• Basic Reader

    Jennifer Habel

    Spring 2017

    Jennifer Habel is the author of Good Reason, winner of the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition. Her poems have appeared in the Believer, Gulf Coast, the Massachusetts Review, the Southeast Review, and elsewhere.

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    A Tribute to Wyatt Prunty

    Randall Kenan

    The next year at Sewanee, I was talking to some participants, three young fellows, outside the Women’s Center, and Barry walked by. He stopped, turned to look at me, and said, “Randall, I really like that Eminem fella. Good stuff,” and walked on by. I would pay good money to get young men to have such looks on their faces again and to regard me with such perplexed awe at any time in my life.

    Family Oracle

    Celia Bell

    “Damn your liver,” I grunt, through Lila’s throat. “Gerald, you were too good to attend my deathbed, I hope your syphilitic nose falls off. Marcus, Monica, did you think I wouldn’t see you fighting over the family silver when I died?”

    The Curses: Part II

    John Jeremiah Sullivan

    This is the house where the boy was born, and where he played on the floor as a toddler while the Civil War began. The house was not where it is today, in a small park on the banks of the Wabash. It stood about a halfmile farther north, at 318 South Second Street in downtown Terre Haute, Indiana, a couple of blocks from the river, in a row of similar-looking structures that precisely one hundred years later were scheduled to undergo demolition.

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