This issue features pieces selected for publication by the faculty and students in our Writing Program. Every year, the Poetry Center brings highly-acclaimed authors to its podium—now we would like to introduce and share the work of our emerging authors.
The featured artist in this issue is Chris Russell.
Alby Stories: #1—Arnold Kaye From Elisabeth Robinson's Fiction Workshop Untitled—Carol Prisant From Stephen Wright's Novel Writing Workshop Excerpt from Smog, a novel-in-progress—Chandler Klang Smith From Stephen Wright Novel Writing Workshop The Day I Run into What's-Her-Name—Janis Hubschman From Jennifer Gilmore's Advanced Fiction Workshop From The Immortality of Birds—Laura Rudish From Rafi Zabor's Advanced Fiction Workshop The Good Samaritan—Martin Hason From Advanced Fiction Workshop The Tribune (Chapter One)—Patricia Cruise From Sandra Newman Fiction Workshop Old Man Austin—Paul Bachleitner From Christopher SorrentinoAdvanced Fiction Workshop
Smiley's Lighter—Ed Brash Selected by Rachel Hadas from the Advanced Poetry Tutorial with Rachel Hadas Miser—Gabriella Belfiglio Selected by Rachel Zuckerfrom the Advanced Poetry Workshop Oxford, Massachusetts—Geeta Tewari Selected by Jean Valentine from the Advanced Poetry Workshop SNOW—Gray Smith Selected by David Yezzi from the On Prosody Poetry Workshop Illuminated (A gigan)—Gwen Reiss Selected by Sharon Dolin from the Advanced Poetry Workshop (Winner of the 2012 Rachel Wetzsteon Prize from the Unterberg Poetry Center) Untitled—Laura Rodgers Selected by Emily Fragos from the Advanced Poetry Workshop What the Sorrow of Highway Signs Said—Libby Burton Selected by Cornelius Eady from the Advanced Poetry Workshop At The Door—Lissa Kiernan Selected by Jeanne Marie Beaumont from the Advanced Poetry Workshop Othering—Maud Poole Selected by Cornelius Eady from the Advanced Poetry Thesis Workshop The Scholar Contemplates Her Rock—Maud Poole Selected by Molly Peacock from the The Small Poem Seminar and Studio The Angels—Sam Selinger Selected by Jean Valentine from the Advanced Poetry Workshop
Hipster Nightlife Trend Piece: Ragtime Revival—Hanson O'Haver Selected by Patricia Marx from the Humor Writing Workshop
Little Girl—Suzanne Johnstone Selected by Hettie Jones from the Advances Nonfiction Memoir Writing Workshop
Fulfill The Prophecy—Amy Ellison Selected by Lisa Kron from the Playwriting Workshop untitled brooklyn play—Jerry Lieblich Selected by Anne Washburn from the Playwriting Workshop