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 We are also honored to host a suite of poems from Sterling Plumpp and unpublished work from Toi Derricotte, Angela Jackson, Alexander Chee, Dinty W. Moore, and Kathleen Ossip, among other wonderful writers both familiar and less so.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

Poetry Angela Jackson Poetry Angela Jackson

My Father's Prayers

Every morning my father prayed on his knees

at the side of his marriage bed. He bowed

his head and poured his prayers into two loose fists

over his mouth. We watched in wonder

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Poetry Angela Jackson Poetry Angela Jackson

Summer and the City

(Chicago as was, in memory of Robert Hayden and his memory)

Summer nights cool came down

blotting heat like a kiss for colored children.

Heat surged

as we danced jagged up and down the street,

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