Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing Volume 8 Issue 1 Article 1 10-25-2011 Front Matter Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fishladder Recommended Citation (2010) "Front Matter," Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing: Vol. 8: Iss. 1, Article 1. Available at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fishladder/vol8/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fishladder: A Student Journal of Art and Writing by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact scholarworks@gvsu.edu.
fishladder Spring 2010 Spring 2010 fishladder A Student Journal of Art and Writing
fishladder A Student Journal of Art and Writing Spring 2010 Editors Maureen Di Virgilio & Dawn Heerspink Fiction Editors Erin Nienhuis & Ashley Zirkle Fiction Readers Lauren Allen Claire Helakoski Ian McCaul Amy Meert Daniel Schoolcraft Susie Skowronek Maya Soter Jana White Poetry Editors Poetry Readers Kristopher Snyder & Allie Oosta Angela Antonio Alex Eilers Alex Fluegel Jon Koehler Audrey Lovett Megan McDougall Tricia Phillips Brittany Schering Nonfiction Editors Nonfiction Readers Susan Creager & Carly Crookston Jessica DeWent Leah Mastee Kate Pillsbury Cara Stoddard Michelle Thomas Kiera Wilson Drama Editors Drama Readers Kaitlin Lamphere & Kat Willis Sam Howard Taylor Keefer Art Editors Photography Editor Layout/Design Editor Web Designers Wed Design Advisor Marketing Coordinator Faculty Advisors Katie Bajema & Kayla Koenigsknecht Patrick Cook Katie Bajema Carrie Smith Professor Charlie Lowe Angela Antonio Professor Chris Haven 1
Submissions Guidelines fishladder is currently accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, art and photography submissions for the 2011 issue. Please visit our website at www.fishladder.wordpress.com for guidelines and contact information. Submissions are only accepted digitally. Please attach your piece(s) to an e-mail which includes your name and contact information in the body. Students from across all disciplines in the university are encouraged to submit work in all styles, genres and forms. fishladder aims to select the best, most artistic work for publication. COVER ART: ON THE HORIZON / MARGARET LARABEL / PEN & INK WITH DIGITAL COLOR fishladder is printed by Custom Printers, Oak Industrial Drive, Grand Rapids, MI 2 fishladder 2010 Division of Arts & Humanities 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, Michigan 49401
Contents FICTION Cara Stoddard Brianna Thiel Tom Gunnels Knots Reflections of an Architect Here Roams The Wolf, The Eagle Whets His Beak 17 43 77 POETRY Karla Lamb Jacob Griswold Ben Kleyn Jessica DeWent Madeleine Hart Rachel Gleason Rag Rant Toddler Stage Gretl Eating the Earth I Found a Hummingbird Anatomy of an Orange Eater Avoiding Nineveh 7 15 41 49 53 84 NONFICTION Kendel Goonis Dan Fisher Cara Stoddard Twenty Something Lovelorn Angst: A Personal Study Keep Quiet We Are Jumping! 25 50 55 DRAMA Thomas Consiglio Daniel Schoolcraft Method That s Not Yours 9 70 3
ART/PHOTOGRAPHY Lindsay Guynn Macaskill Wright Cheyenne Bonnell Joey Salamon Uma J. Mishra Kristina Jeluso Cassidy Knight Stephanie Voelck Emma Louise Higgins Joe Montgomery BreeAnn Veenstra Cassidy Knight Rachel Kauff Sarah Laman Luke Michael Hotwagner Macaskill Wright Poised Dancer Warped Town Smile! (like you mean it) Space Walk Untitled Bucket Full of Color Till I Find Somebody New Log Jam Snow 1 Huron River All the World Beneath Into Another World Messenger Catering Landscape Wanderer Tree 5 16 24 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 45 48 54 69 79 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 86 4 fishladder
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Note from the Editors To all who picked up and read this book And to those who contributed to putting it in your hands: Thank you. M.D. & D.H., Eds. Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! You really are beautiful! Pearls, harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all the stuff they ve always talked about still makes a poem a surprise! These things are with us every day even on beachheads and biers. They do have meaning. They re strong as rocks. TODAY // FRANK O HARA 5