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WHISKEY ISLAND • ISSUE FIFTYSEVEN FALL 2009 WHISKEY ISLAND ISSUE FIFTY SEVEN A Literary Journal Published By Cleveland State University
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WH

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• ISSUE FIFT

Y!SEVEN

FALL 2009

WHISKEY ISLAND

Maureen AlsopAmanda BurnhamLee ChilcoteKyle ChurneyDarren DemareeJames DoyleMike FoldesMolly GaudryMarie GauthierJustine Tal GoldbergDavid GracieMichele N. HarmelingFiona HopperRobert A. KaiserElizabeth Kay

David KirbySusan LevineAmelia MartensDonelle McGeeMary MillerDan MoreauAndrew PlattnerJames ReedErika L. SánchezSteven D. SchroederBritton ShurleySarah SloatSimon A. SmithJ. Michael WahlgrenMolly Lynn Watt

ISSUEFIFTY!

SEVEN

A Literary Journal Published By Cleveland State University

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Issue

Fall 2009

WHIsKeY IsLAND

fifty-seven

© 2009

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Cover: "Willy's Parkway" by Amanda Burnham, watercolor and ink on board

Thank you for your support: This magazine would not be possible without the support from the Dean of students, Dr. James Drnek, Budget Officer Marilyn Werner, Media specialist Dan Lenhart and the students of Cleveland state university, who continue to show interest in the publication year after year.

Whiskey island is a nonprofit literary journal that has been published (in one form or another) by students of Cleveland state university for over thirty years. We welcome poetry, fiction and non-fiction (including translation), and art submissions year round. Reporting time is about six months. Include an sAse for reply.

General submissions: We read submissions year round. unpublished work only, please. We ask for first english-language print serial rights, with an option to showcase your piece on our website. All rights revert to the author after publication. Payment is two contributor copies and a one-year subscription.

We accept simultaneous submissions; if your piece is accepted elsewhere, let us know. Multiple submissions: you may submit in more than one genre, but please send each submission separately. After hearing from us, please wait at least a year before submitting again. Take note that our editorial staff, and therefore preferences, changes yearly. Try us again!

to submit by email:Place cover letter and contact information in the body of your email. Put "Poetry submission," "Fiction submission" or "Nonfiction submission" in the subject line, and attach the poetry or prose as a Word, Word compatible, or PDF document. send to [email protected].

to submit by Postal Mail:Include a cover letter, sAse, and writer's name, address, phone and email on each piece. If we accept your piece, we will ask for an electronic version.

Mail general submissions to:Whiskey Island Magazine english Dept. Cleveland state universityCleveland, OH 44115

www.csuohio.edu/whiskey_island/

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WHIsKeY IsLANDIssue FIFTY-seveN • FALL 2009 • EstablishEd 1977

Cleveland state universityCleveland, Ohio 44115

[email protected].

Contact information:

Poetry editors: Michelle skupski Bissell

Karen schubertLaurin Wolf

Fiction editors: Baixi-su Alexander

Lori Comptonvirginia Konchan

Jeffrey Rice

Nonfiction editor: Bonnie Jacobson

Art editor: Leanne Hafer-Dippong

Design and Layout editor: steve Thomas

Web editor: steve Thomas

Media specialist: Dan LenhartFaculty Advisor: Michael Dumanis

Readers: Krysia OrlowskiJeffrey Rice

Interns: Brit Chareknicole fragapaneJosh KleinbergLiz newmanDiana MrukAdam torres

