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AUTHOR

GENRE

TITLE

ISSUE


Abella, Olga

Forum

Poetry



 

Poetry

Poetry

 

Commentary on "Variations on the Word Love"

On Leaving. [Sequence includes "An Acceptable Loss," "The Fisherman, Tsunami, 2005," "In Memoriam: Labor Day," "Hand A Cappella," "On Leaving," and "Opening to Move."]

"Memory" and "Scab"

“Not Even Hands.”

Feb. ’04

Dec. ’05




Feb. '10


Fall 2014

Aldrich, Marcia Creative Essays Daylight and Dark: Two Studies. ["How You Heard the News That He Had Taken His Life" and "Woman on a Bridge."]
April '06
Ames, Melissa

Article

 

Article

MD2: Medical Docs and Melodrama

 

The Fault in Our Stars’s 

Sept. '08

 

Fall 2014

Bartel, Katherine

Art Gallery

EmbroiderY

Video

Everyday Devotions

Thursday 

Educating the Island

May. ’04

Feb. '05

Dec. '06

Bazargan, Susan Translated Poem I Will Say Good Day Again April '06
Bobb, Victor Forum How We Spent Our Summer Vacation Sept.’03
Bowles, John Essay Ever After Whiteness 

Feb. '05
Brayfield, Peggy Essay Why I Write Letters to the Newspaper Feb. '10
Bredesen, Dagni Photo Essay EIU in Africa 

Sept. '05
Brown, Jason Lee Poems Curt Jones’s Father, Tavern Window, Dad’s Chores


from Blue Collar Fathers
May ’03



Dec. '09
  Short Stories At the Stop Sign, Field Jacket, Saturday Morning Cartoons
Chicken Without a Head

May ’03
May '07
Buck, Rosemary Essay Words that are Their Opposites: Noun to Verb Conversion in English Feb. '07

Campbell, Julie

Forum

Interview

 

Commentary on "A Crowne of Sonnetts dedicated to Love"

Translations, Please. [With Daiva Markelis.]

Feb. ’04

April '06

 

 

Book Chapter

 

 

 
Video

Subject to Debate: Early Modern Literary Circles
and the Inscription of the Querelle des femmes
 

“Arms and Letters”

Dec. '04

 

 

 
Fall 2014

Carpenter, David

Essay

Badges, Blood, and Honor: Police With Families, States With Obligations 

Dec. ’01

Chi, Jenny

Art Gallery

Painting

Classical Moments

Heloise and Abelard

Sept. '04

Dec. '06

Clark, Denise Poem The Rising 

Dec. ’03
Colbert, Jaimee Wriston
Short Story The Manager's Son Oct. '07
Coleman, Linda Reviews

They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War

A Feminist's Take on Myth and Culture 

Sept. ’03

Dec. ’05

Coddington, Ann Digital Photographic Installation Landscape 42 Dec. '06
Cook, Jonathan Novel Excerpt The Fool 

Dec. ’05
Davis, Glen Short Story Cold Dec.'09
Donovan, Gerard Novel Excerpt from Julius Winsome Feb. '08

Engles, Suk-Ja Kang

Art Exhibition

Video Still

Some Things Never Leave a Person

After Whiteness 

May ’02

Feb. '05

Engles, Tim

Forum

Commentary

The Best That Has Been Western, White, and Male

Preface to "After Whiteness," an art exhibition. 

Sep. ’02

Feb. '05

Esposito, Natalie Poetry "From This," "Grandmother," and "Most Nights" May '07
Feltt, Bill Memoir excerpt Just Left of Center May '07
  Short Story Puzzle Feb. '09
Griffin, Kojo Paintings After Whiteness Feb. '05

Guernsey, Bruce

Essays

Busing to Byzantium , Nobody’s Home

The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln


Father's Day

Mother's Day

Feb ’03

Sep. ’02

Feb. '10

May '10

  Poems Soldier’s Home 

January Thaw , Toad , The Affair , Fishing the Newfound , Weather Stripping , The Phone Booth ,From Rain  

Dec.  ’01

Feb ’03
Gui, Weihsin Article Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Critical Realism in Contemporary World Literature Sept. '08

Guzlowski, John

Poems

Billy , For Nancy

What My Father Ate

Hunger in the Labor Camps (Sequence comprising "What My Father Ate," "What a Starving Man Has,""Among Sleeping Strangers," and "The Germans."

"Cattle Train to Magdeburg" and "My Mother Reads 'Cattle Train to Magdeburg.'"

Never Tell Your Children (Includes "German Soldiers Come to My Mother's Village," "The Work he Did in Germany," and poems VI and XXIV from The Third Winter of War: Buchenwald.)

