Vol. 5 / Winter 2024-2025
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Welcome to WHR Vol. 5, featuring Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, & Interviews by Rutgers University Writers House students.
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Poetry:
Ely Ingling / Two Poems
Jadelini Mora / Speaking to My Dad (After Muriel Rukeyser)
Yehudis Burton / Ode to My Mother
Courtney Woods / Three Poems
Isabella Apostolides / The Cicadas
Ohr Gutman / Two Poems
Syed Ali Zaidi / Two Poems
Isabela Vargas / Garage Sale: Everything Must Go
Joelle Sonet / Never Was
Mary McIlvain / notes on limerence
Navneet Kaur / All These Make Up a Life
Krithika Patrachari / Hidden Heartbeat
Jaiden Radoczy / Oranges
Jocelynn Hunter Dow / Two Poems
Athena Kalos / Unwelcome Loiterer
Mariam Khadbai / Four Poems
Brooke Simmons / Three Poems
Dhakshayini Suresh / My First Lab Mouse
Abigail Alvarez / Ode to Suburban Mid-July
Valeria Garcia Cardoza / Airport to Airport
Somaya Tahir / Hair
Sarah Lee / Touching the Sky
Nicholas Panlilio / Brochure: A Guide to Stillness
Whizdee Dolbrus / Lessons from the Family Tree
Madeline Shalonov / Tragedy at a Hotel
Emily Frio / An Italian Identity
Vicky Quan / kisslock
B.M. Hronich / Ghost Mode
Eni Saliaj / Albania
Micah Seidel / Ode to the Inherent Shapes
Christopher Ray / On Truth-Birds and Human Audacity
Jessie Yi / Lessons with Unspoken Questions
Nonfiction:
Iris Park / An Annual Record of the Most Memorable Cat-Calls Directed Towards Me, Starting With the First and Ending Without.
Darren Jiang / To be the Children of Immigrants is to Pretend to be Adults
Ely Ingling / In Defense of the Toot
Nicole Sofocli / Baptisms and Bicycle Keys
Priya Gohil / Denim-blooded
Katharina Clark / Cat People
Carolyn Jiang / The Rules of Hide and Seek
Sophie D’Errico / Remain a Mermaid
Aleen Xue / An Act Without Words or An Act Without Agency?: A Review of Samuel Beckett’s “Act Without Words”
Lyla Levy / Two Prose Pieces
Casey Kregeloh / Good Fortune
Hakim Hines / Dove Hunting
Fiction:
Maya Stein / A Small Town On the Water
Amit Modha / Marble Bleeding
Eva Lebowitz / Good things come to those who wait
Kate Terry / The Curb
Chana Fisher / The Children of the Golden Sun
Demetria Glennon / Stepping Out
Rina Gallo / The Itch
Nicholas Diodata / A Buck and a Mucker
Francesca Dodaro / Hungry for More
Sahana Narayan / Vijaya Dashami: A Tale of Two Brothers
Mason Springer-Lipton / UNO
Carolyn Jiang / Prunes
Anusree Iyer / Trembling Hands: A War Story
Mya Baitz / The First One is the Hardest
Alexei Bessarab / Three Hundred Forty Million
Gabrielle Weir / Dust
Interviews:
In this WHR special feature, Joanna Fuhrman’s poetry students talk with poets about their recently published poetry collections.
Athena Kalos / Interview with Jackie Craven
Michael Nazzaro / Interview with Malachi Black
Olivia McArtney and Abby Walton / Interview with Lauren Russell
Yehudis Burton / Interview with Ava Nethaniel Winter
Lindsay Croken and Mary McIlvain / Interview with Amie Whittemore
Isabela Vargas and Eni Saliaj / Interview with Paula Cisewski
Naziyah Rahman and Anne Ming / Interview with Jiwon Choi
Jackson Dilullo / Interview with Stuart Ross