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Issue 7 :: Spring 2016

From the cover art, “Danzante” by Fernando Martí, to the “Invitation” from poet Alicia Hoffman at the close of the issue, GUD 7 will entice you into a dance with words and images that will grab hold of you, take you out of yourself, and leave you breathless. Joseph A. W. Quintela’s “Witches’ Dance” leads off, followed across the stage by a bamba with the (very earthy) divine, choreographed by Okasha Skat’si. “Coconut Pie” by Joshua Ben-Noah Carlson takes you for a turn in an awkward two-step, while David Gullen’s “Just War” whirls you smoothly into an alternate world that nonetheless moves to the inexorable rhythm of history.

As with any good collection of art, GUD 7 has love, death, family, conflict, loss, and healing. But though the themes are timeless, we guarantee you’ve never experienced anything quite like the stories, poetry, and art you’ll find juxtaposed here. The work in GUD 7 spans every kind of stylistic approach and throws down the gauntlet to traditional genre categories--there’s even an essay on genre categories themselves, by cognitive scientist Eve Sweetser. GUD 7 will stretch your ideas of the possible: what art can be, what humans can be, what reality can be. It will pick you up out of the world you thought you knew and set you down somewhere totally unknown, where you can’t even trust your own perceptions--but when you look back, maybe you’ll understand something new about where you came from.

GUD 7 opened to submissions in 2009 and, due to setbacks and circumstances, it was seven years in the making. But the writing and art wouldn’t let us go--we couldn’t abandon the dance. So here it is!

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Table of contents ~ stories / poetry / reports / art

stories

The Hawthorn Bush
by Zdravka Evtimova

Adrenaline Inc.
by Mithran Somasundrum

Just War
by David Gullen

Coconut Pie
by Joshua Ben-Noah Carlson

Paper Trail
by Sabrina Vourvoulias

poetry

Two Reasons
by Christine Schrum

Five Women, Five Stories
by Ross Hickerson

Field Dressed
by Lisa Kathleen Kang

Bum Canto 1
by Rustin Larson

Monkey Bait
by Polenth Blake

Invitation
by Alicia Hoffman

reports

art

Danzante 1
by Fernando Martí

Sueño con Serpientes
by Fernando Martí

Howdy Stranger
by V. V. Saichek

Dance and Doubts
by Jon Radlett

Wrapped in Morning Glory
by Lezli Rubin-Kunda

Old Train
by Jon Radlett

Lovebirds
by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein

I grew this so you would visit.
by Lisa A. Grabenstetter

Hoboken
by Tony Mangia

Danzante 2
by Fernando Martí


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