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Spring 2023

The Alembic

The Alembic - Spring 2023. 142 pages including covers and advertisements.

Table of Contents

Fiction and Poetry

• Bibars, Sofia, The Glittery Bits In Our Home, 11
• Christiansen, Celine, A Good Man's Grave, 23
• Clarke, Fiona, By The River Of Babylon, 38
• Dinges, Richard, Conductor, 39
• Dinges, Richard, Grim Reaper, 40
• Dinges, Richard, Raising, 41
• Ellis, Mark, A Lady Names Sorrows Bloom, 42
• Flores, Mariela, My Name, 43
• Flores, Mariela, Five Ways To Look At Hands, 45
• Flores, Mariela, Hardest Thing Is To Say Goodbye, 47
• Flores, Mariela, Trash Day, …

Spring 2016

The Alembic

Spring 2016. Full issue, 133 pages in total including front matter & table of contents.

Table of Contents:

• Levy, Jeffrey, A Story to Tell, 1
• Durbin, Branan, Namesake, 2
• Durbin, Branan, Hannah, 4
• Durbin, Branan, Zoraida, 5
• Price, Devyn, The Surly Bonds of Earth, 7
• Perchik, Simon, *, 17
• Moglia, Greg, Three Steps, 18
• Moglia, Greg, Try to Get Away, 19
• Moglia, Greg, Commander, 20
• Wright, Ben, 1000 Tea & Topology, 21
• Wright, Ben, Herstein & More Caffeine, 22
• Wright, Ben, Irrational Pi, 23
• Wright, Ben, Bullet from …

Spring 2015

The Alembic

2015. Full issue, 193 pages in total including frontmatter & table of contents.

Table of Contents:

FICTION

• Barefoot Princesses, Jennifer Cyr, 4
• My GPS, My Love, Walter B. Levis, 19
• Rejection, Sten Spinella, 28
• Kamaloca, Stephen Jarrett, 47
• Blinded by the Sight, Diana Vlavianos, 74
• Choice, Blake Kilgore, 102
• Four-and-a-Half Feet, Neal Mercier, 121
• The Village, Collin Anderson, 133
• Purple Petunias, Lee Varon, 159

POETRY

• Simic, Guy Thorvaldsen, 1
• Nomad, Catharine Lucas, 2
• Eileen Marú, Matt Gillick, 3
• Beams, Laurie Patton, 10
• Home is a Human Being …

Volume 27, Number 3 - February 1949

The Alembic

Volume 27, Number 3 - February 1949. 78 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Editorial"
• "Exchange"
• Daley, James T., Jr., "Miller's Reputation"
• Eagle, George L., "Embers In The Mist"
• Plummer, William H., "The Critic"
• Brott, Clifford J., "A Pastoral Meditation"
• Vayo, Harold E., "One Autumn Afternoon"
• Vayo, Harold E., "Winter Scene"
• Wooley, Charles F., "Kaleidoscope"
• Vayo, Harold E., "A Passing Thought"
• Henry, Wales B., "Meditation After Reading Dorothy Parker"
• Plummer, William H., "To A Meadowlark"
• Honnen, William, "Thirty Pieces of Silver"
• Henry, Wales B., "Unrequited Love"
• Henry, Wales B., "Idee Fixe"
• Eagle, George L., "Morning Classes"
• Vayo, Harold E., "I Wonder" …

Volume 27, Number 2 - December 1948

The Alembic

Volume 27, Number 2 - December 1948. 90 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Editorial"

• Doherty, Robert E., "Editors Also Know Despair"

• Brott, Clifford J., "Reunion"
• Boning, Thomas H., "66th Street, East of Broadway"
• Henry, Wales B., "Timpani in Tom-Toms"
• Geffroy, Guy, "The Way A Friend Would"
• Honnen, William, "Rue De Bom Jesus"
• Wooley, Charles F., "The Concrete Jungle"
• Brott, Clifford J., "Reverie"
• Beausoleil, Norman D., "Evolution of French Literature"
• Lynch, John J., "Gross Negligence"
• Henry, Wales B., "Five and Twenty Years Ago"
• Cochran, George Hunter, "Sonnet to Beauty"
• Eagle, George L., The Felon"
• Cochran, George Hunter, "One Rose"
• Marino, L. …

