Dear Reader,
Once more, it is our pleasure to present the Fall 2015
issue of Laurels. Last semester, Saving Webster celebrated the art
and printed beauty of written words. Tacit Letters continues in
this thread, focusing on everything between, beneath, and behind
the written words on the page. Now the unspoken elements of
spotlight.
face communication to the page. This is often accomplished most
effectively when the artist mingles the written words with the blank
spaces between the words, with the understood meaning behind the
words, and the tangible descriptions that color the work.
It must not remain unsaid that we owe our utmost thanks
to the students who have submitted their work. We also extend our
heartfelt gratitude to our editorial board: Dr. Clinton Brand, Dr.
Shannon Forbes, and Fr. Romanus Muoneke, as well as to our truly
who did the formatting for Tacit Letters.
Finally, as the staff of Laurels, we would like to thank
you, the reader, for your own contribution to Tacit Letters.
Reading should not be a passive activity: literature is a creative
collaboration between the artist and the reader. The artist
contributes ideas expressed through written words and blank
spaces, and the reader engages with these words and spaces,
bringing the story to life through their own imagination. In this
something dynamic and new.
Sincerely,
Janna Tierney
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