Forces
Volume 2009 (2017)
Editor Notes
FORCES marks its 20th year of publication with this issue. As always, it includes an array of tastes and sights and sounds and memories from Collin College students. Works range from the memoirs of several of our senior SAIL members to two featured poets: Mike Raffaele, whose work shadows a young Walt Whitman/Allen Ginsberg, and Susan Blick, whose work has a personal yet disciplined quality.
Finally, we are blessed to be supported and backed by a board and president whose vision continues to let Collin County residents have their dreams precede realities while providing a reflective yearly touchstone that actively archives our time and our community. Also, one final trip can be taken through Molly Boyce’s 1980 © poem; it is a veritable journey through world events from the college’s beginning to present.
“We didn’t start the fire.” — Billy Joel
Complete Issue
2009 Forces
Scott Yarbrough
Photographs
Bronze - Black Bird
Suzanne Hess
Fairview Water Tower, Sunflowers
Katherine Robinson
Livestock Station
Katherine Robinson
Johnny Lee
Kristi Ashcroft
Cornbrew Afternoon
Cinde Rawn
Smiles Change the World
Cinde Rawn
Ghost in my Head
Meredith Morton
That Awesome Road We Take
Kristi Ashcroft
O'Connor 5
James O'Connor
O'Connor 3
James O'Connor
O'Connor 2
James O'Connor
Ethereal Angel
Jennifer Nail
Night of Fire
Terry Chen
Photography: Memorial Fountain, Hall of State, Victoria Hall
Katherine Robertson
No Dimes to Spare
Cinde Rawn
Texture Scars
Terry Chen
Saint Francis
Suzanne Hess
Black and White
Cinde Rawn
Traditions
Cinde Rawn
Playground 03
Terry Chen
Angel Face
Cinde Rawn
Contemplating
Tracy Dicks
Play That Guitar
Elizabeth Fiechtner
Neptune's Net
Eunice Bridges
Iron & Untitled
Tomiko Ueda
Guarda Espirius Jars
Eunice Bridges
Laws 1, Laws 2
Leslie Laws
Untitled 2
Norma Jean Montejano
Trees and Shadows
Donna Gors
Untitled 3
Norma Jean Montejano
I Stand at the Door
Cinde Rawn
Untitled 1
Norma Jean Montejano
Poems
All Good Things
Katie Fitzrandolph
American Superstore
Michael Raffaele
I Have Conquered the Angel of Bliss
Jeremy Jemba
Thanking the Muse
Sabrina Mendoza
The Mockingbird
Beth Turner Ayers
Pictures of Vietnam
Michael Raffaele
Still Running
David Drane
In the Absence of Emotion
Melissa C. Maier
Sunday Mornin' Paper
Bill Cunningham
Words on a Page
Susan Blick
All Holes Lead to China
Beverly Sellers
Meadowbank Rd
Michael Raffaele
Blue-Jeaned Kids
Anna Gauthier
Poems About Pennies
Michael Raffaele
We are Maybe Not Prepared
Yvonne Morgenstern
A Matter of Fact
Beth Turner Ayers
And Then There Were None
Susan Blick
Death of a Valentine
Michael Raffaele
Family Reunion
Sidney Portilla-Diggs
Greenhouse
Anna Gauthier
Spinsters, Fully Furnished
Joe Milazzo
Heavy in my Jesus Year
R. Flowers Rivera
Nakesha, Naked
Molly Boyce
Predawn Aubade
R. Flowers Rivera
If Poems Were Children
Philip Fullman
Statue Stood with Silenced Legs
Greg McClure
That Coat from Via Cavour
Dallie Clark
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Amanda North
A Foreigner in a Foreign Land
Marge Anderson
Two Doublebent Snakes
Greg McClure
Short Stories
Burying John's Leg
Rudy McCallister
Little Rabbit
Virginia Davis
Christmas Past
Doris Yanger
Letting Go
Christine Hagen
The Ancient Ones
Beverly Sellers
Scarecrow's Last Thought
Anthony Armstrong
Painting
Drawings: Dwight, Untitled
James G. Robinson
Graphite Drawing
Nicole Barnes
Green Woman
Joe Prescher
Essays
Introduction
Scott Yarbrough
How to Wake-Up from a Nightmare
Paul Boynton
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Scott Yarbrough