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Metropolitan Review 2015 metropolitan review MR A JOURNAL OF STUDENT EXPRESSION | FALL 2015 metropolitan review MR A JOURNAL OF STUDENT EXPRESSION | FALL 2015 MR | i Editors Note: Special thanks to everyone who has helped to make this year’s issue possible: our talented students, supportive faculty and professional staff, the Student Activities Fund, the Office of Communications and Government Relations, Dean Cynthia L. Ward, Brooklyn Unit Administrator Tica Frazer and numerous supporters across the college. Also, thanks to last year’s supervising editor of MR, Stephanie JT Russell, for donating her time and talent as a consultant to the editorial team. And a special thanks to Safiya Bandale for her gracious support of the editorial team as they researched their piece on ibn Kenyatta. To all of you, your encouragement, enthusiasm and generosity are what make MR possible. I reserve the most gratitude of all for the 2015 student editorial team, who have amazed me consistently with their energy, creativity, wit and talent. As students with full- time study and working lives, they, nevertheless, put in long hours of painstaking and conscientious work. On top of that, this year’s team collaborated on a deeply moving series of articles, enclosed herein. Thank you, editors, for continuing MR’s high standards, and, dare I say it, even raising them yet again? In fact, I should! A final thanks to you, our readers. We hope that you see something of yourselves reflected in the pages within, and receive some inspiration, too. Warm regards, Karyn Pilgrim, Faculty Editor Associate Editors 2015: Jon-Marc McDonald Margaret Mercer Andy Warren Tessa Lou Fix MR | iii Table of Contents Cover Photography: Rouge 1 (painting) Takayuki Jay Ide �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Cover Descending (photo) Jeffrey Adelson �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������1 Honeychrome (art) Joseph M. Verrastro ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������2 A Million Butterflies (essay) Virginia Riis �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������3 Cubes Hidden (art) Omar Richards �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������6 A Different Self of You awaits (poem) Stephanie JT Russell ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������7 The Sneetches: Teaching Peace With Dr. Seuss (essay) Nancy Babbitt �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������8 Untitled (photo) Marielena Gomez �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������8 Untitled 1 (photograph) Howard Kreutzer ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������12 Searching for Sameness (essay) Layla Abdullah-Poulos����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������13 Luck of the Draw (poem) Ginger Teppner ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������16 Lil’ Chick Meets Ruffian (still image from Gang Girls) Katrina del Mar ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������18 Gang Girl excerpt (screenplay) Katrina Del Mar ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������19 Wife Returns on Sunday (poem and mappier) Jenna Ann Broderick ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������20 Desert Fire (painting) Jessica Lipsky ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������22 Vampire (poem) Katrina del Mar ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������23 Rockaway Sunset (photo) Katrina del Mar ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������24 Washing Skulls (poem) Claudia Summers �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������25 The Importance of Critical Voyeurism (essay) Tessa Lou Fix ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������26 Conviction (collaborative essay) Jon-Marc McDonald, Margaret Mercer, Andy Warren ���������������������������������������������������31 MR | v The Anthropologist (drawing) ibn Kenyatta �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������37 the knowing (poem) ibn Kenyatta �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������42 Definition of Me (poem) Veronica Mitchell������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������49 Milk and Honey (art) Joseph M. Verrastro �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������51 Untitled 2 (photo) Howard Kreutzer ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������53 Armistice (fiction) Ryan Smithson ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������54 Arc(k) (poem) Ginger Teppner ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������61 Untitled (photo) Marielena Gomez �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������61 The Last Supper (painting) Xing Xing group ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������62 Forerunners for a New Generation of Modern Art in China: Yan Li, Ma Desheng and Huang Rui (essay) Xiaojian Peng ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������63 Untitled (photo) Marielena Gomez �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������68 After the Last Beach Day (poem) Puma Perl �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������69 New Mexico (painting) Jessica Lipsky ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������70 Raw Materials (poem) Steve Swell ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������71 Boyhood Falling (photo) Stephanie JT Russell �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������72 Visitation (creative nonfiction) Jeffrey Adelson ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������73 Morning Feast (poem) Stephanie JT Russell �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������75 Tower (photo) Jeffrey Adelson ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������76 Contributors �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������77 Back Cover Photography: Rouge 3 (painting) Takayuki Jay Ide ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Back Cover Opposite: Jeffrey Adelson,Descending, n.d. Photograph. MR | vi Descending (photo) Jeffrey Adelson MR | 1 Honeychrome (art) Joseph M. Verrastro MR | 2 A Million Butterflies (essay) Virginia Riis Someone becomes a New Yorker by degree. That would be true even if you found your way here by accident of birth. But many migrate, like thousands of monarch butterflies traveling by blind instinct from Canada to Mexico. The butterfly that comes from any other version of America is a changeling. He can be whoever he needs to become – here. His instincts may bring him to a place he’s never been. Maybe he wants to write books (only where he comes from, people don’t write books). Maybe he wants to be an actor (which nobody from his town does, either). Or he could simply be gay, and girded too tightly. Even a life full of reading books, seeing foreign films, and listening to live jazz might be worth the trip. The others may be content to stay where they are but they can be oddly ignorant about this process. They may instill fear in anyone making the trip. Grandmothers have seen The Out of Towners and swear they will never visit. You must be vigilant every second and constantly aware of your surroundings. It sounds like good advice. Such a thing is not possible, however, because the city fills the senses and leaves you in shock for about 5 years. The skyscrapers are just a little too amazing to be real. Stalagmites that point onward and upward, like crystals, are appropriately spired, like church steeples. They may be pointing to Heaven, but I would lay bets that Heaven lays behind some door on this earthly plane: The Four Seasons, maybe, or the dance floor at the Rainbow
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