the Review
 
Issue Number 31 - Spring 2007

 
Editorial Comment Highlights
 
In Kelsy Hejjas' interview with fiction writer, Dede Crane, Crane says, "Writing is partly a subconscious process so you don't have a whole lot of control over what grabs your fancy to write about." If issue #31 is representative of 2007's subconscious, we're uncovering a whole lot of pain.

The editors agree that this issue is one of the darkest we've published so far. We have poems about losing mothers, losing dogs, losing face, losing hope. Yet, in elegiac writing, some kind of hope often emerges; as if, simply by acknowledging the truth of our sorrow, we feel better.


Bill Stenson, one of our founding editors, has retired from teaching so issue #31 will be his last. Without Bill's incredible vision and outlandish work ethic, it is doubtful the magazine would still be here today. Bill has left an incredible legacy and he will be missed.

 
 

“He crosses his arms--the knots of muscle just allow them to cross--and stares down at me. "Does it intimidate you to hear that your physical superiors also know their way around the Penguin Classics Library?""


Demolition, by Seamus Sullivan

 

 
Table of Contents
 
cover art: old truck by Andrew Johnson
fiction
 

Matthew Hubbard

Stone Dog
Yasmine Lucas

My Picture of You

Konstanze Winter Belly Up
Riordan Forsyth Wrapped in Gold
Juliette Repole Alley Cats
Ben Effa Robber
Kelsy Hejjas Fireworks
  The Beginnings of Maturity
  L'Opéra
Leah Pura Billiards
Russell Graham A Ten Minute Course in Calligraphy
  Moshing
Seamus Sullivan Demolition
   
poetry  
Anthony Allegrezza Ellipsis
Madura Subramaniam One July Day, My Sister Claude
  Willow
Francesca Bianco Raven Dream
Morgan Pudwell Twisted Flavours
Kayleigh Batten Wet Streets
  Burning Salt and Pine
  Scare Crow
Diandra Barsalou Illumination
Sarah Marinoff just in case
Elena Blanco Moleón Elegy for Río Almendares
Chad Fitz Leaving Me When Things Change
  After High School
Matthew Hubbard Child Rearing
  Suggestion
Michael Atkinson Snowball Effect
  Suited Connectors
  Grandmother's House
Rosetta Young The Late Greats
  M.
Jessica Stern Joy
Alex Cassidy Fifteen-year-old girls don't have strokes my....
Rachel Maxymyshyn The Last Time I Looked at a Rainbow
Karri Barrett Want a God-Awful Love Poem
Emily Bridger 5:00 Till Closing
  How to be Romantic
Dani Ward St. Bernadette's
Michelle Cheimak Things Happen
Angharad Wylie I Dream of my Birth
  How to Get Away
   
Samantha Noyes Too Late
  Peeling Oranges
Julia Kopplin Deafening
Samantha Lee Chopsticks
Jocelyn Ward Helen
  Paleontology
April Piluso Mirror
Adebe DeRango-Adem Just a Rose
Tristan Curwen Adolescence
Germain Chan Five p.m. Party
  In Vain
Vanni Lau My Heart is an Empty Room
Jee In Chung Another Story
Lucy Wittrup Snakes
  Plywood Daisies
Krista Antonio daddy no. 5
  the ashes that drip...
Ottilie Short Lucky Button
  Dread
Leah Pura Some Novice Violinist
Julian Freichel In the Dissatisfied World
Emily Lewis Sunday Afternoon
Jasmine Hendricks Dead Roses
Jack Chan Open Letter
  You Bring Out the Gentleman in Me
Chantal Tischer Thanksgiving
Michael Hamilton Surfacing
Arthur Lo Pig
Emily White Barn Dance
Kailey Metcalfe Little World
  Lotto
Brandon Moore Enough
Cailee Norris-Jones Faded Rose
Olivia Whittick The Vessel
  Memento Mori
Charlotte McGee Full of Grace
  As For Now
Karyn Wisselink Who Could Love a Poetess?
Tiffany Chu Monday, After the Fair
Stephanie Norman Vertigo
  Lab Research
Kendra Tubbs Get in the Car
   
visual arts  
Dane Kellow Alfred Eye
   
interview  
Kelsy Hejjas Interview with Dede Crane