Unsaid v3.n1
David McLendon, Editor
Archie Pugh-O'Connor, Publisher
Daniel Richardson, Designer
In memory of Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)
A Note Regarding the Cover: Pieta, 2001-2004, by Hannah Louise Corbett Oil on canvas 30” x 42”
Contributors & Stories
is a writer who lives in Brooklyn.
Read: Help Me, God
graduated from Brown University in May 2007 with a BA in philosophy. Her work has appeared in the Minetta Review and the Gallatin Review. She is living currently in Brooklyn.
Read: The Hedgehog’s Dilemma
was born and raised in Western Massachusetts. She began studying oil painting portraiture at the age of fourteen. She received her BA from Smith College in 2000 with Special Studies in Painting. Hannah currently lives and makes art in Brooklyn, New York. As well as painting, Hannah maintains a discipline in figure drawing, dabbles in curating and enjoys illustration projects.
Read: Tacoma
’s new and selected poems, Mosefolket, is now available from Ravenna Press (www.ravennapress.com).
Read: Translated by the Author, Lorquiana, Departing from Wang Wei, Perseus, From the Akkadian
is the Director of the Literary Arts Program at Brown University. He is the author of six books of fiction, most recently The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection) and The Brotherhood of Mutilation. He has translated work by Chrstian Gailly, Jean Frèmon and Jacques Jouet. He has received an O. Henry Prize as well as an NEA fellowship. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including each issue of Unsaid.
Read: On Peter Markus, Last Days Coming soon! Until then, read it in the latest print issue of Unsaid.
was cloned in Chapel Hill, North Carolina ten seconds after his twin brother. In moments of angst he reflects on these ten seconds of darkness then moves on. His formative years were spent analyzing the Carolina Blue sky, enjoying Bojangle’s Iced Tea, and driving the oldest of his parents’ three Voyager minivans. He would later attend Oberlin College in Ohio where, transfixed by the minimalist landscape of lawns and wires, he majored in Creative Writing. He is the winner of the 2005 Chautauqua Literary Journal’s Prize for Prose but would rather be known for his contributions to science (see “Radiation’s Affect on Contemporary Poetry,” Science News, 2007 Issue 93). He now teaches and lives in Brooklyn, New York where he does not usually refer to himself in the third person. The poems included in this issue of Unsaid are his first to be published.
Read: Five Poems: Arbus, Airplane Interiors, Dramatic Techniques for Documentary on the Life of Jesus, Antediluvian Landscape, Continuous Line Drawings Via The Traveling Salesman Problem
is the author of two chapbooks: The Investigations (A Rest Press) and Seven Palms (Fungo Monographs). Her work has appeared in journals such as Fence, Chelsea, jubilat, and Denver Quarterly, and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize. She lives in New York.
Read: The Kookaburra’s Tale
is the author of the novel, L.I.E., and his fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Swink, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Black Warrior Review, Failbetter, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. The work appearing here is excerpted from his novel-in-progress, The Life to Come. He lives in Brooklyn.
Read: The House to Come
is a recent Yale graduate who lives in Brooklyn. She writes plays, currently as the Resident Playwright and Head of the Rolling Collaborative Project for the Subjective Theatre Company.
Read: The Leda Monologue
has stories in Conjunctions, The Chicago Review, Quarterly West, Unsaid, American Letters and Commentary, Western Humanities Review, Salt Hill, Fourteen Hills, Tarpaulin Sky, Harp & Altar, Snowvigate, and Double Room. Two recent stories were included in the anthologies P P/F F: An Anthology and New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills. She is also the author of a chapbook, In the Colorless Round, with illustrations by the novelist and artist Rikki Ducornet, from Noemi Press. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island an teaches at Brown University.
