Volume 35, Issue 2
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Featuring work byPOETRY Carol Everett Adams • Ellery Beck • Jennifer Brown • Jesse DeLong • Nandini Dhar • Jennifer Freed • Joshua Gottlieb-Miller • Carol Hamilton • Elisabeth Harrahy • Jose Hernandez Diaz • Cory Hutchinson-Reuss • Andrew Johnson • Julie Swarstad Johnson • Hari Bhajan Khalsa • Ellen Kombiyil • Arden Levine • Lauren Mallett • Matt McBride • Elizabeth McLagan • Rose McLarney • Leah Osowski • Charlie Peck • Marlo Starr • Ginny Threefoot • Dan Veach • Jane Zwart FICTION Scott Brennan • Mary Louise Hill • Mehdi M. Kashani • Joseph Labernik • Sarah Layden • Nathan Moseley • Chad Schuster • Heather Turbeville NONFICTION Hadil Ghoneim • Steven Harvey • Kathryn Nuernberger • Natalie Tsay • William Kelley Woolfitt ART Jiha Moon
Charlie Peck
then the oral surgery: my four bad wisdom
teeth ripped from their beds, stitches and bloodgums,
ketamine and skin pocked from the needle’s poke.
The nurse melted into dentist and I couldn’t find
the buttons on my shirt when I woke. In a carport
in Tallahassee I saw the rusted grill and gas can,
the blackened logs in the wet pit, a lone sock
in the drive. Out back by the coop, a hen lifted
her wing over her clutch of chicks, shielded them
from the rain. The miracle of feathers drawing
a single raindrop on course from beak to dirt
while inside we shook like pill bottles. I have a friend
who figured out the password for her roommate’s
dating profile. Each week she took his pictures
and photoshopped his face a little bit smaller.
After six weeks his head had shrunk to the size
of a baseball on his torso. Three months and no
dates he finally figured it out, but now he’s so used
to his profile picture he thinks his normal head
is huge. Once after dinner while I poured
Kahlua into my coffee, Keith passed around
his great aunt’s journal. We touched
the brown pages and the leather binding,
her magnificent looping script. I translated July 19, 1947,
Met Georg today in the Kempinski Hotel. Poor Uncle Hans
never knew about Georg, and neither did my friend until
I was at the family table and could not stop translating
her affair, the dinner ruined. Last night with Georg
he poured two glasses of absinthe, then slowly trickled
water over sugar cubes. Hotel after hotel, night
after night, and everyone in tears but me, reading
that beautiful diary. The green liquor turned to a sudden
milky mint, “louche” he called it. The summer I was twelve,
the lake went thick with grasshoppers. The docks, the boatlift,
the small shed where we kept life jackets and fish nets,
all covered in thousands of insects. I rode my bike on the path
through the junipers and birch trees, beside bogs where
box turtles lay in the sun. It was a game: which grasshoppers
jumped out of the way, which ones popped under my tires.
Jiha Moon (b. 1973) is from DaeGu, Korea and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Her works have been acquired by Asia Society, New York, NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. She has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, GA, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, The Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN and Rhodes College, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Memphis, TN and James Gallery of CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group shows at Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MI, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, Asia Society, New York, NY, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, White Columns, New York, NY, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC. She is recipient of prestigious Joan Mitchell foundation’s painter and sculptor’s award for 2011. Her mid-career survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here” organized by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Taubman Museum has toured more than 10 museum venues around the country until 2018.
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Featuring work byPOETRY Carol Everett Adams • Ellery Beck • Jennifer Brown • Jesse DeLong • Nandini Dhar • Jennifer Freed • Joshua Gottlieb-Miller • Carol Hamilton • Elisabeth Harrahy • Jose Hernandez Diaz • Cory Hutchinson-Reuss • Andrew Johnson • Julie Swarstad Johnson • Hari Bhajan Khalsa • Ellen Kombiyil • Arden Levine • Lauren Mallett • Matt McBride • Elizabeth McLagan • Rose McLarney • Leah Osowski • Charlie Peck • Marlo Starr • Ginny Threefoot • Dan Veach • Jane Zwart FICTION Scott Brennan • Mary Louise Hill • Mehdi M. Kashani • Joseph Labernik • Sarah Layden • Nathan Moseley • Chad Schuster • Heather Turbeville NONFICTION Hadil Ghoneim • Steven Harvey • Kathryn Nuernberger • Natalie Tsay • William Kelley Woolfitt ART Jiha Moon
Charlie Peck
then the oral surgery: my four bad wisdom
teeth ripped from their beds, stitches and bloodgums,
ketamine and skin pocked from the needle’s poke.
The nurse melted into dentist and I couldn’t find
the buttons on my shirt when I woke. In a carport
in Tallahassee I saw the rusted grill and gas can,
the blackened logs in the wet pit, a lone sock
in the drive. Out back by the coop, a hen lifted
her wing over her clutch of chicks, shielded them
from the rain. The miracle of feathers drawing
a single raindrop on course from beak to dirt
while inside we shook like pill bottles. I have a friend
who figured out the password for her roommate’s
dating profile. Each week she took his pictures
and photoshopped his face a little bit smaller.
After six weeks his head had shrunk to the size
of a baseball on his torso. Three months and no
dates he finally figured it out, but now he’s so used
to his profile picture he thinks his normal head
is huge. Once after dinner while I poured
Kahlua into my coffee, Keith passed around
his great aunt’s journal. We touched
the brown pages and the leather binding,
her magnificent looping script. I translated July 19, 1947,
Met Georg today in the Kempinski Hotel. Poor Uncle Hans
never knew about Georg, and neither did my friend until
I was at the family table and could not stop translating
her affair, the dinner ruined. Last night with Georg
he poured two glasses of absinthe, then slowly trickled
water over sugar cubes. Hotel after hotel, night
after night, and everyone in tears but me, reading
that beautiful diary. The green liquor turned to a sudden
milky mint, “louche” he called it. The summer I was twelve,
the lake went thick with grasshoppers. The docks, the boatlift,
the small shed where we kept life jackets and fish nets,
all covered in thousands of insects. I rode my bike on the path
through the junipers and birch trees, beside bogs where
box turtles lay in the sun. It was a game: which grasshoppers
jumped out of the way, which ones popped under my tires.
Jiha Moon (b. 1973) is from DaeGu, Korea and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Her works have been acquired by Asia Society, New York, NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. She has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, GA, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, The Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN and Rhodes College, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Memphis, TN and James Gallery of CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group shows at Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MI, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, Asia Society, New York, NY, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, White Columns, New York, NY, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC. She is recipient of prestigious Joan Mitchell foundation’s painter and sculptor’s award for 2011. Her mid-career survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here” organized by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Taubman Museum has toured more than 10 museum venues around the country until 2018.
