Arden 2013

104 Pages·2013·16.76 MB·English

by  Tom Ingram

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2013
staff
senior editors copy editors
Autumn James, art Andy Hayes
lito, nonfiction Jon Sanderson
Joshua Pringle, fiction Ellie Hoffmeister
Morgan Lamberson, poetry
director of art and design
Joshua Jarrett
Jiction editors
Patrick Hearn faculty advisor
Adam White
Aaron Sanders
nonfiction editor
Kevin Stanford
poetry editors
Lindsay Marchello
Jon Sanderson
art editors
Avery Wright
T.J. Sanders
editor in chief
Tom Ingram
cover: Youth -Turner Blackburn
kocian award winners
prizeforfiction
lito, YQR
prizefor nonfiction
Marshall Callaway, Getting to KnowYou
prizefor poetry
Tuesday Parker, 4:22 AM
prizefor art
Zach Tittle, Terrarium
editor's note
For too long the art student has accepted abuse, allegations that we'll never
make a chic living, as if such a thing ought to be our whole ambition, as if
Stephen King struggles to make rent. Parents all over the country, intimidated
by a sluggish economy and rising tuition rates, are corralling their young adults
into business and marketing and engineering programs. While I have nothing
against these programs of study, I remember looking through the immense
stack of submissions our little journal received this year and wanting to send
the lot to my Congressman as evidence: the arts are well and alive, well
because students still flock to their practice, and alive because in their practice
life is renewed and made livable.
This year's journal is a kind of albstar act and best-new act rolled into one.
Inside are award winners from years past, and voices new to the Arden that prove
bevond doubt the vitality of Columbus State University's artistic community.
I read these pages over and over, and wonder how it is that art funding might
be cut when the art that comprises this journal is precisely the sort of thing
that can help carry a society through hard times. We find celebrants of nature
and skeptics of mechanization informing each other, coming of age narratives
and mature reflections offering hope in the face of despair. We find voices local
and universal all singing the same great euphony — abate, all doubters and all
calamities, for this journal will better convey us through a field of corpses than
any accountant's ledger.
No words can express my gratitude at having been selected Editor-in-Chief,
the thanks and credit owed our editorial staff, and the blessings due the variety
of faculty who encouraged us along the way. Nor will I try to thank all of the
students who submitted to this journal: the reward is in the reaping, and here
it is, printed. Whether your work was published or not, simply by submitting
you made possible the fifteenth volume of an award winning student literary
journal. Be proud of this book and be proud of your vocations.
Tom Ingram
Editor in Chief
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table of contents
One in the morning, Stewart County, Georgia Anton Boyd 9
c9 Candice Lawrence 10
Personal Terrarium Zach Tittle 16
To Write With Light Christian Van Allen 17
untitled Damonee Walker 27
untitled Steven Goynes 21'
4:22AM Tuesday Parker 29
YQR lito 30
Eve Bites the Apple Reluctantly Vanessa Escobar 38
Epiphany Leslie Lanning 39
fair trade. Turner Blackburn 40
Swan Song Tuesdav Parker 41
in the graveyard Vanessa Escobar 42
Glimpse Candice Lawrence 44
45 Rapture, 33 Speed Marshall Callaway 50
My Mother's Blood, Recurring nightmare. Kellan Sampson 52
My Grandmother's Jewels Rebecca Martin 54
Wearable Landscapes Zach Tittle 55
Mojave Haley Paulk 56
The Twilight Hunt Leslie Lanning 57
Getting to Know You Marshall Callaway 58