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Commonthought, (Fall 2009), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

A Letter To Serafin, John Minczeski

University of Akron Press Publications

A Letter to Serafin is a multi-paneled study of juxtapositions and duplicities, where history becomes a living entity, not just a shadowy artifact. Minczeski colors his lines with dark hues of wry comedy and sharp tones of pathos, transcending geography and time by providing testimony on behalf of those who no longer can. This is a vital book for anyone who has ever been transported by a piece of artwork, or haunted by a photograph that projects meaning beyond its borders.

"If the aim of poetry is to speak the unspeakable, then John Minczeski gives voice to all that goes …

Commonthought, Vol 20 (Spring 2009), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

Zephyr: The Tenth Issue, Zephyr Faculty Advisor, Angelena Pepe, Ian Guite, April Mroz, Brittany Campbell, Brianna Pierce, Jackie Proulx, Cassandra Britton, Elisabeth Ziemba, Alyssa Yeager, Chelsea Mott, Sarah Tuttle

Zephyr

This is the tenth issue of Zephyr, the University of New England's journal of creative expression. Since 2000, Zephyr has published original drawings, paintings, photography, prose, and verse created by current and former members of the University community. Zephyr's Editorial Board is made up exclusively of matriculating students.

2009 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

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The Lantern Vol. 76, No. 2, Spring 2009, Chelsea Catalanotto, Robert Whitehead, Callie Ingram, Paul Rossman, Katherine Murphy, Maire Moriarty, Pete Lipsi, Josh Aungst, Nathan Taylor, Ellyn Rolleston, Liz Brennan, Nicole Dillie, Stephanie Bartusis, Robert Evans, Amber Hyppolite, Kevin Bendis, Christopher Schaeffer, Shane Kowalski

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Coffee and Morning
• Charlie Brown Testifies at the Trial of Westley Allan Dodd, Convicted Child Killer
• In a Women's Bathroom
• The Naming
• An Urban Nightmare
• In the Yellow Kitchen
• City Streets
• Engineering
• Walter Bixby Walks Through Hunsberger Woods
• Sing a Happy Tune
• Apology
• Will You Wear a Helmet?!
• Molly Can't Answer the Phone
• Marked Man
• He's Under a Lot of Pressure
• Ne Me Quitte Pas
• Last Night
• All of Our Second Hand Books are Lightly Worn

Map Of The Folded World, John Gallaher

University of Akron Press Publications

Map of the Folded World, John Gallaher's third full-length collection, examines the eros and desperation of suburban America with the precision of a cartographer's eye. But as its title suggests, it does so according to the polar opposite of convention. More concerned with subtext than narrative, often childlike in tone and propelled by the logic of innocence, Gallaher's poems don't shy away from a bottom-line sensibility: “If you can just run fast enough,” one poem offers, “no one will ever die. // Do you remember that? / And are you better now?” This is a book filled with swimming …

Tomorrow's Living Room, Jason Whitmarsh

Swenson Poetry Award Winners

May Swenson Poetry Award Volume 13, with foreward by Billy Collins. Tomorrow's Living Room offers a pleasantly disorienting verbal territory. The collection is alternately wry and dark, hopeful and bleak, full of unexpected light and laugh-out-loud incongruities. We begin to see that the shape and the furniture of Jason Whitmarsh's world reflect our own world (and may in fact be universal), but we're considering them through completely new terms of engagement.