Issue 146

Summer & Fall 2014

  • Issue 146 opens with Brian Bouldrey's beautiful and devastating video essay "Dead Christ." Hans Holbein’s painting The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (a detail of which also serves as the issue’s cover art) acts as a gateway for Bouldrey to explore death and grief, pain and suffering, love and hope. “You out there, watching with me, hear me in the dark, and remind me I’m alive,” Bouldrey says.

    If there’s a unifying theme for Issue 146 it’s that pulsing desire to be heard in the dark. The fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in this issue are provocative and gut-wrenching, illuminating the trappings of existence in unique ways. Mystery, pain, grief, joy, love, hope abound.

    Wherever you’re reading Issue 146, whether in bed or beside a stranger on the train, when you’re finished and you've exhaled, allow whoever’s near to wonder where you’ve been and how you’ve changed—come alive—after TriQuarterly.

    Cheers,
    Adrienne Gunn
    Managing Editor: Adrienne Gunn
    Assistant Managing Editor: Noelle Havens
    Faculty Advisor: Susan Harris
    Literary Editor: S.L. Wisenberg
    Director of Planning: Reginald Gibbons
    Film Editor: John Bresland
    Fiction Editors: Carrie Muehle, Dan Schuld, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran
    Nonfiction Editor: Karen Zemanick
    Poetry Editor: C. Russell Price
    Social Media Editor: Ankur Thakkar
    Copy Editor: Lys Ann Weiss
    Media Architect: Harlan Wallach
    Technical Advisors: Alex Miner, Rodolfo Vieira, Nick Gertonson
    Undergraduate Intern: Brooke Wanser


    Staff: Ahsan Awan, Rebecca Bald, Jen Companik, Jim Davis, Jennifer Deeter, JL Deher-Lesaint, Aaron DeLee, Jesse Eagle, Jeshua Enriquez, Dan Fliegel, Dane Hamann, Ish Harris-Wolff, Beth Herbert, Alex Higley, Martha Holloway, Barbara Tsai Jones, Katharine Kruse, Jen Lawrence, Adam Lizakowski, Robin Morrissey, Marina Mularz, Troy Parks, Amber Peckham, Miyako Pleines, Lydia Pudzianowski, Nate Renie, Mark Rentfro, Paula Root, Caitlin Sellnow, Michi Smith, Megan Sullivan, Adam Talaski, Myra Thompson, Ted Wesenberg, Carol Zsolnay

Image from Dead Christ

Poetry Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan Poetry Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan

Cake

I baked you a cake. I know it's not your birthday and we don't know each other yet but I made this

for you. I know you're going to like it. I put all my favorite things inside so your tongue can learn

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Poetry Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan Poetry Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan

The Problem with Tarot and Online Dating

I draw three cards because I need to believe the fortune

has more weight than what I’m able to accomplish

in an afternoon. The ship is sinking or I am juggling

a hand holding the cup I’m going to refill now.

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