volume 1 :: issue 2 :: september 2003
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Bitten in the ASP: abrupt obsolescence in postsecondary education
Nonfiction, commentary: Ken Baker. The author examines the implications for postsecondary educational systems of the exponential growth rate of improvement in information technology.
Notes from the Front
Nonfiction, field report: SPC Joseph A. Brown. In these letters to the home front, Joe Brown affords readers a glimpse into the day-to-day life of soldiers on the war front.
Three Poems
Nonfiction, poetry: Michele B. Bruno. In this selection of poems, readers will find vast distances and jagged edges, wake-up calls and protecting arms, song above all.
Two Poems
Nonfiction, poetry: Nancy Malone Issenberg. These selected poems reveal the poet's keen appreciation for the grandeur of the natural world and her sharp insight into human society, not always so grand.
I Have a Dream
Classic oratory: Martin Luther King, jr. On August 28, 1963 (a hundred years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation), over 200,000 people gathered around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC, to hear King speak to them of an American Dream.
Homecoming
Fiction, shortstory: John N. Mugaas. In this tale of the Grand Tetons, the author explores the precarious precipice at the edge of cliff and sky, and at the edge of life and death.
What We Are About: Toward a Shared Vision
Nonfiction, analysis: David R. Perkins. In a time of rapid change, the Provost of New River Community and Technical College finds reason to celebrate the diversity that some call disparity.
The Philosophy of Composition
Classic nonfiction: Edgar Allen Poe. Although romantics still persist in imagining that Poe wrote in drug-induced frenzies of artistic creation, Poe belies that notion in this essay, in which he shows that his poem "The Raven" proceeded step by step, to its completion, with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.
They've Arrived!
Fiction, shortstory: Jo Weisbrod. In this tale of might and main, the author shows that life is sometimes a gas, and sometimes it's just a ruptured gas line.
Look Within
Nonfiction, poetry: Jimmy Wheeler. In a phenomenal world, it pays to take a second look.