Reading: Mawuse Ziegbe

READ, REFLECT, AND
HAVE AN EPIPHANY

Epiphany is published twice a year, in spring and fall. Read the likes of Derek Walcott, Roxana Robinson, John Edgar Wideman, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, and Devjani Huggins and you may see life a little differently.

It takes courage to create. In looking through the past issues of Epiphany I am moved by how the writers we have published have that kind of daring.

They have explored urgent and complex issues, created mind-expanding imaginary worlds, and used language with extraordinary precision. Great writing should do just that. Take Karol Nielsen's essay, "Litmus Test," (nominated for a Pushcart Prize) in which she diligently sifts through her anguish about the rape of a friend on a Kibbutz in the middle of The Gulf War. Or the dark yet brilliant dream of George Olivier Chateaureynaud's story in which he spins a fabulist tale of how a coin-operated firing squad casts a spell over a provincial French village. Or Bradford Brooks' Dispatches from Africa in which he chronicles his astounding experience — a woman ravaged by leprosy, a cobra in the loo, and a amusing pathos about his own handicap in 115 degree heat. Or even Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott's essay, "Down the Coast," which examines his repeated and frustrated attempts over five decades to make a movie. This kind of courage is the reason I continue to publish Epiphany.

—Willard Cook

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Fall / Winter 2010-2011 issue