Aurora Magazine 2009

I wrote a few really bad poems last week. I have a story due in a class tomorrow that I haven’t started yet. It isn’t going to write itself I know, but all I have are bits and pieces of things. My writing right now is not whole. I begin things on napkins, receipts from the grocery store, the Gap, or from the library- libraries do that now you know, they print out receipts to remind you that you checked out books and that they are due back in two weeks. I am the worst at getting library books back on time. What I’m trying to say is that I honor those of you who have submitted your work to Aurora. I am also happy to know that our campus has been writing. I know this because we received an abundance of submissions this year and I thank you for that. I know from experience that the writer’s deepest fears can be the blank page, inadequacy, or even ourselves. I am not a professional editor, an author, or a graduate of The Iowa Writer’s Workshop; however, I do have a piece of advice, advice I should adhere to myself… keep writing. Get it all out on the page no matter what it is. You never know, it could be your next

great sentence, poem, or story. Miranda Silotto Miranda Silotto, Editor