Inaugural Issue, 2009
COVER DESIGN: Amy Gates
COVER ART: "Circle Cycle XI" by Wayne Leal; 36 High by 36 Wide; sand, rusted nails, iron oxide acrylic
Online Content
Our inaugural issue includes: prose by William Ayers, Ricardo Cortez Cruz, Noah Eli Gordon, Davis Schneiderman, and Curtis White, poetry by Brenda Hillman, Paul Hoover, Tung-Hui Hu, Claudia Keelan, Alessandra Lynch, Sheila E. Murphy, Dennis Phillips, Sun Yung Shin, and Rosmarie Waldrop, drama by Phillip Dawkins and Paula B. Stanic, art by Wayne Leal, and more. It also features the winner of the Packingtown Review Prize for Critical Response, Deborah DeNicola's essay "Hoover's Eternal Moments." You can now download the PDF of the entire issue on our blog: the writing is as fresh as the day it was copyedited!
Table of Contents
| Creative Nonfiction | |
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| Will the Real K. Nelson Please Stand Up? | |
| from Dysgraphia: Three Spider Stories | |
| Drama | |
| Yes to Everything | |
| Late-Night Shopping | |
| Fiction | |
| The Cavarello Assault | |
| The Women of Marvel/Slippin' Into Darkness | |
| Jane Byrne Discusses Edward Hopper's Nighthawks With Her New Neighbors, Cabrini-Green, 1981 | |
| Last Meal | |
| from ScatØlØgically Yours: DJ Inside Out vs. Terra form Dub Crew (or a body catch a body) | |
| Poetry | |
| For My Father's Death, Before It Happens | |
| Resolution | |
| I am a Boy of a Small Frog | |
| All Shadows. Then the Light | |
| from Signs of Order In The Universe 2: Chassis Ground Condenser Unspecified Component |
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| First Darkness | |
| Earth's Shadow | |
| The Windows (Speech-lit Islands) | |
| Basic Exercises for Divining the Future | |
| The Man (trans. John Flynn) | |
| Little Elegy Unsung Rabbits |
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| AGITATION: rain iii Meditation XXIV Meditation XVI Meditation LXVI |
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| Night of the Dulcimer | |
| Cello (Strings for Bones) Expert Testimony |
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| from Noun That I've Been Watching: convention. | |
| from Studies in Fourteen Lines: Kinch from On: On Days Shadows Pass |
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| Pastoral That Makes a Turn Down Old Warson Road | |
| Quill (kwil), n. | |
| August 1910 Bongeun-Sa Temple, Samseong-Dong of Gangnam-Gu District |
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| Benveniste The Islands Problem III |
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| Memory of Water | |
| White | |
| Doves | |
| What's In the Body | |
| XXXI/XXXII/XL XXXIII/XXXIV/XL |
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| The Sting | |
| Home Flight (trans. Stephen Frech) | |
| Scholarship and Critical Commentary | |
| What I Might Have Said... | |
| Hoover's Eternal Moments (Winner of the 2008 Packingtown Review Prize for Critical Response) | |
| Review of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement, eds. Lisa Gail Collins and Margo Natalie Crawford | |
| Walking in Author's Tracks: Translating Ahmed Fu'ad Nigm | |
| Review of The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon | |
| The Sonnet as Political Form in Geoffrey Hill's "An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England" | |
| Review of Komikaze: Strip Album #6 | |
| Idioms of Remembering: In Search of a Lost Ladino: Letter to Antonio Saura by Marcel Cohen, and The Black Seasons by Michal Glowinski | |
| David Foster Wallace: A Remembrance | |
| White on Cruz: An Introduction to "Women of Marvel/Slippin' into Darkness" by Ricardo Cortez Cruz | |
| *Invited contributions from the members of the University of Illinois at Chicago community. | |
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Editors-in-Chief
Tasha Fouts, Snezana Zabic
Managing Editor
Roxanne Pilat
Fiction & Non-Fiction Editor
Cynthia Cravens
Poetry Editor
Tasha Fouts
Drama Editor
Ivan Rodden
Translation Editor
Snezana Zabic
Scholarship Editor
Madeleine Monson-Rosen, Pete Franks
Art Director
Jennie Berner
Cover Design and Production
Amy Gates
Copy Editors
Matthew Corey, Jen Moore
Webmaster
Todd Marren
Associate Editors
Nneka Alexander, Jennie Berner, Garrett Brown, Matthew Corey, Star Costello, Amy Gates, Alice Haisman, LaVonne Harris, Chad Heltzel, Meg King, Beth McDermott, Carrie Messenger, Megan Milks, Jen Moore, Nadya Prittendrigh, Stephanie Reich, Nicole Russo, Jay Shearer, Kenneth Stewart, Jenny Tabbarra, Kristy Ulibarri
Intern
Louis Kahn
Faculty Advisers
John Huntington, Cris Mazza, David Schaafsma, Luis Urrea