Badlands Issue

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1 Badlands Issue Badlands is published annually by the Palm Desert Campus of California State University, San Bernardino. Copyright Badlands is a bilingual literary journal that publishes original creative work in Spanish and English, and original translations from Spanish and Latin American Literature. The editors are students at the Palm Desert Campus of CSUSB. The publication is made possible by funds from the Instructionally Related Programs Board. The editors would like to thank the IRP Committee for their continuing support. Badlands reading period begins in January and concludes in April each year. Questions? Stephen Lehigh: badlandseditor@gmail.com Badlands editors reserve the right to place art work adjacent to (on the same page as) submitted poetry and prose. By sending your work, you are trusting our aesthetic judgment, so take a close look at this journal first and see if you trust us. Badlands publishes photography and visual art, both on the cover and inside the issue. Please send your visual art submissions in high resolution TIF files (300dpi). Badlands is currently seeking submissions of writing and visual art for the 2019 edition. Submissions may include: Poetry, Fiction or Nonfiction, Letters and Journal entries (typed, scanned, or photocopied), photographs, paintings or sketches, including sketches that accompany journal entries. Cover photograph: Mojave Overpass. Taken by Photographer James Smart Hibernation Period: Between June 15th and January 10th, Badlands enters a long sleep. It awakens in the new year to read and publish again. BADLANDS 2

2 BADLANDS Managing/Faculty Editor Stephen Lehigh Design Katie Wright Arrangement Jordan Fisher Fiction Editors Gabriela Gonzalez Maria Rivera Katie Wright Nonfiction Editors Andrew Barragan Poetry Editors Suzanne Baldenegro Megan Bover Stephen Milligan Illustrator BADLANDS 3

3 Brian McCabe Paula Friedman Brian McCabe Tamara Hattis Natalie Crick Craig Kurtz Christopher Surnovszky Michelle Brooks April Vazquez Don Boyer Carl Papa Palmer Clare Haley Clare Haley Tim Eberle Christopher Surnovszky If It Doesn t Kill You La Cuarandera Slip Night Vision See My Best Friends Are Books Shards of Reflection Arson To Guadalupe Garcia, From One Mother To Another Dad s Teeth Family Values Dawning Dawning Art What s in A Name Lover Crossed Stars BADLANDS 4

4 Sharon Kunde Andrew Miller Daniel Coshnear R.E. Weeg Mick Fedullo Deborah Marr A. Danielle Shuster Miles Mattix Bradley Strahan Jake Warren Eve Taft C.M. Rivers Devin Donovan Colin Dodds Gloria Negrete Ways To Celebrate A Fourteenth Anniversary Pantoum: The Crash Test Dummies Rage Rage Apartment Living Curfew Symphony The Watering of Plants Creating A Desert American Appalachian Portrait Glossolalia born of woman Incarnation High Definition 1080p Big Screen Post-Book Me Bad for America Domestication BADLANDS 5

5 Elysia Mann Kristen Hoggatt- Abader Chase Hoffman Keith Dunlap Colleen Boyd Derek Via Andrew Valentine Sam Ramos- Anderson Ron McFarland Lauren Gorski Adiba Jaigirdar Cameron Green William Bradley David Bowman Ross Destiche A Yard of Cloth or Sod Girls Watching the World Cup Awaiting Deportation Some Choices Thankless Siren Librarian Death, Mid-Summer Wrench An Invisible System: The Art of Scheff Weems The War Years Floating The Flood Why the News is Bad for You Embers of Obsession Bee Art Time to Go Home BADLANDS 6

6 Ian Matthews Natalie Crick Laurel Aquadro Nicole Walker Nicole Walker Nicole Walker Charles Kerlin Glad Tulips This is How Blinds Greenhouse Gases An American Casino Chicken Suicide Adam's Rib Author Biographies The Last Argument BADLANDS 7