Red Cedar Review: Volume 10:2/3

Red Cedar Review vol. 10 #2/3, May 1976

Editorial Board: Greta Bolger
Jeanice Dagher
Alison Hedlund
Rebecca Howard
Cynthia Lamberts
Patricia Polach
Design: Amy Rufus Miller
Illustrations: Chuck Knock
Amy Rufus Miller

Barclay, Ann. "Victoriana" p. 24

Bolger, Greta. "Esau Was a Manchild" p. 31
"Yin/Yang Equation" p. 32

Cosseboom, Ray. "Rounding the Bases" p. 58

Cwynar, Tom. "Balancing" p. 94

Francis, H. E. "Bones" p. 8

Gabriel, Larry. "nadine oh honey" p. 45
"playin d bass new orleans style" p. 47
"untitled I and II" p. 43

Garrison, Joseph. "At the Pet Shop and After" p. 19
"Flight" p. 69

Hedlund, Alison. "to the girl in the attic" p. 62
"true poets meeting in bookstores" p. 63

Hohlt, John. "Kansas Love Dream" p. 55
"say someone were to teach us" p. 57
"your stride father" p. 56

Janowitz, Phyllis. "A Cool Day in the Sun" p. 79

Kalmbach, James. "Returning to Blind Lake on Sunday" p. 27
"To an Unknown Woman at the CLS" p. 25

Kolodziej, Krysia. "Miles Like Skin" p. 23

Lester, M. Michael. "Dying A Somewhat Less Than Graceful Death in the
Public Market" p. 70

Matsumoto, Midori. "I watch you wobble in the glass" p. 67
"Kathy found Bill at the store" p. 66

Meiners, R. K. "Mountainous Landscape with Hermit" p. 81
"Walking through Winter" p. 80

Mohr, Joland. "Circumference" p. 64
"Finding Reasons" p. 65

Mooney, Pat. "The Four Aunts" p. 91
"Gretel Alone" p. 93
"Martha" p. 92

Moorhead, Andrea. "blue raisin" p. 87
"Canticle of Joy and Ice" p. 88

Rea, Susan. "Gathering Seashells" p. 51
"The Pleasures of Being Thin" p. 49

Richardson, Deborah. "The Mobile" p. 53
"Spring" p. 52

Rutka, Michael. "Hospital for the Flute" p. 22
"The Two Tongues of the Rose" p. 20

Savitt, Lynne. "The Choice" p. 100
"Lillith Poem No. 4: Lillith As Problem Solver" p. 101
"Lillith Poem No. 5" p. 102

Schultz, Wendy. "Brancusi's Bird in Flight" p. 29

Smith, R. Sue. "The Mariner's Daughters" p. 34

Sneller, Del. "For Terri Allen" p. 61
"The Lady Who Collects Sunsets" p. 59

Stroud, Joan. "heaven goin" to heaven///went" p. 36

Swets, R. D. "old peter's world-and-life-view" p. 85

Upton, Lee. "After Twenty Years" p. 98
"Chiaroscuro" p. 41
"I Have Never Seen My Neighbor Without an Apron On" p. 97
"Intuition" p. 42

Wakoski, Diane. "George Washington Meets The King of Spain (on the
Magellanic Clouds)" p. 103

Wright, A. J. "driving straight through" p. 99

Zerfas, Janice. "Sheba Waits for the New Exhibit" p. 95

Red Cedar Review: Volume 10:1

Red Cedar Review vol. 10 #1, 1976 (The Postcard Mysteries by Albert Drake)

Editor: James Kalmbach
Design: Dennis Pace
Illustrations: Gene Stotts

Drake, Albert. "An Attempt from the Store" p. 40
"The A-V8 and How It Went" p. 31
"Overtures to Motion" p. 46
"The Postcard Mysteries" p. 15
"Voyeurs" p. 25

Red Cedar Review: Volume 9:3

Red Cedar Review vol. 9 #3, May 1975 (Women Write)

Editors: Patricia Polach
Louis Reinwasser
Neal Villhauer
Business Manager: Mark Fenske
Staff: Jeanice Dogher
Kim Delmar
Alison Hedlund
Graphic Design: Amy Rufus Miller
Darcy Drew Greene
Robin L. Roach

Anderson, Leonora. "Waiting for the Mail" p. 45

Dagher, Jeanice. "Fish Fry" p. 57
"The Ladies" p. 55
"New Year's Eve and the Private Baptisms of My Brother-in-Law,
the Fireman" p. 56

Drake, Barbara. "Good Friends and First Impressions" p. 11

Dyc, Gloria. "Blood-Tie" p. 7

Eyer, Phyllis. "The Way of Light" p. 58

Forché, Carolyn. "Kalaloch" p. 35
"The Morning Baking" p. 39
"Since Times Are So Hard, I Will Tell You Sweetheart" p. 33
"White Wings, They Never Grow Weary" p. 34

Gale, Vi. "Summer Session: Clatsop College, Astoria" p. 49

Hedlund, Alison. "for mama" p. 22
"miss america gives advice" p. 19
"spiderwoman" p. 21

Jensen, Julie. "Was Birds" p. 23

Ladenson, Joyce Ruddel. "Marge Piercy's Small Changes" p. 59

Marlowe, Allison. "Tripping" p. 48

Minty, Judith. "Driving the Back Roads" p. 15
"Hungers" p. 13
"The Lake Road" p. 17
"Night People" p. 14

Moore, Linda Susan. "Evanescence" p. 18

Scholt, Grayce. "Caress" p. 53
"Snapshot" p. 50
"Spelunking" p. 51

Wier, Dara. "One Woman and the Lady Medical Assistant" p. 42
"One Woman and the Tailor" p. 41
"One Woman’s Words That Fall In the Night" p. 43

Wiitala, Debbie. "The First Apparition: Toward Sleep" p. 29
"Second Apparition: The Drums in the Jungle-Heart of Night" p. 31

Red Cedar Review: Volume 9:2

Red Cedar Review vol. 9 #2, March 1975

Editors: Neal Villhauer
Louis Reinwasser
Patricia Polach
Business Manager: Mark Fenske
Staff: Jeanice Dagher
Kim Delmar
Alison Hedlund
Graphic Design: Amy R. Miller
Terry Dedecker
Elizabeth Drake
Robin L. Roach

Eyer, Phyllis. "The Fragrance of Flowers" p. 25

Hohlt, John. "Night Watch" p. 23
"Untitled, Parts I and II" p. 23

Koch, Richard. "Fire Children" p. 36
"Hero of the Pacific" p. 35

Polach, Patricia. "Levels" p. 39

Schulze, Michael. "One Day Last Month Iggy Christmas Found God" p. 9

Wiitala, Debbie. "Blood" p. 20
"Hardening" p. 15
"Indigo" p. 17
"Michigan Driving Poem" p. 16
"My Bones" p. 19
"Whale Poem" p. 18

