Issue 140
Summer & Fall 2011
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Welcome to the third issue of TriQuarterly Online. In the year since we launched, we've attracted an enthusiastic audience from around the world, and can boast visitors from over a hundred countries on six continents. In this and every issue you'll find outstanding new fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, plus book reviews, interviews, commentary, and a lively blog. The electronic format also allows us to present work from TriQuarterly's extensive print archives. We look forward to receiving your comments and responses at triquarterlyonline@northwestern.edu.
Managing Editor: Beth Herbert
Faculty Advisor: Susan Harris
Copy Editor: Ruth Goring
Graduate Fellow: Ari Bookman
Book Review Editors: Charles Berret, Tal Rosenberg
Assistant Book Review Editors: Leigh Arber, Karen Zemanick
Fiction Editors: Danielle Burhop, Schuyler Dickson, Tedd Hawks, Sarah Kalsbeek, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran
Nonfiction Editors: Sarah Hollenbeck, Dana Norris
Poetry Editor: Lana Rakhman
Art Editor: Tien (Mimi) Nguyen
Staff: Melissa Ackerman, Nataly Arber, Emily Ayshford, Rebecca Bald, Alex Bergstrom, Matthew Carmichael, Jen Companik, Katherine Defliese, Vincent Francone, Cathy Gao, Barbara Ghoshal, Katharine Gingrich, Dane Hamann , Noelle Havens, Russ Hicks, Adam Kovac, Jen Lawrence, Sambath Meas, Kevin McFarland, Amanda Morris, Anthony Opal, Hana Park, Lydia Pudzianowski, Mark Rentfro, Paula Root, Daniel Schuld, Virginia Smith, Leah Strauss, Megan Sullivan, Amanda Tague, Elizabeth Winkowski, Whitney Youngs, Matt Zucker
the people want the regime to fall
march, too, this year was nervy, making all
it could of winter’s costume, flaunting snow
and sleet, slapping our stiffening cheeks cold
and red, wearing white well past when it’s called
for, leaving the tree limbs smooth, the buds stalled
backsliding
this miracle begins in the middle
lane: night, fallen: rain, snow, sleet, hail, falling
still: a loose crew of commuters crawling
home on the turnpike. now, here’s the riddle:
sound effects
listen: the people caught near love
canal, in the nevada desert, around
the ukraine city pripyat can tell you
the sounds that precede catastrophe,