Spring 2016 Under My Bed Jody Keisner If people always knew when intruders had broken into their homes, no one would ever die this way. I grab a chef’s knife, the Nonfiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016 The Great Depression Joyce Wilson Young Perhaps because of the housing boom and bust of the early 21st century, American society is now more aware of the “near poor” or Nonfiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016 Novelty Fades Laurette Folk She kept her head down, noting pieces of chrome, the crunch of sandal on pebbles on asphalt, the sound of whirring cars, a dead Fiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016 Mrs. Blunt’s Bequest Barbara Stowe Ruth had always said that when she was too enfeebled to live independently, she'd "off" herself, as she put it with characteristic candor. A Nonfiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016 Nakedness Siân Griffiths My body is a private and practical thing—something yielded to the production of children and the scrubbing of a bathtub, but not something I Nonfiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016 The Interview Alice Elizabeth Rogoff "Oh yes, there was a famous woman organizer who lived on Evans. If she’s still around, she would be very old now. Older than Fiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016 Herrschaft (Territory) Emily Van Duyne Again, a question of language—I use the possessive pronoun and I become ill at ease, a little sick, the way you feel when you’ve Nonfiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016 The Housewife’s Huffing Club Alyssa Quinn Step five. Place mouth over nozzle. Inhale deeply. Enjoy the buzz that follows and repeat as needed. Huff on, bitches. Fiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016 Darling Daughter Audrey Carroll [T]ell them, dear child, of the female narrative not born of temptation & sin but of the blood of your blood singing out. Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016 Discount Caroline Chavatel I frame you like a museumed artifact, safe from thievery and me. Dear broken bread. Dear broken skull. Dear Thanksgiving. Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016 Vermont, Early Spring Hillary Katz In April snow lingers like a drought. Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016 Elegy for My Child / Current Chelsea Dingman [S]omeone I can't dream has left this body Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016 Badlands / The Lakehouse Jennifer Molnar You’re tempted to find God in every abandoned landscape: twist of black road snaking through dry grass, shroud of white hotel cotton, blank heaven that cannot Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016 The Devotion of St. Teresa of Ávila Rochelle Hurt But real sickness arrived like an invitation slipped under the door Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016 Bravado Erin Bertram It’s good to be incendiary, lit up, Sparked heel to crown. Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016 Three Poems Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello Generations are contained in her wrist bones, in whether she can constrain the nature of the bird. Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016 Three Poems Corinne Schneider Today I got my legs waxed. I needed someone to hurt me a little. Poetry, Spring 2016 Artist Feature: Milana Braslavsky Milana Braslavsky I work with domestic settings and distorted figuration, and the characters in my photographs transform themselves using basic materials including purses, pillows and their Online Issues, Spring 2016, Visual Art Artist Feature: Andrea Donnelly Andrea Donnelly This body of work will continue, as a collection of textile texts, to write its own meaning. It seems I will always be learning Online Issues, Spring 2016, Visual Art Artist Feature: Jane Hugentober Jane Hugentober Jane Hugentober is an American artist. Born in Indiana, Jane lived in New York City and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Online Issues, Spring 2016, Visual Art Artist Feature: Courtney Kessel Courtney Kessel In partial protest, I am putting the mother in the gallery. She is not the idealized mother painted with glowing beams of light smiling Online Issues, Spring 2016, Visual Art Artist Feature: Robert Mertens Robert Mertens Lying at an intersection of pedagogy, technology and post-minimal Fiber Art history, the performance installations I create explore ideas of failure, fidelity, language, transmission, Online Issues, Spring 2016, Visual Art
Under My Bed Jody Keisner If people always knew when intruders had broken into their homes, no one would ever die this way. I grab a chef’s knife, the Nonfiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016
The Great Depression Joyce Wilson Young Perhaps because of the housing boom and bust of the early 21st century, American society is now more aware of the “near poor” or Nonfiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016
Novelty Fades Laurette Folk She kept her head down, noting pieces of chrome, the crunch of sandal on pebbles on asphalt, the sound of whirring cars, a dead Fiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016
Mrs. Blunt’s Bequest Barbara Stowe Ruth had always said that when she was too enfeebled to live independently, she'd "off" herself, as she put it with characteristic candor. A Nonfiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016
Nakedness Siân Griffiths My body is a private and practical thing—something yielded to the production of children and the scrubbing of a bathtub, but not something I Nonfiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016
The Interview Alice Elizabeth Rogoff "Oh yes, there was a famous woman organizer who lived on Evans. If she’s still around, she would be very old now. Older than Fiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016
Herrschaft (Territory) Emily Van Duyne Again, a question of language—I use the possessive pronoun and I become ill at ease, a little sick, the way you feel when you’ve Nonfiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016
The Housewife’s Huffing Club Alyssa Quinn Step five. Place mouth over nozzle. Inhale deeply. Enjoy the buzz that follows and repeat as needed. Huff on, bitches. Fiction, Online Issues, Spring 2016
Darling Daughter Audrey Carroll [T]ell them, dear child, of the female narrative not born of temptation & sin but of the blood of your blood singing out. Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016
Discount Caroline Chavatel I frame you like a museumed artifact, safe from thievery and me. Dear broken bread. Dear broken skull. Dear Thanksgiving. Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016
Vermont, Early Spring Hillary Katz In April snow lingers like a drought. Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016
Elegy for My Child / Current Chelsea Dingman [S]omeone I can't dream has left this body Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016
Badlands / The Lakehouse Jennifer Molnar You’re tempted to find God in every abandoned landscape: twist of black road snaking through dry grass, shroud of white hotel cotton, blank heaven that cannot Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016
The Devotion of St. Teresa of Ávila Rochelle Hurt But real sickness arrived like an invitation slipped under the door Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016
Bravado Erin Bertram It’s good to be incendiary, lit up, Sparked heel to crown. Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016
Three Poems Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello Generations are contained in her wrist bones, in whether she can constrain the nature of the bird. Online Issues, Poetry, Spring 2016
Three Poems Corinne Schneider Today I got my legs waxed. I needed someone to hurt me a little. Poetry, Spring 2016
Artist Feature: Milana Braslavsky Milana Braslavsky I work with domestic settings and distorted figuration, and the characters in my photographs transform themselves using basic materials including purses, pillows and their Online Issues, Spring 2016, Visual Art
Artist Feature: Andrea Donnelly Andrea Donnelly This body of work will continue, as a collection of textile texts, to write its own meaning. It seems I will always be learning Online Issues, Spring 2016, Visual Art
Artist Feature: Jane Hugentober Jane Hugentober Jane Hugentober is an American artist. Born in Indiana, Jane lived in New York City and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Online Issues, Spring 2016, Visual Art
Artist Feature: Courtney Kessel Courtney Kessel In partial protest, I am putting the mother in the gallery. She is not the idealized mother painted with glowing beams of light smiling Online Issues, Spring 2016, Visual Art
Artist Feature: Robert Mertens Robert Mertens Lying at an intersection of pedagogy, technology and post-minimal Fiber Art history, the performance installations I create explore ideas of failure, fidelity, language, transmission, Online Issues, Spring 2016, Visual Art
