Know Your Madonna Community

After the elementary school students sang to us, our students
performed "Itsy Bitsy Spider" for them. Study Abroad trip to Peru.
Photo by Neal Haldane.

Madonna may not be an enormous campus but, collectively, we offer a great wealth of intellect, creativity, and insight. Out of the 80 entries in this issue of MU Voices, you’ll read about the daring (reckless!) train-hopping of 13-year-olds, an analysis of two Emily Dickinson poems, an ode to a pizza delivery man, and the Devils in Baggy Pants, a response to the Forbidden Art Exhibit. You’ll also see vibrant photography from Peru, area parks wrapped in winter, and the Rebuild March and Rally in Flint.

This issue is organized as follows:


1. General submissions
2. Text and photos of the above-mentioned rally in Flint ("Marching with Flint")
3. Submissions generated by the Paper Hearts Workshop ("The Ever-evolving Paper Hearts Workshop")
4. Contributions inspired by the Forbidden Art Exhibit ("Forbidden Art: The Un-extinguishable Spark")
5. Writings about MLK Week ("Fruits of the MLK Diversity Poetry Event")



By no means does MU Voices represent the scope and depth of our gifted Madonna University students, staff, faculty, and alumni. We would love to hear from more of you, so send your poetry, prose, class essays, photography, scanned art, and/or video links to writingcenter@madonna.edu. We’ll most likely include your work in the fall 2016 issue. Share yourself with the rest of us.



Also, when you see something in this issue that you like, please add an encouraging message. Our contributors need to know someone is paying attention.

Frances FitzGerald, editor