Red Cedar Review: Volume 9:1

Red Cedar Review vol. 9 #1, Spring 1974 (Poster Issue)

Editor: Dennis Pace
Editorial Board: Jeff Domanico
Karen Gaskill
Mark Harris
Linda Patterson
Gary Gillette
Patricia Polach
Mary Pauley
Louis Reinwasser
Sue Sekerka
Neal Villhauer

Crowe, Steve. "Remaking Chant"

David, Wilton. "Untitled"

Elliott, Harley. "Psychopathia Sexualis"

Fox, Lucia. "from Mosaicos"

Hartman, Charles O. "The Bone"

Nelson, H. H. "One Way of Disposing of Rotten Fruit In Winter"

O’Brien, John F. "Sleep"

Thomas, F. Richard. "Lee Ann"

Red Cedar Review: Volume 8:2/3

Red Cedar Review vol. 8 #2/3, December 1973

Editor: Dennis Pace
Assistant Editors: Jeff Domanico
Lawrence Lucifer
Michael McCormick
Paul K. Sanchez

Gerber, Dan. "The Cycle of Waters" p. 81
"November" p. 82
"Aneurysm" p. 83

Gitin, David. "'what do we see'" p. 52
"Meadowlark" p. 53
"Upstate" p. 56

Hamberger, Michael. "Love" p. 76
"The Glade" p. 78
"Roses, Chrysanthemums" p. 80

Harkness, Jim. "Touring" p. 48

Harrison, Jim. "Sergei Yesenin 1895 – 1925" p. 70

Myers, Russ. "One Father" p. 72
"Estelle" p. 74

Nye, Peter. "The San Diego Autorama" p. 71

Oppen, George. "From a Phrase of Simone Weil's and Some Words of Hegel's" p. 47

Scheiber, Andrew. "boden's ground" p. 3

Thayler, Carl. "Goodrich" p. 58
"The Haggard Ode" p. 65

Tranströmer, Tomas. "Traffic" (Robert Bly, trans.) p. 68
"A Few Moments" (Robert Bly, trans.) p. 89

Vandenberg, Thomas. "Homecoming" p. 85
"'The one who likes to accuse'" p. 86
"'I declare bankrupt'" p. 87

Vas Dias, Robert. "Your Voice Falls On" p. 90
"A Retreat That Is an Advance" p. 91
"The Food Game" p. 92
"'It’s a world of an egg'" p. 93

Red Cedar Review: Volume 8:1

Red Cedar Review vol. 8 #1, April 1972 (Seven East Lansing Poets)

Editor: Alan VerPlanck
Managing Editor: Lauri Comito
Assistant Editors: Dennis Pace
Michael McCormick
Lawrence Lucifer
Graphic Design: Dennis Pace
Production: Margie Jones

Davis, Mary. "1949 – 1971" p. 13
"Part of a Mass" p. 14
"Receipt" p. 15
"Rigor Mortis" p. 17
"Wednesday" p. 11

Drake, Barbara. "Boarders in our Lives" p. 28
"Clockwork" p. 30
"The Day the Movers Came" p. 29
"Espousery" p. 33
"The First Place" p. 31
"Year Turning" p. 25

Jones, Daryl. "Carp" p. 8
"The Mines" p. 7
"Mollusks" p. 5
"Second Thoughts From the Ocean Bed" p. 9
"Waxing the Car in Late Fall" p. 6

Lawder, Douglas. "Air and Blood" p. 20
"Dead Raccoons" p. 23
"The Field" p. 22
"Poem Inside a Poem" p. 19
"Trolling" p. 21

Meiners, Roger. "My Daughter, Sleeping" p. 36
"Only I Am Left To Tell the Story" p. 35
"Things To Do Around Buffalo Creek, Colorado" p. 39
"Two Preliminary Reports from the Book of Eikampf" p. 37

Rosenberg, D. M. "In Praise of Sabatino Rodia's Watts Towers" p. 48
"Let This Be a Zen Garden" p. 50
"Silent Comedies: Edendale, California" p. 51
"Tableau At the Beach" p. 49
"Waxworks" p. 47

Wagner, Linda. "Carnival" p. 45
"For the Memory of William Carlos Williams, March, 1963" p. 41
"Ho-Hum" p. 44
"More Bell Jars" p. 43
"To Cherish" p. 42

Red Cedar Review: Volume 7:3/4

Red Cedar Review vol. 7 #3/4, July 1971

Editor: Alan VerPlanck
Poetry Editor: Richard Jansma
Managing Editor: Lauri Comito
Art Editor: David Kelly
Printer’s Devil: Lawrence Lucifer

Ackerson, Duane. "A Gathering of Allusions for Aspiring Songwriters" p. 55
"Poem" p. 54
"Sleep" p. 54

Amis, Barry D. "Question" p. 53

Bradley, Sam. "The Masquerader" p. 63

Brodsky, Mimi. "Marty & Ann" p. 42

Candelaria, Frederick. "Chariman Mao’s Laws" p. 13

Dalton, Dorothy. "The Human Scene" p. 40

Drake, Albert. "Stamp Poem" p. 31

Flaherty, Douglas. "Meeting" p. 72

George, C. H. "After This War" p. 41

Goldbarth, Albert. "Description: So You Will Know Him" p. 61
"Snail" p. 62
"Victory at Sea" p. 60

Hardiman, Clayton. "For The Weight It Makes" p. 79

Heyen, James. "Gothic" p. 30
"A Memorable Fancy" p. 30
"Repair" p. 28

Ingley, Kathleen. "We Are All Consumers" p. 64

Jansma, Richard. "A. J. M. Smith Interview" p. 44

Jones, Daryl. "Childhood Gothic" p. 59
"The Leelanau" p. 22

Kelly, David. "30 Devonshire & Francie" p. 26

Kuzma, Greg. "The Library" p. 32
"The Silent" p. 33
"Poem" p. 34
"The Poem" p. 34

Lundell, Denise. "As a Child" p. 35

Miller, Michael. "Words to a Woman" p. 38

Montag, Thomas. "Sea/Night & You" p. 21

Paul, Jay. "Right Across the Street" p. 24

Rendleman, Danny L. "Basic Black" p. 70
"Flesh" p. 71
"Poem For Timothy" p. 68
"A Thief Is One Who Floating" p. 66
"Titicut Folly" p. 67
"Your Roses" p. 69

Schwartz, Howard. "The Parable of the Peach" p. 37

Smith, A. J. M. "Angels Exist, and Sonnets Are Not Dead" p. 52
"News of the Phoenix" p. 50

VerPlanck, Alan. "Life As We Know It" p. 3

Wild, Peter. "Happenings" p. 15
"The History of the World, and Other Perversions" p. 14
"The Man Whose Liver Was Coming Out" p. 20
"Moving Toward the Land" p. 16
"A Nice Story" p. 19
"Temple Courtesan" p. 18
"Unloving" p. 18
"The Victim" p. 17

