Journal – No. 7
Spring/Summer 2007 – Vol. 4, No. 1
Sample Spreads
Contributors
Fiction
Chris Abani, Brock Clarke, Stephan Clark, Mickey Hess, Kelly Magee, Daniel Wallace, Kellie Wells
Poetry
Diana Marie Delgado, Andrew Grace, Benjamin Grossberg, Dory L. Hudspeth, Gary L. McDowell, Karyna McGlynn, Wayne Miller, John Murillo, Sara Pennington, Elizabeth Klise von Zerneck, Thom Ward, Philip White
Nonfiction
Terry Caesar, Ben George, Kathleen Kirk, Kim Dana Kupperman, Joe Oestreich, Elena Passarello, Judith Valente, Nicole Walker
Art
Urban Vinyl: Art Toy Phenomenon, Fabiola Elias and Jeffrey T. Jones (writers)
Where We’re At
Songs and Poetry: An Interview with John Darnielle by Laura Bandy
Haunting Graceland, by Cory Holding
Halfway House: A History of Horse Thieves and Hospitality, by Amy Sayre-Roberts
Editor’s Note
Happy spring everyone! Things at Ninth Letter are growing and expanding in so many new and exciting ways it’s hard to keep track of them all—we’ve got our design team settled into a new studio space on the UI campus, thanks to the good people in the School of Art & Design, and genius designer Mason Kessinger has set us up with a fantastic redesigned web site (ninthletter.com) where you can find brand-new online content every month to keep you satisfied during the long stretches between print publications.
Our next Featured Artist to be showcased on ninthletter.com will be Jan Erkert, renowned choreographer and head of the UI Dance Department. Jan will be working with a team of artists, including our own Daniel Goscha, to create a dance/video hybrid electronic art project.
As always, we couldn’t keep up the good fight for art and literature without the support of many wonderful people on campus and in the community. On behalf of the staff of Ninth Letter, I offer our thanks to the following people and organizations:
Institutional Support
- The Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership
- College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Critical Research Initiative Program
- Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- LAS Humanities Council
- Office of the Chancellor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Individual Sponsors
- Publisher Robert Skiba
Friend
- Kathleen Harleman
- Keri Kaeding and Steve Danzer
And thanks to our faithful readers, as well as any newbies that have picked up Ninth Letter for the first time. Enjoy this new issue, and many more to come.
—JS
Credits
Editor
Jodee Stanley
Creative Nonfiction Editor
Steve Davenport
Poetry Editor
Tyehimba Jess
Art Editors
Joseph Squier and Nan Goggin
Art Director
Jennifer Gunji-Ballsrud
Designers
Natalie Berberet, Kyrsten Blinstrup, Laurie Cheng, Sam Copeland, Kelly Cree, Megan Delaney, Fabiola Elias, Diana Jarvis, Jeffrey Jones, Borami Kang, Kristen King, Jonathan Lopez, Clinton Miceli, Hank Patton, Megan Severson, Ashley Skinner Brett Tabolt, Cathy Wendt, Ho-Mui Wong
Assistant Editors
Christine Bryant Cohen, David Coyoca, Adam Deutsch, Andrew Ervin, Harmony Neal, Juan Sánchez, T ed Sanders, Amy Sayre-Roberts, Leslie Singleton
Editorial Assistants
Lillian Bertram, Jaime Brunton, Eve Eure, Russell Evatt, Rebecca Faught, Cory Holding, Brian Keyes, Aaron Madrigal, Arley McNeney, Lara Mann, Jackie May, Christy Scheuer
