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Dear Readers,
A talented writer recently described The Writ as organic. I couldn't agree more.
organic - n.
Being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms
A wordy definition, yes, but break it down. The Writ is a living organism. Take it from me;
it has a mind of its own. The Writ relates to living organisms, namely you. It is derived from
the life of its writers, and expands to accomodate their directions. And it has all the properties of a living organism, sans being carbon-based (the other definition
of organic).
So with this living, breathing, rebellious teenager of a website, we need to recognize the inevitability of growth.
The Writ is cramped in its little space of grassroots web design and a monthly publication. It wants to burst out
of the mold and scamper through writers' communities with wild abandon.
I urge every one of you to log on to the new forum and start talking.
The time to state your dreams for the site is now.
Words and peace, Sarah Dopp
Editor-in-Chief
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Words of Orion
The Music of Poetry
by Jeremiah Gould
When he arrived at the University of New Hampshire, Orion Kugel, now a senior
English Major, did not consider himself a writer. Now, he is
at home in any writing workshop; his poetry and prose can hold
up with any writer on the University of New Hampshire's campus
and surrounding community.
Orion's poetry has indeed developed well in the past few years,
after he started writing his freshman year at the University
of New Hampshire. According to Orion, he had liked writing during
his senior year in high school, but didn't write much until
he took his first poetry class with Mekeel McBride. This class,
which included such WRIToracle published writers as Julie
Beth Himmelwright, Matthew
MacVane and Mark Gosztyla,
helped him to create his own distinct style of writing.
Merging a jazz-like flair for sound combinations with an organic
use of line breaks and spacing, Orion's poetry is often as much
a visual or musical piece of art as it is a literary one. Take
for example his poem "Photo synthesis," which swerves
across the page like a snake or syllabic cyclone while including
combinations of words like "iconoclastic camera" and "his
fingers slue around its lens." While other poets employ such
untraditional spacing, it is seldom coupled with the consistency
and pertinence that Orion seems to use. "My spacing is my own
method of deciding pauses," Orion explains. "Poetry is between
words." In this way, Orion stretches language beyond grammatical
regularity. "Grammar just doesn't seem to [work]. [It] puts
[the poem] back into the concrete world."
Read more...
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About the artist...
When he's not singing karaoke or seducing lonely housewives at the local bar, Belmont New Hampshire's own Ryan Foss likes to create art. His paintings combine 'tongue in cheek' sarcasm and raw, jab you in the gut, emotion. "I like art that is accessible and deals with subjects and ideas that people can easily identify with. I prefer the simple over the complex as long as it's sincere and has a sense of humor."
Ryan and his art are influenced by graffiti, friends, music, Gustav Klimt, Logan Hicks, Robert Rauschenberg, and Calvin and Hobbes.
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Editor-in-Chief, Webmistress
Sarah Dopp
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Jeremiah Gould
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Editors
Jeremiah Gould
Tim Greenlaw
Julian Torres
Marissa Williams
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Jeremiah Gould
Nicholas Sabin
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