Robert Campbell's poetry collection In the Herald of Improbable Misfortunes revolves around dreams, dreamers, and otherworldly happenings.

In the Herald of Improbable Misfortunes

Literature & Fiction

Campbell, Robert

Poetry

Etchings Press

A woman's daily commute takes an abrupt turn when she's dropped off in a grotesque shantytown in Edge of the Known Bus Line. The townsfolk live in huts and tents scavenged from broken trinkets. They eat dead rats and human flesh. They've developed cult-like religions about miracle bus routes that will someday set them free. The narrator searches for a way out of this surreal hellscape while dredging up a few nightmares of her own.

Edge of the Known Bus Line

Gapinski, James R.

A multimodal memoir by Sarah Cheshire made up of memoir, Title IX documents, text messages, and emails. The chapbook was judged, edited, and designed by students in Etchings Press at University of Indianapolis

Unravelings (Etchings Press Chapbook)

Cheshire, Sarah

Essays & Correspondence

The chapbook, as a form, is laser focused. It is brief but provides the poet just enough space to meditate on a particular subject or way of versifying experience. The chapbook is small yet powerful, and while the chapbook is as unique and diverse as the poets who make it, the chapbook reflects a vision of the world as it is right now--no matter how the poet is writing or what they are writing about, in the case of Volume 6: the "sudden loss of the wife/mother" (Peter and Nicole Cooley's Vanishing Point), "the black people that in recent and preceding years have been doused and dismembered" (Dexter Boothe's Rhapsody), and the "fusion of earth, animal, human--a one-ness, beautiful, and also damned" (CMarie Fuhrman's Camped Beneath the Dam). These chapbooks (and any of the chapbooks published over the last five years in the Floodgate Poetry Series) could easily be published on their own, and they would do so powerfully, but in the bringing together of three chapbooks by three poets (sometimes more if the chapbooks are co-written) in various stages of their careers, lives, and work, we create a unified work that celebrates the broad range of poetry being written today while offering a collective vision of our time.

Floodgate Series Volume 6

Booth, Dexter L.

Cooley, Nicole and Peter

Fuhrman, CMarie

In this seventh volume of the Floodgate Poetry Series, authors Barbara Robidoux, Donovan McAbee, and Kimiko Hahn bring a unique and diverse batch of chapbooks to the table. Robidoux's collection Stirring Sorrow into Soup crafts a picture of the modern world on a backdrop of haiku, tanka, and haibun. These forms weave a captivating glimpse at "a transitional time for all humans and the planet herself," which Robidoux hopes will offer a sense of solace to readers. McAbee's Sightings brings a sorrowful glimpse into nostalgia both about faith and a mother's battle with cancer. Finally, Hahn's wind chime, whale, and downpour showcase a well-balanced group of triolets exploring life around us. While these chapbooks could stand well on their own, together they craft a diverse picture of life that reminds us of what it means to be human, of both the good and the bad, in today's world.

Floodgate Series Volume 7

Hahn, Kimiko

Robidoux, Barbara

McAbee, Donovan

From her Indianapolis home, upstairs from the whorehouse where her mother works, young Savonne is taken deep into the bayous of New Orleans. There she learns about Voodoo magic from her aged great-grandfather and meets the dangerous Diamond John, who is out to steal her family's powerful conjuring book. With its mix of rural magic and urban realism, Savonne, Not Vonny invites readers to reimagine the cultural traditions of New Orleans, pushing the boundaries of reality, and redefining home.

Savonne, Not Vonny

Lovelace, Robin Lee

Etchings is the literary and fine arts magazine of the University of Indianapolis. Produced twice a year by student-run Etchings Press, student editors solicit submissions, select pieces using a blind submission process, design and layout the magazine, and market it. Submissions include poetry, prose, fine arts, spoken word, and musical compositions. Submitters include University of Indianapolis undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

Etchings Literary and Fine Arts Magazine 32.2

Arts & Photography

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story

Radcliffe, Ann

Literary

In his novella Under Black Leaves, midwest author Doug Ramspeck delves into mental health, the interplay between love and loss, and the arts through the eyes of an art professor (Luke) and a Dance major (Hannah). Memories flood Professor Luke Horn as he returns to the Chicago College of the Arts campus for the new semester. After losing a charismatic student, Luke wonders if he should confess what he knows or keep it hidden. He quickly learns that you can't always hide your past. When the sister of the late student registers for his design and color course, will he be able to keep his composure and his secret? Will his guilt drive him to insanity? With a mix of romantic passion and realism, Under Black Leaves invites readers to ponder how grief and mental health affect human emotion.

Under Black Leaves

Ramspeck, Doug

"Tickle Back" Mother swirls my naked back like skywriting, with the ends of her fingers, twirling, teasing me to sleep. I'm aware of the fabric of my pajama top rolled at the back of my neck, the heavy weight of lying flat on my stomach, arms at my sides, slight dip of the mattress under her hip, short bursts of breath as she whorls the expanse of my back, runnel of spine, wings of my shoulder blades. I'm aware of night sounds through the screen, wind rushing the trees, dogs barking, car horns bleating. The wider universe, thickness of evening on the low horizon, clouds like clotted cream, heavy with moisture and marvel, stars charged with points of light, snagging my dream eyes. Andromeda on my back. Cassiopeia. Virgo. Mother conjures a constellation on my skin, configuration of feelings, night-wishing. Originally published in Up North Literary Journal

Vaginas Need Air

Welhouse, Tori Grant

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