Yesterday after I had left the office and was standing outside waiting for my carpool ride, I felt something on my foot. I looked down. . . .
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31:2 Spring 2008
Featuring work by: Mathew Chacko, Scott Coffel, Michael Cohen, David McGlynn, James A. McLaughlin, Paisely Rekdal, Rebekah Remington, and John J. Stazinski.
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Poem of the Week
July 29, 2008
This week's poem is "Interregnum" by Christina Hutchins, which originally appeared in TMR 31:1 (2008). Hutchins has recent poems in The New Republic, Antioch Review, Prairie Schooner, Denver Quarterly, Southern Review, Southern Indiana Review and Sycamore Review. She has worked as a biochemist and a Congregational (UCC) minister, and she now teaches Whitehead's philosophy at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. Her unpublished manuscript, Interregnum, has been a finalist for the National Poetry Series, New Issues Poetry Prize, Fordham's Poets Out Loud, Utah State's May Sarton Award, and the Colorado Prize.
You can listen to the author read this poem on our podcast.
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Science Fiction
From start to finish, David Ohle's "'06" seems set in a familiar landscape, but one is immediately at a loss to account for that familiarity. For only in the sense that its characters speak English and gradually reveal themselves to be unmistakably human does this tale, at first glance, retain any vestige of a known reality. But Ohle's scope is broad, and on the whole satirical, giving us leeway to read parallels between the social structures we know and the social warps and fissures we find on the page. "‘06" belongs to that select group of highly literate science fiction stories that are able, miraculously, to speak to us about our lives in our own language on wildly unpredictable and fantastic terms.
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The Author as Grimeball
August 13th, 2008 by Evelyn Somers
If you’re one of the millions who are suckers for brain candy and/or celebrity news, it’s an act of extreme willpower to ignore the daily onslaught of lists-of-things-not-worth-listing on MSN.
One such item recently caught my eye: “Hot and Dirty: Stars We Like Better Grimy . . .”
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“And if I ever lose my eyes . . .”
August 11th, 2008 by Evelyn Somers
This morning my husband startled me with one of those questions that because they are so odd and come out of nowhere can really alarm you: “If I had to have my eyes removed, what would you do?” I almost . . .
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