Volume 30, Issue 1 (2016)
Letter from the Editor
Reader,
I have learned a lot from editing the review this fall, but I think now more than ever I appreciate the voice. Not one singular voice, not only those I agree with, but the abstract voice — that narrator, that imagined author, the person who reads aloud to me in my head — because it has an important power. It has shown me things that I cannot see from my perspective, and I have been caught selfish, guilty, and wrong by this voice. It has made me a better human.
I chose to place "Black & Unarmed" on the first page of this collection — not the first page of the poetry section, not the first page after the table of contents, but the first page — because I believe we collectively need to listen to this voice, give it the time you give to your phone when you first wake up, to the ingredients list on the cereal box, to the expiration date of your milk.
Listening is not listening anymore. It has become strangely conflated with hearing, with an involuntary notice of a sound. Listening, in the way I ask you to listen, involves more than hearing and understanding the words, and understanding what they mean. To listen is to give your time, your eyes, your still hands holding the page, or rested gently in your lap. It is treating the voice as the only object in the room for some time. I have amazed myself by listening, and that is all I ask of anyone.
Art
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Courtenay Graham
Lumber Yard
Adam Rathbun
Lincoln Logs
Adam Rathbun
Broken Window
Zach Taylor
Nightmare Mask
Zach Taylor
Portrait of a Woman with a Flower
Erwin Brea
Portrait of a Woman Smoking
Erwin Brea
Self Portrait No. 47
Erwin Brea
Space Out Over Amsterdam
Jing Xu
Space Oddity
Mi Lin
None
Xinxin Zhang
QR Woman
Panpan Deng
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Miao Xu
Skull
Kerrigan Clark
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Courtenay Graham
Fiction
Sunday Drive
Katelyn Rogers
A Setting Sun
Cy Stoltz
Non-Fiction
Consider the Willow
Rebecca Sellers
Alberto Abbiati and the American Dream
Morgan Weller
Patty's Showclub
Emily McCarter
Poetry
Black & Unarmed
Odessa Fernandes
Auf Wiedersehen
Carter Vance
To Eggs
Claudia Monnett
Reflection
Christine Beckmann
Marquitos
Leopoldo Burguete
Cold Feet
Casey Murray

Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Hayden DeBruler
- Managing Editor
- Mallory Hasty
- Faculty Advisor
- Joseph Heithaus
- Design Editor
- Brittany Buckner
- Cover Art
- Amber Calderon
- Poetry Editor
- Rachel Higson
- Fiction Editor
- Kate Emmert
- Nonfiction Editor
- Daniel Schultz
- Art Editor
- Ia Tserodze
- Poetry Readers
- Hannah Hearon
- Ivaylo Pasev
- Jacob Strauss
- Matthew Curran
- Holly Whistler
- Art Readers
- Sarah Butler
- Emily McCarter
- Byron Mason
- Megan Haltom
- Nonfiction Readers
- Rachel May
- Byron Mason
- Fiction Readers
- Lis Hawkins
- Rebecca Sellers
- Christine Beckmann
- Kendyll Owens
- Marissa Brown
- Maria Mendez
- Sarah Guendert