Editor’s Note This year marks many great changes for The Chestatee Review. In addition to publishing our annual I learned this technique in an art appreciation class back in 2012. The process, writing contest winners and the works of art students, we’ve added three new sections that though frustrating at times, grew on me. As an aspiring photographer I like to showcase the talent of UNG’s student body. The three new sections this year are Visual Poetry, Faculty Favorites, and Special Topic Winners. To keep up with our growing content, we have made display this different look to people. Instead of just taking one picture of them The Chestatee Review larger this year; a change that I think aptly reflects the new direction that we’re sitting in the car I took around 300 pictures, printed them off in 4x6 format, and going in. We’re now on the forefront of establishing a solid community of creative and committed arranged them in a way to abstractly rebuild the car. I used extra pictures for the students who can take these accomplishments and skills with them for the rest of their careers. background and cut them into various shapes to change the “texture.” I have been honored to serve as editor this year and am thankful to so many who have helped me and the progress of the magazine as well. First, I’ll thank the student staff that show up for 8 a.m. This particular piece was a wedding present for my brother Matt and sister-in-law orientations to tell new students about writing and publishing, bounce ideas around about how we can make the magazine better, and, the best part, do all this for free. Then, there are our wonderful Faith. Matt has a unique hobby of purchasing old cars, fixing them up, and then faculty advisors who are just as passionate and committed as we are and help us in more ways than selling them. This particular car, a ‘52 Chevy Deluxe, was one of his favorites. we can thank them for. Other faculty who take the time to encourage their students to submit work and attend our events are a blessing and prove that UNG faculty truly care about the enrichment of their students. Lastly, I want to thank the student writers, without whom none of this would be -Jessica Blaisdell possible. It is sometimes easy to lose sight of why you love something, but I am constantly reminded of the true wonder that is reading good writing through you. I hope that you enjoy our magazine, and we’ll see you next year. Amanda Adams Editor-in-Chief The Honeymoon Ride Jessica Blaisdell Contributors Table of Editor-in-Chief Amanda Adams2013- 2014 Contents BansheeVisual |Rachel Andrews Poetry8 Quietly | Jennifer Manzella (art) 9 Assistant Editors Silence of the Birds | Jill Raden (art) 9 Emmy Dixon, Sarah Madsen, Esther Stuart Beltane Night | Sarah Madsen 10 Beltane Night | Cortland West (art) 11 Creative Non-Fiction Artistic Editor Colorado | Brittany Barron 12 72 Contingency | Amanda Adams Courtney Torres Colorado | Jason Combs (art) 13 75 Tango | Rachel Andrews Did You Know Your Name is Exactly 79 Bunt or Die | Taylor NeSmith Student Editors One Foot of Iambic Pentameter? | Esther Stuart 14 Rachel Andrews, Brittany Barron, Lea Blessing, Veronica Harris, Name | Carrie Reilly (art) 15 Elizabeth Jordan, Andrew MacDonald, Samuel Soto, Lindsay West Tears From the Sky| Joshua Hellums 16 FormalFanny Price: Essays Feminist or Failure? The Case Trap | Belinda Parker (art) 17 for the Problem Heroine of Mansfield Park | Faculty Advisors Unheeded Warnings | Andrew MacDonald 18 82 Esther Stuart Karen Dodson, Diana Edelman-Young Silence | Alejandro Imperial (art) 19 Between Two Worlds: Life and Death in A Whole Bushel of Apples | Alexander Tait (art) 19 87 Sylvia Plath’s Poetry | Brittany Barron Faculty Readers I Am Not a Writer | Mason Guevara 20 Excess in Moderation: An Exploration of William Ellenberg, Kristin Kelly, Michael Rifenburg, I Am a Work of Art Myself | Ciarra McConnell (art) 21 the Warnings Against Too Much Twelfth Cameron Williams, Patricia Worrall Night in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night | Emmy 93 Dixon When I Met Someone New | Brittany BarronPoetry23 Writing Contest Judges The Old Man and The Sea | Brittany Barron 24 Bradley Bazzle, Elizabeth Lunday, Mary Katherine Mason, Power | Stephanie Ray 25 100ArtUntitled | Ashton Thompson Robby Nadler, John Brown Spiers 101 Pink Flamingo | Jessica Denton 102 Home | Jill Raden One-Act Plays27 Ladies Who Brunch | Emmy Dixon 103 Melody | Nichole Simotes 35 Tea and Temptation | Sarah Madsen 104 Miniature Nesting Bowls | Carolyn Nooney 41 All Those Who Wander | Linda Gillot 105 Leather Briefcase | Sue Compton Theft at the Museum | ShortJansen Castleberry Fiction50 Pancakes | Steven Lock 56 But Ghosts Don’t Exist | Cassey Smith 63 Visual Poetry Special Topic Winners A Modest Proposal For an Issue of Biblical The literary term “ekphrasis” Proportions | Esther Stuart 107 Censoring of a Psycho | Josh Ferguson 109 defines a poem inspired by a piece of Fate