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... needed a drink. “I’ll have a Maker’s Mark, please. And a 7-up.” She smiled at the bartender, who winked at her and turned away to fix her drink. She downed the whole thing in four gulps. “That’s a mean cocktail for a lovely young lady like yourself.” Jack O’Dell, Senior Vice...

...Barrett Bowlin © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Barrett Bowlin But I Can Only Do It Once Before the fire blows out a corner of the house where Jack Marsh and his family live, before my father’s oxygen tank overheats and sends shrapnel into the neighbor’s yard, he opens his eyes...

... offer in such a context? A few days before the event a disturbing—indeed a traumatic— event occurred that helped me answer that question. Jack Saul, the conference organizer, called me, I assumed, simply to confirm the final details of my participation. In the course of the conversation he...

...Doran Larson © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Works Cited Abbott Jack Henry . In the Belly of the Beast . New York : Random House , 1981 . Adams Gerry . Falls Memories: A Belfast Life . Lanham, MD : Roberts Rinehart , 1993 . Chevigny Bell Gale , ed. Doing...

... . Coupe Laurence . “ Kenneth Burke: Pioneer of Ecocriticism .” Journal of American Studies 35.3 ( 2001 ): 413 - 31 . Desilet Gregory . “ Nietzsche Contra Burke: The Melodrama in Dramatism .” Quarterly Journal of Speech 75 ( 1989 ): 65 - 83 . George Ann Selzer Jack...

... traders, who in turn will see their profits surge. One of the key motives for businesses to join the scheme, therefore, is the promise of increasing customers and turnover. CEO Jack calls this approach fiscal localism. Crucially, and unlike any of the Dutch initiatives, the project was set up in close...

... of C-Block. I read again the Old English script on the ledge above the steps: “Watch Your Step When Entering C-Block.” Along the walls of the lobby stood a group of new arrivals—new jacks—like a display at the Army- surplus store: seven mannequins dressed in dark green, not quite...

... other smaller jacks do. To be planted in one spot, in one forest, for more than a day must feel like sprouting roots. Which is why I m offering up my axe in any way it might be needed. Or sans axe. We can try that. We can try. Skills One swing, as I said, and I take down any tree. I can clearcut...

..., not apt for disaster but trapped under rib of heart, peeled from throats of birds Prairie open at the stoplight, bank line, black jack, Phat Cat video rental, corner location the neighborhood kids call Murder...

...David Welch © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 David Welch Ways with We Mirror People [after Jack Spicer] I wanted to touch the bell because I wanted to touch a body.   I wanted to say O, I do not know what to not do with the body, then the sounds came...

... Propelled Grenades, even bamboo pungi sticks had snake eyes for my flesh.That' s the way it was. Starlight shadows and one-eyed jacks. Prayers to Elephant and the God of rock n' roll. A silver crucifix to save a bullet to the head. Was. Is. Was. Night...

... porch doors to every fainthearted live oak. Branches shudder like I do. Reminded of        his sleazy Texas blues, I’m almost too shook up to join in, too chicken-shit to reveal my trashiest cards— Jack of all drunks, Queen who stumbles out of bathrooms...

..., changing what Jack Metzgar calls the “American class vernacular,” that is, the annoying habit US politics and culture have of, as he puts it, “forgetting that there is a working class” (189). The new, class-inflected work being done in literary studies explores how...

... Jack Metzgar, Roosevelt University in Chicago Don Mitchell, Syracuse University Kimberley I. Phillips,The College...

..., 2006. Schuster, Jack H. and Martin J. Finkelstein. The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006. Scott, Jonathan. Socialist Joy in the Writing of Langston Hughes. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2007...

.... Kent: Kent State UP, 2006. Schuster, Jack H. and Martin J. Finkelstein. The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006. Smith, Barbara Herrnstein. Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human. Durham...

.... How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: The Lessons of Gore Vidal. Durham: Duke UP, 2005. Genette, Gerard. Essays in Aesthetics. Trans. Dorrit Cohn. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2005. Gleason, Abbott, Jack Goldsmith, and Martha C. Nussbaum, eds. On Nineteen...

... Education and the Low-Wage Nation [New York: NYU P, 2008], Christopher Newfield’s Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class [Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2008], Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein’s The American Faculty: The Restructuring...

... Sherry Lee Unkon, Youngstown State University Jack Metzgar, Roosevelt University...

..., progress, power, and experience through an intimate lens. She has received fellowships from the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, Jack Jones L iterary A rts, C allaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and the Poetry Foundation s Emerging Poets Incubator. Her first full-length poetry collection (forthcoming...