word~river Publications (ENG) 2009 word~river literary review (2009) Jo Gibson Cleveland State University Lollie Ragana Antioch University Martin Dean Dupalo University of Nevada, Las Vegas Homeira Foth City College of San Francisco; San Francisco State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/word_river Lily I. MacKenzie Univ Persityart of of the San American Francisco Liter ature Commons, Literature in English, North America Commons, and the Modern Literature Commons See next page for additional authors Recommended Citation Gibson, Jo; Ragana, Lollie; Dupalo, Martin Dean; Foth, Homeira; MacKenzie, Lily I.; Ribner, Susan; Stark, Anne; Jaynes, Mike; Johnston, Allan; Altman, Taylor; Nyikos, Susan; Konigsberg, Lisa; Frankel, Alex M.; Graef, Kristin Elsie; Marin, Mari-Carmen; Young, Brian R.; Esch, Stacy; Trahan, Heather; Casson, Lee; Williams, Rebecca Grace; Doughtery, Kate; Maxwell, Linda; Davis, Mark Evan; Kelley, Erin; Johnson, Rowan; Carter, Natalie; Shields, John; Keating, Kevin P.; D’Aoust, Renée E.; Geyer, Anna; Moymer, Heather; Smith, Algie Ray; Cushman, Adam; Finnegan, Margaret; Clinton, Alan Ramón; Sabel, Thomas; Stark, Deborah; and Landess, Maggie, "word~river literary review (2009)" (2009). word~river. 3. https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/word_river/3 This Book is protected by copyright and/or related rights. 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Young, Stacy Esch, Heather Trahan, Lee Casson, Rebecca Grace Williams, Kate Doughtery, Linda Maxwell, Mark Evan Davis, Erin Kelley, Rowan Johnson, Natalie Carter, John Shields, Kevin P. Keating, Renée E. D’Aoust, Anna Geyer, Heather Moymer, Algie Ray Smith, Adam Cushman, Margaret Finnegan, Alan Ramón Clinton, Thomas Sabel, Deborah Stark, and Maggie Landess This book is available at Digital Scholarship@UNLV: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/word_river/3 word river literary review Publication of University of Nevada Las Vegas Department of English word river literary review Volume 1: Issue 1 Editor: Beth McDonald Co-editor: Sandra Hooven Contributing Editor: Susan Summers Student Assistant: Olivia Montgomery Cover Design: Megan McDonald wordriver literary review is a publication of the University of Nevada Las Vegas Department of English. One issue each year is published in the spring. Copies are available for $5.00 (see the order form at the back of each issue). 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McDonald, editor Adjunct Professor, English Department University of Nevada Las Vegas Box 5011 4505 Maryland Parkway Las Vegas, Nevada 89154 Email: [email protected] © 2009 University of Nevada Las Vegas Department of English All rights reserved ISSN 1947-4881 Table of Contents Non-Fiction Rhodes Tower, Room 1801 ................................................... 10 Jo Gibson A Thimbleful of Sky .............................................................. 14 Lollie Ragana A Daily Adventure: A School Boy Walks Home through Memories 30 years Ago ................................................. 26 Martin Dean Dupalo Letters to Keats ...................................................................... 32 Homeira Foth Evolution of a Reader ............................................................ 41 Lily Iona MacKenzie Bad Girls ............................................................................... 46 Susan Ribner Burning Man.......................................................................... 52 Anne Stark Confessions of a Recovering Reckless Hypochondriac......... 63 Mike Jaynes Poetry A Caravaggio ......................................................................... 74 Allan Johnston Night Piece ............................................................................ 76 Taylor Altman Dialectical Materialism ......................................................... 77 Susan Nyikos The broken heart of the road kill ........................................... 78 Lisa Konigsberg One Way to Pound‘s Grave in Venice ................................... 80 Alex M. Frankel Ruins (to Dad) ....................................................................... 83 Kristin Elsie Graef Girl at the Window—Salvador Dali (1925) ........................... 84 Mari-Carmen Marin Eulogy ................................................................................... 86 Lily Iona MacKenzie Should I Try........................................................................... 88 Brian R. Young Ode to Love ........................................................................... 89 Susan Nyikos Nightingale ............................................................................ 91 Stacy Esch BUGS .................................................................................... 92 Heather Trahan Some squirrels don‘t eat acorns in the park ........................... 94 Lee Casson Wisdom of the Page............................................................... 95 Rebecca Grace Williams Two Days before Spring Equinox ......................................... 96 Susan Nyikos Sonata .................................................................................... 97 Brian R. Young Drunk in Colima, Mexico ...................................................... 98 Kate Dougherty Massenetique ......................................................................... 99 Alex M. Frankel The Music Lesson ............................................................... 101 Taylor Altman I Know What A Poem Isn’t ................................................. 102 Lisa Konigsberg Old Faithful ......................................................................... 103 Lily Iona MacKenzie Museum ............................................................................... 105 Allan Johnston Deciphered........................................................................... 107 Linda Maxwell Birth Mother XXIII ............................................................. 108 Alex M. Frankel Downtown Bound ................................................................ 109 Kristin Elsie Graef Division ............................................................................... 110 Susan Nyikos A Thousand and One Nights Before .................................... 111 Mark Evan Davis Bella Flor ............................................................................. 113 Kate Dougherty No Word .............................................................................. 115 Stacy Esch Birth Mother XXVIII .......................................................... 117 Alex M. Frankel 3rd floor, Creswell Hall ........................................................ 118 Kate Dougherty The Business of Poetry ........................................................ 119 Heather Trahan Message ............................................................................... 121 Brian R. Young For Show ............................................................................. 122 Erin Kelley The Lives of Objects ........................................................... 124 Taylor Altman Limited Licensed Partnerships ............................................ 125 Linda Maxwell Razor-faced, neck-tied, & lost ............................................. 127 Mark Evan Davis Time to Marry ..................................................................... 129 Heather Trahan Sunday at Six ....................................................................... 130 Kristin Elsie Graef Tutankhamen ....................................................................... 131 Lily Iona MacKenzie You Float….. ....................................................................... 133 Rowan Johnson Grief Knows ........................................................................ 134 Rebecca Grace Williams Floating On an Inner-Tube in the Guadalupe River ............ 135 Erin Kelley The Sculptor ........................................................................ 136