... ): 65 – 82 . Devoney Looser Why I’m Still Writing Women’s Literary History Recently several colleagues asked me to defend my scholarly work. One of my areas of expertise is early modern women’s writings, and these colleagues apparently found that troubling. Indeed, what...

... Democracy: Addresses and Papers on the Present World Situation . London : Watts and Co. , 1932 . Zizek Slavoj . “Against Human Rights.” New Left Review 34 ( July-Aug. 2005 ): 115 - 31 . Lisa Fluet I’m Rubber, You’re Glue (on Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret...

...: the 100 most significant inventions; 100 most important women; 100 greatest events. Mentally disturbed Millennium Pilgrims, convinced they are characters from the bible, have flocked to the Holy Land. I'm compiling my own lists: The 100 worst atrocities; the 100 craziest people...

..., you know, limber-like. She plays with the strings between her boobs and arches her one foot on the dusty floor like she’s gonna leap over the counter. My friends would say, “How you doing?” And that would be that. But I says, “Can I help you?” like I’m a damn suit working...

...Sean Lovelace © 2013 Sean Lovelace 2013 Sean Lovelace 18 to 22 Me? I’m squared away. OK, maybe I drive slower. I drive slower. Sometimes I will confuse actual wheels and thoughts about wheels. I’ll think well, both take you places and I will smile into someone’s fore- head, like...

... welcome to try and find other women to sleep with but that I’m fine and his face falls because he thinks I am playing a trick on him. I’m not. He has no game, none at all. If I hadn’t taken matters in hand, we would still be sitting on his couch in his bachelor apartment, his arm stretching around...

... live, in Texas, not very open to it. So I wasn’t comfortable very 68 the minnesota review much. Now I’m uncomfortable in a different way because my country was pronounced an “axis of evil.” What does that mean? To call a country “evil” and to single out certain...

...Christi Clancy © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Christi Clancy Echo-Lala I’ve been seeing Ivan for a few months, long enough to find out he likes to pretend I’m a dancer. He sounded embarrassed when he told me, but it’s alright. I know the men I date wish I was someone other than who I...

... be much more careful of. And I would be thicker in developing the connections with people like Gloria Anzaldúa’s work. I like what I did, but I would do more with it. The cyborg is in the same litter with the other critters that I’m still working...

... to digression, but I’m not on the spectrum.) I can assure you that Dr. Jerome is neither morose nor macabre. He wears ties decorated with Dr. Seuss illustrations and keeps a collection of kaleidoscopes in his office that he encourages patients to freely sample. You can even take one home with you...

... that’s what it is. Medical encounters render me helpless. Like a child. Even though I’m forty years old and run my own business, I tremble when the nurse slides the frosted glass window and calls my name. She tells me to get on the scale so she can weigh me—one hundred and ninety-five pounds...

... on it earlier this week that someone sent me. I was talking to this young man last night, and he said, “I didn’t really relate to the pigs. I’m Jewish.” I’d like to research the barbecue mystique in the South and its role in expressing anti- Semitism. Steffen Do you...

... not, and he was drunk and dramatic over it. “I’m bled out,” he called to the Saturn, “so just bury me in this crypt right here.” In the car, Monk was sitting before the steering wheel, confused, and Boodle was slumped righ- teously in the passenger seat, muttering through his mustache. In the back...

... experiences. The book was written, among other things, to say that you can’t just go from experiences to politics, because unless you have some kind of awareness of theory you’re not going to know what your politics are. That’s what I’m showing in the first half...

...Melinda Wilson © 2014 Melinda Wilson 2014 Melinda Wilson Dance for Me You Six-Plumed Bird of Paradise So I take off even my socks, climb onto the countertop and mimic beauty like I’m not a bag stuffed with gizzard and bone. But it doesn’t feel right...

... the relation between narrative and character, and one would say that I’m trying to bring a novelistic perspective to the study of theory by saying, What kind of character is projected by this thought? Why do you have to be complacent to be a pragmatist? What’s that about? What...

... and theory waned. But I’m curious about what you were doing then and what you were interested in. I saw on your CV that you did some poetry readings and wrote poetry. Schamus I was very involved in that, and I did the Berkeley Poetry Review, and I founded the chapbook publishing poetry series...

... next to literature. How do you see composition fitting in an English department? Bartholomae I’m on record as saying that composition with a small “c”—that is, an attention to writing in school—is best sponsored in the English department. I’m really concerned about what’s...

...Robert Cording © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Robert Cording A Dog’s Nose Muzzle tilted to the wind, nostrils flaring, lips parted —​a golden retriever just like ours seemed to live on air this morning when I walked the beach. Now, alone and bored, I’m looking...