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... . Cocola 143 Jim Cocola Eyes on the University (on Derek Bok, Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education [Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003]; Jacques Derrida, Eyes of the University: Right to Philosophy 2, trans. Jan Plug, et al. [Stanford...

...Simon Perchik Copyright © 2020 Simon Perchik 2020 Simon Perchik You died with your eyes open You died with your eyes open though the scream smells from salt hidden in the chimes pulled by boats and reefs that become waterproof once they leave land the way shorebirds track a shing eet...

...Shauna Barbosa Shauna Barbosa Your Eyes Blink Five-Minute Miles Knot by knot I pulled my hair out on the ferry. Who knows what these arms are doing above my head I would lick my own face to taste the sea. Take his bulbs for their brightness. People who enjoy...

...Margret Grebowicz; Zachary Low Reyna Personhood, language, and voice are heavily culturally overdetermined categories, particularly today, when they appear to many posthumanist critical eyes as saturated with anthropocentrism. But the answer is not to avoid or “overcome” them. The working...

... is happening before our very eyes. The problem of the Anthropocene is not simply one of scale (whether geologic or temporal) but of a change in the very way we order our world. If history is text, then history is over—numbers have replaced text. James J. Pulizzi Predicting the End of History...

...Nat Holtzmann [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Nat Holtzmann 2024 It's morning. I wake from a dream: jay at the window, black eye trained. It takes—off. Under my blanket I am so warm and peaceful, a good girl. I am such a sweet girl, and warm too. I'm very good and kind...

...Byron Landry © 2016 Byron Landry 2016 Byron Landry Daddy Hid Fire You ever steal smokes from your daddy. The boy’s hair was sun- blond, brown at the roots. My daddy doesn’t smoke —​the brown- haired boy’s eyes were small in the light. He remembered the box of matches...

...-edged as light. And finally he'd shrink against a ewe's soft coat and close his eyes and pretend he was not where he was. And too old at age twelve to pretend or imagine anything any longer he would open his eyes and sometimes he would sigh or else he would just stand up quickly and quietly he would...

...Brad Green © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Brad Green The Devil’s Fingers Eliot enjoyed the blue rasp of his brother’s sleepy breathing, but then a floorboard near the bedroom door creaked, the sound cracking into the room. Eliot kept his eyes closed, though. He knew those heavy boots...

... about sneaking into your bed. i’ve been known to break rules, but walls were thin, and i don’t think we would’ve made it ’til morning. not with serpent eyes watching mine, arms always twisting. he cried over a nightmare of you and me. i...

.... “Fine.” His voice is tight. 16 the minnesota review She can picture the defensiveness creeping into his eyes, as it does whenever she tries to help him resuscitate his career. “Kiss the girls. Goodnight, sweetie.” She hangs up before he can answer...

... that it has ever been easy. The ice, the fast, the walk —​these are the obvious things. You know all about this from the documentaries, hushed commentary rousing tender admiration for our species’ unparalleled will to live. Such tenacity, you might say while dabbing a hot eye, something to inspire us...

.... Golden mile emetic. So. Green splinter peel painty bench. Piering. A cross. The moveable her eyes on. Eye. Wood eye. Eye. A wood. Either gnaws. The gnaws. Its knot warm. Yer knot wrong. Either gnaws. Eye. Right enough. Watch Trev and Ann eat...

...Tyler McMahon © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Tyler McMahon The King of All One-Liners It was a Tuesday when I came home from school and found Grandma lying on the living room floor with a black eye. Dad was working tens, and wouldn’t be back for hours. A half-empty bottle of Gallo...

...Sara Nović © 2013 Sara Nović 2013 Sara Nović On Late-Stage Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Should you find yourself coming to while being wheeled out of your high school calculus class, it is best not to open your eyes. Feign uncon­ sciousness for a few more seconds, until the EMTs have...

... perfect, pale chest. Suddenly she’d have an urgent need for thumbtacks, or lighter fluid. I had heard somewhere about an animal with two pairs of eyelids, cats maybe, or lizards. I was always reminded of that watching her with him. We’d stand at the counter and it was like her eyes...

... in a silver basin like so many slippery fish. Then, formaldehyde will be pumped into your veins by a number nine needle. A dab of super glue seals your eye lids shut so that they don t pop open for the viewing and also because, guess what? Your eyeballs have been removed. Your hands will be shaped...

... at the nose and work her way to the tail, and it wriggled the whole time. One man knifed another after the other nearly bit out his eye. Though, drug dealers issued free samples, craps was taught without conse- quence, and there was a house, shutters shut, that offered you a girl with the face of the girl you...

.... Because you are cleansed by adoption, and the earlier continuous was only the vehicle to carry you to this more immediate present in which your father lives in you continuously. Because beginning is constant, and your eyes are writing this as you travel left to right, then to now, now to now...

... of loving, after all, she had no one but him. The animals stopped talking to her after she gave birth to Moamen; she tried several times but ultimately gave up after the hens almost plucked out her eyes, and the rabbits kept on biting her. At first, she thought they were jealous, that they thought she'd...