...Salita N. Seibert © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Work Cited Armitage David Braddick Michael J. , eds. The British Atlantic World 1500-1800 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2002 . Salita N. Seibert Riding the Transatlantic Wave (on Laura Doyle’s Freedom’s...

...Timothy Otte © 2015 Timothy Otte 2015 Timothy Otte When acting as a wave There is a giant curled in the belly of the earth, and another giant curled around the first. And in the heart of the inner giant are a man, a woman, and a small bird. The bird is in the hands of the woman...

...Mia You “Rouse the Ruse and the Rush” is a long poetic sequence the author composed between 2020 and 2021, amidst various waves of COVID-19 outbreaks and the acceleration of “pro-life” efforts in the United States to restrict access to abortions at local levels and, ultimately, to overturn Roe v...

... was not bustling with niggas never sat well with me. Like, teeming with damn near overflowing with a sea of locs, and dreads of box fades and afros of the same cuts we get where we part the side and get a line drawn to emphasize the design. I want to see waves on those at the cookout by the Great River...

... [there even when I’m not], and you are the intake after rhyme:         silence, echo, wave in the wave of waves. If sorrow was a cup of pudding, if sorrow was the spike of light on the little pond, if sorrow was the pond and you were the spike of waves,              the little light...

... on a certain word or phrase and I’ll start to repeat it. When it happens, it’s like the record in my head gets scratched and I black out. The first time was when Ray, my ex-husband, took me to a White Sox game. I got stuck on “banner yet wave” during the national anthem, right...

...Brianna Nelson Copyright © 2020 Briana Nelson 2020 Brianna Nelson harm is too many types of hunger to call any one one thing, then another leaning into a frayed portfolio, a seasonal drifting wave over wave over wave the wood skins my skin like i can t make out concrete bubbles laid wrong...

...Helen Palmer Helen Palmer Break Separating the surfaces of the upturned pyramid are its glass walls. Waves are refracted as they enter and leave the prism. The atrium refracts the most, causing superior waves. Left atrium is split along its vessels...

... sweat. This lion-man ran up to him waving his paws about. The boy began to cry, but the lion kept at it —​ probably he couldn’t think of anything else to do —​the sobs coming in gasping waves. His dad ran to a stall, grabbed a pirate sword, and stabbed the lion...

..., but Sarabia 29 the rest of you chili-chokers best pronto vacate these here, U-nited- States. Y apurarse, cabrónes!” Everyone relaxes. It’s Tío Chu. He hops out the car and waves to the cop who throws it in reverse and leaves. My tío rolls up his pants and walks into the water. All the kids...

..., was posturing for a rub on its underside. Invited her in then unprovoked it attacked. In the middle of a heat wave, one might think there is no such thing as reprieve, but the shells of slain creatures litter the asphalt. Excessive sun having broken their bodies in twain, so that the something remaining might...

...Gloria Frym © 2013 Gloria Frym 2013 Gloria Frym Mother May I No, you may not go into the water, mother says as we sit on the lawn outside the public pool, all of us, a rare Sunday during a May heat wave, eating bologna sandwiches, mother her cottage cheese and tomatoes with wheat...

... that smelled like old shoes. The wave of sea odor from the fish stand forced its way into her sinuses, while the sight and smell of oysters, glistening and snotty, made her gag. Even so, her stomach was wrenched by hunger. How could she be so repulsed, yet at the same time, starving...

... hugged Shelley and felt a wave of warmth. “Isn’t it just wild?” she asked, heading for the kitchen ahead of me. “I feel like movie stars must feel. All week long I’ve been calling people, reminding them to watch it.” “Luckily I don’t have to worry about anything...

... while avoiding rampant scientism has fueled center activities since its inception. The laboratory is not only or essentially a thermody- namic system but also a quantum event, by which all individuation of object or person is the effect of wave diffraction and temporal permuta- tions...

... the džezva, a long-necked coffeepot with a long handle. “Look how weak this coffee is. There’s no sediment at the bottom. A fortune-teller couldn’t tell anything from this.” “Come on uncle Emir.” Rizo waves him off. “It’s not good to be superstitious.” “Why not?” 42 the minnesota review...

... clear that the human element will factor into any popular historical narrative. This choice between people or policies is at play in a recent wave of publications anticipating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the New Deal. From the hastily produced and mildly exploitive The New Deal...

... t want to go like she does, if she likes stupid things, that s fine, but I don t. I was holding a pale blue dress over my arm and felt a wave of guilt for how excited I was to try it on, and then anger, something hot and dangerous. C mon, Lia, Mom said, softly, when I was in the fitting room...

...- whelm structures of historical sense with waves of useless suffering, and so Blanchot deigns it a mark of respect that one not try to account for disasters with usual standards of sense making. Escalation and evasion —​it is the conjunction of these two modes of writing the disaster...

... Kieselhorst is jogging his thirty-third lap around the deck of New Iowa when he sees the gray blur slipping over the waves toward him and grabs for the binoculars. For a moment he wonders if Tolu’atu’s bringing the supplies a day early, but before his index finger’s even on the focus knob...