“The city was a vast and stationary carousel, forever boarded by millions of would-be passengers who took their seats, waited and then dismounted.”
― J.G. BALLARD, Millennium People
MARK LALIBERTE
Managing Editor
Issue 44 Editorial
Fiction Editor — Lauren Chang
Poetry Editor — Taylor Brown
Reviews Editor — Jade Wallace
Graphics + Website — Obscure Design
2020/21 Editorial Staff
Grace Bilger
Susane Dang
Gabriella Dritsas
Elisabeth Finkelzon
Eileen Hack
Samuel Peacock
Sarah Peters
Jessica Poole
Eva Zheng
Copyright © 2020 by the contributors. All rights reserved.
FEATURED ARTIST
CHET BELL
Collage Portfolio
FICTION
ANNE BALDO
The Happiness of Robots
TIMOTHY DeLIZZA
The Killing of a Mouse
SÍLE ENGLERT
Glass Trophies
JENNIFER McAULEY
A Thin Line
POETRY
RENEE AGATEP
2 Poems
ANNE BARNGROVER
The Hibiscus Talked to Me
DESPY BOUTRIS
Metathesiophobia
AMEE NASSRENE BROUMAND
2 Poems
CONYER CLAYTON
Plumage
JAMES COLLIER
2 Poems
MIKAYLA FAWCETT
2 Poems
LAYLA FLOWERS
2 Poems
SEAN MADDEN
Palm Frond Cross
CAROLINE MISNER
Grass Bracelet
KEVIN STEBNER
2 Typewriter Poems
SNEHA SUBRAMANIAN KANTA
Wood building and holy ghost
JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS
3 Poems
Z.Y. YANG
Necrophile Hold
CHAIN: Response Poetry Project
Poems 1–4
WHAT IS THIS PROJECT ALL ABOUT?
Poems are often in conversation with other poems — from those that recreate or re-envision long-standing formal conventions, to those written “after” or “inspired by” poems that came before them. Here at CAROUSEL, we want to experiment with this tradition in a deliberate way, on a large scale, over time. We therefore bring you CHAIN, an ongoing, global series of response poems — each connected to the one that came before it but also different enough to stand on its own and lead somewhere new. It starts with one poem — one link in the chain — and it gets built, link by link, indefinitely …
ANDY VERBOOM
Chain 1
ZACHARY MEDLIN
Chain 2
ROXANNA BENNETT
Chain 3
KERRY RAWLINSON
Chain 4
INSPIRED … WANT TO SUBMIT?
If you want to be the next link in this poetic chain, send us one poem that creatively responds to rawlinson’s Lady Mondegreen by December 27, 2020 — visit our Submittable for guidelines
COMICS
ROBERT PASTERNAK
Particles No. 8
CONVERSATIONS
ELEE KRALJII GARDINER
interviews
Joyelle McSweeney
+ Ken White
USEREVIEW: 001–012
JADE WALLACE
Reviews Editor
USEREVIEW Editorial
K.B. THORS
USEREVIEW 001: Quaking, It’s Morning
KHASHAYAR MOHAMMADI
USEREVIEW 002: Impossible Language for the Unnavigable Self
MARK LALIBERTE
USEREVIEW 003: Creation, Derivation, Exchange
JOHN NYMAN
USEREVIEW 004: Living Violence
DEIRDRE DANKLIN
USEREVIEW 005: Writers as Psychics
JADE WALLACE
USEREVIEW 006: Talking to Stones
MANAHIL BANDUKWALA
USEREVIEW 007: Do You Want to Dream Without Falling Asleep?
ERICA McKEEN
USEREVIEW 008: Reverse Juggling
EMILY WOODWORTH
USEREVIEW 009: Classified & Personal
SANCHARI SUR
USEREVIEW 010: Engaging the Emporium
AMANDA EARL
USEREVIEW 011: Where Words Touch
HOLLAY GHADERY
USEREVIEW 012: Blistering Words for a Burning World
Published semi-annually. We gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the Central Students’ Association and the students of the University of Guelph.
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