Wittenburg, Rudolph. "Love Letter" p. 56
"Primer" p. 57

Red Cedar Review: Volume 7:2

Red Cedar Review vol. 7 #2, July 1970 (printed as vol. 7 #1)

Editors: Richard Jansma
Howard Shapiro
Staff: Jim Servis
Alan VerPlanck

Birney, Earle. "For Master Geffrey" back cover

Dybek, Stuart. "The Calliope of Summer" p. 30
"December Epithalamium" p. 31
"Night Wandering Fall" p. 30
"Spring" p. 31

Hughes, Beverlee. "Composition" p. 24

Ingram, Alyce. "Blue Horses" p. 39

Lillard, Charles. "Amber" p. 32
"Quagmire Reef" p. 33

Mooney, Stephen. "The Knee-Bone Tribe" p. 19
"Late One Cold Day" p. 20
"Turn Back" p. 20

Musgrave, Susan. "The Flight" p. 23
"The House and the Garden" p. 21
"In Nights" p. 22

Nelson, Stanley. "Emanons" p. 47

Pollak, Felix. "Identity" p. 26
"Last-Fling Rose" p. 26

Rendleman, Danny. "All the Dead Things" p. 38

Steiner, Martin. "Autumn" (Felix Pollak, trans.) p. 27

Stephens, James. "Doven People Songs" p. 14

Stokes, Terry. "The Farmer" p. 29
"The Festival of Life" p. 28

Trivelpiece, Laurel. "The Bobbing Dinner" p. 3

Wade, John Stevens. "A Lost Ball" p. 25
"Well Water" p. 24

Wild, Peter. "Happening #1" p. 34
"Indian Town: Sunset" p. 36
"Interdiction" p. 35
"Luna Hills" p. 37

Red Cedar Review: Volume 7:1

Red Cedar Review vol. 7 #1, May 1969 (printed as vol. 6 #1)

Editors: Peggy Case
James S. Tipton
Associate Editors: Etta Abrahams
Peter Fiore
Staff: Irene Falk
Roberta Herter
Joe Janetti
Dick Jansma
Dave Matton
Carol Nye

Atwood, Margaret. "Border Crossing: Quebec to Maine, June 1968" p. 43

Bertolino, James. "Dream of a Library" p. 21

Bolton, Stanwood K., Jr. "Trusting Winter" p. 6

Candelaria, Frederick. "Despite Your Fences and Your Seasons" p. 17

Cornish, Sam. "Untitled" p. 51

Echols, Shirley. "Untitled" p. 34
"Old Black Man" p. 36

Essien, Emmanuel A. "Hope" p. 8

Essien, Udo E. "Rain" p. 8

Hamilton, James B. "Untitled" p. 33

Ibe, Eben I. I. "Emergence" p. 9

Irrechuku, Chris. "Lost Generation" p. 10

Lifshin, Lyn. "In the Back of Houses the Poet Tries to Live as a Tree" p. 25
"Poem for the Mad Letter Writer Not with Me, Who May Not Even Be" p. 24

Manning, June. "Foiled Attack" p. 32

Ndu, Pol. N. "Decent Graves" p. 11

Neruda, Pablo. "Age" (James Tipton, trans.) p. 28
"The Gallop" (James Tipton, trans.) p. 26

Nwaojigba, Sam O. "The Old Fashion" p. 13
"A Poem" p. 12

Onyejeli, Bona. "Father" p. 14

Phillips, Walt. "Couvent du Sacre Cœur" p. 23
"Orange Street Woman" p. 23

Quick, Kathryn. "Untitled" p. 17

Schroeder, A. P. "Tracks" p. 6

Thomas, Peter. "From the Hills of Nsukka" (introduction to section on Nigerian poets) p. 7
"A Question of Time" p, 15

Thomas, Richard W. "Little Dark Girl" p. 38
"Kids" p. 39
"Poems for the Brothers in Lansing Boy's Training School" p. 40
"Some Footnotes on Black Poetics" (introduction to special section on Black poets) p. 31

Wild, Peter. "Farmer and the Tramp" p. 5

Witherspoon, Jill. "When Brothers Forget" p. 33

Yates, J. Michael. "Firework" p. 18

Red Cedar Review: Volume 6:4

Red Cedar Review vol. 6 #4, December 1968

Editor: Peggy Case
Associate Editor: Etta Abrahams
Poetry Editor: Jim Tipton
Fiction Editor: Peter Fiore
Managing Editor: Steve Hathaway
Art Editor: Sue Budny
Justifier: Sylvia Krieger
Staff: Roberta Herter
Dave Mattsen

Amorosi, Linda M. "Grandfather" p. 79

Amorosi, Richard J. "It's for the Dead and Unborn" p. 47

Baloian, James C. "The Indians" p. 14

Char, René. "By the Mouth of the Goatsucker" (Michael Howden, trans.) p. 13

Drake, Albert. "Over the Fence by Rick Sterry" p. 49

Fiore, Peter. "Buffalo Springfield" p. 73

Fox, Hugh. "from The Psychedelic Prostibulo" p. 28

Greenberg, Judith Anne. "Childhood Shadows" p. 53
"Interlude" p. 56
"Pansies and Other Confusions" p. 54
"Suspension" p. 55

Keister, Lorrie. "Breakfast Out" p. 61

Kretz, Thomas. "La Enseñanza da Ciencia en Chile" p. 57

Musgrave, Susan. "Celebration" p. 58

Scott, Virgil. "Home is Where the Heart is" p. 5

Van Brunt, H. L. "Lion" p. 48

Vander Molen, Robert. "Trails" p. 76

Wild, Peter. "after 12" p. 20
"Ambush" p. 15
"Note on your Picture Taken in the Town Square of Cananea, Sonora" p. 16
"Smoky" p. 19
"Wenden" p. 18

Wrobel, Sylvia. "Postcards from Roland" p. 23

Red Cedar Review: Volume 6:3

Red Cedar Review vol. 6 #3, September 1968

Editor: Peggy Case
Associate Editor: Etta Abrahams
Poetry Editor: James Tipton
Fiction Editor: Peter Fiore
Art and Graphics: Sue Budny, editor
Dave Pickering

Bryan, R. Wm. "Early Spring, 6 a.m." p. 55
"Pistols" p. 54

Bucholtz, Melvyn S. "First Freeze" p. 20
"Free Weekend" p. 22
"Old Man Reading James Fennimore Cooper" p. 23

Dionne, Joe. "Ankara, and other places" p. 48
"The Great Ten Day Legume War of Henri Manteau" p. 9
"My Mother in the Morning Stepped" p. 64

Drake, Barbara. "Night Out" p. 57

Gildner, Gary. "Driving to Ankeny" p. 25
"On a Certain Sweet Delicious After-Napping Noon" p. 26
"Watching Une Femme Mariée Commit Adultery in the Basement of the Episcopal Church" p. 24

