Editor's Note, December 2008
Elizabeth Haller
PhD Candidate and Instructor, Kent State University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com
The holiday season is among us. Through this often hectic yet joyous time, we wish you all that life has to offer. We invite your continued perusal and encourage you to submit articles, poetry, and fiction for consideration in future issues of AEE. Please review our Call for Papers on this site for more details on submission requirements. If you are unsure whether your contribution would be suitable under the terms of our Call for Papers, please send along an inquiry, and I will be happy to respond forthwith. As always, do not forget to check out Grist for the Mill for possible submission ideas.
“The View from Here” columnist Lynne Fukuda provides the third of a four-part column titled “Education and Work Prep School: My Continuing Adventures in My Search for the Perfect Career—Part III.” For Parts I and II please refer to the September 2008 and October 2008 issues.
Dan Lukiv returns with the first feature of this issue. “Now These Are The Names” are forty poems based on forty chapters of Exodus, the second installment of an ambitious poetry project (please refer to the June/July 2008 issue for the first installment of this multi-volume Biblical work). According to Lukiv: “From Joseph’s death to the building of the tabernacle, from slavery to the birth of a nation: This collection of poems covers 145 years of well-known, dramatic history (1657 to 1512 BCE) as described in the 40 chapters of Exodus.”
Author Joan Aitken bring us the second feature of this issue titled, “Comments on Kozol and Suskind: Reflections on Teaching the City”. Aitken states: “In a personal reflection as a K-graduate school educator in urban contexts over the last forty years, [this article] advocates considering the perceptions of authors Kozol and Suskind.”
The final feature of this issue is a work of fiction titled “The...Flavor is the Life.” Author Vicky Gilpin states that this story: “is an exploration of ‘what if’ vampires didn’t initially ingest blood and instead had to evolve their tastes as society evolved (or devolved, as the case may be). The story is to entertain and provoke thought, as the word ‘vampire’ is not used in the piece, and the title as well as some of the symbolism contain tongue-in-cheek allusions to previous works in the vampire mythos and styles used in that mythos.”
This month’s Poet’s Corner contribution comes to us from Angela Velez. Of her two poems included in this issue Velez states: “Both “waiting” and “Purpose” were inspired by the same person, a man [with whom] I felt a jolt, both of blind recognition and of ethereal connection [from the moment of meeting]. The poems reflect the yearning, frustration, and awe that he planted in my soul two years ago. In all the years I have written poetry, no person has ever inspired in me such depth of expression.”
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