Seriality, Sexuality, Semiotics: Poems Responding to the Photography of Hal Fischer
Jeanette Lynes – 1979
Jacques J. Rancourt – Crossed Signals
Joshua Garcia – Self- Portrait as Three Archetypal Media Images
Brett Hanley – Bondage Device: Meat Hoist
torrin a. greathouse – Bondage Device, Cross
Creative Nonfiction
Patrick Clement James – Transgressive Jesus
Joshua Harmon – Modest Sacrifices
Poetry
John McCarthy – Potatoes and Buckshot
Kelli Russell Agodon – Endless Summer
Kathryn Smith – Ink Poems
Chelsea B. DesAutels – When My Daughter Says God
Suzanne Manizza Roszak – In Which I Learn Early that Loathing Is a Strong Word
Rachel Richardson – Nomenclature
Patrycja Humienik – There’s What I Think and What I Feel; The Pipe Organ
Maria Zoccola – new year’s eve; horatio to his father
Stephen de Búrca – Traces
Tara A. Elliott – Clingstone
Steven Espada Dawson – Leticia Knows Your Weight
Kara McKeever – Body Electric
Fiction
Colleen Mayo – Incantation
Bill Smoot – Hetrick’s Army
Ted McLoof – The Freaks Who Could Never Love Anyone
Devon Halliday – Just in Case
In Time Bloom: Selected Writings from the Education Justice Project
Chaka T. Richblood – ROSE
Raylan Gilford – My Brother
William Pierce – Inner Nature
Where We’re At
Chelsea Hill – Station
Staff
Editor: Jodee Stanley
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Christopher Kempf
Poetry Editor: Ángel García
Assistant Editors: Madeline Furlong, Chris Vanjonack, Isaac Willis
Editorial Assistants: Amanda Bales, Claire Christoff, Liz Harms, Chelsea Hill, Drew Jennings, Carrie Johnson, Weston Morrow, Deon Robinson, Nina Sannes, Alixandra Shuger, Eric Shumacher, Andrea Sielicki, Zach Simon, Chris Vanjonack, Isaac Willis
Editor-at-Large: Philip Graham
Advisory Board: Amy Sayre Baptista, Traci Brimhall, James Brunton, Lindsey Drager, Matthew Minicucci, Marcus Wicker
Collage art and cover design by Weston Morrow.
Hal Fischer’s photographs use by permission of the artist.
Support at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Creative Writing Program
Department of English
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Individual Sponsors
Capital:
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Patron:
Delysa Burnier
Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham
John Hall, M.D. and Sarah Knox, M.D.
Friend
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Rev. Charles Matz
Special thanks to Professor Tim Dean Hal Fischer Chelsea Catt, Aumaine Gruich, the James M. Benson Professorship, the Education Justice Project, Allerton Park and Retreat Writer-in-Residence Program
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