Volume 27, Number 1 - October 1948

The Alembic

Volume 27, Number 1 - October 1948. 58 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Paolino, Daniel, "Not I, Lord"
• Scungio, Raymond, "Rain in Trinidad"
• Doherty, Robert, "Adventures of Blunderjohn"
• Cochran, George, "Day Coach"
• Brott, Clifford, "Short Essays"
• Cruz, Valentine, "On F.E.P.C."
• Cochran, George, "Windsong"
• Kirtland, Robert, "St. Thomas Aquinas"
• Fleck, Richard L., "Resurrection"
• Henry, Wales B., "Clouds"
• Fitz Simmons, E. P., "Simplicity"
• Henry, Wales B., "Soap"
• Doherty, Robert, "On Gertrude Stein"

Volume 26, Number 3 - March 1948

The Alembic

Volume 26, Number 3 - March 1948. 105 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Alembiscope"

• Eagle, George, "Another Vintage"

• Brott, Clifford J., "Those Tender Years"

• Kurguz, Peter William, "A Students Prayer"

• Meagher, Francis T., "History's Lesson"

• Lynch, John J., "Modern Trends"

• Henry, Wales B., "The Dim Red Glow"

• "$64 Question"

• Cochran, Hunter George, "Modern Poetry and the New Slavery"

• Doherty, Robert E., "Memoirs From Bedlam"

• Weir, Fantasy, "Illustration"

• Scungio, Raymond, "Things Are Really Racy In Rio"

• "Football and the Friars"

• Eagle, George L., "Hearse-Verse"

• Doherty, Robert E., "From Europe About the Marshall Plan"

Volume 26, Number 2 - January 1948

The Alembic

Volume 26, Number 2 – January 1948. 71 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Editorial
• Poutray, A.R. "Three for a Dime"
• Cochran, George Hunter "To St. John of the Cross"
• O'Brien, John J. "Design for Intellectuals"
• Doherty, Robert E. "Austrian Interlude"
• Eagle, George "How Far We've Come!"
• Henry, Wales B. "The Twelve Steps"
• Scungio, Raymond "The Commander's Husband"
• Knickerbocker, Jr., M.R. "The Catholic Novel: Its Problems"

Volume 26, Number 1 - November 1947

The Alembic

Volume 26, Number 1 - November 1947. 71 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Editorial"
• Henry, Wales B., "The Uncertain Mind"
• Cochran, George Hunter, "Man To His Soul"
• D'Ambrosio, Raymond, "Turret and Tree"
• Goulet, Norman, "Social Justice"
• Doherty, Robert E., "Resume"
• Cochran, George Hunter, "Infinitus"
• Deasy, John, "Looking Down The Years"
• Boning, Thomas, "Tears"
• Fitz Simmons, Edward P., "The Village Art Show"
• Eagle, George, "Peculiar Company"

Volume 25, Number 1 - February 1947

The Alembic

Volume 25, Number 1 – February 1947. 58 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Editorial
• Doherty, R.E. "The Beast"
• O'Brien, John J. "On Coffee"
• Eagle, George L. "A Stranger in Strasbourg"
• Shanley, Joseph V. "Reflections"
• Doherty, R.E. "Thoughts on New York"
• Gnys, Edward L. "Chaos"
• Morrison, Coleman "On Floorwalkers"
• Eagle, George L. "Moment of Vision"
• Deasy, John "Living History"
• Fortin, Andrew G. "Effects of Studying the Essayists"
• Critique

Volume 25, Number 3 - March 1943

The Alembic

Volume 25, Number 3 - March 1943. 49 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Stafford, John, "Frustration"

• Davitt, John H., "Among The Missing"

• "War And Nutrition"

• Weintraub, Jerome Irving, "A Study Of Sir John Falstaff"

• Fournier, Conrad A., "Come Follow Me"

• Carroll, Jr., Walter F., "Auntie's Favorite"

• Buckley, John F., "Isaac Hecker And Brook Farm"

• "Reveille"

• "Divertissement"

Volume 25, Number 2 - December 1942

The Alembic

Volume 25, Number 2 - December 1942. 54 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Fingers In The Pi"

