Rachel Bloom is an actress, writer and comedian based out of NYC. She graduated from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts in 2009 with a B.F.A in drama, having studied with the CAP 21 musical theater studio, Experimental Theater Wing, and the International Theater Workshop in Amsterdam. At NYU, she was also the director of Hammerkatz, NYU’s premier sketch comedy group. Rachel has studied improv under Shannon O’Neill, Anthony King, Zach Woods, Chris Gethard and Michael Delaney. She has also studied sketch under Eric Drysdale. Rachel performs standup all around New York City and hosts a standup show called “Annette Funicello’s Beach Party” every last Monday of the month at National Underground. She is also a member of the improv group Mastodon Mattingly. She really likes the show “Frasier.” (UCBComedy.com) Join Rachel as she performs stand up at the Moon Milk Review 2010 Mad Hatter Party.
Issue No. 8 | September 2010
COMEDY | Fuck Me Ray Bradbury Rachel Bloom
NONFICTION | On StupidityGary Percesepe
FICTION |
On the Way Down: A Story for Ray Bradbury Ben Loory
Zero Dark Thirty John Emerson
Monkeys in Heaven Corey Mesler
POETRY |
Air: But Thou Didst Not Leave His Soul In Hell Anne Babson
Shark Geometry Anastasia Andersen
CLASSICS SERIES | A Little FableFranz Kafka
PROSETRY |
AUGUST WINNER | Archaelology of the Present Minal Hajratwala
SEPTEMBER CONTEST | Hands of an Artist Clarence Alford, guest edited by Ben Loory
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Shark Geometry
by Anastasia Andersen
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Numbers are useless
for the angles that bang around the brain
stretch for this bad birth
of triangles.
Instead your mind wants to shape the razor
to a fin
or the undeviating
abyssal black
to just a circle,
a doll’s eye.
The ocean as width
and night as length
you think your mind would calculate
every row of triangles
how the isosceles body gapes—
but it can only name shapes:
circle moon, circle eye,
triangle, triangle
Anastasia Andersen is currently in the University of New Mexico MFA Creative Writing Program. She teaches poetry workshops through the University’s Continuing Education program. Previous publications include Blue Mesa, Heavy Bear, and Puerto del Sol. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.