Past Issues

Thu Jul 1 2010 Issue 138, Summer/Fall 2010 New fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and drama by William Gass, Joe Meno, Antonya Nelson, Steve Almond, Achy Obejas, Thisbe Nissen, G. K. Wuori, Jenny Boully, Maureen Seaton, Michael Anania, Alan Shapiro, Karen Brennan and others.	Sat Jan 1 2011 Issue 139, Winter/Spring 2011 New fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by Ben Greenman, William Goyen, Patrice Repusseau, Joan Frank, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Jordi Doce and others.	Fri Jul 1 2011 Issue 140, Summer/Fall 2011 New fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by Brenda Miller, Lacy M. Johnson, Christine Sneed, David Starkey, Carol Muske-Dukes, Evie Shockley and Michael Earl Craig. Plus, a preview of Eric Olsen and Glen Schaeffer's history of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, We Wanted to be Writers.
Sun Jan 1 2012 Issue 141, Winter/Spring 2012 The introduction of the video essay, as well as new fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by Bonnie Nadzam, Ghassan Zaqtan, Boubacar Boris Diop, Meena Alexander, Brian Doyle, Michael Collier, Jacob Newberry, and others.	Sun Jul 1 2012 Issue 142, Summer/Fall 2012 For the first time, TriQuarterly Online features poets reading their work, as well as new video essays, fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by Sharon Olds, Sven Birkerts, Dean Rader, Ander Monson, Monica Berlin, Travis Kurowski, R. Dwayne Betts, and others.	Tue Jan 1 2013 Issue 143, Winter/Spring 2013 In its sixth online issue, TriQuarterly features cinepoems for the first time, as well as new fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by Sterling Plumpp, Toi Derricotte, Angela Jackson, Dinty W. Moore, Kathleen Ossip, Dina Nayeri, Alexander Chee, and others.

Views

The Moving Face (for Roger Ebert)

The first time I ever really thought about Roger Ebert it was because I knew he was warm, dry, and celebrating and I was cold, wet and furious. It was January 2005 in Chicago, and unsurprisingly it was snowing on me and members of Not Dead Yet as we staged a protest outside the Union League Club, surrounded by a row of news trucks.
On the Early English Essay: An Experimental Array

"Essay" enters into English untamed.
The Facts of the Matter

Here is how it happened: The door to the suite was open that night when I walked past and saw her splayed across a couch, one foot on the floor, one leg hooked over an arm rest.
Excerpt from Office Girl

On that Monday at the end of January, Jack Blevins, a questionable young man of twenty-five, rides his blue bicycle beneath the flurry, with tape recorder in hand.

Interviews

Douglas Foster: Interview

"We’re quite rightfully concerned by the level of unemployment in the United States and the ways people were devastated by the financial crisis of 2008, but in the circumstances people face in a place like South Africa, 10 percent unemployment would be heaven."
Stephen Elliott: Interview

“We all change; the things you want from writing, at a certain age, become different from the things you want later. I’ve avoided any obligations, and I still live like a child. I don’t have a wife and kids. I’m on my own. It’s a choice.”
B.J. Hollars: Interview

"Blurring the Boundaries was inspired by my own frustration with facts."
Karen Rigby: Interview

My poetry won’t suit everyone. It has been described as dense; I’m aware of that response, so I wouldn’t say “I hope everyone reads it.”

Reviews

Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons by Fiona Deans Halloran

In Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons, Fiona Deans Halloran provides a superb overview of Nast's life, from his family's origin in Germany's Palatinate to his youth in 1850s Lower Manhattan among a dynamic mix of Irish, German, Italian, Jewish, Catholic and Protestant cultures.
City of the Big Shoulders: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, edited by Ryan G. Van Cleave

Ryan G. Van Cleave’s new anthology of Chicago poetry, City of the Big Shoulders, succeeds in displaying the essentials as defined and described by a diverse crowd of Chicagoans.
The Game of Boxes by Catherine Barnett

At the heart of this collection, Barnett’s second, is an engagement with Kant’s idea of the sublime, namely that the self experiences both terror and dread in the face of the infinite—whether death or, as the Romantics understood it, the implacable force of Nature.
Whatever is Contained Must be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist, by Heléne Aylon

The memoir, like the artist herself, swerves between cutting-edge installation art, the ancient passages of the Bible, and centuries-old Jewish law and tradition.

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