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Mid-American Review – Spring 2005

Volume 25 Number 2

Spring 2005

Biannual

Lincoln Michel

If you are like me, you often find the unknowns packing more punch than the big names in literary magazines. So you will probably be excited to see the Mid-American Review devoting an issue to unpublished authors. If you are like me, you often find the unknowns packing more punch than the big names in literary magazines. So you will probably be excited to see the Mid-American Review devoting an issue to unpublished authors. The work contained is certainly as exciting as any other issue of MAR; take this bit from Dan Rosenburg, “You almost look posed there, but the allure / is knowing you have no idea, knowing / in your mind a million growing things are eating / one another.” Another highlight was Jason Skipper’s succinct poem “Cigarette” describing his feelings at being smoke-free for a year. However, I must admit my favorite piece was not by an unpublished writer, but by Charles Yu, this year’s Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award winner. His story, “Class Three Superhero,” about a wannabe superhero that waits by the mailbox for a letter saying if his application was accepted to the superhero league is hilarious and interesting as well as, through excellent luck, resonating perfectly with the issue’s theme. This issue is part two of Mid-American Review’s 25th anniversary. So happy birthday, MAR, we look forward to the next twenty five years. [www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/midamericanreview/index2.html]

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