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 We are also honored to host a suite of poems from Sterling Plumpp and unpublished work from Toi Derricotte, Angela Jackson, Alexander Chee, Dinty W. Moore, and Kathleen Ossip, among other wonderful writers both familiar and less so.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

Angela Jackson 1/14/13 Angela Jackson 1/14/13

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,

Sterling Plumpp 1/14/13 Sterling Plumpp 1/14/13

Mississippi Suite

I have crossed over some

where I can buy a cross

road map For mummified worlds with

in words I invent

John D. Scott 1/14/13 John D. Scott 1/14/13

First Death In Nova Scotia

CONTRIBUTOR’S NOTE

To me, the cinepoem is the collision of two distinct forms of artistic practice—poetry and experimental film. While this collision seems to be at the very least potentially fruitful, I think it also forces many troubling questions.

Robyn Schiff 1/14/13 Robyn Schiff 1/14/13

DARPA Grand Challenge

CONTRIBUTOR’S NOTE

by Nick Twemlow

I have a three-year-old son. He loves to pretend he’s a fireman. So we dress up together as firefighters and put out fires, rescue people stranded on rooftops, and deliver medical attention to victims of various emergencies.

Tara Ison 1/14/13 Tara Ison 1/14/13

Needles

They’re in Needles for the night. At least, that was the plan. But Rick had shut his cell phone off against her early in the day’s white glare, and she’d lost sight of the weaving truck after his angry cutoff on the westbound I-40, just past the Arizona border.

John Bresland 1/14/13 John Bresland 1/14/13

Call for Cinepoems and Video Essays

Last year TriQuarterly began to feature the video essay, an emerging form Marilyn Freeman has described as “the mixed-breed love child of poetry, creative nonfiction, art house indies, documentary, and experimental media art.”