New Double-Issue Released!
Huzzah! This terrific issue – our second issue in our new once-a-year publication schedule – went into the mail last week. We don’t think you’ll be disappointed by the wait. The Spring 2017 features a special tribute to our retiring faculty member and former editor Allison Funk. It also includes exciting work from old friends and new, including poetry by Glynis Benbow-Niemier, Anastasia Stelse, Don Bogen, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Jennifer Atkinson, Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer, Richard Prins, Lesley Jenike, Cameron Morse, Allison Funk, Jane O. Wayne, Jason Sommer, Cindy King, Raphael Maurice, Cleopatra Mathis, Akpa Arinzechukwu, Kathy O’Fallon, Cynthia A. Campbell, Andrea Hollander, Eric Pankey, Jenna Bazzell, Howard Levy, Steffannie Alter, John Sibley Williams, and prose by Stephanie Dickinson, Pamela Gullard, Jennifer Gravley, Kim Bussing, Teresa Milbrodt, Rebecca Moon Ruark, Aaron Tillman, Elizabeth Grimsley, Sean Prentiss, Maxim Loskutoff, Jennifer Case, Michael Don, Kirie Pedersen, Beth Sherman, Fredrick Soukup, Brian Howlett, Dylan Brie Ducey, Melanie Ritzenthaler, Joseph Levens, Sean Jackson, Ander Monson, Abby Norwood, and Katrina Knebel.
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A Chat with Afsheen Farhadi, Author of “Green”
Recently, I talked with Afsheen Farhadi, whose hilariously dark “Green” can be found in our Fall 2014 issue (an excerpt can be found here as well). Here, he reveals his own writing process, some of his favorite recent books, and even teases who he might cast if “Green” were to be made into a movie. Afsheen has also recently completed a new novel, “Voices of Oblivion.”
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“Green screen”
Sam Greenhalgh, used under CC BY-SA 2.0
“The Lake”
Jessica Afshar’s “The Lake” is startling with its series of absences: a drowning child, a distraught mother, a missing father, and a Dive Rescue Specialist on an absurd search of his own. The sentences are often abrupt and startling, but asks readers to consider the connections between death and survival.
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“Ullswater – Lake District” Emma Barr, used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
“The Answer Sheet”
Christine Hamm’s “answers” raise more questions than answers. Who is she talking to? What is being asked? Why are the thumbs sewn together? Still, it leaves you asking questions about our own connections. The language is blunt and even a little curt, but with a tinge of desperation for any sort of meaning in our lives.
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“Notebook”
Rudolf Vicek, used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
