The Northern Virginia Review’s 2022 Highlights
As you wind down from the fall semester, the staff of The Northern Virginia Review invites you to enjoy highlights from our 2022 issue and read about the latest achievements of our contributors.
Volume 35
The range of work in this year’s edition spans generations, genders and cultures, from Haitian to Indo-American, from recent NOVA graduates to long-established writers and artists. Contributors were asked to submit work that deepens understanding of others’ identity and culture, fosters empathy and shares what needs to be heard and seen to spark social change.
Journalist SAMANTHA FACCIOLO’S essay Life, Interrupted takes us inside a Border Patrol’s detention center, where children have been held for months. JENNIFER FREDERICK’S collage Immigration in Chains viscerally portrays the human toll of incarceration at the border. The imagery in HOWARD FAERSTEIN’S poem Eight Minutes and Forty-Six Seconds provides a haunting perspective on the extinguishing of George Floyd’s life. And YVONNE CHISM-PEACE’S poem Three Masquerades evokes both the richness and racial tensions she knew as a child growing up in West Philadelphia.
Pandemic Sightings
If you haven’t yet seen our Pandemic Sightings collection of NOVA faculty poetry and artwork created in response to Covid, take a moment to enjoy YEUMIN HE’S translations of Chinese poems about being quarantined; JOHN KINNEY’S artwork created with his children while working from home; LEEANN THOMAS’S poems about Covid stats and isolation written in the style of iconic poets; and MIKE MAGGIO’S poem, “Innominate” about Covid symptoms—fever, delirium and fear.
TNVR Contributor News
- Frequent contributor ADAM TAVEL’S fourth collection of poetry, Green Regalia (Stephen F. Austin University Press), explores our precarious ecological moment and increasingly fraught relationship with the natural world.
- Poet and NOVA adjunct MIKE MAGGIO’S latest collection of poetry, Let’s Call it Paradise (San Francisco Bay Press), looks at society through the lens of consumerism and brings to light aspects of our society that we might otherwise not see.
- ALISSON WHITTENBERG’S collection of short stories, Carnival of Reality, “investigates the complexities in human relationships from a decidedly black woman’s perspective” (Amazon).
- YVONNE CHISM-PEACE’S poem “Norman Rockwell and Me” is included in the anthology Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice (Cave Moon Press).
- HALSEY HYER’s chapbook [deadname], “a poetic tour de force describing the trans experience,” won the 2022 Anhinga Press Rick Campbell Chapbook award.
Submitted by:
Dr. Ruth Stewart, MA-English, RStewart@nvcc.edu