...Doug Paul Case Doug Paul Case I Want to Sleep with Aaron Schock and by “sleep with” I mean let him do whatever it is he’s been dreaming of doing to a boy willing to let a United States congressman do whatever it is he longs to do with another man as he lies awake...

... .” In The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology , edited by Žižek Slavoj Santner Eric L. Reinhard Kenneth , 134 – 90 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Kathleen Biddick What Does “Deconstructing Christianity” Want? The Institutional Imaginary of the Incarnation...

...Katie McMorris Katie McMorris I Want to Fall in Love (in a Fabric Store) owned by weaver ants and caddisflies. We spend the day touching cotton and caressing each other against the patterns until you re dizzy: greens mixed with oranges, polyester blends side by side with fleece. And the cashiers...

...Sean Lause 2005 the minnesota review 2005 Lynndie England is the daughter we always wanted I saw her once down on Summit Street setting stoplights on fire. Don't get me wrong— If I saw her now I'd probably level her But you don't know her in her secret veins...

...Michael Levan © 2016 Michael Levan 2016 Michael Levan Wanting Snow in August There are days in August when I want to be smothered by a foot of fresh snow, which makes sense if you’re midwestern or if you can only fall asleep to the radio hissing some ball game...

... Anthropocene concept, to filter out a heuristic for the analysis of literary texts. In the second part, this perspective is applied comparatively to two German-language novels that address geologic eras. Through the two examples, by Max Frisch and Ilija Trojanow, I want to argue that although environmental...

...Nicholas Lepre © 2015 Nicholas Lepre 2015 Nicholas Lepre Things We Hate It’s my sixth week of sleeping on Jarret’s loveseat in Brighton where we mostly watch things we hate and try not to kill each other. Jarret’s roommates want me out of the apartment. They glare at me as I pre...

... label. Young girls can sometimes know so much about what men want that they misinterpret these wants as their own desires. I was good at both falling in love with boys and showing them how to fall in love with me. If I could have lived perpetually in new loves, I would have. A mysterious, old...

...Elizabeth O'Brien © 2016 Elizabeth O'Brien 2016 Elizabeth O’Brien Thérèseon a Bench Seat, 1939 She sticks like a childhood memory or a scab sticks to me. She swizzles her legs, like straws with oscillating stripes, cherry red, she wants...

... of Memory Design, I wanted nothing more than to attend, so I applied. I received my acceptance, and it was the happiest day of my life. I was not good at much of anything else, but sketching, rendering, making static images come to life these came to me naturally. I did not expect training to be so grueling...

... didn’t want to tarnish his kaleidoscope metaphor with the intrusion of mathematical reality.) Besides the Seuss-themed ties and kaleidoscopes, in his recep- tion area there’s a red popcorn cart with a silver scoop and wax-coated bags for you to help yourself. I happen to be of the opinion...

... the rights of other women. They don’t have the rights that they deserve. There is really no reason to support that government, but I am not so naive to say, “OK, let’s attack Iran, bomb it, change the regime.” I don’t want a regime change by America in Iran. If any regime...

...Matthew Lippman © 2013 Matthew Lippman 2013 Matthew Lippman Spinach I just want to be thirsty. I don’t want to be sexy. I don’t want to be tall or full of bluster. I just want to drink whiskey with Mike and Matthew but am allergic to malt so have to settle...

...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...

... as a law than as a challenge, a rule that clearly was the first to fall since here she was calling me, raising a white flag from her bunker of rules. “I wanted to say hi,” Claire said, her voice thick and mellow over the answering machine. I picked up. “Hey stranger,” I said. “What’s up...

... of others—who simply wanted to work with someone whose vision they shared, whom they trusted was going to do right by them and was going to give them the freedom to write the way they wanted to write. Their name would carry the day and, as long as we published smartly, they’d be fine. I...

...Eunsong Kim © 2014 Eunsong Kim 2014 Eunsong Kim Gumihos She never appeared that way in front me she was always young and classifiably breedable. Black hair, that kind of skin, and and In picture books they drew her in twos. Her and the soul she wanted kept in jars, lockets...

... studies program at Carnegie Mellon. Williams I want to cover the arc of your work and how you went from Explanation in Geography to A Brief History of Neoliberalism. But first, because the readers ofminnesota review are largely a cultural studies audience and the book...