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On
October 13, 2005, Facets celebrated five years of publication
with its first reading. The event was sponsored by the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology’s Artists Behind the Desk and held
at MIT’s Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Center
is where MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory is located; somehow the whimsical building that is
home to computer science seemed a fitting setting for an internet-based
literary magazine’s first public event.
Eight past
Facets contributors from the Boston area read from their
work to a rapt audience (Kitty Beer, Maura Greene, Kevin Harvey,
Doug Holder, Paul Hostovsky, Karyn Crispo Jones, David Surette,
and Tom Sheehan). The poems and stories were artful and relatable,
and audience members proclaimed the evening “exhilarating”
and “inspirational to say the least.”
Honoring
all the superb and original work we published in 2005, Facets
made six nominations for the Pushcart Prize/The Best of the Small
Press:
“Silvia and Alfredo,” short story by Maura Greene
(April 2005)
“In Kansas:,” short story by Aaron Hellem (October
2005)
“Road Work,” memoir of Iraq war by Jack Lewis (October
2005)
“’Shut Up,’ He Explained,” prose
poem by Susan Rawlins (October 2005)
“Mercies Found in Light,” poem by Tom F. Sheehan (October
2005)
“Cicadas,” poem by Donna Spector (October 2005)
As we launch
our sixth year, we publish work by one of the editors for the
first time, William Routhier’s haunting story, “The
Writing Hand.”
From the
beginning Facets has included graphics. In this issue,
we introduce the layered, provocative images of multimedia artist,
Ilene Segalove (see “Contents”
for links to her images in this issue).
One of our
regular features is “Writers’
Resources,” where we provide information about writing
books, writing workshops, writing advice, writing prizes, literary
links, and other things we run across of interest to writers.
The recommendation of a writing book comes this time from Kathleen
Olesky, a Boston-area writer and workshop leader who uses the
methods described in Writing Alone and With Others by
Pat Schneider.
Thank
you for reading Facets. We hope you enjoy it, visit the
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