Red Cedar Review: Volume 43

Red Cedar Review vol. 43, 2008

Managing Editor: Lindsey Kate Sloan
Assistant Editor: Jill Kolongowski
Art and Graphics Editor: Emma Reid
Fiction Editor: Maura Stackpoole
Nonfiction Editor: Jasmine Angelini-Knoll
Poetry Editor: Jenna Scafuri
Webmaster: Charles Roman
Business Manager: Bobby Coleman
Publicity Manager: Hillary Kribben
Readers: Mycah Artis
Brittany Baker
Lauren Chomiuk
Bobby Coleman
Pamela D’Arcy
Casey DeSmet
Trevor Donaldson
Alison Doyle
Valerie Edge
Natalie Eidenier
Aliya Firozvi
Amy Gibson
Courtney Hilden
Ashley Luster
G. Angela Matovski
Laura Mitchell
Lauren Naglick
Samara Napolitan
Sara Qamar
Emma Reid
Jana Rosinski
Ben Rubinstein
Katie Symanow
Molly Tranberg
Rose Wilson
Emily Wollner
Liz Young
Faculty Advisor: Gordon Henry

Ayers, Megan. "I Ruined It All For Billy Saddle" p. 103

Bainbridge, Jim. "The Blooming" p. 101

Banning, Elizabeth. "Words Alone" p. 35

Beamer, Amelia. "Tattoo" p. 99

Colby, Joan. "Photograph: A Study in Light and Form" p. 29

Elliott, Okla. "From the Crooked Timber" p. 5

Grosel, Charles. "Papa's Mower" p. 45

Hederman, Samantha. "Ode to a Trashcan in Room 108" p. 21

Kopel, Stephen. "Bookmark" p. 49

Lehman, Eric Gabriel. "Where Johannes Brahms Was Born" p. 53

Nguyen, Nicole. "An Open Letter from Emily Dickinson to Billy Collins, Re: A Missing Bonnet" p. 17

Sapp, David. "Pale Moon" p. 33

Shoemaker, Jan. "Beach Run" p. 23

Sloan, Lindsey Kate. "Editor's Note" p. 1

Sloan, Lindsey Kate and Jill Kolongowski. "Interview with Tom Bissell" p. 69

Unvarnished Voices

Unvarnished Voices, 2004

Editor: Kristen B. DeMay
Fiction Editor: Erin Riojas
Poetry Editor: Josh Guilford
Copy Editor: Kate Puplis
Web Design: Trevor Briggeman
Fiction Board: Christy DeLano
Sarah Williams
Poetry Board: Michael Townshend
Trevor Briggeman
Advisor: Julie Loehr

Allen, Kathleen S. "How to Become a Dream Analyzer" p. 66
"Rosealee" p. 82

Ashmore, Erin. "If I Knew How to Dance" p. 14
"Silver Bands" p. 26
"Whistle to the Barking Dogs" p. 76

Briggeman, Rochelle. "Wind" p. 81

Chuhran, Megan. "On My Five Toes" p. 64

Conway, Casey. "The Kids Have a Favorite Teacher" p. 92
"To Frying Pan" p. 34

Cook, Kelli. "Cacophony" p. 36

De Cadenet, Clo. "A Letter to Eugene O'Neill" p. 38

Evon, William M. "Untitled" p. 90

Fields, Jana. "Stretching Souls" p. 50

George, Brandi. "Untitled" p. 75

Guilford, Josh. "Our Last Days" p. 12

Gumas, Stacy. "Adriatic Orbit" p. 41
"Carousel" p. 48
"Cinderella" p. 80

Hargress, Nathaniel. "Sex and Those Who Have Fallen by the Wayside" p. 58

Helmic, Mary. "Natural Reflection" p. 23

Henderson, Victoria. "Neat Cut" p. 22

Jones, Michael L. "The Coffin" p. 57

Klein, Rebecca. "Genesis" p. 95
"Moonlight Children" p. 24

Kruth, James. "One Fine Day in the Supermarket" p. 63

Lacoye, Wes G. "Sympathy, Empathy, Apathy" p. 60

Lang, Anna. "The Color of Shadows" p. 45

McCallum, Michael. "She Sings" p. 54

Murray, Rachel. "I Remember You on Friday Nights" p. 13
"You Look Like a Person I Know" p. 42

Passmore, Crystal. "Scars Like Rosaries" p. 96

Perez, Jason. "Victoria's Secret" p. 37

Peterson, Sarah. "War" p. 44

Rajewski, Steven. "Dead Mouse Winter" p. 29
"The Lonesome Battlement" p. 47
"A Peppered Earth" p. 11
"Plum Colored Guns" p. 97