Dec.  ’01

Sep. ’02

Sept. ’03



Dec. ’03


Oct. '07

 

Essay

The Short View

Dec. ’01

  Fiction

The German [novel excerpt]

"Village of Cold Houses" [novel excerpt]

Feb. '10

 Fall 2014

  Forum Commentary on "This Year’s Valentine" Feb. ’04

 

Interviews

Lunch at Roc’s With Bruce 

Meeting The New Kids
 

Talking With Dave Miller

Feb ’03

Dec. ’02

Dec. ’01

Harris, Jim Novel Excerpt from Bottle of Rain May ’03
  Novel Excerpt from Bottle of Rain Feb. '08

Hanlon, Christopher

Essays

 

Forum

Review Essay

The “Virtual University,” Public Education, and Intellectual Property

Using the Online Archive to Make Historicists Out of Undergrads

Life in the ETIC

Charleston's Art Scene on the Square

Mar. ’02

Sept. ’03

Sept. ’04

May '08

Hempel, Elise Poems At the Pediatrician , The Guard , The Stroke , Twin 

Dec. ’02
Heumann, Joseph Book Excerpt

Essay
Reading the Environment in Popular Cinema

Mountain Top Removal Documentaries
Dec. '08 

May '10
Hogin, Laurie Paintings After Whiteness Feb. '05
Horvath, Robert Painting Cydnie Simonet Cassalta
Dec. '06
 Hossain, MD. Alamgir
Essay "Islam, Terrorism and Bangladesh: Reading Adib Khan’s Spiral Road"  Fall 2014
Hudek, Barry Essay Do I (We) Have a Future? Exploring the Crisis For Graduate Students in the Humanities Sept. '05
Hubschmitt, William Painting Cornfield Dec. '06

Irwin, Bonnie

Essay

Getting Engaged: Reflections on Professor Camp                     

Dec. ’02

Kahler, Chris Paintings System A-1; System A-5 Dec. '06

Kilgore, John

Editor’s Columns

Baby Steps 

Axis to Grind 

A Lot of Help From Our Friends 

Keepin’ On 

Heraclitus in Waders   

Just Look At ’Em Now 

Gender Tech 

Marriage in Wonderland

Dec. ’01

Mar. ’02

May ’02

Sep. ’02

Feb. ’03

May ’03

Dec. ’03

Sept. ’04

 

Essays

Let Slip the Dogs of Metaphor 

Love and Biology: A Valentine’s Essay

Translations From the British


Little House in the Culture Wars

Notes From the Department of Redundancy Department

War and Self-Deception

Yuma Blues: a Rant

Shooting Stars

Eviction Notices 

C'est Le Vol

Zombie Metaphors

Dec. ’01

Feb. ’04

Dec. '04

Sept. '05

Dec. '06

Oct. '07

May '08

Dec. '08

Feb. '09


Dec. '09

May '10

 

Forum

Student Choice

Dec. ’02

  Profile Business Class [of John Minnec, BA 1988] May '07
Knight, Lania Poem I'm Touching You Now Fall 2014
Kory, Fern Presentation "Book Power: 1960s Multicultural Children’s Literature"  Fall 2014
Kuipers, Christopher Excerpt The Anthology/Corpus Dynamic: A Field Theory of the Canon Dec. ’03
Jacobik, Gray Poems Breasts , Man Sleeping On The West Coast Of Ireland , Pigs on the Town
The Three Eyes  
  

May. ’02,
Leddy, Michael Commentary Four or Five Hectors

April '06
Lewis, Graham Poems

The Bottle Tree ,  Brothers

Poems from Forever Came Today

Mar. ’02

Feb. '09

  Book Excerpt Forever Came Today 

Dec. ’03
  Memoir Letters from Larry Feb. '09
  Novel Excerpt Holy Smoke Feb. '09
Loudon, Michael Personal Narrative Dispatches from Guam Feb. ’03
Ludlow, Jeannie Essay Woman Troubles:Twenty-First Century Abortion Discourse and Nineteenth Century Abortion Practice

 

Sept. '08
Lutz, Scott Essay Ordinary Eternal Machinery Feb. '07

Maddox, Mary

Novel Excerpt

Forum

Novel Excerpt

Short Story

from Darkroom

Life in the ETIC

Talion

What Love Is

Mar. ’02

Sept. '04 

Feb. '07

May '10

Markelis, Daiva

Essays The First Year in Charleston: A Survivor’s Guide

Seven Letters and a Cloud of Dust 

Sep. ’02
Dec. ’01

  Memoir White Field, Black Sheep. [Includes "I Was The Child of Teepees" and "Favorite Child."] 