• Lee, Edward A., "In God We Trust"

• Gorman, Jeffrey, "On Etiquette"

• Davitt, John H., "Before The Wave"

• Stadnicki, Francis A., "Saroyanism And Surrealism"

• Shiel, James F., "Rauschning Has The Answer"

• Fournier, Conrad, "Check--$50,000"

• O'Shea, Joseph C., "Blueprints For A Just Peace"

• "By The Way"

Volume 25, Number 1 - October 1942

The Alembic

Volume 25, Number 1 - October 1942. 58 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "New Fingers in the Pi"
• Hughes, Riley, "A Catholic College and War"
• Gerhard, John, "The Father"
• Kelly, Matthew "Fast Freight"
• Kenny, Joseph, "Revolution in the Making"
• Holleran, Thomas, "Journey to Scotland"
• Kiernan, Leo, "Cancer Research"
• Fay, Michael, "We Shall Meet Again"
• Gerhard, John, "By the Way"

Volume 24, Number 4 - Summer 1942

The Alembic

Volume 24, Number 4 – Summer 1942. 55 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Kenny, Joseph "A Woman of Letters"
• Rosen, Louis "The Gazette Goes to Press"
• Gerhard, John "When the War is Over"
• Young, Peter "Need Money?"
• Shiel, James "Alembichords"
• Gerhard, John "The Truck"
• Sherman, James "Conquistador"
• Gorman, Jeffrey "On Late-Comers"
• Sharkey, John "St. Georgie and the Dragon"
• "By the Way'

Volume 24, Number 3 - March 1942

The Alembic

Volume 24, Number 3 – March 1942. 49 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Cavanaugh, Paul "Captain Charles E. Rosendahl, U.S.N."
• "New Fingers in the Pi"
• Mulligan, Thomas "Writing for the Alembic"
• F.M., Extension School "God Bless Them"
• Bracq, Edward "'Liberal Education'"
• McCormick, William "Certitude"
• Young, Kenneth "The Chinese Language"
• Murphy, James J. "In the Land of the Shamrocks"
• O'Shea, Joseph "The New Fleet"
• Maguire, Frank "Alembichords"
• Rosen, Louis S. "Futility"
• "The Enchanting Young Ghost"
• Shiel, James "By the Way"

Volume 24, Number 2 - December 1941

The Alembic

Volume 24, Number 2 - December 1941. 62 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Dedication"

• Sharkey, John S., "Poets At Sea"

• Shiel, James F., "Keating and the Four Masters"

• Hickey, Vincent J., "The House of Rurik"

• McWeeney, Leo, "The Hero of the Russian Peasants"

• Gill, James, "The Political Police of the Soviet Union"

• McCool, Edward, "Peter the Great"

• Kaminski, Robert, "The Soviet Press"

• Krupowicz, Z.A., "Some of Russia's Leaders and Governments"

• Greenstein, Maurice, "Stalin"

• Garber, Martin, "Social Life in Russian Farm Communes"

• Gennaro, Anthony, "Social Conditions of Russia"

• Maddren, Herbert, "Russian Language and Literature"

• Mulligan, Thomas, "Damon Runyon At College"

• "Alembichords" …

Volume 24, Number 1 - October 1941

The Alembic

Volume 24, Number 1 - October 1941. 49 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Dedication"

• "New Fingers In The Pi"

• Gerhard, John, "Defence Efficiency"

• Whalen, Jr., Frank J., "A Few Minutes Of Rest"

• Gerhard, John, "Brains"

• Cottam, Charles F., "Strawberry Love Song"

• Sharkey, John, "On First Looking Into Newspaper Rumor"

• Doyle, Thomas J., "Her Majesty The Cook"

• J. A. C., "Alembichords"

• "By The Way"

Volume 23, Number 4 - May 1941

The Alembic

Volume 23, Number 4 – May 1941. 66 pages including covers and advertisements. (Only 36 pages available in archival copy.)

