Contents
Editor’s Note
William Caraher
Evening
Dog day afternoon
Rivals
Snapchat
DS Malolalai
Green Scarf
Judith Ford
coop
clutch
elegy for hot wheels
Clay Matthews
Bighearted
Ruhi Jiwani
Overlook
Make-do night
Steven Ray Smith
Snapshot
Bill Gaythwaite
Migration
After Dark
late at night in the living room
Cindy Maresic
How to Make It
Jeff Friedman
Operation
Al Nyhart
Nixon for President
Anthony J. Mohr
Death of a Famous Singer
From Her House to Death House
John Grey
What Sorrow Lives In
George Looney
At the Museum with You
Elizabeth O’Brien
Post Zara
Erin Jamieson
american idols
last of the polka dots
Evan Anders
Drop Above
Jane Akweley Odartey
Unready
Two Ultrasounds
Aidan Coleman
Fairleigh’s Hollow
Matthew Ferrence
Wyoming Pastoral
Desert Whispers
An Old Man Who Believed in Math
David Salner
The Good Fight
Michael Pearce
Apartment Windows in January
Marjorie Power
The Paper Man
Paula Brown
For One Who Had Emphysema
William Cullen Jr.
Not Enough, Too Much
February 6, 2018
Texas Flood
Robert Okaji
Profane Elegy
Talking to My Mother on the Phone, Two and a Half Years After
Grief
Janna Knittel
The Baptism
Jack Donahue
Is Not
Lauro Palomba
Strawberry Wine
Notes/ suggestions/ corrections
Relief, a Sculpture
Mid-August, Turtle Mountain
Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah
Chronoscope 126: The moon, the closest orbit
John Walser
The Humanities in the Age of Austerity
Images of Austerity
Wyatt Atchley
Citizen Vova
Basil Rosa
Creative Writing in the Shadow of Austerity
Patrick Thomas Henry
History and Prehistory: My Father’s Bureau Drawer
Pamela Parker
Faculty Navigating the Age of Austerity: Affirming Roles and Renewing Alliances
Melissa Gjellstad & Ryan Zerr
Beyond Apologetics: Restructuring the Humanities for an “Age of Austerity”
James Newhard
Austerity
Rick Watson
Humanities in the Age of Austerity: A Case Study from the University of North Dakota
William Caraher
Contributors