Voice & Vision, Winter 2009

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Winter 2009

Voice&VisionLiterary Magazine

The Beautiful People

Northwestern University Winter 2009

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Voice & Vision Editorial Board

Chief of Operations Executive Editor Tyler Yarbrough Tiarra Medley

Managing EditorsEvelyn Parks

Jo Ellyn Walker

Artistic EditorAlicia Carroll

Kia Jones

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Editor’s Note

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Winter quarter at Northwestern can be extremely un-pleasant. Students put up with below freezing tempera-tures, a surfeit of snowfall and intolerable winds, yet the likelihood of receiving relief in the form of a cancelled class on account of these conditions is unlikely. During winter quarter, we trade in our cute autumn attire for the more practical sweats,coats and boots and days and nights formerly spent out and about slowly give way to time engaging in any activity that will allow us to stay indoors, and oftentimes, social isolation.

These dreary conditions can make it easy for us to lose sight of beauty. For precisely this reason, this quarter’s issue of Voice & Vision celebrates beauty--the beauty of

contain a number of written and visual works that run the gamut in their representations of what constitutes beauty .

From Kellyn Lewis’ “Magnum Opus” which heralds the beauty of Black people, to Jennifer Haderspeck’s poem “Synthetic Beauty” which examines the plight for beauty beyond what is natural, to Jessica Weiner’s photographic depictions of beauty outside of mainstream conceptions, this release of V&V attempts to widen the reader’s per-spective, and bring a little beauty to your Winter Quarter.

Enjoy,

Tia rra J Medley

“God is your light from within/ It shines through your beautiful skin”

--Goodie Mob“Beautiful Skin”

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Table of Contents Issue 2, Volume 3

FeatureUntitled Jabari Zuberi 16-17

PoetryLifelines Devon Ross 6-7 Undone Brittany McPherson 8 The Storm Leah Bettag 9Magnum Opus Kellyn Lewis 10Synthetic Beauty Jennifer Haderspeck 11My Baby Hair Danielle Oloko 12-13In the Arms of Apollo CameronJones 20-21Glory Brittany McPherson 24Dear Beauty Ti!any Walden 25Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Keith Miller 26-27To Stand Alone Cameron Bernard Jones 29

ArtWoman in Market in Ecuador Jessica Weiner 14 Tobacco Pop Lauren Redding 15 Untitled Lindsey Kratochwill 18 Transvestites Jessica Weiner 19Solitude Blake Sobczak 22James Jessica Weiner 23Grisalle Self Portrait Lauren Redding 28

Rules for Submission 30

Acknowledgements 31

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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

Thank you for reading Voice &Vision Literary Magazine. For comments or questions, email us at voiceandvision37@gmail.com.

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© 2007 Voice & Vision Literary Magazine reserves all rights to included works. Cover and contents may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the written permission from Voice & Vision Literary Magazine. Includ-ed works re"ect the opinions of their artists and not that of Voice & Vision Literary Magazine. Voice & Vision

Literary Magazine is a satellite of FMO. SAFB funded.

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Nikki’s potent poetry

Charlie’s melodic notes

Jacob’s skillful strokes

Malcolm’s thunderous roar

Amiri’s sharp tongue....

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