Hathaway, Stephan. "The Revival Meeting" p. 27

McKeon, Mark. "Dream Against the City" p. 31

Ouwinga, Stuart. "Sestina, for myself, perhaps" p. 66

Parrott, Jerry. "On Seeing a Picture in Life of a Child Gone Hungry in Biafra" p. 32

Riccio, Ottone M. "The Attack" p. 35
"Exodus" p. 34
"A Final Discovery" p. 37
"Walking on the Beach" p. 33
"Witchcraft" p. 36

Roecker, William A. "The Instructor Sees John Calvin on a Coed’s Shoulder" p. 38

Shratter, Alan. "II. Scherzo" p. 41

Taylor, W. Allen. "Arlington: Wound en Monument" p. 5
"Miami Beach: A Tittilating Intimation of the Unkept Promises in this Censored World" p. 3
"The Seer" p. 4

Tucker, Harvey. "At One O’Clock" p. 40

Wade, John Stevens. "Afternoon in Medan" p. 8
"Morning" p. 6
"Trees seen from a train" p. 7

Red Cedar Review: Volume 6:2

Red Cedar Review vol. 6 #2, May 1968

Editor: Craig Sterry
Fiction: Brian Slaymaker
Techincal Assistants: Peggy Case
Etta Abrahams

Bertolino, James. "Employed" p. 55
"Fire Sale" p. 54
"A second" p. 56

Blazek, Douglas. "Politics, at a Somewhat Lower Level" p. 23
"A Sphere jester/a severe jester" p. 22

Bloomfield, Mitchell. "Auction on Lincoln Street" p. 33
"The Mongoloid Child Watches Kite Flying" p. 52

Davis, Mary F. "Orbit" p. 48

Frink, Jane. "Above Winter" p. 25
"August" p. 24

Galvin, Brendan. "In Locust Hollow" p. 32

Hitchcock, George. "The Man with the Wicker Cigar" p. 31

Matthews, William. "Moving" p. 16
"Reading Beside a Farm Pond on a March Afternoon" p. 15

Nagy, William. "Five Untitled Poems" p. 17

Pasco, Dobie. "Another Girl" p. 5
"Knowing" p. 6
"Wednesday" p. 4

Rendleman, Daniel. "The Morning of November" p. 26

Robinson, Deborah. "April’s Love" p. 57

Root, William Pitt. "Checking In" p. 10
"The City Dreaming of Horses" p. 9
"The Jellyfish" p. 8

Vander Molen, Robert. "Fishing with Jake" p. 59
"Position #32" p. 58

Welch, James. "City Days Always Tried Happy" p. 7

Wright, Charles. "Private Madrigal" p. 3

Red Cedar Review: Volume 6:1

Red Cedar Review vol. 6 #1, January 1968

Editor: Peggy Case
Managing Editor: Etta Abrahams
Prose: Will Albert
D. L. Rosochacki
Poetry: Martha Aldenbrand
Peter Fiore
Francisco Llaguno

Aldenbrand, M. "At Dusk" p. 33
"Untitled" p. 32

Antonides, Chris. "The Day of the Barber" p. 3

Blazek, Douglas. "Radar of the No-Tongue Words" p. 31

Cooperman, Stanley. "Elegy in a Suburb" p. 58
"Programme for a Wednesday Afternoon" p. 60

English, Ron. "At Grand Mother's" p. 46
"Charge/for monks"p. 45
"A Resistance" p. 44
"Untitled" p. 43

Fiore, Peter. "Faces and Places" p. 50
"For Three Dead Astronauts" p. 29
"Milestones" p. 30
"These Foolish Things" p. 28

Gildner, Gary. "Lady in the Ring" p. 56
"Miss Endicotta T. Briskett" p. 57

Guimond, Charles Grant. "Krabbin Snalesong" p. 25
"from Loves of Attrition Don’t Stir" p. 24
"ring-a-ling a tinkling bell" p. 26

Poulin, A., Jr. "Ode to Peter" p. 34

Rosochacki, D. L. "Stilled Life: four poems" p. 52

Sjogren, Theodore. "The Storm" p. 61

Sweet, William T. "Dry Ice" p. 92

Vander Molan, Robert. "from Morning and Night" p. 36

Witt, Harold. "Untitled" p. 40

Tarot: Volume 2:1

Tarot vol. 2 #1, 1962

Editors: Walter Lockwood
Robert Elliott
James Cash
Frederick Shepard

Burgoyne, Jackie. "The Black Cat" p. 19

Elliott, Robert F. "The Heat of Winter" p. 15
"Let's Play Ball" p. 26
"No Sweat, God Is on Our Side" p. 44

English, Ron. "The Russian Office" p. 50

Gatten, J. T. "Gift of the Poem" p. 62
"A Modest Proposal" p. 37

Gronner, Stephen. "Matinee" p. 1

Gunderson, Julie. "Night of the Carnival" p. 65

Johnson, Barbara. "Change" p. 45

Kelley, David. "A Cool Breeze Blew from Eden" p. 51

Ryan, Paddy. "Two Is a Crowd" p. 16

Thompson, John. "A Fever on the River" p. 63
"The Man in the Wind" p. 25
"Rimbaud: the Drunken Boat" p. 22
"A Tale of the Moon" p. 61

Wolff, George. "Crows" p. 64
"From the Cold Tree" p. 44
"Young Boy" p. 64

Tarot: Volume 1:2

Tarot vol. 1 #2, 1961

Editors: Thomas McGuane
J. D. Reed
Managing Editor: Ron English
Associate Editors: Walter Lockwood
John Thompson
Steven Gronner
J. Thomas Gatten
Joan Hutchinson
Art: Al Brunelle
Typographic Design: Anne Earley
Promotion: Mary Pennanon
Circulation: Wayne Phares
Advisors: Virgil Scott
Charles Pollock
Hazard Adams
A. J. M. Smith
Clara Laidlaw
Carson C. Hamilton

Deno, Mary. "Three Poems" p. 35

English, Ronald. "Poem" p. 38

Gronner, Stephen. "Poem" p. 37

Gualtieri, Ralph. "Poem" p. 36

Lockwood, Walter L. "Sounds of the Country" p. 1

McGuane, Thomas. "The Conspiracy" p. 31

Thompson, John. "Three Poems" p. 29

Wolff, George. "Spring and Anti-Spring Poems" p. 11

Tarot: Volume 1:1

Tarot vol. 1 #1, 1961

"Tarot was the name of the seven ivory tablets used in ancient Egypt to predict the fertility of the Nile-bank soil."

