Gist: Spring 2021 Spring 2021 Published by ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2021 1 TheSubmission Gist to The Gist Spring 2021 Volume XIV Alicia Tebeau-Sherry Alessia Potovsky Editors-in-Chief Levi Reyes Danielle Weinberg Aiden Blasi Poetry Editor Outreach Prose Editor Coordinator Alex Soychak Savanah Tebeau-Sherry Layout Editor Art Editor Catherine Bass, Aiden Blasi, Emma Burns, Kyle Challancin, Alexandra DeLuise, Olivia Eastman, Bridget Goldberg, Abby Hanson, Meghan Hilferty, Anna Hinkel, Malia Hodges, Brin Huseby, Will Jeffries, Tyler Lederer, Toni Nakatsugawa, Jenny Nardel- lo, Theo Paulson, Nilaani Pazhaniappan, Lauren Posklensky, Alessia Potovsky, Sydney Reiner, Levi Reyes, Tyler Rinfret, Emily Siems, Sarah Solomon, Alexis Soychak, Sam Stillman, Alicia Tebeau-Sherry, Savanah Tebeau-Sherry, Elliot Walsh, Owen Webster, Danielle Weinberg, Delaney Woods Review Board Stephen Cramer Bella Brooks Faculty Advisor Cover Artist Submit to The Gist Contact The Gist go.uvm.edu/thegist
[email protected] Facebook VT Gist Twitter @vt_gist Instagram @vt.gist https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/thegist 2 Letter From the EditorsGist: Spring 2021 Through months of uncertainty, The Gist is proud to publish another collec- tion of exceptional student art and writing. For this edition, we encouraged our contributors to submit pieces that documented the times—and they did not dis- appoint. We have curated a special edition that captures, celebrates, and chal- lenges our understanding of the experiences we faced through the pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other societal and political affairs from this past year. In addition, we’re excited to announce several pieces from The Gist were select- ed to be published yet again in Plain China—the national literary anthology for top-notch undergraduate art and writing.