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ARTCRAFT BUILDING NONPROFIT ORG. 2570 SUPERIOR AVENUE US POSTAGE SUITE 203 PAID CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 PERMIT #4248 MUSE IS THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE LIT WWW.THE-LIT.ORG CLEVELAND, OH ISSN 1942-275X 07 M U S E I S THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE LIT 9 771942 275009 WORDS+IMAGES JULY 25-30 A writing workshop for students entering grades 10, 11, and 12 www.hb.edu/young_writers PRESENTED BY ISSUE06.10 MUSE IS THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE LIT We’ve all been there: Trapped, imprisoned. Some by bars. VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2 JUN 2010 Some by substance. Some by people. Imprisoned is a bad place. It strips us of humanity, creativity, altruism, self-love. JUDITH MANSOUR Editor/Publisher Words, music, and images—art—can be a way out, though. [email protected] In March, I met with some friends who have begun a new TIM L ACHINA nonprofit organization called Jail Guitar Doors. Yep, the Design Director [email protected] same name as the song by the Clash, written for guitarist Wayne Kramer of the MC5 during his prison stay in the 1980s. DAVID MEGENHARDT Founded by Wayne and Margaret Kramer, and Billy Bragg, Jail Managing Editor [email protected] Guitar Doors gets guitars to prison inmates so that those who are inclined have a creative release—one that doesn’t involve R AY M C NIECE drugs, violence, or other bad behavior. They have been met Poetry Editor [email protected] by turns, with amazing receptivity and support, as well as with hostility and resistance. MUSE is receptive. ROB JACKSON Fiction Editor This group of friends inspired us to theme this issue of MUSE, [email protected] as well as each of the coming issues. We solicited words and ALENKA BANCO images on imprisonment, and what is printed in the following Art Editor pages gripped me at my core. It’s dark. Important. It repre- [email protected] sents a turning point for us: we want MUSE to make a differ- BONNIE JACOBSON ence—a difference in literature and the arts, a difference in NIN ANDREWS the way people think, a difference in the way they write. The Contributing Editors [email protected] way they live. Below is an open call for words and images crafted to the SUBMISSIONS themes listed. Help us out. Send original and unpublished (Content evident) may be sent electronically to [email protected]. We prefer electronic sub- fiction, poetry, prose, letters, essays, and images to us. We missions. MUSE publishes all genres of creative writ- want to know how each of these themes inspires you. We ing — including but not limited to poetry, fiction, want these themes to be your muse. essay, memoir, humor, lyrics, and drama. Prefer- ence is given Ohio-based authors. Also, I can’t let an issue go by without saying congratulations to a few of our area’s finest writers. Congratulations to 2008 Founded in 1987 as Ohio Writer, MUSE is the quarterly journal published by The LIT, a nonprofit literary arts Writers & Their Friends Honorees Phil Metres and David organization. No part of this journal may be reproduced Giffels, respectively, for their 2010 Cleveland Arts Prize without written consent of the publisher. awards for Emerging and Mid-Career Artists, and to Henry Adams for Lifetime Achievement, all in the area of Literature. Kudos THELIT to fellow 2008 W & TF Honoree CLEVELAND’S LITERARY CENTER MUSE 2010 Themes James Renner, whose breakout September: Drama A R T CR A F T BUIL DING novel The Man From Primrose December: The Other 2570 SUPERIOR AVENUE Lane (and a yet unfinished SUI T E 203 CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 second novel) has been picked up by Sarah Crichton Books. Well MUSE 2011 Themes 216 694.0000 WWW.THE-LIT.ORG March: MUSE Literary deserved accolades for all. 06 Competition Winners 10 June: Motels M JUDITH September: On the Couch U December: In the Mail S JAIL GUITAR DOORS IMAGES BY PROJECT NOISE FOUNDATION EM 1 MUSE IS THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY THE LIT We’ve all been there: Trapped, imprisoned. Some by bars. VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2 JUN 2010 Some by substance. Some by people. Imprisoned is a bad place. It strips us of humanity, creativity, altruism, self-love. JUDITH MANSOUR Editor/Publisher Words, music, and images—art—can be a way out, though. [email protected] In March, I met with some friends who have begun a new TIM L ACHINA nonprofit organization called Jail Guitar Doors. Yep, the Design Director [email protected] same name as the song by the Clash, written for guitarist Wayne Kramer of the MC5 during his prison stay in the 1980s. DAVID MEGENHARDT Founded by