Editors: Thomas McGuane
J. D. Reed
Ron English
Fiction Editor: Thomas Gatten
Poetry Editor: John Thompson
Art Editor: John W. Durham
Typographic Design: Anne Earley
Business Manager: Tracy Paget
Circulation: Steve Churgin
Advisors: Virgil Scott
Charles Pollock
Hazard Adams
A. J. M. Smith
Clara Laidlaw
Carson C. Hamilton

Alexander, Fern. "Yellow Trees" p. 41

English, Ronald. "Riddle Song" p. 48

Gatten, J. Thomas. "Henry James’ The Ambassadors: the Fact of the Fiction" p. 37

Harper, Janet. "Two Poems" p. 35

Knapp, David. "from The Lemmings" p. 29

McGuane, Thomas. "The Juke" p. 3

Moore, Gilbert. "Trois Poèmes" p. 42

Wolff, George. "Four Poems" p. 17

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Street Team: Kyle Martin
Jesse Gibbings
Readers with opinions: Jason Ardanowski
Colleen Farrow
Veronica Fitzpatrick
Erica Fredericks
Jesse Gibbings
Andrew Hickner
Kevin McDaniel
Jess Miller
Brian Montes
Brittany Parling
Sowkya Rangarajan
Jess Snapke
Collen Weiler

Beamer, Amelia. "Food" p. 3

Corpolongo, Andrea. "untitled" p. 5

Foncannon, Michelle. "Time to Wait" p. 2

Hickner, Andrew. "Persistance [sic] of Memory" p. 7
"There were no fireworks (for M.R.H., whether you want it or not)" p. 2

Lumpkin, Barna. "Soliloquy" p. 4

Passmore, Crystal. "Madness Man" p. 3
"Tracing Scars" p. 6
"Young Mathematician" p. 5

Phillips, Jessi. "Visiting New York City in October 2001" p. 1

Sutherland, Aimee. "Demeter Goes to the Laundromat" p. 2
"A Short Metaphor for Love" p. 5

Tamlyn, Emily. "Estate Sale" p. 6

Warners, Jordan. "New York City" p. 3

Oats: Our Time Is Stolen Goods

Our Time Is Stolen Goods, Fall 2002

Staff: Jason Ardanowski
Amelia Beamer
Veronica Fitzpatrick
Erica Frederick
Jesse "Bloats" Gibbings
Kyle Martin
Brian Montes
Laura Portwood-Stacer
Jess Snapke
Colleen Weiler

Birkett, Nicole Bernadette. "All We Did Was Talk" p. 5
"Olive" p. 3
"Purely Organic in Intention" p. 7

Jordan, D. Christopher. "Long Way" p. 4

Montes, Brian. "Disconnected" p. 2
"listless" p. 1
"remember, you are not easily forgotten" p. 3
"Tremors" p. 5
"You Said" p. 6

Phillips, Jessi. "Grammar at 1 a.m." p. 4
"'It’s Just Skin,' You Said, Reflecting on Your Lack of Regret About Your Huge Tattoos" p. 6
"Preservatives" p. 2

Risik, Elizabeth A. "Restless" p. 4

Robiadek, Katie. "It was a lie, I did break your watch" p. 6

Sutherland, Aimee. "Jealousy" p. 7
"Sharp as Silk" p. 5

Oats: Inside

Inside, Spring 2002

Managing Editor: Laura Portwood-Stacer
Senior Consultant: Matt Penniman
Content Editors: Jessica Miller
Julie Thompson
Andrea Licavoli
Kyle Martin
Rachel Jefferson
Anne Kopicko

Arscott, Adam M. "Love Songs"

Behrenwald, Sally. "Autumn Afternoon Near Beaumont Tower"

Bigelow, Chris. "Art Imitating Life"

Black, Stephanie. "Genius"

Brock, Adrienne Gail. "My Apology for Being Late for Everything or Black Tie Optional"

Herzog, Julia. "Voided Exposition"

Moon, Joshua Dylan. "Young Men with Itching Assholes Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places"

Morin, Leah. "Maybe Tonight"

Penniman, Matt. "Fantasia on Scarborough Fair"

Sinke, Miranda. "To My Car"

Thelen, Amanda. "Immunity"

Tucker, Kathryn M. "Bare Bones"

Oats: Childhood

Childhood, Fall 2001

Design Team: Laura Portwood-Stacer
Robin Sloan
Managing Editor: Laura Portwood-Stacer
Senior Consultant: Matt Penniman
Content Editors: Lisa Bush
Aman Chitlanga
Rachel Jefferson
Emily Johnston
Hannah Kliewer
Anne Kopicko
Andrea Licavoli
Kyle Martin
Jessica Miller
Pauline Poplawski

Behrenwald, Sally. "Summer’s End" p. 3
"Youthful Angst" p. 4

Black, Stephanie. "Innocence Auction" p. 5

Dinero, Doug. "Refrigerator Poem #1" p. 4
"Refrigerator Poem #2" p. 6
"Refrigerator Poem #3" p. 7

Evelyn, J. "Sweet Fatty Fat-Face" p. 5

Martin, Kyle. "With Open Eyes" p. 7

Miller, Kelly. "untitled" p. 1

Noyes, Hillary. "Defending" p. 7

Portwood-Stacer, Laura. "Uninhibited" p. 4

Prechowski, Jennifer. "For Sale" p. 6

Strong, Leslie. "Competition" p. 4

Oats: The Love Issue

The Love Issue, 2001

Content Editors: Jeremy Campbell
Leonard Ford
Lindsay Noechel
Matt Penniman
Managing Editor: Laura Portwood-Stacer
Staff: Theresa Mlinarcik
Jessica McNeil
Design: Matt Penniman
Foreign Correspondents: Robin Sloan
Dan Bouk

Arscott, A. M. "Advice to a Young Lover from Chairman Mao" p. 3

Bell, Ashley. "Streetlight Romance" p. 6

Burnett, Sarah. "Grass Glorified" p. 2

Couillard, Jeremy. "Mr. Squash" p. 1

Heliste, Jennifer. "Revenge of the Forgotten Girlfriends" p. 6

Lavolette, R. Jess. "The Days Before Valhalla Fell" p. 4

Loeffler, Deanna. "Five" p. 3

Sinclair, John Eliot. "Master of the Universe" (reprint) p. 7

Tucker, Katy. "Evolution of Awareness" p. 3
"Still-life with Nude" p. 6

Oats: Fall In

Fall In, 2000

Managing Editor: Dan Bouk
Design Editor: Robin Sloan
Content Editors: Jeremy Campbell
Leonard Ford
Lindsay Noechell
Matt Penniman
Webmaster: Dave Holstius

Campbell, Jeremy. "I'm Very Disappointed in You" p. 4

Carmody, Timothy. "Foundling" p. 3

Craig, Gavin. "Written on a Leaf" p. 3

Hungerford, Andrew. "Ode to an Undergraduate at the End of Fall Semester" p. 3

Mandaumin, John. "Pygmalion's Problem" p. 6

O'Neill, Darby. "Bloody February" p. 3

Pelowski, Alton. "Whatever Happened to the Swoon?" p. 4

Oats: Spring Is in the Air

Spring Is in the Air, 2000

Editors: Dan Bouk
Leonard Ford
Matt Penniman
Robin Sloan
Webmaster: Dave Holstius
Advisor: Martin Benjamin

