Dear Readers, 

 

I have been a member of MiNT Magazine for almost four full years now. I remember joining as a shy freshman, just trying to branch out, meet new people, and get more commited to my own writing. MiNT Magazine was the first literary magazine I ever submitted work to and the first that my work was accepted into. There’s something about seeing your work in print that is truely invigorating-it’s tangible success. Everyone I knew was given an issue and I’m sure that I have three copies for myself shoved in a desk drawer back home.

 

I hope that MiNT makes you proud of your successes. College lays on the pressure and sometimes it seems like an upward climb on a slippery slope during a mudslide and a hurricane. It gets really easy to forget about your passions and get distracted by deadlines. But your work-whether that be poetry, prose, art, photography, and everything in between-will always be there to remind you of everything that you are capable of creating. Be proud of your creative works; if you hadn’t put it on the page it wouldn’t exist.

 

MiNT Magazine aims to highlight student voices, your voices. Here is a body of work for you to forever be proud of. I hope that you enjoy reading this magazine as much as myself and my fellow e-board members enjoyed making it. Since this is the last issue of MiNT that I will personally have a hand in crafting, I want to say goodbye and thank you for fighting insecurity and doubt to share your work. Keep at it.

 

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Thank you and enjoy.

Marissa Canarelli

Editor-In-Chief

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MiNT would also like to thank the SUNY Geneseo English Department for their continued support and encouragement!