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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FALL 2008
Voice&VisionLiterary Magazine
People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
Northwestern University Fall 2008
Voice & VisionLiterary Magazine
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Voice & Vision Editorial Board
Chief of Operations Executive Editor Tyler Yarbrough Tiarra Medley
Managing EditorsEvelyn Parks
Jo Ellyn Walker
Artistic EditorsAlicia Carroll
Kia Jones
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Editor’s Note
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It’s that time again. Fall quarter, the beginning of a new (academic) year. With the advent of autumn, we prepare for change, in our environment as well as within, howev-er we are also faced with the task of evaluating progress to this point.
The magazine has grown in leaps and bounds since its in-ception three years ago and now is the time to assess the direction of its future, with respect to its past. Voice & Vi-sion was founded with the intention that it would provide an unfettered outlet for people to express themselves creatively and this theme speaks directly to that goal.
The theme of this issue, borrowed from the title of the
the exploration of the human spirit and of the variouscreative routes people take to examine the world and examine themselves. In the coming pages, you will be offered the opportunity to experience these explorations through the eyes of your fellow man as he ventures down his individual path to rhythm, as expressedthrough his words and his art, and hopefully make prog-ress in your own journey as well.
Enjoy,
Tia rra J Medley
With expression and I’m guessin’
19 years is a youthful lesson
Falling skies babe
Open eyes babe
Can’t you see what lays inside,
babe?
Making mentions of this tension
Rhythmic lovin’, my profession...
Quest together, to lands of never
Sleet and snow and storms can’t
sever
--Tribe Called Quest
“Youthful Expression”
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Table of Contents Issue 1, Volume 3
Featurecape coast, ghana. november, 2005 T.M. Stringfellow 16-17
PoetryGrowing Man of Fire Kellyn Lewis 6-7 Untitled Max Sutton 8 All Night Diner Nadyja von Ebers 9 Upon the Start of the Mastery of the Piano Jennifer Haderspeck 14-15 Bailadora Mylissa Veal 26 -27Global Warming Nadyja von Ebers 28 I Felt a Funeral in my Voice Cameron Bernard Jones 29
ArtMeditation, Things my mother gave me Cecil McDonald Jr. cover /back cover Frances Before Dinner (Make it Funky) Cecil McDonald 18After Soul to Soul Cecil McDonald Jr. 19 Untitled Stephanie Slack 24-25
ProseTchaikovsky John Tencer Mathis 10-13Dear Ethereal John Tencer Mathis 20-23
Rules for Submission 30
Acknowledgements 31
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“A Tribe Called Quest began their album “People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm” with the sound byte of a baby crying. This evoked My idea to create hip-hop as a living person that this culture of people follow. Like fire, hip hop has spread rapidly
across America…that touches each person’s soul who follows and is a part of hip hop”--Kellyn Lewis
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Music is a mountain turned upside down pushing downward on
me. That is why I am so weighed down by its enormity: a daunt-
less task, a quest, to some unknown end is my soul-feeling. Music
is both the prize and the punishment, both the life and the death.
Music is present at weddings and funerals. Music is also a Present
at weddings and funerals: something to ease the tension in both
cases. For some, a wedding is more about death than a funeral. Mu-
sic takes your place now, and it might forever be there. As time
progresses, I feel that some sort of Providence has made it thus:
without your absence I would not be focused on this tiniest needle
holding this mountain from completely crushing me beneath the
ignorance as long as it is light years away. Music is a meteor in my
backyard, so I either have to do something now or wake up to an-
other life that is black and white, a life before sound really mat-
tered in the movies; that’s what my life is: a movie.
The characters are all main characters of their own hit shows, and
somehow my Movie overlaps their lives and they either stay for
years or just barely one episode. Passing so it seems, I wonder how
many people I have forgotten, and how many of the people I have
remembered have forgotten me? I feign to have forgotten so many
people, but it is at the least mutual, and at the most I sometimes
hide behind my cell phone pretending to text someone who isn’t
out of it, because I look to you when there is a moon, that perfect
symbol of your light that I cannot forget, but then it reminds me,
as trees sway back and forth in the slight breeze, that I am a hope-
less romantic, with quite little hope anymore that you will actually
make it here in any form…….. but I have come to a startling con-
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have been. That is why Music is of that certain twinkling starlight
and you are more lunar in your countenance. Even if you do show
up, I cannot discard music so lightly, and I don’t think that this
realization would have occurred had you shown up sooner. So
Providence has been providential here to some means, leading me
by the hand through this dark room to some other unknown place.
I’m waiting now to see if a lit doorway will appear with someone
light switch to show me that I’ve been “here” all along, but I was
blind, or all the light bulbs weren’t put in place, or someone forgot
to pay the electric bill.
There are no “Happily ever-after”s, because there is always an after
the “Happily ever-after” that resides in the realness that is life. But
that has never been you. If you do appear, it will be a “more pleas-
ant here on out”, than a happily ever after. But despite the ups and
the downs, smiles and frowns, the rain, the plain mornings and
snoring and a million dirty dishes, it will be a more pleasant here
on out.
I won’t wait for you.
But if you want to show up
I’m on that hill over there, looking at the clouds, humming a tune,
and trying desperately to hold up that mountain that’s held up by a
mere pin. If you want to be my Atlas, I won’t stop you.
With my all,
The Eternal Boy
Untitled
Stephanie Slack
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Rules for Submissions
Submit up to three pieces of prose, poetry, artwork and photgraphy to voiceandvision37@gmail.com. Send them as attachments.
-BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME, THE TITLE OF THE PIECE AND THE UNIVERSITY YOU ATTEND.
-For short stories, the length can be no more that 1500 words
-For artwork, send a digital image of the work to the email address.
The editorial board of Voice & Vision Literary Magazine would like to thank all of those artists who submit-ted their work and shared their creativity with us. Your dreams, hopes, aspirations bled through your pens, cameras and paintbrushes and !owed into the minds of readers. We would also like to extend our special appreciation to the following departments, organizations and individuals who made it possible for Voice & Vision to not only continue publication, but their support helped this magazine to become an o"cial satel-lite of For Members Only, Northwestern’s Black student alliance:
Student Activities Funding Board (SAFB)
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Medill School of Journalism
Department of Art Theory and Practice
The Center for Writing Arts
The English Department
The Department of Performance Studies
The Black Graduate Student Association
African American Student A#airs
Department of African American Studies
For Members Only
Dr. Mary Pattillo
Dr. Darlene Clark Hine
Dr. Tracy Vaughn
Shawna Cooper-Gibson
E.J. Basa
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