Issue 138

Summer & Fall 2010

  • Welcome to the debut issue of TriQuarterly Online. After a distinguished history as an international literary magazine, this university-sponsored print journal, which has been edited by Charles Newman, Elliott Anderson, Reginald Gibbons, and Susan Hahn, now launches in electronic form. You'll find outstanding new fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama, plus book reviews, interviews, commentary, and a lively blog. The electronic format also allows us to present work from TriQuarterly's extensive print archives. We hope you enjoy this new form of what has been one of the premier literary journals of the nation, and we look forward to receiving your comments and responses on our blog.

    Faculty Advisers: Gina Frangello, Susan Harris
    Managing Editor: Cheryl Reed
    Technical Adviser: Matt Wood
    Copy Editor: A. C. Parker
    Staff: Charles Berret, Danielle Burhop, Aaron DeLee, Tedd Hawks, Julianne Hill, Sarah Jenkins, Mimi Nguyen, Dana Norris, Hana Park, Lana Rakhman, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran, Gina Vozenilek, Jeremy Wilson, Whitney Youngs, Nate Zoba

Poetry Bob Hicok Poetry Bob Hicok

Every story is a creation story

There was a better couch

in his convertible couch. He revealed it

the day a fly kept flying into my face.

It was trying to commit suicide, he explained.

The better couch had a better couch

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Poetry Bob Hicok Poetry Bob Hicok

Ode to the small shit

The moon gets a glass of milk

before sleep. A PBJ

for the woods I own according to the state

but not the Navajo. When these offerings

are gone in the morning, ants

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Poetry Bob Hicok Poetry Bob Hicok

Four seasons and puss: a love poem

Lovers who say “you are everything to me”
aren’t thinking puss electroshock you are
caravan puss electroshock deaf dog
contrail the orange November leaves
of pear trees instant butterscotch

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