of the Snitch in Cement Fashion | Esther Stuart 113 art. The Chestatee Review staff flipped this term. The Dude Abides Linda Seger’sFaculty Hero Myth: Favorites All The We shared our staff’s poetry and collaborated with UNG’s Dude Wanted Was His Rug Back | Ross McIntire 115 Misunderstood | Casey Warnock 118 C.H.R.I.S.T.M.A.S. M.A.G.I.C. | Jordan Ford 119 art students to inspire their work. The result was a series Oriental Spice With School and Rice | Emile Phommavongsy 123 of prints that beautifully capture the themes of poetry. This The Fallen | Justin Johnston 127 Events128 Book Drive Page creative collaboration between humanities-based groups was a 129 PoeDown 130 Open Mic Night wonderful experience and we hope to expand to include many 133MiscellaneousSouthern Literary Festival more departments in the coming years. 134 Awards Received 136 Writing Contest Information 137 Rules For Submission 139 Judge Bios 141 Staff Bios “ What is it like? Absolute quiet. Absolute peace. I crave the absolution.” Rachel Andrews 6 “Banshee” The Chestatee Review Spring 2014 BansheeRachel Andrews I want to hear the silence. Quietly I want to know what it sounds like. Jennifer Manzella Have you ever heard a silence so loud, It was like a banshee’s scream? Ringing in my ears Howling in my mind Never leaving Always there Always wailing, What is it like? Absolute quiet. Absolute peace. I crave the absolution. Like a tick that can’t be burned A light that can’t be extinguished A demon that can’t be vanquished It is always there. Distracting, Depressing, Discouraging, Silence of the Birds Frustrating, Jill Raden Take it away. 9 8 The Chestatee Review Spring 2014 Beltane NightSarah Madsen ‘Twas Beltane when it happened I watched the games and merriment then, And found a man I fancied The first of May dawned clearly, Then beckoned him with finger And all us to the blooming glen bent Did go, as we did yearly. To celebrate unmercied. We waited ‘til the moon hung high, ‘Til every star was shining, Then made our way to that hill nigh The pole with ribbons twining. Circling the hill balefires bright, Did cast long shadows dancing. And in between the pyrelight I fancied fauns there prancing. They gathered up the maids all fair And gentlemen unmarried To circle round the maypole there A ribbon each we carried. Around and round our merry way Until the trimmings tired, And each us on that night in May A perfect match acquired. Then the moment came at last, The ruler’s royal crowning And after every vote was cast I blushed, in applause drowning. They raised me up and on my brow Placed a wreath of blossoms bright And at my feet they all did bow 11 10 My true subjects for a night. Beltane Night Cortland West The Chestatee Review Spring 2014 ColoradoBrittany Barron God made landscapes, but that’s irrelevant To you now as you kiss him in a picture. Maybe love fends the sickness, but I still See it prolonged in the throat of the canyon. Your cut stuck bones pin me pick at me. Thin like baby’s fingers. You held my little fingers. Between you in Colorado and me in Georgia There is no god for sisters. No blessings pass between. Dry wildflowers dyed sand and stone: Disparate gods distempered with distance. I look at another canyon. Cut with edges and ends. There’s no shape of a man. Colorado Jason Combs 13 12 The Chestatee Review Spring 2014 Did You Know Your Name is Exactly One Foot of Iambic Pentameter?Esther Stuart I like the way your name feels when I say it. The way my tongue flicks against its roof While uttering the last syllable As if to swallow your entirety whole. There’s no way to translate it to touch. No way to put it into words. Nothing emulates the sensuality Of your syllables against my teeth. But if you lean over me So I can meld our lips together, I’ll explore the cavern that echoes my name so sweetly And write your name across its walls Just to teach you how to say it. 15 14 Name Carrie Reilly The Chestatee Review Spring 2014 Tears From the Sky Girl why do you cry Joshua Hellums You can wipe a wandering tear from her cheek force her focus back to the book she read And claim you’re saving yourself in a slow prayer but a word never uttered has no magic on the soul it all becomes regret in cheap bondage A prison where we are only granted visitation rights To a soul we wished to call home You can pick the locks sometimes Talk from the heart, and give meaning to the tears coming from inside but there was still the lacking of a complete shelf when she found herself at the landmark that reminded her of the circle she was going in the shackles always relocked themselves the sequence like deja vu Funny… It seemed so different this time but she had to admit the circle she traveled in slowly got wider, more elaborate the more she picked the locks to her conviction Could she hear the voices in her unconscious quire? they only sang her salvation when she was lost never quite capable of hearing the oracle reading the lines of her quest.