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Here you will find prose and poems (plus occasional announcements by staff) published in The Toucan literary magazine, a small but mighty zine-y lit mag from Chicago and two probably clinically insane Columbia College students. We publish well-written, sometimes serious, sometimes zany pieces that we, the editrices (yes, we are editrices, we like the sound of that) would want to read. No, seriously, we mean the last part. Emerging writers are more than welcome (we're still emerging ourselves), and so is Joyce Carol Oates. We only encourage you to submit something you enjoyed writing, that you think deserves to make friends with other fantastic word creations...and ask that you read at least part of our magazine before you submit.

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Ignorance, Jessy Randall

“One morning, out of the blue, the idea of illustrating the Inferno came to [Rauschenberg]. He had never read the poem, of course…” Calvin Tomkins, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (Picador, 2005).

Today, out of the blue, I decided to write a sequel to Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, about which I know almost nothing. Then after lunch, pow! Kablooey! I realized what I ought to do instead is a ballet based on Ulysses, since it’s controversial and contains dirty words. But right before bed the real revelation hit me – what the world really needs is a chicken casserole encompassing Beowulf. And so I am sitting down right now to skim the Cliffs Notes version so I can begin cooking.
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