Letter from the Editors

As is the case for literary escapades such as this, we, the editors, have commissioned ourselves to produce a brief introduction to the works we have created and hoodwinked others into donating to our cause. This introduction will involve a description of how we came to assemble the pieces we did and what, when placed together they create. (There should be a synergy at play here. We wouldn't want merely to assemble random pieces that do nothing cohesively).

We began with the wind slamming full force into our face. By this I mean that we, as editors, are new, and this, as a blog/magazine/literary adventure, thing. By this I mean that we, as editors, could not, with ethos alone, reel in literary titans, nor could we commission works to be done. We had to work with what we had.

Fortunately, what we had to work with represents an overly discussed sliver of our nation's consciousness. Liberal college students. Sitting down at a long table, discussing what we wanted to come into this doing, we decided that, given our rather small resources, our best bet would be to ask around for friends, all liberal college students, to submit to us the creative piece which they are most proud of. Nothing else. Just that one criterion. In this sense, we hope that our magazine/blog/literary etcetera would serve to represent where, intellectually, us liberal college students, lie. What are our principles and how do we read our own lives and times and places and existences. We got a few things back and sorted and weeded and decided to include the pieces you find below. An essay by Mariko Helm. Another essay by Taylor Hubbard. A poem by Noah Mogey. A poem by Nicholas Miller. An essay by Amanda Parker.

They fused. They, hopefully are synergistic. The one adding to the other and the other adding to the one. From these pieces, on different subjects and written in different places and at different times and by different people, some of whom had never met one another all meshed to form an image of the people who find themselves writing creative pieces for fun in a liberal environment at an elite college. It involves some or all of the following: cynecism, postmodernism, atheism, a resistance of rules and procedure, and a general questioning of whether what we, as college students are doing, is really satisfactory. But these are the conclusions we have drawn and we would hate for them to limit the reading of the pieces alone. Just, as readers, we beg this one thing of you: when you read what lives below, think about what the voices above have to say about this day and age and our place. What, as a society, are we heading into, when a literary magazine hoping to capture the voice of future generations of policy-makers and important people, draws submissions like the ones we drew?