Sept. '05
  Interviews Meeting the New Kids. [With Terri Frederick, Suzie Park, and Charles Wharram.]

Parting Shots [With David Radavich.]

April '06
 

Interview

Interview

Interview

Translations, Please. [With Julie Campbell and Jyoti Panjwani.]

A Conversation with Gerard Donovan

So Long, Anne [with Anne Zahlan]

April '06

Feb. '08

May '08

Marsh, Christina Photograph After Whiteness 
Feb. '05
Martin, Lee Novel excerpt The Bright Forever, Chapter I May '07

Martinson, T.j.


Article

The Phantom Thing Effect: “Time Passes”

Fall 2014

McGregor, Francine

Forum Toward the University of McGregor

Commentary on "The Cuckoo Song


Dec. ’02
Feb. 04

McNair, Wesley

Poems

The Bald Spot , Hair on Television , The One Who Will Save You, Smoking , 
What Became

May ’02

Miller, David Lee

Book Excerpt

The Body of Fatherhood 

May ’02

Mitchell-Foust, Michelle Poems The Marriage Bed of Chang and Eng
Called Back
May ’03
Moffitt, Letitia

Short Stories



Interview 

The Revolution to Free Beatrice

Sentence

New Faces

Sept. '06

Dec. '09

Murray, Robin

Forum



Forum

Book Excerpt

Essay

Article

English Studies at EIU; Or, Can a Literature Program Thrive Without Providing a Strong Background in Rhetoric and Cultural Studies?

Life in the ETIC

Reading the Environment in Popular Cinema

Mountain Top Removal Documentaries

“The Earth Bites Back: Vampires and the Ecological Roots of Home.” 

“The Limits and Possibilities of Ecocinema and Ecocinema Studies.”

Dec. ’02



Sept. ’04

Dec. '08

May '10

Fall 2014


Fall 2014

Nonaka, Miho Poems

"Birch Skin" and "What I Wish"

"The Market Place, Patzcuaro"

Sept. '06

May '08

O'Neil, Jennifer
Memoir Defining Moment Feb. '10
Pence, Charlotte

Poems

 

 

 

 

Interviews

“Eight Family Snapshots”

“Signs and Symptoms [May] Include Delusions.”

“To Muck and Muck and Muck."

“The Black River.”

“Review of Rhyme’s Challenge: Hip Hop, Poetry, and Contemporary Rhyming Culture by David Caplan.” 

“Speaking of Marvels: An Interview with Charlotte Pence.”

“Honoring Poetry and Identity: An Interview with Charlotte Pence.”

“Studying the Poetics of American Song Lyrics: An Interview with Charlotte Pence.”  

 Fall 2014
Peters, Patrick Poems

Migration

Letter to My Friend From Montana About Impending Bad Weather
Wood
Expectations
Letter to Bruce About Sleep and Water

Four Poems ("My Brothers and I Consider the Soul," "Letter in Mid-Flight," "A Note to John Morgan," "Block Island"

May ’03






Sept. ’04
Podeschi, Mario Memoir The Machine Feb. '07
Prefontaine, Jay Short Story Closing Time

I'm Dead
May ’03

Feb. '05
  Memoir / Work in Progress Psycho Duck Feb. '09
Pruett, Lynn Book Excerpt from Ruby River Feb ’03


Quesada, Ruben

 

Poems

 

“Girl With Prayer.” 

 

“Antilian Landscape.” 

 

“Nirvana.” 

 

“Winter Landscape.”

 

 

Fall 2014

Radavich, David


Essays 

Poetry and Pain

Center Stage: Midwestern Plays and Playwrights

Dramatizing the Midwest

Sep. ’02

May ’04

Dec. '09

  Interview Parting Shots [with Daiva Markelis]  

 

Poems

Finger Painting

Flying

Forgotten Country

Gift

Persian Gulf Watch

A Grecian Turn: Poems From Corfu. [Sequence includes "Journeying," "St. Spyridon," "Taverna," "Outing," "Meteora," "Warning," and "Bordering."]

War Thoughts. [Sequence includes "Curious War," "Forgetting," "Echoes," "Quagmire," "Eyewitness."]