Contest Judges:Michael Dumanisimad Rahman

editor-In-Chief: Megan M. erwin

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Contents: Issue Fifty-Seven

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From the Editor

David Kirby

Darren C. Demaree

Erika L. Sánchez

James Doyle

Donelle C. McGee

Molly Gaudry

J. Michael Wahlgren

Steven D. Schroeder

Kyle Churney

Molly Lynn Watt

Britton Shurley

Suzanne M. Levine

Marie Gauthier

Sarah Sloat

Elizabeth Kay

Maureen Alsop

Amelia Martins

Mike Foldes

What Are You Going to Do?……………………

The Kind of Person Who Comments

on YouTube…………………………………

Holy Grail ………………………………………

To My Enemies …………………………………

OHIO #50 ……………………………………

Earthquake ………………………………………

The Tax Collector Laments His Bunion…………

Threesome………………………………………

Parts ……………………………………………

Stilt ……………………………………………

Their Sons Grow Suicidally ……………………

Jawbreaker Triptych ……………………………

The Vertigo is Back ………………………………

Eleven steps to Becoming a Poet of

the T’Ang Dynasty …………………………

Diptych …………………………………………

Rerouting the superhighway ……………………

To Long Division ………………………………

Riding Backwards on the Train …………………

The good mother ………………………………

Winter Archive in the Double Mirror …………

The Doppelgangers’ Daughter gets

her First EKG………………………………

letter to joe………………………………………

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Poetry

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Lies Will Take You somewheresheila schwartz (etruscan Press,2009)………

Contributors……………………………………………………………

On Learning to Fend for Ourselves …………selected by Michael Dumanis

Anodyne ………………………………………selected by Imad Rahman

Light …………………………………………Boombox ……………………………………Branding Iron #3 ……………………………Right of Return ………………………………Willy's Parkway…………………………

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Decade…………………………………………viewing………………………………………The Pill…………………………………………Painted-up Girls………………………………Challenger……………………………………An Arm and A Leg……………………………Have You No eyes………………………………

Andrew PlattnerJames ReedJustine Tal GoldbergMary MillerDan Moreau Robert A. Kaisersimon A. smith

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Art

David Gracie

Amanda Burnham

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Contest Winners

Michele N. Harmeling Poetry

Fiona Hopperfiction

Lee Chilcote 96

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Book revieW

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from The editor

Dear Reader,

I am so proud and so happy that this issue, #57, is now a tangible, beautiful thing.

The stories and poems that the editorial staff chose delighted and surprised me, and I have a feeling you’ll appreciate them too. David Kirby will make you laugh. James Reed will make you cry. Robert A.Kaiser and James Doyle wrote some characters you’ll want to avoid and I want simon smith’s Joshy to be my new best friend. The artwork by Amanda Burnham and David Gracie is wonderful. Thank you to all the contributors. When I first read these poems and stories, I was thrilled such wonderful work was sent to us.

Thanks to steve Thomas for the design and layout of this gorgeous book, and for always answering computer questions. Thanks to faculty advisor Michael Dumanis, media specialist Dan Lenhart, and those that stepped in to help read when the slush pile was too high. Finally, many thanks to former editor Karen schubert for her guidance, support, and vision. Without the work she did on the infrastructure, this journal wouldn’t be here.

enjoy,

Megan M. erwineditor-In-Chief

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LIGHT by David GracieDimensions: 22''x 26'' Attributes: Oil on board

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BOOMBOX by David GracieDimensions: 19''x 23'' Attributes: Oil on board

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BRANDING IRON #3 by David GracieDimensions: 8''x 10" Attributes: Oil on board

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RIGHT OF RETURN by David Gracie

Dimensions: 27''x 32 1/2" Attributes: Oil on board

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WH

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Y ISLA

ND

• ISSUE FIFT

Y!SEVEN

FALL 2009

WHISKEY ISLAND

Maureen AlsopAmanda BurnhamLee ChilcoteKyle ChurneyDarren DemareeJames DoyleMike FoldesMolly GaudryMarie GauthierJustine Tal GoldbergDavid GracieMichele N. HarmelingFiona HopperRobert A. KaiserElizabeth Kay

David KirbySusan LevineAmelia MartensDonelle McGeeMary MillerDan MoreauAndrew PlattnerJames ReedErika L. SánchezSteven D. SchroederBritton ShurleySarah SloatSimon A. SmithJ. Michael WahlgrenMolly Lynn Watt

ISSUEFIFTY!

SEVEN

A Literary Journal Published By Cleveland State University


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