Generation 1992

Preface

We, as writers, must respect our history, indulge the present, and recognize our potential to effect what will be. The editors were humbled by the quantity and quality of this year’s submissions. We thank all who participated.

“Anonymity promotes honesty,” Helen Garp once said. In order to promote honesty in the editorial process, names were removed from each submission. As well. no members of the staff of Generation ’92 were allowed to submit their own work (a shame, for they are all very gifted writers). Such drastic measures were taken in order to ensure that all these “cris du coeur” were given the consideration
they deserve.

The ancient Greeks called the world “beauty”. To admire beauty is to honour the world. If Generation ’92 is an aesthetically pleasing presentation, it is all the more so for being printed on fully recycled paper. After all, if “beauty is truth” and there is truth in anonymity, well … what more need be said.

— Anonymous

Foreward

This is hardly the first time I have been asked to serve as Faculty Advisor for Generation, but it is the first time I have had so little to do in that capacity. It seems to me that while the quality of this work is at least consistent with that of past years, and while there seems to be more of it than ever before, something remarkable has taken place this Winter-Spring 1992. Our Creative Writing Program has come of age. We now have so many writers writing, and criticizing one another’s work, that we have developed an ancillary editorial capacity that never existed before. Simply put, there has never been an issue of Generation before this one put together so swiftly and efficiently by such a sizable, harmonious, and dedicated editorial board. Each time I have passed their meeting venues, my respect for their commitment has grown. I suspect that some of their energy is the inheritance from the all-too-brief presence here of Writer-in-Residence Adele Wiseman (with Lenore Langs as co-pilot). Whatever. This is simply a remarkable and pridemaking enterprise that even the relatively nonparticipatory will boast of. I congratulate its makers.

— John Ditsky

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Editor: Kevin Bedal

Co-Editor: Laurie Smith

Editorial Board:
Laurie Smith
Samia Rose Shaheen
Joe Hamelin
Kate Rogers
Tina Kilbourne

Typesetting:
Kevin Bedal
Laurie Smith
Joe Hamelin

Layout: Vladimir Forfutdinov

Cover Art: Anita Ingratta

Faculty Advisor: Dr. John Ditsky

Printing and Binding: Duplicating Services

Featuring work by:

• John A. Yorke
• Kelly Stern
• Armand Gamet Ruffo
• Mark Fedak
• Colleen Millikin
• Paul Robinson
• Christien Gagnier
• Fabio Ingratta
• David Weedmark
• E.C. Roberts
• J.C. Cook
• Judy Byme Lauria
• Alison Matthews
• Sumita Lall
• Jennifer McNichol
• Jodi Miller
• Sandy Batten
• Jean-Paul Restoule
• Carol Kuentzel
• Chris Lee
• Max Nelson
• Joe Murphy
• Ellie Csepregi
• Gustave Morin