SMACK!
Contributors
Jason
Bacasa
Jason
Bacasa is a second year design major at Carnegie Mellon University, where
he
has developed many of the photographs contained in this issue. He wants the
world to know about his band, The Saints.
Brooke
Barnett
Brooke Barnett graduates this
Spring with Honors from the University of Iowa's English department.
Her
thesis, The Belly of the Skeptic,
provides our readers with the chance to engage themselves
in a very bold and
unique work of nonfiction literary criticism.
Tara
Carter
Tara Carter, born and raised in
Madison, Wisconsin, will graduate in May with majors in Journalism and English.
She first read Rudolph Fisher's "The City of Refuge" in Doris Witt's Harlem
Renaissance Proseminar, and it was in Mrs. Vale's eleventh grade English class
that she was first introduced to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
These two stories are brought together in Tara's English Honors thesis titled
The Migrant in New York: In Pursuit of an American Dream in
Rudolph Fisher's "The City of Refuge" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great
Gatsby. After graduation Tara will
venture to the Grand Canyon to work and to try her hardest to avoid a job that
entails being assigned to a cubicle.
David
Chickering
David K. Chickering, an Iowan, is a senior
English and Theatre major at the University of Iowa. He has participated in
numerous writing workshops writing non-fiction, poetry, playwriting, and fiction
pieces. He is studying in London during the coming fall semester to "gain
perspective," learn a foreign language, and hopefully write a fictional travel
log which will become his Honors thesis. His piece Greenfield provides an interesting
look at small town life.
Kate
Christenson
Kate Christenson is a Spanish
major at the University of Iowa. She is from Storm Lake
and Ames, IA, and
plays for the Que Bar's Softball team; she enjoys writing her poetry in the
bathtub. In this issue, she is represented with the poem Gretchen.
David
Kleinman
David Kleinman is a Senior here at
the University of Iowa. His writing is a take on the postmodern madness of the
world he lives in through what he claims to be "anti-poetry." "Basically I take
Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, Michael Jordan, Donald Barthlme, Tom Robbins,
William Shakespeare, and Dr. Sloper; put them in a blender, add cilantro, chill,
and serve." His poem My
Glow is part of this month's
issue.
Julian
Ku
Julian Ku is working on a double major in
Math and Journalism. He hopes to someday be a photojournalist. His photographs
of the Iowa City area are featured in this issue.
Angie
Lellig
Angie Lellig is a fourth year Junior
(sorta) majoring in Sociology, and minoring in English and Religion. She is
contemplating a second major in education (possibly). She is currently dividing
her time between work (not so fun), school (maybe a little more fun), and
volunteering (loads of fun). Someday (maybe two years more, maybe not) she will
get a degree and get a job in her field (whatever it is), or become a pirate
(the health plan is better). Paper
Snowflakes are Never Symbolic is interesting
and unique, like Angie.
Charlie
McLeod
Charlie McLeod was born in Fort Worth,
Texas. He resided in Berkeley, California, before transferring to the University
of Iowa last fall. He enjoys the Midwest, and hopes to pursue the life of a hog
farmer if the writing thing does not work out. He has two pieces in this issue,
the first a poem entitled From
Underwater, the second, his story The Boy with
Egypt on His Shirt.
William
Nedved
Wiiliam Nedved is a playwright
attending the University of Iowa as a Theater Major. His work has been
recognized all over the country, from New York to the Midwest. His piece
The
Saved was seen by U of I theater fans in the
Spring of 1998 undergraduate ten minute play festival.
Conor
Platt
Conor Platt is a senior Finance major
at Carnegie Mellon University. He received publication and the Editor's Choice
Award in the National Library of Poetry's 1998 Anthology "Sea Of Tranquility."
He is represented in this issue with his piece A Cafeteria on
Planet Earth.
Paul
Rolfsmeier
Paul Rolfsmeier is a junior in the Communications Studies
department. The photography he has in this issue was
created this year
through the University of Iowa Art department. His interests include long walks
on the beach and sipping ginger ale.
Marie Rutkoski
Linda
Sanders
Linda Sanders is a senior, graduating this
spring, and will be attending either Western Illinois or the University of Iowa
in the fall for Graduate School in English Literature. Her writing tends to be
very humourous, showing her unique views on life. She is represented twice in
this issue, with Brassieres
and Deer Ears, and with a piece that came
out of her work for Brooks Landon's Prose Style class - a one hundred word
sentence called The Kiss of
Death.
Nicholas A.
Smith
Nicholas A. Smith graduates this spring and plans
to attend to law school next fall at the University of Michigan. A selection
from his senior thesis To Play Saints,
To Ponder Satan: Dramatic Performance in Puritan Religious Experience
highlights the connections between his two majors, English and Religion.
Lisa Waite
Lisa Waite is an incredibly busy person. She is a Design major with a
Photography minor here at the University of Iowa, as well as being the editor of
the Daily Iowan's Art and Entertainment section. She is represented in this
issue with by both the photograph on the cover and those of the editors. Lisa
wishes to someday live in a place where she can ride her bike everywhere and run
an art gallery.
Ryan
Webber
Ryan Webber is a student at the University of Iowa
studying Art and English. His piece Fuel is very indicative of his unique style.
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