Wayne and Margaret Kramer, and Billy Bragg, Jail Managing Editor [email protected] Guitar Doors gets guitars to prison inmates so that those who are inclined have a creative release—one that doesn’t involve R AY M C NIECE drugs, violence, or other bad behavior. They have been met Poetry Editor [email protected] by turns, with amazing receptivity and support, as well as with hostility and resistance. MUSE is receptive. ROB JACKSON Fiction Editor This group of friends inspired us to theme this issue of MUSE, [email protected] as well as each of the coming issues. We solicited words and ALENKA BANCO images on imprisonment, and what is printed in the following Art Editor pages gripped me at my core. It’s dark. Important. It repre- [email protected] sents a turning point for us: we want MUSE to make a differ- BONNIE JACOBSON ence—a difference in literature and the arts, a difference in NIN ANDREWS the way people think, a difference in the way they write. The Contributing Editors [email protected] way they live. Below is an open call for words and images crafted to the SUBMISSIONS themes listed. Help us out. Send original and unpublished (Content evident) may be sent electronically to [email protected]. We prefer electronic sub- fiction, poetry, prose, letters, essays, and images to us. We missions. MUSE publishes all genres of creative writ- want to know how each of these themes inspires you. We ing — including but not limited to poetry, fiction, want these themes to be your muse. essay, memoir, humor, lyrics, and drama. Prefer- ence is given Ohio-based authors. Also, I can’t let an issue go by without saying congratulations to a few of our area’s finest writers. Congratulations to 2008 Founded in 1987 as Ohio Writer, MUSE is the quarterly journal published by The LIT, a nonprofit literary arts Writers & Their Friends Honorees Phil Metres and David organization. No part of this journal may be reproduced Giffels, respectively, for their 2010 Cleveland Arts Prize without written consent of the publisher. awards for Emerging and Mid-Career Artists, and to Henry Adams for Lifetime Achievement, all in the area of Literature. Kudos THELIT to fellow 2008 W & TF Honoree CLEVELAND’S LITERARY CENTER MUSE 2010 Themes James Renner, whose breakout September: Drama A R T CR A F T BUIL DING novel The Man From Primrose December: The Other 2570 SUPERIOR AVENUE Lane (and a yet unfinished SUI T E 203 CLEVELAND, OHIO 44114 second novel) has been picked up by Sarah Crichton Books. Well MUSE 2011 Themes 216 694.0000 WWW.THE-LIT.ORG March: MUSE Literary deserved accolades for all. 06 Competition Winners 10 June: Motels M JUDITH September: On the Couch U December: In the Mail S JAIL GUITAR DOORS IMAGES BY PROJECT NOISE FOUNDATION EM 1 contributors NIN ANDREWS is the editor of a book of DOUGLAS HOSTON, JR, AKA SAGE THE The Chagrin Valley Writers’ Workshop. The translations of the French poet Henri Mi- WISECAT, is happy husband and father to, Denver Post called his first novel,The Year chaux entitled Someone Wants to Steal My respectively, Rasheeda Nicole and Douglas That Trembled, “powerful” and one of 1998’s Name from Cleveland State University Press. III. He is founder and executive director of “milestones in fiction.” He’s won numerous She is also the author of several books includ- Black Poetic, an arts and education organiza- awards from the Ohio Professional Writers ing The Book of Orgasms, Why They Grow tion that facilitates written and performance (nonfiction), Cleveland Press Club (nonfic- Wings, Midlife Crisis with Dick and Jane, poetry. He has created a community initiative tion), the MUSE Literary Competition (fic- Sleeping with Houdini, and Dear Professor, Do to provide seasonal series of free productions tion), and Lax is a Bread Loaf Writers’ You Live in a Vacuum. Her book, Southern of performance poetry, song, dance, and vi- Conference Nonfiction Scholar, Sewanee Comfort, was published by CavanKerry Press sual art at The Cleveland Museum of Art. By Writers’ Conference Fiction Fellow and 2002 in 2009 and was a finalist for the 2010 Paterson day, he is Disabilities Coordinator for the Midwest Filmmaker of the Year. Poetry Prize. Council for Economic Opportunities in Greater Cleveland. Hoston has been selected ANGELA CONSOLO MANKIEWICZ is the PATRICIA AVERBACH, a Cleveland native, to be a panelist on the Governor’s Conference author of four chapbooks, the most recent are is the former director and current vice presi- on Increasing High School Graduation Rate AN EYE, published by Pecan Grove Press dent of the Chautauqua Writers Center. She for African American Males. (2006) and AS IF, recently released from has previously had prose and poetry published Little Red Books-Lummox (2010). She has in Lilith and Margie.