29.2
The content in both of our issues this year challenge what it means to take up space. Our prose takes us into the edges of the cosmos, turning backwards to focus on our digital reality, and later tackles the post-modern issues in the dining industry. Our poetry grapples with questions of intimacy, both in our personal relationships and beyond—going from the edges of the clouds, Decembers, and the icebox.
Our web-content creators, who have been tirelessly working to provide the Soliloquies website with new and refreshing work, are also featured in this issue. Here, we go from a trigger-happy gun enthusiast on a date to eating breakfast with a crow, with incredible writing within and between.
We hope you are able to pull out the care and dedication from these pages that were put into them. Thank you, as always, for reading.
Noah Sparrow & Erin Staley
Co-Editors-In-Chief
Past Issues
29.1
In this issue, our prose takes us from the depths of space to the intricacies of family relationships, and grounds us through meditation retreats. Our poetry is equally thoughtful and interrogative, playing with form and allowing us to travel outside of ourselves. May you close this journal with new perspectives, feeling the passion we felt in creating this.
Noah Sparrow & Erin Staley
Co-Editors-In-Chief
28.2
Soliloquies 28.2 embodies the feeling of the current and upcoming seasons: spring and summer. It is vibrant, full of colour, and jam-packed with life. Within the pages of this edition, you will find poems that tantalize, renew, and enlighten, as you journey from a park, to a river, to a Taco Bell drive-through. The prose illuminates and encompasses the ever-so-emotional human experience, taking you from a lemonade stand, to a greengrocer, to the hull of a ship.
Morgan Gordon and Isabelle de León
Co-Editors-In-Chief
28.1
Thank you, dear reader, for picking up this anthology. Whether it occupies a spot on your bookshelf or is thrown at the bottom of your bag, we are grateful to be a part of your world. In this issue, the poetry is as poignant as it is absurd, from squirrels, to the circus, to your father’s teeth. The prose will illuminate the world as it is and as it could be, taking you from the back of a spin class, to a Walmart, to a father-son ski trip. We are so proud of what we have created, and we hope that you connect with this edition and its tales of love and loss, hope and disappointment, the eccentric and the strange. May you close this journal having experienced something beautiful.
Morgan Gordon and Isabelle de León
Co-Editors-In-Chief
27.2
Many of the pieces in issue 27.2 explore the concept of place. From childhood homes to the Amazon to the body as a site for transformation, from the digital world to dimly lit clubs to the space between two hands. What does it mean to give space? To take it away? Our cover art this semester, produced by the always incredible Mira Safieddine, captures the intertwining of self and place, and questions whether a person can ever truly be separated from where they come from, where they are, and where they plan to go.
Maze Laverty and Jade Palmer
Co-Editors-in-Chief
27.1
Once again congratulations to all those writers’ whose work made it into this edition. And for those who were not published this time, please keep on submitting. We never know how future issues will morph into something new, as this one did, and as every issue has before, to be the perfect home for your work. To anyone reading this, whether you found us by chance or you’ve been a dedicated reader for years, we can’t tell you how much we appreciate you. The time you spend with our contributors will not disappoint. Sit back, or on the edge of your seat, and enjoy Soliloquies 27.1.
Maze Laverty and Jade Palmer
Co-Editors-in-Chief
26.2
To anyone reading this, whether you found us by chance or you’ve known about our publication for years, we’d like to offer you our sincerest thanks. We appreciate you sharing your time with us and our talented contributors; we hope you enjoy Soliloquies 26.2.
Sophie Villeneuve and Paola B. López Sauri
Co-Editors-in-Chief
26.1
It has been an enormous privilege to lead Soliloquies this year, and we look forward to doing it all over again next semester. Whether you’re a first time reader of the anthology or a long-time supporter, we want to thank you for taking the time to get acquainted with us; we hope you enjoy Soliloquies 26.1.
Sophie Villeneuve and Paola B. López Sauri
Co-Editors-in-Chief
25.2
What makes Soliloquies so great is that it is made by and for people who love and want to celebrate writing. No matter what happens, it’s clear that won’t change. We really hoped for Soliloquies to be a source of joy for all involved in this otherwise dreary year.
We know it was for us, and we hope it was for you all, too.
Abigail Candelora and Clare Chodos-Irvine
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Soliloquies Anthology 30.1 