Issue 150

Summer & Fall 2016

  • We are pleased to present TriQuarterly’s 150th issue. Throughout these pieces, imagery and movement explore the human condition and its relationship to the physical world. The issue opens with Ander Monson’s video essay, “Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies,” in which he juxtaposes human extinction and technology, joining sounds, images, and words to encapsulate the natural and digital existence. Blair Braverman offers a contrast between grayscale images and layered language in “Two Poems About X, 2009 and 2014.” And Heather Hall creates an echo between the visual and the verbal in her dreamlike “Shark.”

    The poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction here also offer imagery that moves between human consciousness and the world that surrounds it. Whether it is experienced hardship and loss in Keveh Akbar’s poem “Unburnable the Cold is Flooding Our Lives,” the discovery of perspective in Marc Nieson’s “Orientation,” or the memory of carefree young love in Bonnie Nadzam’s “The Silver Motorcycle,” the movement of mind, body, and soul come together within the confines of space and time.

    This issue could not have come together if not for the talent and dedication of our contributors and staff. My gratitude to everyone who had a hand in this issue.

    We present the 150th issue to you. Enjoy.

    Cheers,
    Noelle Havens



    Managing Editor: Noelle Havens
    Assistant Managing Editor: Carrie Muehle
    Faculty Advisor: Susan Harris
    Director of Planning: Reginald Gibbons
    Film Editor: Kristen Radtke
    Fiction Editors: Carrie Muehle, Mark Rentfro, Stephanie Tran
    Nonfiction Editor: Martha Holloway
    Poetry Editor: Dane Hamann
    Social Media Editor: Ankur Thakkar
    Copy Editor: Lys Ann Weiss
    Media Architect: Harlan Wallach
    Technical Advisors: Alex Miner, Rodolfo Vieira, Nick Gertonson

    Staff: Ahsan Awan, Emily Barton, Jen Companik, Aaron DeLee, Jesse Eagle, Jeshua Enriquez, Dan Fliegel, Andrea Garcia, Ish Harris-Wolff, Katie Hartsock, Alex Higley, Barbara Tsai Jones, Katharine Kruse, Jen Lawrence, Adam Lizakowski, Robin Morrissey, Marina Mularz, Lydia Pudzianowski, Nate Renie, Paula Root, Caitlin Sellnow, Michi Smith, Megan Sullivan, Myra Thompson, Ted Wesenberg

Image from Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies

Nonfiction Althea Fann Nonfiction Althea Fann

Five Rules for Arranging Funeral Flowers

1. Choose flowers that still have enough life left in them to make it through the service. Many florists will tell you that funerals are the perfect opportunity to purge the cooler of older flowers. While it is true that the funeral service only lasts a few hours, the worst call you can get as a florist comes from an outraged family member, because the $300 spray they ordered wilted. The whole point of putting up a bunch of flowers at funerals is to distract from death, not remind everyone of it.

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