autumn/winter 2014-15
We’ve been warned. We’ve been warned by Magdalawit Makonnen, in her stunning poem “Ricochet,” that the act of writing is as disarming as it is clarifying. The poems in this edition of Chaparral explore topics with immeasurable charm. From Julio Quezada’s “Sunday morning falling between bed sheets of precarious strangers” to Glen Collins’ “webs of cottondust.” The writers here take the helm with an unabashed authority and face life’s perplexities on the page.
tom bradley international terminal
(Be)coming Clean
Saudade Machine
Temple St. Scene
Five Thoughts I Had at the Museum
Kafka Can’t Cross a Street
An Information Agency Manifesto
Hand with Reflecting Globe
Preformism II
the pantoum of ORTHOGENESIS
Span-gin
Watch him fall forever
An Essay at Refusal
A Request for It to Always Appear Accidental
Dozing through the French Revolution
Altered State
