Editors’ Notes

Laura Adamczyk, 2003, is a Creative Writing and Spanish double major from Wilmington, IL: “Your worship had better order these to be burned as well as the others. For it would be no wonder if, after being cured of his chivalry disorder, my uncle, by reading these, took a fancy to turn shepherd and range the woods and fields singing and piping; or, what would be still worse, to turn poet, which they say is an incurable and infectious malady.”—Miguel de Cervantes. Thanks to all the poets who have both helped me in my work and created their own, may you never be cured.

Laurel Anderson, 2003, is a Studio Art and Secondary Education double major from Rockford, IL: “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.”—Picasso.

Cynthia Barounis, 2003, is an English Literature major from Niles, IL.

Amber Bradshaw, 2002, is a Theater major from Atlanta, GA.

Tina Browder, 2003, is a Studio Art major from Berwyn, IL: “Revolution is the harmony of form and color, and everything exists and moves under a single law: life. Nobody is apart from anybody else. Nobody struggles by him or herself. All is all and also one. Pain and anguish and pleasure and death are only a process for existing...”—Frida Kahlo

Megan Clair, 2004, is a Biology and Music double major from Ottawa, IL: “I don’t care what you say anymore; this is my life. Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone.”

—Billy Joel. Thanks to Doug, Scott, Bruce, Allison and Katie, my friends, and the KJE for your help and patience.

Joshua Ferchau, 2003, is a Political Science major and Dance minor from Saguache, Colorado: “Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.”

Claire Leeds, 2003, is a Creative Writing major and Gender and Women’s Studies minor from Monroe, WI.

Joseph Mohan, 2003, is an Art History major and Photography minor from Grinnell, IA.

Cindy Pacyk, 2004, is a Studio Art and Secondary Education double major from Prospect Heights, IL.

Carin Perilloux, 2003, is a Psychology and Computer Science double major from Naperville, IL.

Stephen Pihlaja, 2003, is a Creative Writing major from Gurnee, IL: “...sometimes he nodded politely, answering questions with a forced smile, occasionally proffering an arm through the bars for them to feel how skinny it was but then sinking down and retreating completely into himself, paying attention to nothing and no one...”—Franz Kafka [Frank Zappa eat your heart out]

Maggie Queeney, 2004, is a Creative Writing and Classics double major from Lake Bluff, IL.

Claire Rasmussen, 2003, is a Psychology major and Gender and Women’s Studies minor from Oak Park, IL.