nun While Staying in a Taoist Monastary
Art Feature
Brian Ewing
Where We’re At
Calgary Martin, A Series of Waves
Zachariah McVicker, Death in the Midwest
Editorial Staff
Editor: Jodee Stanley
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Steve Davenport
Poetry Editor: Michael Madonick
Assistant Editors: Sara Fan, Khaleel Gheba, Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Editorial Assistants: John Dudek, Nolan Grieve, Ceridwen Hall, Avery Irons, Roya Khatiblou, Calgary Martin, Yael Massen, Sean MacIntyre, Zachariah McVicker, Natalie Mesnard, Katherine Scott Nelson, Kristin Walters, Lucilena Williams
Art Directors: Márit McCluske, Maurice Meilleur
Designers: Meme Betadam, Brendan Blaber, Stephanie Carlson, Dane Georges, Daniel Harmon, Size Ma, Emily Ogden, Courtney Podgorski, Bella Reinhofer, Kaity Tighe, Laura Today, Lisa Vuong
Special Thanks: John Dayger, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; Gary Frantz and Original Smith Printing, Inc. (originalsmithprinting.com); Robert Heneghan and Unisource/Veritiv (unisourceworldwide.com); Laney Ontiveros; and Stephen J. Wanzek, UIUC / Willard Airport.
Support at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
College of Fine and Applied Arts
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Department of English
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School of Art and Design
Individual Sponsors
Patron: Sarah Knox, M.D., John Hall, M.D.
Friend: Raina Bahns, Joan Golder, Kathleen Harleman
This project is partially supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council.
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