Our current issue, "Storm's a Brewin': Upsetting the System." was selected by our 2024-2025 Image Tree Team. In this issue, we invite students to reflect upon and explore their response to any events that have left them feeling out of control or upset.
"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...