2021 riverrun Final PDF

About riverrun
What is riverrun?
Begun in 1971 by Dr. C. Kenneth Pellow, riverrun has been an
avenue through which UCCS artists and writers have been able to express
their voices. The journal is designed in the riverrun Literary
and Arts Journal course (ENGL3170) and is published at the end of
each spring semester. UCCS students are welcome to enroll in the
course and participate in the editing and publication of the journal.
Any UCCS student may submit original, creative work to the publication.
riverrun is proud to have published works by writers and artists
who have gone on to critical acclaim, including: Yusef Komunyakaa,
who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1994; Marc Weber, an award
winning poet; and Sally Mankus, a photographer, sculptor, and
mixed-media artist whose works continue to be exhibited throughout
the country.
Why “riverrun”?
Dr. Pellow and his first group of students working on the campus
arts journal decided to name the journal riverrun in honor of the
first word in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. The book’s innovative
style of reinventing the English language, as in the word riverrun,
represents the paradoxical necessities to merge differences and to
keep changing. But the book is also written cyclically, with the very
last line feeding back into the book’s opening word. This fluid, cyclical
nature implies that both convergence and divergence from the norm
are vital for survival. Thus, the word “riverrun” must never be capitalized,
as it is not capitalized in Finnegans Wake.
How to Get Involved
SUBMIT your original work for publication by February 1st,
2022. We publish works of: Visual Art, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction,
Short Performance Pieces.
REGISTER for the riverrun Literary and Arts Journal course
(ENGL3170) to participate in the selection of submissions and the design,
editing, and publication of the journal. All majors are welcome
and encouraged to enroll!
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