Read: The Tartan Detective
writes and paints in Salt Lake City. He teaches literature at the University of Utah.
lives in Brooklyn, New York.
is the author of A History of the Imagination (FC2), ‘The Book of Supplemental Diagrams’for Marco Knauff’s Universe (Ravenna Press), Land of the Snow Men (Calamari Press), Trio (Triple Press), Two Plays for Radio (Triple Press), The Long Rowing Unto Morning (Ravenna Press), Cirque du Calder (Rogue Literary Society). Stage plays include Water Music, Favorite Sports of the Martyrs, Mounting Panic, The Sinking Houses, The Contract, and The House of Correction (Broadway Play Publishing). Women in Hiding, The Shining Man, The Primate House, and Money, Power & Greed were broadcast by WDR, Germany. The Body Shop was produced by the American Film Institute. He received the Aga Kahn Prize for fiction, given by The Paris Review, in 1979.
teaches an experimental writing workshop at The New School. He lives with his wife, Heather, and has appeared in many literary journals. This is his second appearance in Unsaid.
Read: The Middle of Timbuktu
’s writing has appeared recently in Barrelhouse and The Baffler.
Read: Help Me, God
is the author of Good, Brother, The Moon is a Lighthouse, and The Singing Fish. A novel, Bob, or Man on Boat, is coming out in 2008 from Dzanc Books.
Read: We Eat Mud, Our Mother Is a Fish
has published poems in Poetry, New Millennium Writings, H_NGM_N, and other publications. She currently lives in New York City..
's work has appeared in Black Book, Exquisite Corpse, LIT, Open City, Painted Bride Quarterly, Quick Fiction, The Story of My Scab, The United States of Poetry anthology and elsewhere. Formerly a citizen of Milwaukee, he now resides in Brooklyn and can no longer locate Wisconsin on a map nor tell the difference between right and wrong. A staged reading of his musical play Get to Know Your Presidential Pets was held in New York at the 92nd Street Y’s “Festival of ‘Wrights” in 2004.
Read: The Carillon
When she was a child she believed in ghosts and aliens and thought the everyday world was full of meaning. Then for a while she forgot all about the supernatural and started using the internet, drinking, spending money, things like that. Near the end of that corrupt period she wrote the story published here. She was twenty-five years old at the time.
Read: Help Yourself!
lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Read: The Plenary Bitch
about “The Winning Cruelty of Ray Gish”: “Let me say that Ray’s cruelty preceded this poem and will surely outlive it. But there is no ‘Ray Gish,’ of course. I mean, how could there be? How could we hope that there be—in Blake’s terms—such an ‘Animate Wither’ moving among us? This world is a little thin on the substance that allows for such a man, a man of remote superiority, ponderous gifts, conflicts of every kind. . . . In this sense, maybe ‘Ray Gish’ is merely a pseudonym for ‘David McLendon,’ my Thank You, my thumbnail homage to the godhead behind this magazine.”
Read: A Hiccup Pushed through Gauze to Berrigan the Lesser, The Winning Cruelty of Ray Gish, Seasons One and Two of The Twilight Zone
lives in Providence, Rhode Island. His pages here and from the last issue of Unsaid are from a recently completed novella, Loveseat.
has written three books of poetry with the titles Zimble Zamble Zumble, Little War Machine, and Mewlhouse. The books may be purchased at rogueliterarysociety.com, or where other good books are sold.
Read: Eight Poems: Scared, My Sister's Undies, Long After Helen Died, Young Woman In The Garden, No Entry, A Truth Does Not Go Without Saying, Two Clogs And Wet Hair, Vincent
is the author of A German Picturesque. He directs the MFA program at Florida Atlantic University. His work in this and previous issues of Unsaid is from a highly anticipated work in progress.
teaches 12th-grade English at the Academy of Urban Planning, a small Brooklyn public high school committed to the promotion of social justice in the urban community. Besides the poems published in this issue of Unsaid, her recent writings include critical articles on the life and work of Virginia Woolf. She is currently writing a memoir.
Read: Eight Poems Coming soon! Until then, read it in the latest print issue of Unsaid.
’s chapbook Thaumatrope will be published by Sona Books in the Fall of 2007. Previous work has been printed in Boog City, canwehaveourballback, Harp & Alter, Fishdrum, Sonaweb, and elsewhere. Her chapbook The Fit was published by Sona Books in 2004. She lives in Brooklyn.
Read: Untitled
is the author of Minor Robberies (McSweeney’s 2007). Her fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Conjunctions, Fence, Noon, the Pushcart Prize anthologies, and elsewhere.
Read: Sickos