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Oyez Review

About

Oyez Review is a annual print literary magazine edited and composed in the Graduate Program curriculum of Roosevelt University's English Department located in downtown Chicago. Oyez Review features writers and artists from all over the United States as well as many international writers, poets, and photographers.

The name Oyez comes from the Anglo-Norman word for “hear ye,” the imperative plural of oyer, meaning “to hear.” It was used as a call for silence and attention in court and at public gatherings.

In addition to featuring contemporary poetry, fiction, and non-fiction literature, Oyez Review exhibits an artist in each annual publication in black and white photography and art.

The course was designed to give graduate students a higher level hands-on experience in editing, selecting, and composing the design of a print literary magazine. Many students and past editors of Oyez Review move on to continue working in publishing. Creator and editor of After Hours Literary Magazine, Albert DeGenova, previously worked as an editor of Oyez Review.

Each issue of Oyez Review emerges with new and upcoming writers and artists, and the editors learn publishing skills in production, editing, marketing, and the professional process of selecting high quality literature.

The publication's annual release exhibits how literature, culture, art, and poetry change each year. Oyez Review is responsible for many literary readings on and off Roosevelt University’s campus. Besides sponsoring literary magazines, Oyez has also hosted poetry slams, readings from well known authors such as Gwendolyn Brooks.

History

Oyez Review was founded in 1965 by students of Roosevelt University as a student club and extra circular activity first publishing student writing, then city of Chicago writers, and eventually moved toward a national and international chronicle of contemporary literature.

Due to Roosevelt University’s location in the city of Chicago, Oyez Review has been known to chronicle urban and progressive subjects and themes and the culturally changes in the more than 30 years of publication.

Roosevelt University faculty has contributed to the shape and success of Oyez including Jane Stedman, Norman Ler, and Jeff Helgeson as an advisory board or administrative advisor to the student group.

Since 2001 Janet Wondra became the Oyez Review editor and publisher when the Creative Writing Department began to oversee the literary magazine. Janet's previous publication experience gives her a very large set of skills to help organize the Oyez Review editors and graduate students. Janet Wondra is also an award winning filmmaker, poet, and creative non-fiction writer.

'''Past Contributors ''' Tara Bettsin Effie Mihopoulos Charles Bukowski James McManus Carla Panciera Michael Onofrey Tim Foley John N. Miller Gary Fincke Barry Silesky

'''Past Visual Artists ''' Vivian Nunley C. Taylor Jennifer Troyer Frank Spidale

Awards

Oyez Review received the Illinois Arts Council Literary Award in 1999 for the poem by Tara Bettsin, “I Saw Her.”