...Nadia Born Nadia Born To the Coast My daughter Penny woke up in the middle of the night, complaining that she was having other people s dreams. How do you know? I asked her silhouette in the doorway. She came through the dark to the bed- side, slipped against the heat of my thighs. I just know...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Talal Asad discusses his career, his ideas, and his future plans. An Oxford-trained cultural anthropologist, Asad began with fieldwork, studying the effects of colonialism on the political life of a nomadic tribe in northern Sudan. Asad was born in Saudi Arabia...

... © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 219 Contributors Poetry / Fiction Danner Darcleight calls himself “a laggard, a loafer, a liar. A major bean buyer.” He was born in 1976. “Concrete Carnival” is his second essay...

... far after they build them. Daddy said they hauled coal from here at Sage County to over there and put on ships and sold it to foreign coun- tries. Joy Ann sent money home for seven straight months after she went back, then she come home pregnant and Cleo was born at Uncle Burton’s house...

.... Spangenberg, PhD Jellyfish born in space aren’t happy On earth. I don’t believe in any hocus-pocus New-age mumbo-jumbo, but I hurt for this Species of boneless electric wonder Named after the moon. Self-possessed by A terrifying terrestrial bulk —​weight —​ They feel...

...Mara Beneway [email protected] Copyright © 2023 Mara Beneway 2023 Mara Beneway MAN AT THE BAR ASKS ME WHERE I M FROM I danced myself into the world, which is a small room inside a strip-mall dance studio. I was born there but I quickly became embarrassed so I tucked my umbilical...

... at the Poet’s Billow (thepoetsbillow.org). Jason Bredle lives in Chicago. His fourth book, Carnival (2012), was selected as the 2012 Editor’s Choice for the Akron Series in Poetry. Sarah Carson was born and raised in Michigan but now lives in Chi- cago with her dog, Amos. She is also the author...

... . 2009 . Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen . New York : Knopf . McGurl Mark A. 2012 . “ The Posthuman Comedy .” Critical Inquiry 38 ( 3 ): 533 – 53 . ———. 2013 . “ ‘Neither Indeed Could I Forebear Smiling at Myself’: A Reply...

... as someone born in the United States—read a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant—was not an immigrant. Thus, one of the primary tasks of the American Kennel Club was (and remains) to keep the registry of purebred pedigrees. By its own definition, the AKC was a club of clubs...

... © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 278 the minnesota review Contributors Fiction / Nonfiction / Poetry A. Whitfield was born in Virginia, became involved in a motorcycle gang at a young age, and has been incarcerated for the better part of three decades...

... helped me place some of my own ghosts in their proper realm. Chuck Carlise was born in Canton, Ohio, on the first Flag Day of the Jimmy Carter era. His chapbook, A Broken Escalator Still Isn’t the Stairs, is forthcoming from Concrete Wolf (2011 contest winner), and his poems and essays...

... heteronormativity, whether Hegelian/Marxist or liberal, used by the welfare national security state: (1) “newly born woman” ( là je une nais ); (2) a pun suggesting a feminine writing outlaw ( La Gente ); and (3) a nonexisting feminine subject ( la je n'est ). For Cixous and Clément, innovative newly born woman...

.... In this country we still don t have legal citizenship for the children of immigrants who were born and raised in this country or who have always lived here despite not having been born here. The problem is that despite one s being born and raised or having come when very young and living here for many years one...

... the mighty Mississippi River to float our logs through New Orleans and out to sea. minnesota review 98 (2022) DOI 10.1215/00265667-9563625 © 2022 Dustin M. Hoffman 13 14 the minnesota review Animal training. Being born in Maine, I thought I d seen the coldest worlds. But one winter in Minnesota I watched...

... of the old Comparative Literature: the skill of reading closely in the original.” On the other hand, she urges us “to consider the resources of Area Studies, specifically geared for what lies beyond the Euro–U.S.” (6). Area studies was born of the Cold War, but, admirably, it learned minority...

... Review, BOAAT, Redivider, Raleigh Review, Diode, Minnesota Review, Blacklist, Adroit, Harpur Palate, and Runestone. She is a Philadelphia native currently attending Florida State University s PhD program in poetry. Contributors 147 Sarah Taban was born in Delhi and grew up across the Indian subcontinent...

... Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940 [Durham: Duke UP, 2008]) James Thomson’s “Rule Britannia” (1740) claimed that the origin of the British nation as an imperial power was in the Briton’s natural-born liberty. The poem predicted...

... Association Emerging Writer Award in Creative Non-fiction, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Poetry Award, and a Best of the Net nomination. Shen Haobo, born in 1976, is considered one of the most controver- sial voices among the new generation of Chinese poets for being both...

.../00265667-3787851  © 2017 Virginia Tech 147 148 the minnesota review Christos Kalli, born in Larnaca, Cyprus, is currently studying for his undergraduate degree in English literature at the University of Glas­ gow. His most recent poems can...

... by an honest, service organization That understood community, equality; That helped those, who'd had less, to develop some hope. As I recycled bundled, left-over brochures, An Honduran-born co-worker helping me said "In Comayagua we would make houses out of these." ...