Issue #43
Issue #43 - Apring 2013 |
Editorial Comment Highlights |
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Know the rules before you break them. This is one of the most taught principles of all art forms. The idea is to stand on the shoulders of the giants who have come before you and learn their craft before you go all rogue and decide an Elizabethan sonnet could be thirteen lines and why not make the metric foot trochaic as opposed to iambic. Indeed, why not? Well, until you have written at least 14 Elizabethan sonnets, then you have no business messing with the form. Some writers take years to bend their will and their egos to the legacy of the masters. Some never do and spend eternity claiming, “People don’t ‘get’ me or my work,” which makes for a long and lonely creative life. Ask Joaquin Phoenix how well his hip-hop career is going… All the contributors in this issue are obviously well informed of the rules of their genre. It was a pleasure selecting the pieces and working with its author/creator during the editorial process. Responses were professional and our suggestions for improvement welcomed. We thank each of you for this; it sure made putting together our first issue much easier. That’s the other thing: our first issue. In the fall of 2012, the founding editors of the Claremont Review retired after over twenty successful years of publishing. To Terence Young, Bill Stenson and Susan Stenson, we say a huge thank you for providing a credible magazine to showcase young talent. The new team has giant shoulders to stand upon and we promise to maintain the literary standards which define the Claremont Review. We also would like to thank our Managing Editor, Linda Moran, for agreeing to stay with us a little longer. We couldn’t do it without her! Thanks to SIDES for continuing to sponsor our annual contest. We did break a couple of the rules, however, and I will own those decisions; we agreed to publish one script and we accepted work from an author who falls a little short of the age requirements. Just this one time! Oksana Hovdebo writes with a talent and perspective rarely seen at her age and it was felt she deserved to be included in our magazine. She has also promised NOT to send us anymore work for a couple more years. So, here is to a powerhouse of an issue, an all-new team of Editors, and at least twenty more years of the Claremont Review. Please follow us on Facebook, Twitter and visit our website anytime. Spread our words! Keep writing! More art! |
Table of Contents
Poetry
Jesse McLeod Adulthood: a Guarantee Pride in Ownership Whitney Roxburgh Bathroon Stall Erika Ruiter everywhere at once Sebastien Wen Beautiful Portrait MW Jaeggle Doubt: a Rainy Day Alyssa Utley Family, Shifting Emily Pollock Morning Busses Without Understanding Marc Charlebois Reverside Belt Days Gurpreet Nahal Death at a Safeway Nicholas Tokuhama Legendary Slopes of the Nene Goose Coco Zhou Dusk, a Bridge Insomnia Emma R. Foster let's be children Emily Zheng My Mother's Theory P. Peter Kim YouTube: an Elegy Eli Hiebert That Woman Doesn't Matter Rebecca Greenberg What Poetry Doesn't Know Rachel Noel Smith And One Day I Will Fly Courtney Butler Red Footie Pajamas First Dance Jamie Lupia Alive Gillian Jose Mi Receta A Note About Cinderella Pyromaniac Fiction
Gillian Jose It Was a Klimt Painting Today Stefan Dawydiak Lenin's Walk-Up Alessandra Occhiolini Caltrain, Afternoon Service, Makes All Stops Leah Davidson Remembrance Day Alyssa Utley Somniphobia Caroline Harris The Terrible Twos Courtney Butler Orientation to a High School Party Julia Okum Chapstick Phoebe Whiteside As Children Do Rebecca Greenberg The Christening Victoria Lan Blue Shan Jose Waiting for Atlanta Oksana Hovdebo The Wonders of a Life Lived (Memories) Drama
Sarah Gianakon Alexander's Last Battle Visual Art
Zak Nguyen Don't Speak Cultivated Beauty Steven Westbrook It's Coming Miscellaneous Kaylaa Dornan Interview with Sean Horlor