Reckeweg, Brianna Kathleen. "The Obsession" p. 16

Ried, Michael Adams. "Souls that Bear Weight" p. 72

Schumacher, Carl. "Nightshow Mare" p. 35

Sleight, Ken. "Comfortable; Mary Finally Slept" p. 30

Stinson, Elizabeth. "After the First Night" p. 46

Tisdel, Laura. "The Babysitter" p. 70
"Listening to Schoenberg on a Sunday Night" p. 55

Red Cedar Review: notes

Notable writers
Steve Almond—vol. 33
Margaret Atwood—vol. 7:1
Tom Bissell—vol. 31:2
Robert Bly—translation of Tomas Transtromer vol. 8:2/3
Jim Cash—vol. 3:1
René Char—vol. 6:4
Jim Daniels—vol. 11:2
Stuart Dybek—vol. 7:2, reprint vol. 38
Carolyn Forché—vol. 9:3
Dan Gerber—vols. 8:2/3, 11:2, 38
Gary Gildner—vols. 6:1, 6:3
Gwendolen Gross—vol. 33
Jim Harrison—vol. 8:2/3, reprint vol. 35:2
Catherine Ryan Hyde—vol. 34:1
Mark Jacobs—vol. 32:1
Lyn Lifshin—vol. 7:1, 15:1, 16:1/2, 17:1/2, 19:1, 25:1, 26, 27, 29:1, 30:1, 30:2, 36:1, 37:1, 39
Judith Minty—vols. 9:3, 38
Pablo Neruda—vol. 7:1
William Stafford—vol. 11:1
Robert Vander Molen—vols. 5:1, 6:2, 6:4
Diane Wakoski—vols. 10:2/3, 11:2, 28:1, 31:1, 33, 38

Interviews
Charles Baxter—vol. 34:1
Tom Bissell-vol. 43
Philip Caputo—vol. 33
Katie Davis—vol. 39
Stephen Dunn—vol. 37:1
Allen Ginsberg—vol. 17:1/2
Diane Glancy—vol 38
Jim Harrison—vol. 35:2
Robert Kroetsch—vol. 17:1/2
Elmore Leonard—vol. 36:1
Elinor Lipman—vol. 32:1
Eli Mandel—vol. 17:1/2
A. J. M. Smith—vols. 7:2/3, 14:1
Diane Wakoski—vol. 35:1

Numbering anomalies/errors

• Vol. 7:1 is printed as “vol. 6:1.” My numbering is based on publication date.


• Vol. 7:2 is printed as “vol. 7:1.” My numbering is based on publication date and the numbering of the July 1971 issue as “7:3/4,” which seems to count May 1969 as 7:1 and July 1970 as 7:2.


• In spring 1988 numbering jumps from vol. 19:2 to vol. 25:1.


• Vol. 26:1 numbering based on publication date and numbering of subsequent volumes. The volume itself contains no printed volume number.


• Vol. 27:1 numbering based on likely publication date and numbering of subsequent volumes. The volume itself contains no printed volume number or date.


• Vol. 37:1 is printed as “vol. 37:2.”

Other notes

• Vol. 7:1 contains sections on Nigerian poets and Black poets.


• Vol. 8:1—East Lansing poets


• Vol. 9:1 consists of ten posters in a manila envelope.


• Billboard issue likely appeared in 1974 following vol. 9:1


• Vol. 9:3—Women write


• “The Post Card Mysteries is a special publication of Red Cedar Review and represents Volume 10, Issue #1 of that magazine. It was edited by James Kalmbach, designed by Dennis Pace, and illustrated by Gene Stotts. The book is part of our continuing experimentation with new forms for the small press magazine that has led us in the past to place an issue on a billboard over Grand River Avenue in East Lansing, and a small homage to Al Drake whose energy sustained RCR through many issues and changes in personnel until his resignation as advisor two years ago. Beginning with Volume 10 Issue 2/3 we will return to our regular magazine format.”


• Vol. 10:1 is the first perfect-bound issue.


• The 25th anniversary issue, Vol. 25:1, is fold-and-staple binding and echoes the design used in vols. 1, 2, and 3. Vol. 25:1 contains notes on RCR history by Albert Drake, Jim Cash, Peter Nye, Etta Abrahams, Maury Crane, and Walter Lockwood.


• Vol. 38 is the first issue published by the MSU Press.

