A story by alum Kim Frank (fiction, ’11) appears at Shadowgraph. You can read the piece online…
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A poem by alum Annie Kim (poetry, ’09) appears at Shadowgraph. You can read the piece online…
A poem by alum Rachel Brownson (poetry, ’14) appears at Shadowgraph. You can read it online…
A piece by alum Erin Stalcup (fiction, ’04) appears at Stir:
“That girl can’t roll her Rs.”
That’s the first thing a student ever said about me, my first day of teaching, while I called roll and Yahaira Rodríguez, Dulcita Contreras, Yafreisi Ríos, Ydanis Reyes, Guillermo Méndez, Julissa Cruz, Yakimela Betriz Núñez, Vladimir Díaz, Alfonica Ramirez, and Zuleika Ramirez either were or weren’t there.
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A nonfiction piece, “If You’ve Made it this Far, You Might as Well Leave a Message,” by alum Matthew Olzmann (poetry, ’09) appears at Waxwing:
If you’re listening to my voice, it’s too late for me, but there’s still time to save yourself. What you need to know is this: our dead would not stay dead. We fought them off for as long as we could, but soon most of us were infected and joined their ranks. We’ve run out of ammunition and they’re so hungry.
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If you called my house in the middle part of the 1990s, that’s the type of message you’d hear when the answering machine picked up. A fake apocalypse — and in the background some guy trying not to laugh.
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The story “Fatherhood” by alum David Rutschman (fiction, ’02) appears at Waxwing:
I was teaching my son to throw stones into the water when he became a stone and I threw him in the water.
“My boy, my darling boy,” I called and I hurled myself after him and I became a stone and we tumbled down to the silent muddy bottom.
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Two poems by alum Gary Copeland Lilley (poetry, ’02), “I Told You” and “The Bushman’s Medicine Show,” appear at Waxwing:
I Told You
Her voice was an earworm in my head
over and over a constant cerebral crawl
I-told-you-you-can-not-trust-Jake who I lent
the 100 bucks that I could be
taking her out to dinner with
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Two poems by alum Jennifer Givhan (poetry, ’15), “Sewing Feathers” and “After the Miscarriage II,” appear at Waxwing:
A daughter lifts away, an intricate
set of homemade wings
sewn to her back.
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A piece from alum Geoffrey Kronik (fiction, ’12) appears at The Common:
I was in Hamburg for a language course, and all week the syntactical floodwaters of German grammar had been rising. By Thursday night I was drowning in homework and would need Friday morning, before my afternoon class, to stay afloat.
Then the friend I was staying with, a German lawyer, suggested I join him in court the next morning. I could attend a session with him, see the German system, meet a German judge. An appealing prospect that alas would leave no time for homework.
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A poem by alum Matthew Olzmann (poetry, ’09) appears at The Offing:
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Dear Angel of Death,
A long time ago, one of my writing teachers said, “Make a list of what you’re most afraid of and write to the thing at the top of the list.” I looked at my list, saw your name, and ignored that teacher for the rest of the year.
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