Table of Contents - Issue 5
Poetry
39 Tribute to Lucille Clifton by Ishmael Reed, Cornelius
Eady, and Peter Conners
42 Lucille Clifton in the inner city; still; she insists on me;
why some people be mad at me sometimes; in white America:
i come to read them poems; shapeshifter poems: 4; you
46 Kazim Ali from “The Book of Miriam the Prophetess” to Lucille
Clifton: Section 8, Miriam and Moses refuse to enter to the Promised
Land
47 Cedric T. Bolton Church Funk
48 Wendy J. Gonyea Searching
49 Rose Ausländer Motherland/Mutterland; The Hole/Das Loch,
translated by elana levy & AnnaMaria Begemann
50 Inmaculada Lara-Bonilla Trails/Senderos
126 David Eye Military Secret
128 Kate Rushin Syracuse, By Night, In Transit; The Trees of
Syracuse; The Poet
194 Cornelius Eady Thief, for Etheridge Knight; Otis Redding, being
pulled from Lake Monona (winner of the 2011 Bea González
Prize for Poetry)
196 Yvonne C. Murphy Prisoner
233 Michael Burkard stone like; stay
240 Jackie Warren -Moore Dashed Hopes; Rock
242 Harryette Mullen Selections from tanka diary
247 Deborah Meadows Lamb Notes
250 Nicholas Rivers Black Life
252 T. Jackie Cuevas Upon Seeing a 1916 Postcard of My Mexican
Ancestors on Fire and Strung Up; Birth
254 Philip Memmer Parable
268 Randall Horton Poetry Reading At Mount McGregor
(Saratoga County, New York); Note From A Prodigal Son III
278 Carlton Semple Something New (winner of the 2011 Gifford
Foundation High School Arts Prize for Poetry)
292 Rachel McKibbens South
317 Rachel Guido deVries Knives; Love Poem After a Quarrel
See SC5 Online for these additional poems:
Kazim Ali The Book of Miriam the Prophetess, sections 1-8
Bruce Benett The Horsemeat Restaurant
Cedric T. Bolton (a.k.a. Blackman Preach) Spoken word poetry:
State of the Ghetto; Bumpy Tymes
Molly Burdick Winter
Elinor Cramer Chetwynd’s Guide
Jessica Cuello Chamber
Nam Cung Falling
Francis DiClemente The Bridesmaid
George Drew Doing a Blurb for Jared
Myron Ernst Old in a Heat Wave in July; At the End of Summer
Lisa Feinstein Irene’s House
Eric Geissinger The Calm
Mary Gilliland Stirrings
Christine Hamm The Stars Are Yellow, Surrounded by Black
Cliff Henderson In the Charity of Commerce
Akua Lezli Hope Seneca
Mike Jurkovic Broken Bones
Chrissy Kolaya First Memory, 1954
Angela De Santis Krueger How the Ear is Half a Heart
Ilyse Kusnetz The Eagle’s Nest
Charlene Langfur Analysis of the Best Possible Day
Tatianna Lebron Catch a Dream
Jay Leeming At the Falls; The Narrator
Naton Leslie The Lost Episodes
Lyn Lifshin The Woman Who Talked to Hitchcock’s Birds
Charles Lupia A Lawyer’s Work
Tim McCoy The Last Walk; Wolfman
David Musselwhite To a Dying Lover
Mike Petrik Nordic
Margarita E. Pignataro Speaking Spanish in Syracuse
Emily Pulfer-Terino Fifth Cousins
Melissa Reider I Dreamed Eaton Brook
Kristian Rodriguez Region
Mary McLaughlin Slechta Disappearing Act
Amber Christine Snider On My Birthday
Matthew J. Spireng Vague Memories of Terrible Things
Lou Ventura Seams
Fiction
52 Natalia Cortes Chaffin The Wall
67 Bob Proehl Secret Origin of the Bethlehem Plant
(winner of the 2011 Allen and Nirelle Prize for Fiction)