• The Quality of Decorum
• Conway, Joseph A. "For the Fatherland"
• Rich, Harold "End of a Visit"
• Gallagher, Matthew P. "How Long, O Lord?"
• Murphy, James J. "Holy Man of Dublin"
• J.A.C. "Records and Discords"
• Greene, John "Thought"
• Maguire, F.J. "In Quest of Arcady"
• Jodaitis, Annie T. of the Extension School "Women's Posiition in the Early Social World"
• "By the Way'

Volume 23, Number 3 - March 1941

The Alembic

Volume 23, Number 3 – March 1941. 66 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Editorial
• Kaylor, Edward "The Rivals"
• Williams, Jr., Ira T. "Fool's Folly"
• J.A.C. "Records and Wrecked Chords"
• Sweeney, Charles E. "Children of the Sun"
• Gallagher, Matthew P. "The Master"
• "By the Way"

Volume 23, Number 2 - December 1940

The Alembic

Volume 23, Number 2 – December 1940. 64 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Dedication
• Perrotta O.P., Rev. Paul C. "The Soul's Lasting Armistice with Christ"
• Murphy, James J. "Queen at the Crib"
• Gallagher, Matthew P. "A Bow-Legged Saint"
• Sharkey, J. "The Hunt"
• Murphy, Leo "The Hill"
• Conway, J.A. "On Not Having Seen the World's Fair"
• Smith, Raymond C. "A Child's Christmas"
• Whalen, Frank J. "Jim Scares Me No Longer"
• Mulligan, Thomas A. "Go to the Office"
• McGovern, Charles "A Footnote to History"
• Williams, Jr., Ira T. "The Still of the Night"
• "By the Way'

Volume 23, Number 1 - October 1940

The Alembic

Volume 23, Number 1 - October 1940. 66 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "Traumwelt"

• Sweeney, Charles E., "Men Against A Tide"

• Rosen, Louis, "Fantasy At Night"

• Gallagher, Matthew P., "The Kettle"

• Maguire, Francis J., "Excuse Please"

• Conway, J.A., "The Wines of Germany"

• Falcas, John M., "To Prince Henry The Navigator"

• Williams, Jr., Ira T., "Lest We Forget"

• Anonymous, "Home of the Brave"

• "By The Way"

Volume 22, Number 4 - May 1940

The Alembic

Volume 22, Number 4 - May 1940. 66 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Jalbert, Russell R., "Fyodor Dostoievsky"

• O'Connell, James, "Escape"

• Mulligan, Thomas A., "Reward"

• Whalen, Jr., Frank J., "Monday to Monday"

• Napolitano, Ralph, "The Good That Men Do"

• Smith, Raymond C., "Shakespeare On Sleep"

• Hayes, J.T., "Lifter, Love and Butterflies"

• Conway, Joseph A., "The Old Harrington House"

Volume 22, Number 3 - March 1940

The Alembic

Volume 22, Number 3 – March 1940. 67 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Gallagher, Matthew P. "Only the Valiant"
• Rosen, Louis "King O' Old Time Fiddlers"
• Landry, Lionel J. "A Man of His Times"
• Kaylor, Edward "Vignette"
• Conway, Joseph A. "Traumerei"
• Bowen, George "Stand-Up"
• McGovern, Charles "The Earth and the Stars"
• Ryan, Mark John "Catholic Action and the Catholic Collegian"

Volume 22, Number 2 - December 1939 (Twentieth Anniversary Issue)

The Alembic

Volume 22, Number 2 – December 1939. Twentieth Anniversary Issue. 63 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Foreword
• Editorial
• LaCroix, John "Christmas Bells"
• Healey, Robert C. "Eroica"
• Geary, William Denis "Song of Experience"
• Beaudro, William George "Jovial Embroidery"
• Lynch, James J. "A Barbarous Epic"
• Skehan, Paul F. "Franklin, the Self-Made Man"
• Hughes, Edward Riley "Vox Ex Umbris"
• Hayes, John T. "Dance of the Years"
• Walsh, John P. "The Holy NIght"
• O'Reilly, Thomas J. "On the Art of Worry"
• Sweeney, Charles E. "World Beyond"
• Houlihan, John "Winter"
• Lynch, James F. "Ramelium"
• Samaan, Anis "Voltaire"

Volume 22, Number 1 - October 1939

The Alembic

Volume 22, Number 1 – October 1939. 66 pages including covers and advertisements.

