Issue 143

Winter & Spring 2013

Hello and welcome to the sixth online issue of TriQuarterly. We're excited to feature cinepoems for the first time, in the spirit of Man Ray and Anaïs Nin, but with a few more resources at our disposal than the pioneers of the genre. We are also honored to host a suite of poems from Sterling Plumpp and unpublished work from Toi Derricotte, Angela Jackson, Alexander Chee, Dinty W. Moore, and Kathleen Ossip, among other wonderful writers both familiar and less so. If you thought anything about this issue, please share it with us: triquarterly@northwestern.edu. If you just read and enjoyed, that's perfect too. --L.P.

Managing Editor: Lydia Pudzianowski
Faculty Advisor: Susan Harris
Literary Editor: S.L. Wisenberg
Director of Planning: Reginald Gibbons
Media Architect: Harlan Wallach
Technical Advisor: Alex Miner
Social Media Editor: Ankur Thakkar
Copy Editor: Ruth Goring
Graduate Fellow: Ben Schacht
Undergraduate Intern: Erik Tormoen

Book Review Editors: Amber Peckham, Matt Wood
Chapbook Review Editor: Dan Fliegel
Fiction Editors: Matt Carmichael, Carrie Muehle, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran
Nonfiction Editor: Michelle Cabral
Poetry Editor: C. Russell Price
Art Director: Laura Svendsen

Staff: Ignatius Aloysius, Rebecca Bald, Jen Companik, Kevin Davis, Aaron DeLee, Vincent Francone, Dane Hamann, Ish Harris-Wolff, Noelle Havens, Elizabeth Herbert, Alex Higley, Sarah Hollenbeck, Martha Holloway, Nath Jones, Jen Lawrence, Phallon Perry, Cory Phare, Jenna Rabideaux, Lana Rakhman, Vanessa Bates Ramirez, Nate Renie, Mark Rentfro, Paula Root, Dan Schuld, Maureen Searcy, Michi Smith, Virginia Smith, Travis Steele, Megan Marie Sullivan, Myra Thompson, Alisa Ungar-Sargon, Karen Zemanick

Brandon Davis Jennings 1/14/13 Brandon Davis Jennings 1/14/13

Ammoniacal Masculinity: A Brief Exercise in Correlation

First Chance is a bar outside Kadena Airbase. It is, anti-ironically, the first bar one passes when walking away from Gate Two and down the yakitori vendor-, drunk-American-, and (at times) one-hundred-year-old-woman-urinating-on-the-curb[1]-lined street.

Amy Benson 1/14/13 Amy Benson 1/14/13

Come In, It's Free

We were invited to Dublin to curate a robotic art show. Ireland was then the Celtic Tiger, having leaped from its position as one of the poorest nations in the EU, second only to Portugal.

Jen Hirt 1/14/13 Jen Hirt 1/14/13

Monster Magnificent

I found on the sidewalk one day a catastrophe of insects. The legs of a walking stick braced under the cellophane wings of a cicada, but the body was closer to a beetle’s. Black eyes bulged on a bulldog head.

Dinty W. Moore 1/14/13 Dinty W. Moore 1/14/13

Of Striped Food and Polar Bears

I met my first zebra the summer I worked at the Erie Zoo as a fill-in zookeeper. My duties included chopping apples and carrots for the elephant breakfast one week, thawing foul-smelling slabs of mystery meat for the lions a week later, and on the third week, throwing frozen mackerel across a wide moat to a pair of jaded polar bears.

Toi Derricotte 1/14/13 Toi Derricotte 1/14/13

A Woman Writer Aging

What’s it like? If you’re not a woman writer aging, I can’t believe you’d be interested. Why would you want to read about difficulties that you think you’ll never have? Neck pain. Knee pain. Hip pain.