BRYANT Literary Review
Volume 1, 2000
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Editors' Note
We are pleased to present the inaugural issue of the Bryant Literary Review, (BLR). The inception of BLR began at the end of the last century, when Professor Jeannette White and a group of students published Surge, a literary magazine containing the work of Bryant College students. Since that time an increased interest in poetry, fiction, and the arts has given birth to the idea of creating a national journal. The result is BLR.
We owe much thanks to the Bryant Arts Association, and to our contributors for helping the magazine get started and believing in the success of the project. We also thank the hundreds who submitted material, but whose work we could not publish at this time. Thanks, too, goes to the local Rhode Island newspapers, The Woonsocket Call and The Pawtucket Times, as well as Bryant College Academic Affairs, Institutional Advancement, and the Department of English & Humanities for their generous contributions.

Please enjoy our first issue!

Chuck Jarvis 
Kimberly Pike 
Student Editors
 

Cover and Inside Cover Information
FICTION EDITOR: Joseph Urgo 
POETRY EDITOR: Tom Chandler 
MANAGING EDITOR: Miriam Perry 
STUDENT EDITORS: Chuck Jarvis, Kimberly Pike 
STUDENT READERS: Chuck Jarvis, Kimberly Pike, Brenda Kahler, Jackie Girvois, Scott Marks, Nate Gill, Dmitri Bichko, Geoffrey Jarok
COVER ARTWORK: "Columns with Three Views," 84"x58", acrylic on canvas (1992), Rachel Paxton, used by permission of the artist.

Table of Contents


FICTION
Hillside Slasher, Rob Davidson
A Bird's Death, Dana Lauren
The Librarian, Tim Myers
Inside Here, Diana Spechler
Biographers, Greg Ames
Fate, Albert Sgambati
After Ellis Island, Albert Sgambati

POETRY
Hum of Thoughts, C.J. Morrissey
there are gods, Rob Cook
Dedication, Allan Peterson
Itinerary, Susan Wallack
Minuet, Gary J. Whitehead
The Flummoxed Flummoxer, Thomas Dorsett
Daughter, Richard Dry
House on Munday Road, Trent Busch
The Word Box, Christopher Brookhouse
A Bright Summer Day in Boston, Geoff Jarok
Forced to Read a Big Black Boring Textbook in the Rain, Jeb Santos
Pedagogy, Allison Joseph
Bread, Sean Thomas Dougherty
Doing Seventy on the Highway, J. R. Solonche
Documentary, J. R. Solonche
Snow, Janet McCann
Upon Awakening, Janet Proulx
Handwriting, Ace Boggess
Black Jellies, Eggs, and the Pearling of Ovaries, Cathleen Calbert
Fair Trade, Cathleen Calbert
The Hand, Brady Rhoades


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