Our theme for this, our first issue of The Raveler, is middles: a non-descriptive and ambiguous theme for certain, but a true theme. We selected it first because it's where we stand as Master's students, wandering between our BAs and wherever we end up—be it PhDs or MFAs or abandoning the academy and finding a place in the rest of the world.
But it's more than that. We selected Middles because it seems the proper place to begin, that unfixed area where most everything occurs and where most everyone points. Freytag spent most of his ink mapping it. Aristotle told us to look for that Golden Mean, and Buddha, like Confucius and Lao Tzu, suggested the same.
We selected it because our medium, the Internet, is still—even when the sense of magical newness has faded—a middle place, a sea of destinations and connections, but lacking a fixed beginning or end.
Thus, our theme. A strange place to begin, maybe—in the middle—but for Master’s students, it’s where we dwell.
CRITICAL WRITING
CREATIVE WRITING
