The Voice of the Oxcart: Fostering Literary Citizenship

Oxcart, Adrian College’s literary arts journal, has long been guided by the college’s founding abolitionist traditions of fairness, freedom, and inclusion (est. 1859). As literary citizens and student editors, our goal is... [ view full abstract ]

Oxcart, Adrian College’s literary arts journal, has long been guided by the college’s founding abolitionist traditions of fairness, freedom, and inclusion (est. 1859). As literary citizens and student editors, our goal is to create a literary magazine linking the present with the past. We are committed to carrying forward our magazine’s tradition of valuing art and literature as guides to the virtues embodied in the college’s mission, but we are also interested in asking: how does our literary arts journal represent and reflect our present-day student body and college?

A few of the topics the editing staff will discuss include the ways in which the Oxcart connects with the student body, the challenges of having a small staff, and the importance of conversation between literaterature and artwork in the magazine. The editors will then speak on the victories they experienced while working on the 2017 issue, ranging from finding an equilibrium between poetry and prose to utilizing the Oxcart's voice to make a sociopolitical statement.  Current issues of the Oxcart magazine will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.