...Chad Reynolds © 2014 Chad Reynolds 2014 Chad Reynolds From The Doctor The women come to me as men or the men come to me as women. They speak with disdain about their bodies, claim they aren’t theirs, call life a cruel joke, ask if I can set things straight...

... track and tenured faculty members who teach in English doctoral programs in Canada, this article examines the relation between, on the one hand, the nationalities and the rankings of the programs in which these scholars obtained their degrees and, on the other, the tier of the programs in which...

...Lonnie Busch © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Busch 41 Lonnie Busch One Year from Now The room is small and bright like the inside of a hundred-watt light bulb and smells serious and antiseptic like a doctor’s office because...

.... I, on the other hand, am a very healthy woman. I m not even on antidepressants, and everyone is on antidepressants these days. My doctor told me I am one of the healthiest people he has ever known. Do you know how many people die from natural causes these days? I shook my head. It s not that many...

... © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 Contributors Creative Lucy Biederman is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. Other poems of hers based on early Ameri- cana appear in Common-place, Sixth Finch, The Pinch, and The Laurel Review. Conor Bracken’s...

... with the doctor today has cor- roborated what two home tests and Mira’s sudden intolerance to the smell of yogurt already have —​she is pregnant, a reality that scares the hell out of you, because even though she hasn’t outright said so, she doesn’t need to, you’ve been a couple for years, you’ve talked...

... racism of the wealth gap, to which I’ll return, and the heartbreak and structural sexism for families trying to negotiate childrearing during that brutal two decades. In most fields, most of those who begin doctoral study with the intention of an academic career fall away long before grasping...

... the slitter got turned on, his work glove a boy's mitten filled with a bloody snowball. Low whispers, the hospital's locker room: a doctor's hand grabbed sterile pliers, ripped the dangling finger free— ordered a pain shot to be given later...

...Dean Young © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Dean Young Go On Too Long I believe in the unspoken word. The breeze in the subtle April leaves pleads, Shut up! Shut up! says the mud to the wheel, whispers the oil to the hinge. An intermediate state, says my doctor...

..., 2002). Mike White is a doctoral candidate in creative writing at the University of Utah and serves as the poetry editor for Quarterly West. His recent work has appeared in journals including Poetry, Margie, Fulcrum, The Antioch Review, and The Iowa Review. Laura Madeline Wiseman...

....” Inside Higher Ed , September 17 . www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/09/17/harvard-will-change-job-ad-asking-recent-doctorates . Bowen Zach . 1986 . “‘Young Blood’ and Other Gothic Inspirations: The Hiring Process.” ADE Bulletin , no. 85 , www.mla.org/bulletin_085046 . Bush George...

... soon, gotta go.” He presses the END button on the phone and rises from his seat because of an overwhelming impulse to move. “What’s wrong with me?” he says under his breath. Rick said I’ve been quiet, overdue for a mid-life crisis. Maybe I should see the doctor. Walking...

..., Consumption and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe (Duke, 1996) and co- author of Saturday Morning Fever: Growing Up With Cartoon Culture (with Kevin Burke, St. Martin’s, 1999). Jim Cocola, a doctoral candidate in English at University of Virginia, is finishing a dissertation...

... and Silence: Listening to Composition with Bakhtin. He was recently named Conger-Gabel Teaching Professor of English at the University of Kansas. Todd J. Goddard has a JD from University of Connecticut School of Law and is currently a doctoral candidate...

... heartbeat. The student nurse leaves, and Alisha rips the printout along the accordion paper’s perforations. She looks it over, shakes her head again, and calls my doctor over the loudspeaker. Like being an expert at anything, there are insider tricks for an opti­ mal hospital stay. If you are nice...

..., and elsewhere. Hannah V. Warren is a doctoral student in the English department at the University of Georgia, where she studies poetry and speculative narratives. Her poetry collection [re]construction of the necromancer won Sundress Publications 2019 Chapbook Contest, and her works have haunted or will soon...

... positions that doctoral students in my program fill annually. She listened to the list and promptly declared that for graduate students this work isn’t service; it’s how we earn the “privilege of being represented.” What is lost in this reduction of service to a form of representation...

... . “ Remarks at Meeting with the Medical Doctors Assembled to Offer Assistance to the American People in Areas Affected by Hurricane Katrina .” Granma ( Engl. ed. ), September 4 . ———. 2005b . “ Speech Delivered in the Ciudad Deportiva .” Granma ( Engl. ed. ), September 19 . Cottle Simon...

... at Linfield College. Critical José Felipe Alvergue is an assistant professor of twentieth- and twenty- first-century American literature and transnationalism at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. Joseph Darda is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Connecticut. He...

... Contributors Poetry & Fiction Benjamin Balthaser is a doctoral student in literature at UC-San Diego. His work has appeared in Left Curve, Another Chicago Magazine, and Quarterly West. Jonathan Barrett works in the mortgage industry. His poems have appeared in such magazines...