Rules for Engagement
An introduction and welcome
What emotion, reader, have you been experiencing?
If you are scared, be numerous
What started as a small idea turned into a growing community. Current and former students showed up. Then they came back.
It truly wasn’t anything fancy. It was a small fun group.1https://www.publicsource.org/la-to-pittsburgh-culture-shock-latina-for-the-girls/
“It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.”2Toni Morrison, Sula
At dawn, a woman sits on a riverbank at the water’s edge. Her reflection is trapped in the water before her. Her shadow is nailed to the soil behind her. She is split three ways: Be stone not Sight not Thought but Gash.
When crisis arrives as a question, follow where the music comes from waltzing in one-two-three.
Step in. What’s stopping you from touching the page—from folding, tearing, collapsing language?
Come back, bring (a) friend(s).
– the Editors
PART 1: APPROACH
PART 2: BRIDGE
a folio from our sibling, Carlow University