SPRING 2017
Cover Art by Cristin Hand
EDITOR’S NOTE:
I drafted this note in a crowded Apple store, seated on a square wooden stool in The Forum section, waiting to find out if indeed my MacPro’s motherboard’s days are numbered. (They are.) Next to me, a video screen spanning one entire wall showed an aerial view of NYC, Apple iMessages and emojis appearing and disappearing from various skyscrapers. I looked down at the manuscript of The Northern Virginia Review in my lap and felt a rush of gratitude. “There’s reading and there’s reading,” I thought. “Fast and slow. Thank God for the slow kind.” (Read more . . .)
Contest Winners:
PROSE: Jude and Mary’s House of Love by Stephanie Dupal
POETRY: Auden in Winter (by Avedon), 1960 by James Harms
Poems by Holly Karapetkova: Still Sea, Phantoms, and Bad Parenting
ART: Scout Reflected by Willa Friedman:
POETRY:
John Wells / Breaking Points
Naomi Thiers / Release
Bill Glose / Some Things
K. D. Rose / The Physics of Ex
Joanne Rocky Delaplane / Squall Line
Ava C. Cipri / Mother’s Charm Bracelet
Laura Casal / Change
James Harms / Auden in Winter (by Avedon), 1960
Terry Joseph / Photo Album
Misti Snow / American Woman
Roberta Senechal de la Roche / Kites / Ironwork
Holly Mason / Kourban / April 4, 2015, Charleston, SC
Kristen Hampton / Woman In Jail With A Week To Think, Day 5, Mildred Loving, Old Pauley’s Jail, 1958
Holly Karapetkova / Still Sea / Phantoms / Bad Parenting
Jon Obermeyer / Father Making
Meg Eden / Rainy Season
PROSE:
Stephanie Dupal / Jude and Mary’s House of Love
Suzy Rigdon / The Six and Eight
Kelly Ann Jacobson / The Uncommitted
Beth Konkoski / Grandma’s Laugh
Robert “James” Christiano / The Clothes They Wore
Matthew Dulany / Down Buttermilk Street
Jim McClellan / The Oppressed Confront the Oppressor / A Brief but Brilliant Career
Misti Snow / Legacy
ART:
Brandy Lelloo / Nevermore
Jessica Gardner / I Wish You Could Sustain Me / Sustain Detail 2
Judy Guenther / The Eye Staircase / Flying / King Penguins South Georgia
Willa Friedman / Scout Reflected
Ray Orkwis / Two Ghosts / Keyhole Vision
Wayne Guenther / Montana Barn / Grounded
Georgette Grossman / A Man and his Dog / Quiet Lunch
Robert Friedman / A Walk in the Park
Russell Creger Berajas / Skeleton Washed Up by Potomac
Cristin Hand / Chrysalis 3
FROM JILL BIDEN: Girls Around the World Are Standing Up For Their Rights