80 Brett Finlayson The Caucasian Thundercat
105 Patrick Lawler My Father’s Suicide Note
115 Daniel DiStasio Careless Time
183 Alice K. Boatwright A Burning House
280 Jasmine Barnes Homewrecker (winner of the 2011 Gifford Foundation High School Arts Prize for Fiction)
303 Kristin LaCroix Order Here
Nonfiction
63 Courtney Egelston Building Community (winner of the 2011 S.I. Newhouse School Prize for Creative Nonfiction)
170 Susan Fox Rogers Swimming the Hudson
209 Sarah L. Averill Writing Is an Invitation to Fall Down
217 Kathy O’Connell Firewalk (winner of the 2011 Burton Blatt Institute Prize for Arts Leadership)
229 Tom Moran Will the Real Ken Kesey Please Steal Something?
237 Len Messineo Babowitz’s Sweater: The Art of Memory
271 José Lauriano Di Lenola The Years in Between
294 Nancy Keefe Rhodes The iSchool Windows Project: Collaboration and Public Art on the Syracuse Campus
318 Julia Kelley Tampons in Turkey
321 Majay Donzo The Greatest Gift One Could Ever Receive (winner of the 2011Gifford Foundation High School Arts Prize for Nonfiction)
325 Shane Ryan The Last Election
Interviews
197 Philip LaMarche Faith and Works: Mary Karr and George
Saunders on the Intersection of Spirituality and Writing
257 Marion Wilson Refuge for the Homeless: A Conversation with Performance Artist Matthew Works
Review
341 Susan Deer Cloud Bone-Songs and Sanctuaries: New and Selected Poems by Michael Jennings
Drama
135 Rogelio Martinez Union City, New Jersey, Where Are You?
Visual Arts
31 Bill Viola The Quintet of the Astonished, two views
32 Lynn Schwarzer Field Notes #1, 2, 4, 5
34 Amos Scully and Stephanie Ashenfelder Returned Books; Returned Books (detail)
35 Jim Morris Piece of Mind S002; Piece of Mind S010
36 Ron Jude Untitled, 1-4
38 Ani Hoover West Red
62 Carrie Chalmers 08-05-09, Erica, Rochester, NY; 09-03-09, Prantik, Danby, NY; 08-06-09, Peter, Ithaca, NY. All images from the series Watch over Me
78 Matthew Gehring Three Cent Bill; Ten Thousand Dollar Bill; Reason #1; Reason #2
101 Daniela Kostova Decadent Eclipse; I Am Whatever You Want Me to Be; Negotiations
104 Lin Price How the Heart Works
114 Linn Underhill T.S. Eliot, from the series NoMan’s Land
127 Linn Underhill Cocteau, from the series NoMan’s Land
131 Michael Burkard Untitled (“sea”)
132 Marion Wilson from the Sugar Series; house; from the Sugar Series; laundry
134 Arjan Zazueta White Flag; Tether
175 Mary Lum Condition One; Edge Effects; Seventh Fold; Blue Building
178 John Knecht Deluge I; Deluge II
180 Valerie Patterson Woman Is the Other; The Offering; Living with the Legend
182 Vykky Ebner The Runner, Part 1
221 Lucy Mink The Cleanout (Fairy)
222 Lauren DiCioccio 19Mar10 (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton); The Great English Letter Writers (Facing Pages)
224 Susan Lakin Lisa; Joyce & Joe; Joyce; David
226 Sylvia Steen Dames; Sophie and Her Cats
228 Rebecca Murtaugh Confection; Confection (detail)
243 Roger De Muth Sea Monsters (1); Sea Monsters (2)
244 Roberley Bell Other Landscape; Room with a View; Other Landscape #2
246 Tricia Wright Home; Inside Looking Out
266 Matthew Works Homeless Man as a Work of Art, as a Masterpiece Created by God; Self-Portrait; The Church with the Locked Doors; Homeless Communion
287 Amy Swartele Appointment with M; The Watcher Watched
288 Luke Buffenmyer The Land Viewed, #4, #7, #6, #9
290 Jolene Dosa Bicycle Graphic, Bicycle Graphic II (winner of the 2011 Gifford Foundation High School Arts Prize for Visual Arts)
299 Margie Hughto Information Spiral: Ice Age to Space Age
299 Gail Hoffman Funambulists
300 Anne Cofer Stacked
300 Clare Olsen Projections
301 Elizabeth Emery 2 blue birds; still life with raven and red fruits; still life with patterns and mirror (winner of the 2011 Hedy and Michael Fawcett Prize for Visual Arts)
337 Benjamin Entner Still Life: Graphite on Paper
338 Amanda Wojick Tilted Mound; Big Blue Band-aid Drawing
340 Laura Moriarty Subduction into Trench; Volcanic Mountain
See SC5 Online for these additional images:
Roberley Bell Video Room with Bench
Roger De Muth Sea Monsters Stand
Lauren DiCioccio For the Love
Mary Lum Condition Two; Condition Three
Lucy Mink Goldberg Center
Jim Morris Power and Flux L009
Lin Price Romulus
Amos Scully Delvage; Delvage (detail)
Amy Swartele Burst Egg
Linn Underhill H.L. Mencken; Tennessee Williams, both images from the series NoMan’s Land
The Moving Image
See SC Online for the following
interviews and articles on film and video:
Nancy Keefe Rhodes
Bollywood and Beyond: An Interview with Tula Goenka
Nancy Keefe Rhodes How Video Became Art: Bill Viola and David Ross Return to the
Everson Museum
Kendall R. Phillips The Lost Art of Showing ‘Dangerous’ Movies
Kheli R. Willetts From Text to Film: The Human Stain and the
Burden of Blackness
Julie Grossman “It’s Alive! Alive!”: Hideous Progeny, The Horror and
Fascination of Film Adaptation
