The Spur

Issue date: 2/1/06 Section: Arts & Entertainment

Media Credit: Jackie Kollar Co-editors Ashley Nesheim, left, and Kara Brockett, right, hold up the new edition of the Mindscapes. Mindscapes will be available to the public on Thursday, Feb. 2 at a party in the Student Center from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The newest edition of the literary arts journal of Southwest Minnesota State University, known as Mindscapes, will be released on Thursday, Feb. 2.

"We typically do a large outdoor release party in the spring, but seeing as this year we changed things up and are doing two books, a fall and a spring, we will be having a small release party in the open space on the second floor of the Student Center [from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.]," said Kara Brockett.

Brockett, along with Ashley Nesheim, are the co-editors of Mindscapes.

"I worked with the book last year and enjoyed it immensely," Brocket said. "I became a co-editor with Ashley because I didn't feel like I had the time that would be needed to edit the publication single-handedly."

Mindscapes is composed of poetry, short stories, personal essays, photographs and drawings that SMSU students have contributed.

"[My essay] was for a class and it was just a baring of my soul. I thought, 'If I'm going to bare my soul, I should do it publicly so I submitted it," said Barbara Springer, VISTA Coordinator for the Office of Civic Engagement.

Springer contributed an essay about the thrills and embarrassments that are part of becoming a woman.

This year there will be two published. Nesheim encourages people to submit for the spring edition. No publication date for this edition is set yet.

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