Volume 31, Issue 2
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POETRY Lana K.W. Austin • Anuradha Bhowmik • Lauren Camp • James Capozzi • Darren C. Demaree • Nancy Eimers • Kristen Gunther • Cathy Guo • Kimiko Hahn • Chris Hayes • Kathleen Hellen • Andrew Koch • Kristie Betts Letter • Ellyn Lichvar • Gary L. McDowell • Melissa Atkinson Mercer • Claire Paniccia • Osel Jessica Plante • F. Daniel Rzicznek • Virginia Smith Rice • Jason W. Selby • Neil Shepard • Carrie Shipers • Sue William Silverman • Tim Suermondt • John Allen Taylor • Ellie Tipton • Ruth Williams FICTION Shuly Cawood • K.C. Mead-Brewer • Brandon Timm • Stan Lee Werlin NONFICTION Jason Arment • George Choundas • Matthew Gallant • David Huddle TRANSLATIONS Patrick Donnelly • Stephen D. Miller GRAPHIC ESSAY Katie Schmitt INTERVIEWS Kimiko Hahn BOOK REVIEWS Jamal May’s The Big Book of Exit Strategies, reviewed by Robert Campbell • Katy Masuga’s The Origin of Vermilion, reviewed by Ericka Suhl ART Philippe Pirrip
The question of identity often begins with a curious tendency among people to ask what before who. That is to say, people feel the need to ascribe certain restrictive identifiers, like gender binary (female-male), before ascribing personhood, as though a person weren’t fully a person at all until proper pronouns or labels can be placed. When someone walks by us swiftly, before we even realize who the person is, our mind makes a quick sweep of the person’s age, gender, race, shape, et cetera. In other words, identifying someone or something is initially dictated by our objective perceptions and our subjective, often habitual, and peripheral exercise of categorizing in types and schemata. In this process, we also negotiate our sense of individuality within a collective framework of difference by avoiding further questions of identity. Yet, it is our individual differences, which are shared and rooted in the very idea of identity, that inform us and enrich our culture; respectively, our culture, our collective effort in attending to our shared differences, helps us grow and better understand ourselves as individuals.
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POETRY Lana K.W. Austin • Anuradha Bhowmik • Lauren Camp • James Capozzi • Darren C. Demaree • Nancy Eimers • Kristen Gunther • Cathy Guo • Kimiko Hahn • Chris Hayes • Kathleen Hellen • Andrew Koch • Kristie Betts Letter • Ellyn Lichvar • Gary L. McDowell • Melissa Atkinson Mercer • Claire Paniccia • Osel Jessica Plante • F. Daniel Rzicznek • Virginia Smith Rice • Jason W. Selby • Neil Shepard • Carrie Shipers • Sue William Silverman • Tim Suermondt • John Allen Taylor • Ellie Tipton • Ruth Williams FICTION Shuly Cawood • K.C. Mead-Brewer • Brandon Timm • Stan Lee Werlin NONFICTION Jason Arment • George Choundas • Matthew Gallant • David Huddle TRANSLATIONS Patrick Donnelly • Stephen D. Miller GRAPHIC ESSAY Katie Schmitt INTERVIEWS Kimiko Hahn BOOK REVIEWS Jamal May’s The Big Book of Exit Strategies, reviewed by Robert Campbell • Katy Masuga’s The Origin of Vermilion, reviewed by Ericka Suhl ART Philippe Pirrip
The question of identity often begins with a curious tendency among people to ask what before who. That is to say, people feel the need to ascribe certain restrictive identifiers, like gender binary (female-male), before ascribing personhood, as though a person weren’t fully a person at all until proper pronouns or labels can be placed. When someone walks by us swiftly, before we even realize who the person is, our mind makes a quick sweep of the person’s age, gender, race, shape, et cetera. In other words, identifying someone or something is initially dictated by our objective perceptions and our subjective, often habitual, and peripheral exercise of categorizing in types and schemata. In this process, we also negotiate our sense of individuality within a collective framework of difference by avoiding further questions of identity. Yet, it is our individual differences, which are shared and rooted in the very idea of identity, that inform us and enrich our culture; respectively, our culture, our collective effort in attending to our shared differences, helps us grow and better understand ourselves as individuals.
