October Monthly Spotlight
>> Featuring Poetry by Erin Slaughter & Lena Ziegler and artwork by William O’Brien.
LATEST BOOK REVIEW
>> MESSY AND BEAUTIFUL: EMERSON WHITNEY'S "HEAVEN"
Early on, Whitney promises “I can’t explain myself without making a mess,” and then proceeds to make a mess for two hundred pages. Life, at its simplest, is messy, unruly, and Whitney’s depiction of their own life doesn’t bother with sanitation.
The Food Issue
Featuring…
>> Ode to the Golden Girls Before Sunday Service // by Rodrick Minor
“I harvest a bowl of butta beans / a handful of plums /
bunches of collard greens / Aint Shirley & Joyce rinse /
the soil from the leaves / grandma boils the ham hocks
// til a tender juicy hymn...”
>> Receta // by Gabriel Amor
“Whenever I worry about raising a child on a writer’s
income, mamá recites an old Spanish saying:
Dios manda a cada niño con una barra de pan bajo el
brazo.”
>> i'm doing the dishes by touch in the dark // by Quinn Lui
“they say every rice-grain left in the bowl is a pockmark
on the face / of the person you’ll marry, so i leave
enough to let the chopsticks / stand upright & wonder
how deep you have to bury an explosion / so no one
aboveground feels a thing...”
…and more here!
Duende is the national literary journal of Goddard College's BFA program. Along with an issue published
each fall, we regularly update our website with
new stories, poems, & art.
The Games We Play // Jamal Michel
Metamorphasis // Shoka Kamaria-Ford
LATELY…
issue 7
Featuring…
>> Your Father Asks You to Stop Talking about Race & other poems // by Ally Ang
“in your suburban Connecticut town, your father wears his accent like a scarlet letter, A for alien.”
>> Ungauged, Unseen & other stories // by Tara Isabel Zambrano
“In distance, uneven crags pose as mysterious totems, their geometry−a hymn written in air. She thinks of the man who squeezed her hand while handing the change.”
“...The duende is a force not a labor, a struggle not a thought. I heard an old maestro of the guitar say: ‘The duende is not in the throat: the duende surges up, inside, from the soles of the feet.’ Meaning, it’s not a question of skill, but of a style that’s truly alive: meaning, it’s in the veins: meaning, it’s of the most ancient culture of immediate creation.”
Thanks to the Gunst Foundation for its major support of Duende.
Note: This website is produced and managed by Goddard BFA students. The material
that appears on it does not represent the views of Goddard College.
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