Ballor, Jordan. "Bubble Rap" p. 6

Campbell, Jeremy. "The Rules of Engagement" p. 3

Carmody, Timothy. "lilac" p. 4
"madison avenue blues" p. 4

Dinero, Doug. "Refrigerator Poetry" back cover

Noyes, Hillary. "Our Song" p. 6

O'Neill, Darby. "142." p. 6

Penniman, Matt. "Intercession" p. 5

Posner, Jake. "Pre. . ." front cover

Sloan, Robin. "An Instant Message" p. 7

Oats: Millennium

Millennium, 2000

Editors: Dan Bouk
Leonard Ford
Matt Penniman
Robin Sloan
Advisor: Martin Benjamin

Campbell, Jeremy. "Future's Past" p. 7

Craig, Gavin. "The Fool" p. 6

Doromal, Nathaniel. "Saving the Reputation" p. 17

Fifelski, Julie B. "about rain and nothing more" p. 3

Lavolette, R. Jess. "DJ" p. 4

Lindo, M. E. "Untitled" p. 6

Mandaumin, John. "Pygmalion’s Problem (pt. 2)" p. 13

Meeusen, Cynthia Anne. "Knight in Shining Armor" p. 11

Noyes, Hillary. "Here Lies the Magick" p. 5
"We instead shall feel" p. 8

O'Neill, Darby. "17." P. 18

Urbain, Tina. "Wind and Dream" p. 12

Oats: Jump In

Jump In, Fall 1999

Full issue as PDF

Editors: Dan Bouk
Leonard Ford
Matt Penniman
Robin Sloan
Advisor: Martin Benjamin

Bouk, Dan. "O My Soul" p. 12

Cloud, Abigail. "Hands" p. 8

Dinero, Doug. "Refrigerator Poetry" p. 10

Dysangco, Marie. "Lovelife" p. 7

Hunter, Ian. "Mestre" p. 11

Lee, M. G. "Denied" p. 10

Mandaumin, John. "Pygmalion's Problem (pt. 1)" p. 13

Rose, Laura. "On Reading the Poetry of Karol Wojtyla" p. 9

Russell, Joshua J. "Entropy" p. 8

Sinclair, John Eliot. "Master of the Universe" p. 3

Oats: My Name Is

Hello, My Name Is Oats, April 1999

Editorial Board: Dan "The Bouk" Bouk
Leonard "Smooth" Ford
Matt "Penny" Penniman
Robin "Samurai" Sloan

Bidlingmeyer, Jennifer. "5 a.m. In Mason Lobby" p. 6

Craig, Gavin. "Fable" p. 7

Dinero, Doug. "Refrigerator Poetry" p. 11

Jutunen, Kristina. "Pageant" p. 8

Penniman, Matt. "A Day of Sun and Glass" p. 3

Youn, Lisa. "Bungee" p. 10

Red Cedar Review: Volume 5:2

Red Cedar Review vol. 5 #2, April 1967

Editor: Peggy Case
Managing Editor: Etta. C. Abrahams
Graphic Design: V. Glen Washburn
Art Editor: Cliff Monteith
Prose: Will Albert, editor
Dennis A. Noyes
Poetry: Craig Sterry, editor
Peter Lungren
Martha Aldenbrand
Francisco Llaguno
Michael Cronan

Bucholtz, Melvyn S. "Great Men Will Have to Go" p. 49
"Untitled" p. 50
"Woman at Summer’s Door" p. 51

Carson, Lee. "Dutchboy Alice" p. 96

Cronan, Michael. "three a.m" p. 43

Fiore, Peter. "four pieces from Journeys" p. 45

Guillermo, Gelacio Y., Jr. "Distrust the Door" p. 17

Hohauser, M. S. "Untitled" p. 84
"Untitled" p. 85

Jones, M. F. "Sandwich Man" p. 16
"Strangers to Touch" p. 14

Kupperman, Mark. "from A Life in Progress" p. 5
"Mother Goosed" p. 87

Lechlitner, Ruth. "Directions for a Contemporary Composition in Mixed Media" p. 83
"Prehistoric: Circa 1960 A.D." p. 82

Lungren, Peter. "Recollection of a Chilly Afternoon" p. 97

Nagy, William. "Halloween" p. 93

Olmstead, Daniel. "His Taxidermist’s Yellow Glass Eyes" p. 94

Rowe, Winthrop. "The Valley of the Blind" p. 19

Sjogren, Theodore. "Everybody Else in Free" p. 53

Slaymaker, Brian. "The Departure" p. 37

Sterry, Craig. "After-Dinner Memo: To Marcia" p. 35
"Untitled" p. 34

Red Cedar Review: Volume 5:1

Red Cedar Review vol. 5 #1, January 1967

Editor: Peggy Case
Managing Editor: Etta C. Abrahams
Layout and Design: V. Glen Washburn
Art Editor: Cliff Monteith
Publicity Manager: Joel Cooper
Secretary: Deborah Dixon
Poetry: Craig Sterry, editor
Martha Aldenbrand
Fiction: Richard Close, editor
Dennis A. Noyes, editor
Julie Brickman
Judith Rodabeck
Nina Sowinski
Deborah Dixon

Bergmann, D. C. "Haven of Rest" p. 81

Bettis, Berkley. "Strays" p. 1

Cahill, Elaine. "The Cornfield" p. 82

Eberlein, Michael D. "I Mar-tin Luther" p. 46
"Labor Pains. . . Nasty Nurses. . . German Lessons. . ." p. 46

Guimond, Grant Charles. "The Prince of Peace" p. 42

Harkness, James. "Bruce Spencer" p. 44
"Upon Visiting An Acquaintance, the Dying Proprietress of a Strawberry Farm" p. 44

Hohauser, M. S. "the steps of my stairs" p. 84

King, Shannon. "The Old Man" p. 73

Lee, Jennifer. "Winter in Provence: Beach at Fos-sur-Mer" p. 47

Nagy, William. "the day is yours" p. 20
"I walked through the darker streets" p. 19

Noyes, Dennis A. "La Danza Primordial" p. 35

Sjogren, Theodore. "A Legacy of Silence" p. 49

Sterry, Craig. "Amanda" p. 33
"The Rat" p. 32
"This is a poem About a girl" p. 31

Sterry, Rick. "Brooks Too Broad for Leaping" p. 23

Torp-Smith, Marley. "A widow walks to the empty ship" p. 83

Vander Molen, Robert. "from The Degrees of Passing is Age" p. 70
"from Leaf Collections" p. 67

Red Cedar Review: Volume 4

Red Cedar Review vol. 4 #1, Spring 1966

Editor: Peggy Case
Fiction: Etta C. Abrahams, Mike Steely
Poetry: James D. Lockwood
Art: Sue Bowers
Advisor: Virgil Scott

