The Tusculum Review

Using the imagery of swimmers, this drawing series refers to the similarities of being in water and being in love: the experience of being submerged, immersed, or surrounded, of floating and sinking. With its hydraulic properties, water does not compress as air does. A movement underwater persists; submerged in a lake, I feel the swoop of someone else’s hand though we may be some distance from each other. In love, be it romantic, platonic, or familial, we discover ourselves surrounded, our movements affected by others and ours affecting theirs, often willing to risk ourselves for our loved ones. In these various loves, I float, sink, lose my sense of gravity, feel the movements, every movement, of my loved ones. The nature of love, like the nature of water, shifts. Enmeshed in this sentiment simultaneously exists the beauty, the sacrifice, the embrace, and the danger of drowning.

Your Every Movement: Burst

Your Every Movement: Rise

Your Every Movement: Swell

Danielle Wyckoff: Bio

Other Featured Artists

Danielle Wyckoff: Bio

TTR — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:05:38 +0000

Originally from Georgia, Danielle Wyckoff is currently pursuing an MFA at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Her work includes experimentation in printmaking processes, papermaking, and installations. With this series, she happily returns to drawing, using stills from videos shot this summer at a nearby lake.

Your Every Movement: Burst

Your Every Movement: Rise

Your Every Movement: Swell

Danielle Wyckoff: Artist Statement

Other Featured Artists

Contributors’ News

TTR — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:02:46 +0000

Kristin Abraham (vol. 5/2009) reports that she’s “working on a manuscript of cowboy poems, titled The Disappearing Cowboy Trick.“ Abraham can be reached at kristin.abraham@gmail.com.

Contributing Editor Kirsten Beachy teaches “college writing, fiction writing, and journalism as an assistant professor at (Eastern Mennonite University), where I advise the student newspaper and arts journal. My most recent publication, a short story called “The Institute of Transcendence”, came out in 2.1 of Relief: A Quarterly Christian Expression . I’m variously and sporadically at work on a collection of essays about martyrs and chickens, a slow-moving novel about sisters and grandmothers, a speedy novel I think my mom would like, and a YA adventure story in the tradition of Lloyd Alexander. I continue to be distracted by critters and insects. This fall, I added a pair of Muscovy ducks to my menagerie and hope that Stanley and Stella will produce lots of fat little ducklings to butcher this spring. The honeybees are protecting their winter honey and must not be disturbed. Hear me talking politics with my cat here: Kirsten Talks to Her Cat.” Look for Kirsten’s nonfiction essay “Selling the Farm” in the upcoming edition of Shenandoah.

Former TTR editor and current advisory board member Richard Greenfield has a new collection of poems out, Tracer, published by Omnidawn.

Eliza Hartsig (vol. 5/2009) says, “I do work at a wonderful school. The International Community School in Atlanta. I’m an Americorps volunteer assisting in the third-grade classroom of a lovely Welshwoman. My students are diverse and charming and stunning, themselves. They speak French and Bosnian and Somali, and chatter incessantly about Pokemon and Obama, and they would play soccer forever if they could. These days, I read them just a little of Kafka: they write stories about waking up as hideous vermin. Or as floppy puppies, or as children with problematic superpowers. We also read poems by Roald Dahl about the alarming eating habits of caterpillars; we also have been discussing rocks, minerals, and fossils quite a bit, lately. We are soon to study the government, and how it works, if it does. They are teaching me how to teach.” Elizabeth’s e-mail address is bethartsig@gmail.com.

Stacey Isom’s (vol. 5/2009) e-mail address is stacisom@aol.com.

Rebecca Kanner (vol. 6/2010) has an essay about her brother’s obsession with body-building since his return from Iraq in War Literature & The Arts.

Morgan Kelley (vol. 4/2008) reports that he’s “currently living with my parents, jobless, and working full-time on short stories in order to get more publications. Additionally, I’m contemplating on whether or not to apply to M.F.A. programs. Besides all that, I’ve recently gotten engaged to my long-standing girlfriend, Nikki. We will be married come June at my parent’s house outside Gallatin, Tn.” Morgan can be reached at morganlkelley@gmail.com.

Dean Kostos (vol. 5/2009) “recently had five poems included in an anthology called Stranger at Home, edited by Andrey Gritsman. It’s an anthology of poems by writers whose work is informed by having grown up with a language in addition to English. The contributors are Dutch, French, Chinese, Mexican, German, Russian, Italian, Romanian, and one Greek–me.” Dean also recently edited an anthology called Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poets. Dean’s e-mail address is Mayos2000@aol.com.

Susan Lewis’ (vol. 4/2008) chapbook Animal Husbandry was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Susan Lewis’ chapbook Commodity Fetishism just won the Cervena Barva Chapbook Contest and will be published later this year.

dawn lonsinger’s (vol. 5/2009) second chapbook, The Nested Object, is now available from Dancing Girl Press. New work is out in Columbia Poetry Review, Drunken Boat, The Laurel Review, Bombay Gin, Sonora Review, LIT and Phoebe. “I’m spending my summer swimming in water holes with waterfalls, eating carrots, and frequenting junk barns.”

Mark Mayer (vol. 4/2008) is currently “working in Richmond, CA with a non-profit education program, teaching individualized reading and writing classes to high school students. I’m in the process of applying to MFA programs.” He can be reached at mark.g.mayer@gmail.com.

Talia Reed (vol. 3/2007) has a new chapbook out, This Admirable Miry Clay, with Dancing Girl Press, due out in May.

Ethel Morgan Smith (vol. 3/2007) reports that her nonfiction book From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College (University of Missouri Press) is the basis of a new media project, sponsored through a National Science Foundation grant. The project provides an online imaging event that explores the ethics of new media interfaces through the emplacement of history and narrative. The project will be presented at Duke University by Professor Jennifer Boyle of Hollins University and members of Virginia Tech’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction. Also, Smith’s “Outside of Dreams” will appear in Reshaping Memories (University of Mississippi Press), edited by Joanne V. Gabbin and due out Spring 2009. Smith can be reached at esmith@wvu.edu.