The inaugural issue is dedicated to the writing students of Columbia University and features the work of Columbia creative writing undergraduates, MFA graduates, and MFA alumni. The issue also includes two guest contributions by RogerReeves, the Our Word Writer-in-Residence in Spring2012, and Stephen O’Connor, a professor of nonfiction. We also include contributions by three of our staff writers.
Letter from the Editor
Nonfiction
Vera Lau, From Dumpster
Guinevere Lee, My Two Fathers
Fiction
Eloísa Díaz, Decalogue of the Perfect Immigrant
Aaron Shin, There Once Was a Fire
Katherine Sanders, Scenes in Question
Malcolm Hansen, They Come in All Colors
Jae Won Chung, How Harold Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Han
Stephen O’Connor, excerpt from Nobody Here Knows Anything, A Novel
Poetry
Roger Reeves, Fog Harder
Roger Reeves, Zero in the Palm
Roger Reeves, “Pay for soup / build a fort / set that on fire”
Angela Koh, Jesa
Joan Kane, Akkumin Qanituq/Swift Descent
Joan Kane, Composition with Transformed Birds
Marshall Thomas, Hate Composite 1
Marshall Thomas, Hate Composite 2
Alexandra Watson, Sugar & Salt
María Cristina Fernández Hall, A Town in the Mountains
María Cristina Fernández Hall, Sábila
Michael Malachowski, Newark Nothing
Marina Blitshteyn, self portrait w/ documentation