Volume 7, Issue 2 (2019) Best of Gandy Dancer 2012-2018
Dearest Readers,
The art, fiction, nonfiction and poetry feature in this issue represent the best work published over Gandy Dancer's first six years.
To a thousand thousand more,
Jen Galvão and Noah Mazer
April 2019
Poetry
A Profound Valor
Nilson Thomas Carroll, SUNY Oswego
Last Prayer to Mack Wolford
Lara Elmayan, SUNY Geneseo
Prayers for Vagabond
Loisa Fenichell, SUNY Purchase College
The Nudist
Jay, SUNY Geneseo
At the viaduct, the Hudson in march, fourteen days since he fell under // eastern meadowlark, thirty-ninth mile of morning
Grace Gilbert, SUNY Geneseo
The Charadriiform on Matters of State
Erin Kae, SUNY Geneseo
In Jackson Heights, My Father Outsmarted Puberty
Bibi Lewis, SUNY Geneseo
Visiting Detroit
Nathan Lipps, Binghamton University
Rolodexed Apologies for My Ex-Girlfriends
Lucia LoTempio, SUNY Geneseo
In the summer of 1982, as told by dad
Sara Munjack, SUNY Geneseo
On the Places We Have Lived, with Children Not Quite Born
Savannah Skinner, SUNY Geneseo
Fiction
Child Protection
Caroline DeLuca, Stony Brook Southampton
It Begins with Two
Emmet Haq, Stony Brook University
Galatea in Blue
Sarah Hopkins, SUNY Geneseo
Nursing Home
Joshua Keller, SUNY Albany
Creative Nonfiction
Absolute Pitch
Maya Bergamasco, SUNY Geneseo
Water and Light
Chloe Forsell, SUNY Geneseo
Where a Boundary
Elizabeth Pellegrino, SUNY Geneseo
Art
girl // rape
Azure Arnot, SUNY Plattsburgh
Rocky, Oh Rocky!
Arnold Barretto, SUNY Plattsburgh
Kitsune #2
Jodi Bentivegna, SUNY Geneseo
I've Oversimplified Their Beauty
Britina Cheng, SUNY Geneseo
Bent over easy
Erin Doescher, SUNY Plattsburgh
Sienna Streets
Samantha Lambert, SUNY Geneseo
The Dream Maker Man
Ashley Lester, SUNY Plattsburgh
Body of Christ
Ashley Lester, SUNY Plattsburgh
Snapple Frontier
Julien Miller, SUNY Purchase College
Shawdow Lurker
Julien Miller, SUNY Purchase College
We Dug Up Most of Our Ground No. 2
Allison Piedmonte, Alfred University
We Dug Up Most of Our Ground No. 3
Allison Piedmonte, Alfred University
Merging Into Chaos
Shauna Ricketts, SUNY Geneseo
Organic Composition in the Andaman Sea
Shauna Ricketts, SUNY Geneseo
Masthead
- Managing Editors
- Jen Galvão and Noah Mazer
- Faculty Advisor
- Lytton Smith
- Production Advisor
- Allison Brown
- Advisory Editors
- Christy Agrawal, Dan DeZarn, Kristen Gentry, Rachel Hall,
Courtney O’Gorman, Lucia LoTempio, Kathryn Waring
- Special thanks to:
- Special thanks to: Michele Feeley and the Parry family