...Lonnie Busch © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Busch 41 Lonnie Busch One Year from Now The room is small and bright like the inside of a hundred-watt light bulb and smells serious and antiseptic like a doctor’s office because...

...Lara Ehrlich © 2017 Lara Ehrlich 2017 Lara Ehrlich Ruler of the Inverted Year You come alone, your footsteps smoking. The first in generations to walk the Road of Bones. There are no signs, and snow chokes the channel between the trees. Those who tried before you walked until they...

...Emma Bolden © 2017 Emma Bolden 2017 Emma Bolden After Twenty Years of Trying I Decided to Be I sorried. I slept & sheeped. I was under the line of an aimed gun. I became ages ago. I slept & sorrowed, our lady, a flower petaled over the edge of the bicycle lane. I had nowhere to...

...Wendy Wisner © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Wendy Wisner Nursing: Two Years Old 1. As he falls asleep, he tucks his free hand under the elastic of my sports bra. This is what he’ll remember even after it seems absurd to suck on his mother’s breast— his...

...Gaurav Desai © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Gaurav Desai Introduction Katrina, Ten Years Later Published almost a decade after one of the most devastating disasters...

... recent responses to this question in an effort to begin to map the landscape of literature and criticism after secularism. J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year provides an example of what such a criticism of presence would look like as well as the models of public life it entails. Coetzee's example...

...Calina Ciobanu This article argues that Margaret Atwood’s postapocalyptic MaddAddam trilogy, composed of the novels Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood , and MaddAddam , imagines how humankind might come to reconstitute itself at the end of the Anthropocene—that is, once it has decimated the...

... interdisciplinarity was not yet trendy and continuing with her nineteen years in the rhetoric department at the University of California at Berkeley. She describes the evolution of her relationship to Freud's thought, her ongoing commitment to feminism, her more recent engagement with Heidegger, and the place of...

... period of the Cold War to that of globalization. Through an interlinked series of essays published separately over fifteen years, he argues that the “cultural turn” that redefined the study of culture in the first world was mirrored by similar changes in the second and third worlds. The circumstances in...

... sixty years. Smith describes her foray into feminist activism in the 1960s; her love of English poetry but disaffection with the intellectual provincialism of English departments in the 1970s; her increased occupation during the 1980s and 1990s with problems of aesthetics, linguistics, and value theory...

...Stephen A. Nelson Although it has been nearly ten years since the Hurricane Katrina disaster, many misconceptions (myths) still surround the events that took place. Among these myths are that levees failed the day after Katrina made landfall, that the failed levees were on the Mississippi River...

... worked submarine twenty years but slipped into the pig and we had to tap the heat anyway, or you can sure enough get black lung from working that coke oven but they won’t call it that pickle line cold roll five stand batch...

... think of their salaries after tenure as something similar to a pension. After all, in some fields, many folks will not receive tenure until they’ve been working for low wages for twenty years or more: a dozen years to get the degree, another three to four years serving contingently...

...Tom Wayman © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 the minnesota review Tom Wayman Carrot For years I dwelt in an apartment whose window gazed at a bridge across Burrard Inlet over which traffic at every hour rose toward downtown or returned, while the hours themselves flashed...

... year, I betray my kin. Hard-wired to herd, they go where others follow. I lead them in. But even wild horses believe in sin. I’ve seen the way their eyes roll back in fear. Still, I betray my kin into that corral. Deceit’s a thin path beaten through my brain. So...

...Kirk Schlueter © 2016 Kirk Schlueter 2016 Kirk Schlueter Eschatology Autumn Saturdays, my father and I   chase trains out of town, burning down leaf-strewn roads alongside iron rails and clacking freight.   Eight years old, I huddle in the front seat...

...Carolyn Welch Scarbrough © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 22 the minnesota review Carolyn Welch Scarbrough Nurses in Spring There is a pause and the conversation turns and we try to name the deaths so far this year. The windows...

...Michelle M. Tokarczyk © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 38 the minnesota review Michelle M. Tokarczyk Step Stool Skimping on grocery money, or even the church’s weekly basket, each year Mom tried to rummage me a birthday. I hope she...

... tease out a longing? Chief of meat—after all these years— is she still as easy as a whitetail? ...

... Every other day to slowly turn The Goldmine into a bodega, While I manned the counter and the yuppies, doling out Parliament Lights till 2 a.m. The 26-year-old you hired Made me look older, but he only wanted to watch Living Color On shrooms, and to get in my mouth. Can you tell me...