Zeitgeist: Volume 1:2

Zeitgeist vol. 1 #2, January 1966

Editor: Michael L. Williams
Associate Editor: Jean McCollom
Business Manager: Pat Vinge
Art Consultant: Maxine Chilton
Publicity Director: Steve Hathaway
Editorial Adviser: Gary Groat
Staff: Richard Conlin
Rebecca Crossley
Mike Griffin
Kathy Luttinen
Richard T. Weyer, Jr.

Adams, Jane. "There are Pillows and Pillows" p. 70
"Truth, Goodness, Pre-Marital Sex, and the Bomb" p. 45

Antonides, Chris. "Earthlier Happy" p. 35

Beal, Sarell Wood. "May I Help You" p. 22

Bersano. James R. "Conversation Piece" p. 20

Burns, Matthew Wallace. "A Riddle for November First" p. 69

Chapin, Bonnie. "Feline Agranulocytosis" p. 21

Cherwinski, Joseph. "Graffiti" p. 16
"Object d'Art" p. 16

Conlin, Richard. "The Corridor" p. 53
"Monarchy" p. 67

Hoyt, Chris. "Advice to a Young Scholar" p. 41
"Chinese Screen" p. 44
"Genis 23" p. 41
"Perpetual Gestalt" p. 43
"Wonderland by Day" p. 44

Leahey, Frank J. "My Three Children" p. 73

McBeth, Alan J. "Five Poems" p. 11

McMath, Steve. "Four Poems" p. 74

Nuermberger, Robert M. "What is Intellectualism?" p. 59

Powell, Milton. "Temporal Phenomena" p. 72

Reese, Susan Ruth. "The Laugh Inside" p. 29

Smith, A. Quinn. "Autumn Happening" p. 17

Smith, John Thomas. "Here Where the World is Quiet" p. 18
"Thais?" p. 19

Smith, John W. Jr. "Sit" p. 68

Vander Molen, Robert. "Five Poems" p. 63

Zeitgeist: Volume 1:1

Zeitgeist vol. 1 #1, September 1965

Editor: Michael L. Williams
Associate Editor: Carole Schwartz
Business Manager: Pat Vinge
Assistant Business Manager: Richard T. Weyer, Jr.
Publicity Director: Jean McCollom
Editorial Advisor: Gary Groat

Adams, Jane. "Church in the Absurd" p. 57
"Irony" p. 55
"The Snow Fell" p. 58
"Someone—Everyone" p. 56
"The Watch Bird" p. 55

Chilton, Maxine. "Variations" p. 26

Conlin, Richard "Into the Bright Green Sunlight" p. 51
"Platonic Lament" p. 41
"Safeway" p. 40

Deacon, Jack. "Life in Our Dorms is as Good as Anywhere Else" p. 29

Dixon, Judy. "Again they come" p. 61

Gervais, Ron. "To His Coy Coed" p. 59

Harriet, Sydney. "A Pair" p. 36

Hoyt, Chris. "Death" p. 18
"A Dialogue" p. 14
"Direction" p. 16
"Exeunt" p. 20
"Fun" p. 13
"Haiku Poem: the Empirically Subjective Yin-Yang" p. 19
"Life Stream" p. 17
"Nirvana" p. 19
"On My Poetry" p. 12
"Peace" p. 18
"Phase" p. 11
"Real" p. 13
"Symbol Grows" p. 14
"V-2" p. 16

Regenbaum, Kenneth. "No mustn't push" p. 21

Simon, Nora. "Protest" p. 60

Siwik, Rose. "Poem" p. 42

Taylor, Benjamin, J. "Field Day" p. 43

Thompson, John. "The End of the Day" p. 23
"Meeting at Night" p. 24
"Monologue of a Pebble" p. 25
"The One-Legged Man" p. 22

Tracy, Bruce P. "Reflection, Afterfreud" p. 39

Williams, Michael L. "Bad Faith" p. 67
"Buddhist Sage to His Pupil" p. 68
"The Meaning of Absurdity—the Absurdity of Meaning" p. 62
"On The Fall By Albert Camus" p. 66
"The Underground Man Visits New York" p. 69
"Why in the" p. 70

I Have Been Sometime True To Nothing

I Have Been Sometimes True To Nothing, 2003

Editor: Theresa Mlinarcik
Design Editor: Julia Herzog
Fiction Editor: Bailey Follette
Poetry Editor: Jason Swatek
Fiction Board: Jennifer Jennings
Amanda Goodrich-Stuart
Copy Editors: Bailey Follette
Amanda Goodrich-Stuart
Advisor: Julie Loehr

Anspaugh, Kendra. "Journal Entry Made After September 11" p. 79

Armstrong, Carl. "Disconnect" p. 47

Bently, Aryn. "Fall" p. 90

Bigelow, Chris. "Farming Woes" p. 53

Birkett, Nicole Bernadette. "Fluff an' Taffeta" p. 54
"Popular Poetry Royalty" p. 39

