Bridge Volume 24, Number 1: Imperative Categories

BRIDGE VOLUME 24, NUMBER 1: IMPERATIVE CATEGORIES

SECTIONS & EDITORS

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Michael Workman

Architecture David Sundry

Couture Kristin Mariani

Dance & Performance Art Michelle Kranicke

Poetry Spencer Hutchinson

Fiction Meghan Lamb

Philosophy Mark Tschaepe

Visual Art Laura Kina

Cover Image: "Anni and Josef," paint on canvas, 50 x 50 in., 2023 by Jean Frater 2023. Image courtesy the artist.

CONTENTS (In order of first appearance)

Letter from the Editor - Michael Workman

QUIET CHICAGO - A photography exhibition-in-print by Catherine Gass

POETRY - Lawrence Bridges, Vita Lerman, Suzanne O'Connell, Tara Betts, Iris Orpi

FICTION - Zach Braunschweig, Brandon North, Mathew Goldberg

VISUAL ART / FEATURE - "God Damn! 30 Years of Chicago Asian American Artist Collectives" by Laura Kina & YoungSun Choi

HOME SICK - a photography exhibition-in-print by Kathryn Rodriguez

COUTURE - "Letters" by Kristin Mariani w/Dianna Frid; Photography by Mariani & Joerg Metzner

INTERVIEW - "Alternate Futures" with Marshall Brown by Michael Workman

PHILOSOPHY - "Discomfiting Crowns" by Mark Tschaepe w/artwork by Sirena LaBurn

OUTCRY - a photography exhibition-in-print by Whitney Bradshaw

CONTRIBUTORS

Fiction title page illustrations by Maura Walsh; interior illustrations by Michael Workman

"Women Work" gatefold section designs by Sara Tack