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.