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Boise State News July 15, 2021 The nineteenth issue of The Idaho Review, the annual literary journal of Boise State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing, is now available in the campus bookstore and online at boisestatebooks.com or at idahoreview.org. This issue includes new fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and its contributors represent an exciting range of voices, from established writers to emerging talents. Contributors include Rick Bass, Victoria Lancelotta, Brandon Shimoda, Nicole Cullen, Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Amy Silverberg, Sanam Mahloudji, and Amy Roa. Many of the writers in the issue have appeared in top national prize anthologies, and their work has earned honors including the PEN Open Book Award, The Story Prize, and the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize. The new cover art (Narwhal Rain) is by award-winning illustrator Bill Carman, a professor at Boise State. ....
Brian Komei Dempster s Seize Credit: Courtesy of Four Way Books Poetâs search for grace, justice amid historic and current anti-Asian hate May 07, 2021 Topaz and Seize. His work considers what it is to be othered in America, historically and personally. The backdrops are the legacy of the Japanese internment camp era, the impact of anti-Asian bigotry, and the experience of raising a child with a disability. Komei Dempster is the editor of From Our Side of the Fence: Growing Up in Americaâs Concentration Camps and Making Home from War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement. It sounds paradoxical to call Seize an epic when it focuses on the individual, the everyday, the familiar and has a central figure who was diagnosed as âretarded, abnormal, impaired,â who hardly speaks, and who is greatly dependent on others. And yet that is the scale, importance, and achievement of Brian Kom ....