Fall/Winter 2012-13 – Vol. 9, No. 2

Sample Spreads

Contributors

Fiction

Terry Dubow "Bird"
Leyna Krow "End Times"
Mary Miller "Recidivism"
Ricardo Nuila "Mort Naturelle" 
Elizabeth Schulte "Borders"

Nonfiction

Roxane Gay "To Scratch, Claw, or Grope Clumsily or Frantically" 
Brandon Davis Jennings "Airman Jennings the Impaler"
Jen Percy "The Guinea Pig Lady"
Edward Kelsey Moore "Piaf and Roadkill"

Poetry

Gladys Justin Carr, "Caroline Kennedy at the Greengrocer">
Keith Dunlap, "The Escapist"
Maggie Glover, "Refrain"
Jeremy Allan Hawkins, "To Say the Imagination"
Lilah Hegnauer, "Bowl"
Jennifer Luebbers, "Petitions"
Michael Mlekoday, "Self-Portrait, Wearing Bear Skull as Mask"
Luisa Muradyan, "Message from a Peeping Tom Named Tom", "In Every Plum"
Jenn Marie Nunes, "Designation as National Historic Landmark"
Chelsea Wagenaar, "Sonopuncture"
Yona Wallach (translated by Linda Zisquit), "*", "This Is the Beauty"

Poetry Feature

Six poems by Ted White
Rachel Farrell, "The Genesis of Ted White"

Translation Feature

Elizabeth Lowe, "Clarice Lispector and the Art of the Crônica"
Clarice Lispector (translated by Elizabeth Lowe), "Human Heat", "Forgiving God"
Elizabeth Lowe, "The Passion According to C.L.: An Interview with Clarice Lispector"

Design Feature

Confident in Their Incompleteness: Tony Brock

Art Features

Emblems in Color: Emblematica Online
Engineering Sculpture Photography: Curtis Mann

Where We’re @

Sean MacIntyre, "Drumbeats"
Lucilena Williams, "Getting Lost"

Animated Bestiary

Editorial Staff

Editor: Jodee Stanley
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Philip Graham
Poetry Editor: Michael Madonick

Assistant Editors: Laura Adamczyk, Sara Gelston, Eric Tanyavutti
Editorial Assistants: Kendra Chapman, Michael Don, Eduardo Gabrieloff, Khaleel Gheba, Angela Hine, Roya Khatiblou, Sean MacIntyre, Natalie Mesnard, Max Somers, Jessica Thom, Lucilena Williams

Design Staff

Art Director: Matthew Peterson

Designers: Grace Hamann, Caitlin Howe, Scott Jackson, Maria Ludeke, Serena Moy, Elaine Palutsis, Will Ryan, Tyler Schmidt, Heather Stickney
Photographers: Harrison Hakes, Kendall McCaugherty, Alejandra Rodriguez

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
Kai Haber
Robert and Kay Merrick
Richard Powers
Robert Skiba

Friend
Joan Golder 
Robert Graves 
Kathleen Harleman
Benjamin C. Krause 
Robert and Allison Mesnard
Pamela Saunders
Marc Snir

This project is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council.

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