Our current issue, "An Ode to the Classics: Giving Thanks to Our Artistic Influences ." was selected by our 2025-2026 Image Tree Team. In this issue, we invite students to reflect on any artistic inspirations and/or influences brought by any previous artists or art forms! These submissions may be a way to explore a genre you admire but are new to or perhaps as a way to express your niche.
"Dog Whistle," is written from the perspective of a young woman asserting herself before the eyes of society. Within it, a young girl dies in order for a woman to rise from her ashes. The woman speaks, addressing the history which others will judge her for head-on, unflinching. This is her story. Told as she wills it; on her own terms....
This poem was initially written as my creative project for my Poetry as Protest course here at Cottey College. I wrote it in response to many events happening around me at the time, such as the election and Roe v. Wade being overturned. It is generally a protest against our patriarchal system and government. It is also me speaking...
The following is a commentary on Generation Z and American life in the 2020s. Consider instinctive cognition and its exploitation. The piece depicts a student with unfortunate, but relatable or familiar characteristics, caused by the conditioning of contemporary social and economic models. While the narrator is not upsetting the system, the story...