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Spring/Summer 2023 (purchase)
Creative Nonfiction
Louise Ling Edwards “Water: Twelve Views"
Poetry
Carolyn Hembree – “Poet as Odalisque”
Katie Berta – [I, If Here on Earth]
Chelsea Dingman – “One Night Stand" and "According to Levinas, the Self is Attested to through Speech and in Relation to The Other"
Kevin McLellan – “A New Hole in My Jacket Pocket" and "Physiology"
Alexa Luborsky – “Graphic" and "Shed on the Way to Gleiwitz"
Michael Meyerhofer – “Cosmology in Reverse”
Rochelle Hurt – “Hilma af Klink--Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 16 (1915)"
Arah Ko – “Second Tongue"
James Kelly Quigley – “Circulation" and "Stone Fruit"
Kellam Ayres– “At the Drive-In”
Jason McClosky – “Directions for the Inflammable Air (H2) in a Bull's Bladder Experiment" and "Directions for the Nitrous Air (NO) in an Air Pump Experiment"
Ruth Awad – "The Bull of Heaven"
Fiction
Stephanie Mullings – “Many of Many Tenths” (2022 Literary Awards Honorable Mention)
Rebecca Bernard – “Boy on Fire”
Neal Hammons – “The Mermaids”
Molly Reid – “You Move I Move We Move They Move”
Lena Valencia – “The White Place”
Where We're At
Drew Buxton – “A World Nobody Owns"
Isaac Willis – “Altgeld's Castles"
Co-Editors: Liz Harms, Michael Hurley
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Christopher Kempf
Poetry Editor: Ángel García
Fiction Editor: Amanda Bales
Assistant Editors: Claire Christoff, Weston Morrow, Nina Sannes
Editorial Assistants: Matthew Fash, Madeline Furlong, Chelsea Hill, Carrie Johnson, Justine Mercado, David Miller, Jason Pfister, Deon Robinson, Andrea Sielicki, Zach Simon, Erin Stoodley, Hannah Thorpe, Chris Vanjonack
Editor-at-Large: Philip Graham, Jodee Stanley
Advisory Board: Amy Sayre Baptista, Traci Brimhall, James Brunton, Lindsey Drager, Matthew Minicucci, Marcus Wicker
Ninth Letter is published semi-annually in June and December by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Copies are available for $14.95. A one-year subscription may be purchased for $21.95; a two-year subscription may be purchased for $37.95. Subscriptions and single-copy orders may be sent with check or credit card information to Ninth Letter, Dept. of English, University of Illinois, 608 S. Wright St., Urbana, Illinois, 61801. Credit card orders may also be placed via our secure web site at www.ninthletter.com.
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