• Dedication
• McGowan, James R. "The Anglo-Saxon"
• Sherman, Seymour A. "On the Appian Way"
• Sasso, Anthony B. "The Hoarders"
• Landry, Lionel J. "Take, for Example, Wagner"
• Kaylor, Edward "The Way of the Cross"
• Gallagher, Matthew P. "A Veteran's Tale"
• Houlihan, John "Loss and Profit"
• Hayes, John T. "Lesson in Liquid"
• Lehner, Francis "Charles Peguy"

Volume 21, Number 4 - May 1939

The Alembic

Volume 21, Number 4 - May 1939. 67 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "En Avant"
• Crowley, Francis, "Tick-Tick-Tick"
• Farrell, Thomas, "To Her"
• Healey, Robert C., "Alas, Poor Cobb"
• Gallagher, Matthew P., "The Glory of an Empire"
• Landry, Lionel J., "The Common Touch"
• Hayes, John T., "Solitary Solitude"
• Williams, Jr., T., "One Never Knows"
• McGovern, Charles T., "Loved I Not Honor More"
• Kenny, Herbert, "Well Done, My Son"
• Honnen, Jr., William H., "Papist Propaganda"

Volume 21, Number 3 - March 1939

The Alembic

Volume 21, Number 3 - March 1939. 56 pages including covers and advertisements.

Contents

• Editorial, "Urbi et Orbi"
• Wardle, Irving, "Tavern on the Turnpike"
• Carignan, Norman J., "Bad, Bad Benny"
• Landry, Lionel, "A Clear Prophet"
• Williams, Jr., Ira T., "Welcome Home"
• Houlihan, John T., "Adaptation of XXI of Les Regrets"
• Hayes, John T., "Bag of Oats"
• Sasso, Anthony R., "The Old Masters"
• Houlihan, John T., "I Hold a Drop of Water"
• Gallagher, Matthew P., "Armageddon"
• Ryan, Mark John, "Climbing Mount McHenry"
• Reidy, John J., "I Lose a Friend"
• Sherman, Seymour A., "On Water"

Volume 22, Number 2 - December 1938

The Alembic

Volume 21, Number 2 - December 1938. 66 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "To Men of Good Will"
• Healey, Robert C., "We, The Students, Elect"
• Carignan, Norman J., "Famous Infamy"
• McGovern, Charles J., "Oops! I Split An Infinitive"
• Gibbons, Walter F., "End of Day"
• Healey, Robert C., "Sights and Sounds"
• Wardle, Irving, "A House Built on Poles"
• Sweeney, Charles E., "Guiana Hell"
• Hayes, John T., "Old Schrieber"
• Williams, Ira T., "Ignominy"
• Sherman, Seymour, "On My Learning to Swim"

Volume 21, Number 1 - October 1938

The Alembic

Volume 11, Number 1 - October 1938. 65 pages including covers and advertisements.

Contents

• Healey, Robert C., "What Floor, Please?"
• Carignan, Norman J., "Decision"
• Lincoln, Milton, "Rebuff"
• Mulligan, Thomas, "We Wuz Robbed"
• Wardle, Irving, "Guns for Spain"
• FitzGerald, Louis, "A Couple of Years Ago..."
• Healey, Robert C., "Sights and Sounds"
• Landry, Lionel J., "Prelude"
• Gibbons, Walter, "Brother Sebastian's Monkey"

Volume 20, Number 4 – May 1938

The Alembic

Volume 20, Number 4 – May 1938. 66 pages including covers and advertisements.

• "College Men"
• Sullivan, Robert, "The Bells"
• Healey, Robert C., "The Great American Novel"
• Fanning, John H., "Lamb on Your Bosom"
• Sullivan, Robert, "Falling Stars"
• Sweeney, Charles E., "World Beyond"
• Aumann, Russell, "The Harvest Is Ready"
• Landry, Lionel J., "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
• Geary, William D., "The Carver of Nitsuke"
• Gibbons, Walter F., "The Worm Turns"
• Sheehan, Thomas F., "Brotherly Martin"
• MacArthur, Daniel J., "Enchanted Isles"
• "Editorial"
• "Obiter Dicta"