Issue 139

Winter & Spring 2011

  • Welcome to the second issue of TriQuarterly Online. In the months since we launched, we've attracted an enthusiastic audience from around the world, and can boast visitors from over a hundred countries on six continents. In this and every issue you'll find outstanding new fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, 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 look forward to receiving your comments and responses at triquarterlyonline@northwestern.edu.


    Managing Editor: Dana Norris
    Faculty Advisor: Susan Harris
    Technical Advisor: Matt Wood
    Copy Editor: Ruth Goring
    Graduate Fellow: Ari Bookman

    Book Review Editor: Charles Berret
    Fiction Editors:Danielle Burhop, Tien (Mimi) Nguyen, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran
    Nonfiction Editors:Charles Berret, Sarah Hollenbeck, Dana Norris
    Poetry Editors: Aaron DeLee, Lana Rakhman

    Staff: Emily Ayshford, Alex Bergstrom, Allison Bletnitsky, Alana Buckbee, Jen Companik, Katherine Defliese, Schuyler Dickson, Ann Gadzikowski, Cathy Gao, Barbara Ghoshal, Dane Hamann, Noelle Havens, Tedd Hawks, Beth Herbert, Sarah Jenkins, Sarah Kalsbeek, Jen Lawrence, Kevin McFarland, Erin McNulty, Sambath Meas, Ashley Mohney, Hana Park, C. Russell Price, Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Paula Root, Misty Shelley, Virginia Smith, Leah Struass, Megan Sullivan, Matt Tzuker, Elizabeth Winkowski, Karen Zemanick

Poetry W.F. Roby Poetry W.F. Roby

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A night drive, somewhere on the coast.

There’s a ghost in the car, a noun waiting

not lost but far away, a plaything

or a thought stuck in my throat—

it takes so many bees to fill a hive.

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Poetry W.F. Roby Poetry W.F. Roby

Oh

Close-ups are impossible to swallow,

the details anatomical, subtext comical, some

cheap trick of a zoom button. Instead

let’s praise the big and fundamental: a wedge of soap,

a stone for the soup wilting away in the still-warm tub.

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