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Volume 46, Number 3: Fall 2005

Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by Zdravka Evtimova, Stephen O'Connor, Emmanuel Boulukos,
Heather Sellers, Christine Lanoie, Justine Dymond; Poetry by Kathleen Halme III, Martin Espada, Brian Turner,
Simon Perchik, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Bruce Bond, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Myrna Stone,
Johnny Lorenz, Jon Kelly Yenser, Georgia Scott; Essays and Articles by Sterling Stuckey, Thomas L. Dumm,
Claire Kahane, Kathleen Spivack.
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Volume 45, Number 2: Summer 2004

Introduction by David Lenson; Fiction by Stephen O'Connor, Shannon Cain, Gregory Blake Smith, David Rutschman,
Malena Watrous Erika Williams Linda McCullough Moore; Poetry by Gerard Malanga, Diane Wald, Kristin Bock,
Hadara Bar-Nadav, Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Kurt Brown, Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by
Annie Boutelle, Catherine Barnett, Darryl Phelps, K.E. Duffin, Fred Yannantuono, Erika Mikkalo
Essays and Articles by Paul Marion, Lesley Lee Francis, Robert Erwin, Jerome Richard, A. Sandosharaj, Kerrie Mitchell.
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Library Week Poetry Contest (Staff Winner )

The Dear Old Library

There’s a place where the staff is merry
That Tech students refer to as the li-berry.
There are computers and magazine racks
And J.D. Salinger in the stacks.

Old Jack Hall he is the skipper
He sits in his office in Turkish slippers
Laughing Jeannie guards that door
You can’t get in if you’re a boor.

Out front there’s Carol and Christine
When a book’s overdue-they can get mean.
And there’s a man with the strength of ten
That’s Mr. Mills-don’t call him Ken.
And in his bottom you’ll be a splinter
If you complain about the printer.

And who is that Colombian Joka?
He’s the alumnus called Juan Coca.
He came back-he heard the call
And went to work with the great Dave Saul.

So come to the library if you burn
With a grand desire to learn
Get a book on math or astronomy
Or Murphy’s favorite Bloom’s Taxonomy.

A word of caution from Mr. Hall
And his henchmen, Mill and Saul
And also from the tough Juan Cocoa
Do not bring your ice cream mocha
In fact, if you ever hope to graduate
Do not bring anything to masticate.

“Books are the best thing that happened to me,”
said Johnny Depp, and so you see
In all the country from Maine to Tennessee
There’s no place so ideal as the IMC.

Mr. O'Connor

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