"Beginnings" and "Starting Out"

from America Bound (includes "John," "Sterling," and "Joey")

"The Writing Eye," "Requiem," "Scene Change," and "After Czeslaw Milosz"

"Land Between the Rivers," "Holocaust," "Diary V," and "Recovery"

Dec. ’01

Sep. ’02

Sep. ’02

Dec. ’01

Dec. ’01

Dec. '04





Sept '05



Sept '06

Oct. '07


May '08



Dec. '09

  Translated Poems Three Translations. ["The Sleeper in the Vale," "Tomorrow, At Dawn," and "First Snaw." April '06
  Play Last Picnic Dec. '09
Rardin, Jennifer Novel Excerpt from Once Bitten, Twice Shy Feb. '08
 

Novel Excerpt

from One More Bite Feb. '09
Ringuette, Dana Essay Are We Being Technological Yet? Or, Why Isn’t There a Colon in This Title? Sept. ’03

Rychlewski, Mike

Poems

Night Driving

Our Friends In Asia

May ’02

Raybin, David

Forum A Few Thoughts With Respect to Our Curriculum    

Dec. ’02

Scott, Evelyn Essay All Stripped Down: On Feminism and Sex Work Dec. ’03

Scott, Martin

Essays 

Desert Spaces: On Bruce Guernsey’s Poetry

Five Fingers of Death: Revenge and the Martial Arts

On Migraines

On Nancy Sinatra


Underwear

Feb ’03

Feb ’04

Feb. '05

Sep. ’02

Feb. '05

 

Forum

Forum

Commentary on "The Telephone Number of the Muse"

Life in the ETIC

Feb. ’04

Sept. ’04

 

Poems

Cemetery by the Deer Blind
Richard Mather Aboard the James, 1635
Three Views on the Crucifixion

Dec. ’02

Searle, William

Book Excerpt

The NVA Experience in Novels by Vietnamese

Mar. ’02

  Articles Women, Vietnamese, Other: The Depiction of Women in Vietnamese Short Fiction 

Transition, Tradition, and the Individual Talent in Ma Van Khang
Oct. '07


May '10

Shiner, Lewis

Short Story

Flagstaff

May ‘02

Simpson, Phil Book Excerpt Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction May ‘02
Smith, Jad Article Völkisch Organicism and the Use of Primitivism in Lawrence’s
The Plumed Serpent
Dec. ’03
Spear, Keith Correspondence Heading Home May '10
Stevens, Carol Forum Commentary on "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" Feb. ’04
  Essay Tolkien Revisited Feb. '10
Tellis, Ashley Poetry Four Poems. (Includes "Gujarat, 2002"; "VT Station, Bombay, 1993"; "You and I"; "Maar Daala.") Feb. '05
Tessitore, Dan Forum Life in the ETIC Sept. ’04
Towey, Sean Short Stories

"Without Wind Resistance"

"Arizona Sunsets"

Fall 2014
Valentino, Debra Memoir Secrets Feb. '09
  Poems "Freshman Composition," "William Carlos Williams in the ETIC" Feb. '09
       
Vande Zande, Jeff

Poems



Book Feature (Fiction)

Below Zero
She Chose To Wade
Toddler Classes

Emergency Stopping

May ’03



Sept. ’04
  Short Story Reasonable Men May ’03

Vietto, Angela 

Interview A Conversation With Angela Vietto (with John Kilgore)

Mar. ’02

  Forum Commentary on "somewhere i have never travelled," Feb. ’04
  Essays

Love and Anxiety. Or: Why I Write About Obscure Early American Women Writers

The Meaning of Lives

Dec. '04

Dec. ’05

   Paper "'I have never known the paternal name': Family History in Poe’s Fictions."  Fall 2014
White, Curtis Friend’s Book Excerpt Such an Awesome Site of Resistance Feb. ’04

Watkins, James Ray Jr.

Essays 

The Unbearable Strangeness of Acronyms: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Electronic Writing Portfolio

Composition and the Market

Dec. ’02


May ’04

Wharram, Charles Interview Translation and Terror. [With Klara Albrecht.] April '06
Worthington, Marjorie Interview New Faces Sept. '06
Young, Jennifer Moro Poems No Valentine
Random Night
El Piloto
May ’03
Zagajewski, Adam Essay The Center Doesn't Hold Sept. '08
Zahlan, Anne Article The Negro as Icon: Transformation and the Black Body in Lawrence Durrell’s The Avignon Quintet 
May '08
  Essay Sitting where van Gogh Sat: Exile and the Narrative Vocation in Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River. Dec. '09

Zordani, Bob

Poems

Morning Coffee

"Speeding With Dom" and "Filthy’s Blues"

Coach Turner's Eulogy

Farm Sale

Dec. ’01

Sept. ’03

Feb. '07

Sept. '08

  Book Feature Epileptic’s Song  [Includes Poems: "Epileptic’s Song," "My Strongest Man," "Song for an Ex-Wife,""Pond Management,"" A Few Long Feathers,""Lament."]
Feb. ’04