Hunger Mountain

by Union Institute & University

• ISBN13: 9787777777298
• ISBN10: 7777777297
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Union Institute

Summary

The Fall 2004 Issue of Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, our fifth, will take you on journeys through Vermont, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma and Peru. It explores landscape's effects on humanity, offers samples of language poetry and asks questions of Godzilla. The issue also includes eight full-color pages of artwork by renowned collage artist Todd Bartel, accompanied by an artist's statement that discusses the influence of Ovid's Metamorphosis on his Garden Studies series. The stunning cover art is by Brooklyn painter KK Kozik. The Fall 2004 Issue of Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, features the winning story from the first annual Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, written by Josh Wilker of Chicago, Illinois. This issue is guest edited by Vermont College faculty members Robin Behn, Abby Frucht, David Jauss and Clare Rossini. Prose selections include an essay from Sascha Feinstein, a memoir excerpt by R. M. Ryan and short fiction from Jennifer Grow, Geeta Sharma Jensen, Susan McCarty, Ahn Chi Pham, Sheila M. Schwartz and Mark Turcotte. Spanish poet Ángel Crespo is translated by Steven J. Stewart and new poems come from Cal Bedient, Richard Chess, Mark Doty, James Doyle, Ray Gonzalez, William Greenway, Susan Grimm, Paul Guest, Terrance Hayes, Suzanne Heyd, Norbert Hirschhorn, Mark Irwin, Mark Jarman, Sigi Leonhard, Robert Nazarene, Brad Richard, Myra Shapiro, Adrienne Su, Chad Sweeney, K. K. Todorovich and Eliot Khalil Wilson. Hunger Mountain, The Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, is an independent literary publication put out in April and October by Vermont College / Union Institute & University. Our premiere issue was released in the fall of 2002, since which Hunger Mountain has been fortunate enough to have received much praise. Each issue features previously unpublished poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and artwork. These selections are made by guest editors, who are chosen from the esteemed faculty of the Vermont College Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program, allowing for a fresh viewpoint and a wide variety of selections in each new issue. Hunger Mountain annually hosts two writing prizes. The winners of the Ruth Stone Prize in Poetry are published in the spring issue each year; the winner of the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize is published in the fall issue each year. Past issues of Hunger Mountain have featured well-known writers such as Dorothy Barresi, Marvin Bell, David Budbill, Hayden Carruth, Jody Gladding, Alice Hoffman, Maxine Kumin, Wally Lamb, Bret Lott, Carol Muske-Dukes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Grace Paley, Jewell Parker Rhodes, Charles Simic, James Tate, W.D. Wetherell and Dean Young. We are also proud to include several newly discovered writers in each issue.