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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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