Branch, William. "Offbeat" p. 121

Bush, Lisa. "Little Girls in Woman Shells" p. 89
"Piece of Cake" p. 118

Carmody, Timothy. "Waiting in Line: Time Spent with Gavin Craig" p. 95

Couillard, Jeremy. "The Story of the Lugau" p. 18

Craig, Gavin. "East Lansing Is Not a Good Place for Poetry" (reprint) p. 103
"My Father Taught Me to Forget Things" p. 111
"The Required Reading List for the New Revolutionary" (reprint) p. 104
"Walk-In" p. 112
"Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?" p. 115

Douglas, Mary. "Humanity's Closet" p. 82

Farrow, Colleen. "Track One" p. 63

Garcia, John. "The Way to Life" p. 14

Goodrich-Stuart, Amanda. "A Man Named Poetry" p. 64
"Vodka" p. 48

Guilford, Josh. "Spring" p. 13

Heliste, Jennifer. "Peace Time" p. 70

Herzog, Julia. "Private Manifesto" p. 28
"Voided Exposition" p. 83

Hungerford, Andrew. "Analog Sigh Through a Digital Pipe" p. 77
"Engines Toward a Personal Renaissance" p. 80
"Hall Rd., M53, Where Ants Still Crawl the Pavement" p. 66

Lapp, Brian. "Time Cries" p. 78

Lund, Richard. "They Beat Me Near Death, but the Pay Is Good" p. 50

McAuley, John. "Mt. Pleasant" p. 68
"Night Drive" p. 84

Mlinarcik, Theresa. "Learning How to Be Pink" p. 69
"The Rodent Speaks" p. 45

Passmore, Crystal. "That Woman" p. 49

Portwood-Stacer, Laura. "The Search for John Elliot Synclair" p. 85

Rossman, Alex. "Safe Sex" p. 72

Sampson, Christie. "To Fly or Fall" p. 75

Schmidt, Blake. "Stuck on Liquefy" p. 61

Smith, Lindsay. "Seventeenth Post" p. 74

Spiegoski, Suzanne. "Locked Corners" p. 27

Wilson, D. Harlan. "The Mexican Tuxedo" p. 40

Wright, Gregory. "Ink on Paper" p. 29

Eschew Obfuscation

Eschew Obfuscation, 2003

Editor: Theresa Mlinarcik
Fiction Editor: Bailey Follette
Poetry Editor: Robin Christensen
Design Editor: Julia Herzog
Fiction Board: Josh Guilford
Andrew McGlashen
Poetry Board: Jennifer Jennings
Jason Swatek
Advisor: Julie Loehr

Brady, Robert. "He Drew Her" p. 20
"A Run" p. 27
"Second Place" p. 18

Campbell, Jeremy. "Rehearsal" p. 28

Carmody, Timothy. "February 13, 2002" p. 40
"Horn" p. 23
"Island" p. 72
"Mexicantown" p. 11
"Waiting for the Man" p. 38

Connell, Brendan. "Necessary Propositions" p. 83

Craig, Gavin. "Sketches of England" p. 33
"The Thing with the Hat" p. 37
"W. S. Penn Interview" p. 90

Farrow, Colleen. "Beneath My Bedroom Door" p. 82
"An Exodus" p. 48
"For My Father" p. 76
"It's Not You" p. 50

Follette, Bailey. "Untitled" p. 78

Garcia, John. "Wi(hand)nd" p. 62

Geralds, Mark. "In (Not) So Many Words" p. 19

Guilford, Josh. "Earth to Brint" p. 49
"The One Said to the Other" p. 58
"Wagon's East" p. 73

Honeysett, Ashley. "Marriage Destroyed in Tragic Kiln Explosion" p. 42

Hungerford, Andrew. "6:05 p.m. 9/12/01" p. 9
"Conservation of Youth" p. 21

Klass, Daniel. "Learned Behavior" p. 17
"Nostalgia" p. 16
"The Trouble with Poetry" p. 10

McDuell, De'Juan. "Intro (to Excerpts to My Soul)" p. 81
"Kaleidoscope" p. 63

McGlashen, Andy. "Losing Virginia" p. 46
"A Story About a Boy and a Girl" p. 51

Moon, Joshua. "In First Apartment, on the Streets of East Lansing, Reading Too Much Splake" p. 13

Passmore, Crystal. "Untitled" p. 57

Wright, Gregory. "Fear of the Fat Man's Gaze" p. 64