January Visiting Artists and Writers
 Peter Schumann |
 Brenda Garand |
 Jill Moser |
 Susan Jane Walp |
January Visiting Writers:
Excerpt from “On Water”
(first published in Kitty Snacks)
By Leni Zumas
When the sea churns, the green sailors fall to swithering. But the churn is nothing more bad than a quease from the monthly. Some of the boys cry. Boys young enough to cry are here, younger than we were when our hairs came. In sleep they call for their mothers; awake, they puke. Two are brothers, with heads the red of a schoolhouse, both sick from the minute we left shore. The younger can’t stop throwing up. The older is bony too, but his brother has shrunk to the bigness of a rabbit, no food in days, only spoonmeat. Ned advised to cut an eel into portions and feed the kid the raw bits, but the older refused. Instead he trickles biscuit into cups of milk, tilts them careful at his brother’s mouth.
Leni Zumas is the author of the story collection Farewell Navigator (Open City, 2008). Her work has appeared most recently in Salt Hill, Gigantic, New York Tyrant, Quarterly West, Harp & Altar, and New Orleans Review. She was a 2008 Fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a 2008-2009 Artist-in-Residence in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace program. She has taught creative writing at the University of Massachusetts, Hunter College, and Columbia University.
February Visiting Artists and Writers:
A. Van Jordan
Robert Berlind
Penelope Umbrico
David K. Anderson
Stanley Whitney
Baron Wormser