Alberts, Will. "Selection from a Novel in Progress" p. 15

Aldenbrand, Martha. "Poem" p. 44

Arrick, George. "Elegy on the Death of Don Perlimplin" p. 11
"Untitled" p. 10
"Untitled" p. 13

Bradley, Nicholas H. "Eddy Freeman" p. 5

Bucholtz, Melvyn S. "Giver" p. 32
"Lime Grapefruit" p. 31
"Untitled" p. 30

Dinges, Ricka Leonheart. "Paris, London, Berlin" p. 35

Egudu, Romanus. "A Curs'd Blessing" p. 55
"Through the Eye of Night" p. 54

Keary, John P. "Epilogue" p. 64

Lee, Jennifer. "Blighted Autumn" p. 56

Pettit, Marilyn. "No Fit Place for a Child to Play" p. 47

Randall, Steven. "Three Haiku" p. 45

Regenbaum, Kenneth. "Ladies of the Camellias" p. 33

Sheardy, R. Thomas. "The Stargazers" p. 58

Red Cedar Review: Volume 3

Red Cedar Review vol. 3, Spring 1965

Editor-in-Chief: Frederick P. Piet
Managing Editor: Tom Dougherty
Fiction: Etta C. Abrahams, editor
Mike Steely
Brett Wakefield
Poetry: Peggy Case, editor
Robert Alt
Art: Laura Nash, editor
Distribution: William B. Conklin
Advisors: Virgil Scott
David Roberts

Aldenbrand, Martha. "An Evening Boy Running" p. 67

Bucholtz, Melvyn. "Untitled" p. 41
"Wasps" p. 40

Campbell, Joan. "The Essence of Ovel" p. 43

Case, Peggy. "From The Sidewalk" p. 31

Cash, James. "A Poem Or Something" p. 48

Chapin, B. J. "Treehouse, Treehouse, Treehouse" p. 51

English, Ronald. "The True And Horrific End Of Egan’s Folly" p. 13

Fischl, Sara. "Veil of Dirty Glass" p. 69

Harkness, James. "Concert" p. 65

Laing, D. Ami. "Running Through The Meadow After Milkweed Down" p. 15

Lapuszynski, Victor. "Untitled" p. 33

Petrides, George. "Pax Africana" p. 5

Regenbaum, Kenneth. "Tamed" p. 32

Steely, Mike. "The Great Truth—Explanation of An Elegy" p. 35

Tate, Laurence. "The Search" p. 17

Editorial staff list courtesy of Etta Abrahams

Red Cedar Review: Volume 2

Red Cedar Review vol. 2, Spring 1964

Editor-in-Chief: James Cash
Managing Editor: Fred Piet
Fiction: Jerry Hall, editor
Lynn Ferar
William Ten Hoor
Poetry: Peg Case, editor
Ron English
Sylvia Konczol
Art: Laura Nash, editor
Skip Davis
Sylvia Butler
Advisors: Carl Hartman
Virgil Scott
Carson Hamilton
A. J. M. Smith
Clara Laidlaw

Bradley, Nicholas H. "The Ward" p. 54

Bucholtz, Melvyn. "Expiration" p. 53

Cash, James. "Black Cherries" p. 65

Claire, James. "Fugal Experiment for Two Readers" p. 15
"Poem for Mystics" p. 16

Drake, Susan. "Orison from a Dry Well" p. 48

English, Ron. "Atlas" p. 34
"The Satyr" p. 35

Gervais, Ron. "Womb of Darkness" p. 49

Harkness, James. "Nickey" p. 63

Lackey, Doug. "Jean Vigo—A Tribute" p. 29

Lockwood, James. "Sonnet I" p. 48

Morgan, Robert F. "The Partners" p. 37

Niemi, Robert. "In Silence" p. 21

Pease, John. "I Have Wept and Moaned in My Sleep" p. 51
"None So Lovely" p. 51
"To Robin Lost in What Is Perhaps Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Desert" p. 50

Slater, Richard. "The Bent Grass" p. 5

Smith, Alden. "While the West Wind Sleeps" p. 17

Smith, Judy. "Noble Friend" p. 27

Thompson, Jean. "On Two Paintings of Van Gogh" p. 20

Editorial staff list courtesy of Etta Abrahams

Red Cedar Review: Volume 1

Red Cedar Review vol. 1, Spring 1963

Editor-in-Chief: Walter Lockwood
Managing Editor: Howard Shapiro
Art Director: Dennis Kallek
Fiction: James Cash, editor
Webb Marris
James Lockwood
Poetry: Peg Case, editor
Karen Best
Art: Dennis Kallek, editor
Miki Zippin
James Drum
Skip Davis
Joyce Vinson
Roger Berry
Department Manager: George Graeber
Business Manager: Steve Lewis
Circulations Manager: Don Feinstein
Publicity Manager: Jerry Peters
Secretary: Jean Zambiski
Advisors: Carl Hartman
Joseph Kuszai
Virgil Scott
Carson Hamilton
A. J. M. Smith
Clara Laidlaw

Albaugh, Horace. "Apocalypse" p.19

Bray, Gerald. "Not All Dreams Die with Awakening" p. 25
"Sometimes" p. 26

Bucholtz, Melvyn. "December 6" p. 61
"Grindle" p. 62
"Unknowns" p. 60
"Voices From Underground" p. 63

Case, Peggy. "Once Upon A Once-Time Night" p. 59

Gervais, Ron. "As A Light Sinks" p. 47
"Writer's Wife" p. 47

Harkness, James. "Death Room" p. 31
"Sandywine" p. 1

Heald, Philip. "The Lizard" p. 31

Lockwood, Walter. "Halloween’s Children" p. 33

Nye, Pete. "Improvisation, Haiku, Jazz" p. 28

Ogar, Richard. "An Afternoon with The Seer" p. 15
"Final Separation" p. 18
"Insects" p. 16
"Twentieth-Century Theology" p. 17

Sjogren, Theodore. "The Lie" p. 5

Slater, Richard. "The Day Before" p. 48
"Something To Do On Saturday" p. 49
"The Spillway" p. 50

Swets, Marinus. "No Road To Damascus" p. 52

Known East Lansing/MSU small literary magazines

Known East Lansing/MSU small literary magazines:

Tarot: 1961 – 1962
Red Cedar Review: 1963 – present
Zeitgeist: 1965 – 1969
4-play: 1985?
Oats: 1999 – 2003
The Offbeat: 1999 – present
MSU Green Shadows (online only): 2004 – 2005

Offbeat/1

Offbeat/1, 2001

Editor: Gavin Craig
Fiction Editor: Brandon Kelley
Poetry Editor: Katy Tucker
Nonfiction Editor: J. A. Upton
Public Relations: Stephanie Bost
Publicity: Brooke Caterina
Design: Steve Soldwedel
Webmaster: Dave Holstius
Fiction Board: Micki Evans
Laura Portwood-Stacer
Poetry Board: Timothy Carmody
Advisor: Elizabeth Demers

