Volume 7 (2006)
Editor's Note
The world evolves. Each day, each week, each year brings something new to its history. Likewise, our emotions evolve, as each moment captures a variety of feelings, all triggered by, and reflecting the experiences of, our individual lives. We take in our emotions. We act upon our emotions. We learn from our emotions; and in turn, our emotions help to shape the person we are and who we will become.
As consequences of our distinct emotional lives, we, although all human, view events so differently. Similar situations may evoke quite asymmetrical emotions in two people. The same piece of work, when shown to two different people, may trigger wholly different associations.
This is why I am both excited and honored to introduce you to the seventh edition of the Bryant Literary Review. I invite you to read, and reread, each poem and story. In doing so, I hope new meanings, previously undiscovered, will emerge out of the blanket of words, for there are countless interpretations. It lies within you, the reader, however, to decide what you will make of each piece.
On behalf of the Bryant Literary Review staff, I would like to thank all the contributors to this issue, as well as those who submitted work but could not be published at this time. Special thanks extend to The Pawtucket Times and Woonsocket Call, as well as to Bryant University’s Academic Affairs and University Advancement Divisions, and the English and Cultural Studies Department. With their help and collaboration, the BLR has embraced yet another year of success and advancement.
Escape and enjoy,
Julie Keang
Student Editor
Title Page
Table of Contents
Editors' Note
Contributors
Fiction
Men's Department
Leslie Pietrzyk
The Final Note
Roland Goity
Love American Style (Or How Pop Got his Green Card)
Rosanna Armendariz
Goody-Goody
Robert Kaye
Running Out
J. S. Kierland
September Light
Connie Harrington
The Female of the Species
Erica Johnson Debeljak
Poetry
Nikkie and Jesus
Arthur Winfield Knight
Homecoming
Susan Clayton-Goldner
A Boy's Bike
Diane Lockward
What Cannot be Found is Always Enough
Thomas Bonoma
dream landscape with wheatfield
Art Zilleruelo
Shipwreck Survivors March Along the Coastline
Timothy Martin
Wild Running Words
Jeanne Lohmann
Travel Tips for the Solo Female in Central America
Cindy May Murphy
Born Again in Brooklyn
John Azrak
George Segal's The Butcher Shop
Stephen Gibson
Call It A Draw: On Art and Love
Neil Carpathios
Reprise for a Memory
Askold Skalsky
Icarus as Teacher
Ann Zoller
The Covenant
Doug Ramspeck
For My Mother Who Has Never Been to Cape Cod
Carla Panciera
Aspects of Kelly's Death
Ken Meisel
Home, Rest Home
Megan Jones
Where I'm From
Robert DiSario
Editors
- Editor
- Tom Chandler
- Poetry Editor
- Tad Davies
- Fiction Editor
- Nora Barry
- Managing Editor
- M.J. Kim
- Associate Editor
- Lucie Koretsky
- Student Editor
- Julie Keang
Additional Information
- Design and Layout
- Rebecca Chandler
- Cover Photo
- "Bo's Bulls" by Bob Remington