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Magazine Editor:

Karl Williams

Deputy Editor:

Nabeel Chollampat

Design Editor:

Shane Achenbach

Photo Editor:

Zoey Holmstrom

Creative Director:

Emilie Farrugia

Editor in Chief:

Shoham Geva

Managing Editor:

Laura Schinagle

Copy Editors:

Emily Campbell

Alexis Nowicki

Jose Rosales

the statement

Wednesday, February 24. 2016 // The Statement

Dear Readers, 

Literary Issue, light of our lives, fire of 

our loins. Our sin, our soul.

It’s here. Finally. After a year, wait no 

more. 

Dozens of students submitted their 

original work: Borges’s insults, Pita 
Kabab, insomnia, dead fish, stillbirths, 
bad sex — everything you ever wanted, 
you can find in these pages. 

Welcome, and enjoy.

letter from the editors

the
tangent

Between the flash and thunder

B Y S A N P H A M , D A I LY S TA F F P H O T O G R A P H E R

1/ môt
Tên tôi là Pham Khánh San.
my name is a bell on a mountain.
i am stubborn. i will not move for you.

my mother’s tongue echoes like clanking metal
and scatters in the shadows.

2/ hai
Tôi hai muoi hai tuôi.
twenty two years of wishing for moonlight skin and ocean eyes
are gone and i embrace the rest of the dark sky.
i stand on the earth. 

it strikes a light(ning) curse in vietnamese
to remind us that if we could understand 
more 
than just numbers and basic greetings
her words would have more strength
more power.

3/ ba
Tôi sông o My. Me sinh o Viêt Nam.
we try and eat the ocean but we drown before we can touch.

our english and our voices cease. 

4/ bôn
Tôi thích là nhà van. Tôi thich là giáo viên.
i write. i teach. i learn. i swallow. i digest.

my mother’s tongue counts the seconds between 
what is seen and what is heard 

5/ nam
Con yêu Me.
i love you with your tongue

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“Until I feared I 
would lose it, I 
never loved to read. 
One does not love 
breathing.”

— Author HARPER LEE, who 
passed away on Feb. 19, 2016, 
on reading.

“Where else? I belong 
to a lost generation 
and am comfortable 
only in the company of 
others who are lost and 
lonely.”

—Author UMBERTO ECO, who 
passed away on Feb. 19, 2016. 

on the record: authors

Magazine Editor, Karl Williams

Deputy Editor, Nabeel Chollampat

Creative Director, Emilie Farrugia

Design Editor, Shane Achenbach

Photo Editor, Zoey Holmstrom

ILLUSTRATION BY EMILIE FARRUGIA

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