Volume 32, Issue 2
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POETRY Deborah Bacharach • Angela Ball • Tina Barr • Monica Berlin • Nicolas Bock • Beverly Burch • Jona Colson • Will Corderio • Lara Egger • Jennifer L. Freed • Paul Gibbons • Jeff Hardin • Denise Jarrott • Virginia Konchan • Brandon Krieg • A.D. Lauren • Rebecca Macijeski • John McCarthy • Leslie Ann Minot • Sharon Kennedy-Nolle • Christine Pacyk • Ondrej Pazdirek • Ann Pelletier • Esteban Rodríguez • Suzanne Manizza Roszak • Bo Schwabacher • Sarah J. Sloat • Lana Spendl • Jessica Terson • Sherraine Pate Williams
FICTION Lesley Bannatyne • N. Marc Mullen • Nickalus Rupert NONFICTION Megan Wildhood INTERVIEWS Eric LeMay • David Rutschman ART Billy Renkl
Angela Ball
I don’t “know my own mind.”
Food has thought for me. Shoes
have thought for me
but more often
“the ideal life” has unrelentingly
screwed up its brain
on my behalf.
My thoughts have not suffered
like Lon Chaney’s in Laugh Clown,
Laugh when he falls in love
with his ward, fourteen-year-old
Loretta Young, or those
of a racing sled when flakes
don’t fall, not to mention those
of the dogs, chained to their cenotaph
houses–though I suspect that one day
when my thoughts are tied
to opposing mythological horses,
the poor thoughts stretched
to transparence by albino life
on one side gray death
on the other, they will utter themselves
freely.
I grew up in Birmingham, AL. I attended Auburn University (BFA, Visual Communications) and the University of South Carolina (MFA, Drawing). I teach drawing and illustration at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN.My work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions, including solo shows at The Cumberland Gallery (Nashville, TN), Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts (New Orleans), Vanderbilt University, The University of Kentucky, The Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Galerie Neue Raume (Berlin, Germany). I am represented in several permanent collections, including The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Kiwanis Club International, The Tennessee State Museum, and The College of Notre Dame, Baltimore.In addition to gallery exhibitions, I have worked with many clients on illustration assignments, including SouthWest Airlines, How Magazine, Vanderbilt University, Klutz Inc., Strategy & Business, The River Styx, Poems and Plays, and Rigby Publishing.
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POETRY Deborah Bacharach • Angela Ball • Tina Barr • Monica Berlin • Nicolas Bock • Beverly Burch • Jona Colson • Will Corderio • Lara Egger • Jennifer L. Freed • Paul Gibbons • Jeff Hardin • Denise Jarrott • Virginia Konchan • Brandon Krieg • A.D. Lauren • Rebecca Macijeski • John McCarthy • Leslie Ann Minot • Sharon Kennedy-Nolle • Christine Pacyk • Ondrej Pazdirek • Ann Pelletier • Esteban Rodríguez • Suzanne Manizza Roszak • Bo Schwabacher • Sarah J. Sloat • Lana Spendl • Jessica Terson • Sherraine Pate Williams
FICTION Lesley Bannatyne • N. Marc Mullen • Nickalus Rupert NONFICTION Megan Wildhood INTERVIEWS Eric LeMay • David Rutschman ART Billy Renkl
Angela Ball
I don’t “know my own mind.”
Food has thought for me. Shoes
have thought for me
but more often
“the ideal life” has unrelentingly
screwed up its brain
on my behalf.
My thoughts have not suffered
like Lon Chaney’s in Laugh Clown,
Laugh when he falls in love
with his ward, fourteen-year-old
Loretta Young, or those
of a racing sled when flakes
don’t fall, not to mention those
of the dogs, chained to their cenotaph
houses–though I suspect that one day
when my thoughts are tied
to opposing mythological horses,
the poor thoughts stretched
to transparence by albino life
on one side gray death
on the other, they will utter themselves
freely.
I grew up in Birmingham, AL. I attended Auburn University (BFA, Visual Communications) and the University of South Carolina (MFA, Drawing). I teach drawing and illustration at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN.My work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions, including solo shows at The Cumberland Gallery (Nashville, TN), Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts (New Orleans), Vanderbilt University, The University of Kentucky, The Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Galerie Neue Raume (Berlin, Germany). I am represented in several permanent collections, including The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Kiwanis Club International, The Tennessee State Museum, and The College of Notre Dame, Baltimore.In addition to gallery exhibitions, I have worked with many clients on illustration assignments, including SouthWest Airlines, How Magazine, Vanderbilt University, Klutz Inc., Strategy & Business, The River Styx, Poems and Plays, and Rigby Publishing.