Brady, Robert. "For the First Time" p. 1

Campbell, Jeremy. "Big Black Coat" p. 19
"so i sez to him" p. 57

Carmody, Timothy. "Remembering Frank O’Hara: 1926 – 1966" p. 36
"Tom in Dublin" p. 9

Copeland, William. "More than Death" p. 20

Duke, Matt. "Candy Cigarettes" p. 60

Edison-Swift, Anne. "The Interpretation of Dreams" p. 2

Fifelski, Julie. "Under the Influence" p. 13

Hungerford, Andrew. "Lesson on an Alto Saxophone" p. 15
"Pining for a Third Millennium" p. 18

Kuznar, M. "Purity" p. 11

McClure, Meg. "Midterm Assessment of the Life of a Twenty-Two Year Old" p. 30
"My Nights with You a Cycle of the Moon" p. 28
"Pieces of You" (reprint) p. 34
"Sisterhood Haiku" (reprint) p. 33

Monroe, Meghan. "On the cusp" p. 17

Muzzall, Jonathan P. "An Intimation of the End of the World" p. 47

Noyes, Hillary. "Accelerate" p. 4

Paul, Christopher. "Grace Anatomy" p. 58

Schmidt, Daniel. "Lullaby" p. 22
"obituary" p. 14
"Reminder" p. 5

Sodwedel, Steven Edward. "The Small Hours" p. 48

Tucker, Kathryn. "Meg McClure: a Poet Coming of Age" p. 23
"Notre Dame de Paris" p. 7

The Offbeat: Fall 2000

The Offbeat, Fall 2000

Editor-in-Chief: Gavin Craig
Publicity: Sue Fletcher
Public Relations: Stephanie Bost
Design Editor: Steve Soldwedel
Poetry Editor: Katy Tucker
Fiction Editor: Brandon Kelley
Staff: Kate Baldwin
Timothy Carmody
Kathleen Dykhouse
Anne Edison-Swift
Micki Evans
Tyra Frazier
Laura Portwood-Stacer
Jackie Upton

Anspaugh, Kendra. "16 April 2000—For Jessica" p. 17

Arscott, Adam. "Valentine on a pack of cigarettes" p. 4

Bell, Ashley. "mama said" p. 19
"Streetlight Romance" p. 5

Bondarenko, Alexander. "Short Story" p. 26

Carmody, Timothy. "Cracked" p. 43
"Detroit Bar" p. 15

Craig, Gavin. "East Lansing Is Not a Good Place For Poetry" p. 2
"The Required Reading List for the New Revolutionary" p. 48
"Space" p. 6

Evans, Micki. "Men Writing Like Girls" p. 30

Hungerford, Andrew. "Not a Poem" p. 3

Lee, M. G. "Autumn Twilight in the Gardens" p. 9
"Life on Planet Everywhere" p. 13

O'Neil, Darby. "There Comes a Time" p. 7

Swantek, Jason. "The Long November Fall" p. 20

Swender, David. "Beside Yourself" p. 25

Tucker, Kathryn. "Train Across Great Britain" p. 10

The Offbeat: Spring 2000

The Offbeat, Spring 2000

Editor-in-Chief: Gavin Craig
Public Relations: Stephanie Bost
Publicity: Timothy Carmody
Design Editor: Kathy Dykhouse
Staff: Sue Fletcher
Emily Friedman
Katy Tucker
Advisor: Elizabeth Demers

Budry, Nicole. "For Patrick" p. 5

Boldrey, Ryan. "308 Ballard" p. 15

Brooks, Daniel. "Allison vs. the typewriter" p. 6
"Eyes to the sun everyone, let’s go blind together!" p. 13

Carmody, Timothy. "Memory" p. 21
"Smoothie" p. 40

Cherba, Kelly. "The Plague" p. 24

Craig, Gavin. "Push—March 27, 1999" p. 10

Davidson, Jacob. "Why the Guy Caught the Ball" p. 12

Douglas, Melissa. "Absolutely Fabulous" p. 35

Gautz, Rachell. "An American Girl in London" p. 30

Hungerford, Andrew. "Hands on the Time" p. 3
"Johnnie's Been Home" p. 23

MacAlister, Amy. "Reminisce of Fanny (While She’s Still Here)" p. 16

Metzler, Natasha. "1997" p. 7

O'Neil, Darby. "Christmas" p. 8

Posner, Jake. "Pre…" p. 32

Pritchett, Radawn. "A journey through faces" p. 17

Seamount, Simon. "Ghosts of Disappeared" p. 26

Tucker, Kathryn. "Roses Like Poems" p. 22

The Offbeat: Fall 1999

The Offbeat, Fall 1999.

Editors: Stephanie Bost
Tim Carmody
Gavin Craig
Kathy Dykhouse
Stacey Esposito
Susan Fletcher
Jessi Phillips
Katy Tucker
Advisor: Elizabeth Demers

Alexander, Andrea. "Goodbye My Llareggub" p. 15

Arnold, Grace. "Jam Jar" p. 5

Campbell, Jeremy. "No More Waiting" p. 26

Craig, Gavin. "Blues on a Suburban Streetcorner at 3a.m." p. 18

Evans, Micki. "The fashion on that side of the road" p. 14
"The Red Dress" p. 21

Henry, Duncan. "A Little Neighborly Gesture" p. 4
"Restaurant Reflection, Under Some Palms, While Drinking Coffee—No Cream" p. 7

Hicks, Elizabeth. "Autumn" p. 6

Leslie, Dustin. "Beneath the Pulse of Ecstasy" p. 9

MacGillis, Marie. "How I Remember Her" p. 11

McClure, Meg. "Pieces of You" p. 19
"Water Signs" p. 3

Oria, Isabelle. "Ugly Inside" p. 16

Posner, Jake. "Timing the Drips" p. 29

Richardson, Brett. "Death's HyMan" p. 12
"First Snow" p. 13

The Offbeat: Spring 1999

The first issue of The Offbeat (or The OffBeat, as it was at the time), Spring 1999.

Editors: Timothy Carmody
Gavin Craig
Susan Fletcher
Elizabeth Heinen

Carmody, Timothy. "It Skips a Genesis" p. 8

Chitwood, Jonathan. "Systematic Dawn" p. 5

Dillaman, Erik. "The Road Less Traveled" p. 18

Evans, Micki. "The Girl" p. 9

Malta, Lauren. "For Sylvia" p. 11

Martin, Laurel. "Nice" p. 12

McClure, Meg. "Piña Coladas" p. 16
"Sisterhood Haiku" p. 3

Spencer, Olivia. "After Picasso's The Old Guitarist" p. 6
"Ugly Child" p. 7

Stromsta, Karl-Erik. "A Lonely Night in Paradise" p. 13

Wade, Yolanda. "Jargon" p. 4