spring 2017
Table of Contents
Return to Home PageWe Could Have Called Him Joe, We Didn't Juliane Okot Bitek
The Lady or the Tiger? Michelle Brooks
Singing in Dark Times Bhaswati Ghosh
Red Sarongs Clementine Chelsea Comeau
A Coke and a KitKat Spenser Smith
Dear Miss Parker Dear Mama Chelene Knight
First Loves in Brevoort Park Body Analysis Erin Hiebert
Prayer For Our Past Selves Esther McPhee
Inside My House Gleaning Stones Onjana Yawnghwe
box cars paper plates annie ross
Aztlan Travels Emiliano Sepulveda
from Glossary of Musical Terms rob mclennan
Romeo, Romeo, WTF? P.C. Vandall
from Electric Garden Amanda Earl
Constantly Looking, Admitting Nothing Paul Douglas McNeill II
Spring 2017 Issue Cover Art
by Phuong Nguyen
As an Asian American artist, Phuong is always interested in what it means to make art as an Asian American artist. Phuong Nguyen currently practices in Toronto, Canada. She is primarily a painter and has completed her Bachelor of Fine Art at OCAD U in 2014. Nguyen is interested in people and the complexities of identity through the exploration of the human figure. Her ongoing bodies of work explores the contemporary identity of the Asian Canadian/American in the contexts of mass production, popular culture, colonialism, and orientalism.