Aurora Magazine 2008

W hat is the purpose of all this? Why would someone want to devote hours of her young life soliciting the work of members of the Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College community? This is Aurora and she is ours. Our purpose has been to discover and to share what you have created.This is Aurora and she is now ours. I promise you that there will be no tests to take or critical essays to write over what can be found on these pages. What I am asking of you is this: read Aurora and think for yourself. Be illuminated. Engage in discourse with yourself and then engage in discourse with others. Our dialogue might disrupt the universe. Our work could be the contents of the next chapter of the anthologies of American Literature. Is this a cataclysmic no- tion? We have discovered the undiscovered in our contributors. Our staff is young, and we are eager. By opening this issue and being in its presence, you may already feel the change. Our goal this year has been to return Aurora to her roots. We have immersed ourselves in past issues while at the same time envisioning our own Aurora. This year’s Aurora is a beautiful paradox. She is both old and young. A new Aurora has been born.This is light and air. Breathe it in. Miranda Silotto, Editor

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