Art (Spring 1999, page 14)—CARLI Digital Collections Featured Image

Page 11, 1999 Spring, from Forte Literary Magazine (Illinois College) in CARLI Digital Collections

Nope, not the student artwork on the right. This week’s featured image is the creative writing piece on the left, "Art" by Julienne La Croix.

Amidst the love-and-death angst that might be expected of a student "journal of poetry, prose, and art" (Forté’s subtitle), the more experimental works sparkle. "Art" is sort of a concrete poem distilling artistic creation to its simplest form: a dot here, a dot there, one more for good measure, et voilà!

Honorable mentions to a few other works I found amusing:

• "how to", also by La Croix, Spring 1999: This upside-down and backward (forgive my ignorance of literary terms) poem is a fun read
• "Heaven" by Cassie O’Connor, Spring 2000: A mashup of King Arthur’s Camelot, the pope and gospel writers, Victoria’s Secret Angels, and Wall Street, written in the style of a news item
• "S’more What?" by Laura Masko, Fall 2008-Spring 2009: An analysis of personality types based on s’more preference
• The visual poetry of Andrew Topel, found in Spring 2006-Spring 2007 and Fall 2007-Spring 2008 issues

Written by Ellen K. Corrigan, Assistant Professor, Cataloging Services, Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University

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