Southern Voices

Southern Voices 2017 is a magazine of creative works by students at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science 1100 College Street, MUW-1627 Columbus, Mississippi 39701 Southern Voices is available to read on the Internet at www.themsms.org

2017 cover.indd 1 5/1/17 1:28 PM Southern Voices Judges Mari Lampkin (Moorhead) Table plans to become a of ContentsHaydn Schroader (Ocean Springs) is heavily inspired businesswoman in marketing and fashion by M.C. Escher. She says that her art is a much faster Volume XXIX Art Judge merchandising. She lives her life by the quote,Writing way of getting to know her than any questionnaire. Mr. Alex Stelioes-Wills teaches drawing and painting “Things turn out best for the people who make the best Enough said. Spring, 2017 in the Department of Art and Design at Mississippi out of the way things turnPoetry out.” Kate Shelton (VicksbuEssaysrg) plans to major in nursing at University for Women. He has exhibited paintings and Mary Lee (Starkville) says self-expression can’t MUW and believes that, “A god is not always meant to Yousef Abu-Salah Nayan Chawla drawings in national juried exhibitions throughout always be put into words. She plans to major in be reached; it serves as something to aim for.” Gone ...... 41 Walls ...... 6 Staff the U.S., as well as in solo, group, and invitational Biomedical Engineering, then go to medical school and Emily Shy (Cleveland) was deeply influenced by y. exhibitions in Mississippi, Indiana, Kentucky, specializeDamare Baker in neurolog JaxRussian Dallas playwright, Anton Chekhov. She says that her Editor Massachusetts, Missouri, and New Jersey. He also DevenIt All Martin Comes (Meridian) Out in the isWash influenced . . . .by . .Geo . . rge R.22 favoriteFlaming book Cows is Anna . .Ka . r.enina . . . and . . that. . .she . . plans to18 Reagan Poston works as an occasional muralist. R.Allison Martin. Brown He quotes his friend Hunter Bell by saying, Dustinstudy biolog Dunawayy. “There’s a Jesus on me, and he’s flapping his wings.” Granddaddy Brown ...... 39 JessicaListen Smith When (Columbus) They Bark makes . . . .art . because. . . . . it makes19 He plans a career in cybersecurity. Art Editor her feel accomplished and good about herself. She also Essay Judge Britney Casmus Emily Hook Haydn Schroader Mr. Wilson McBee is Assistant Editor in the Emily Oakes (Columbus) quotes her favorite author believes that it’s important to express yourself and do Speak ...... 45 Jumping Rope ...... 44 Department of Publishing at The Art Institute of Charles Bukowski by saying, “What matters most is what you love. how well you walk through the fire.” Her favorite book Chicago. An alumnus of MSMS (Class of 2002), he Rebecca Chen ReaganLauryn Poston Smith (Meridian) is most inspired by Liyah Assistant Editors is This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper. Stephanie Dauber was on the staff of Southern Voices as a junior; as a Gray ...... 38 Smith.Change She hopesand the to Inability go to college . . .and . . begin . . . a. . career40 as Wrishija Roy senior he served as editor. Between his undergraduate StephenMadalyn Oversen Coln (Columbus) was most heavily Wrishijaa medical Roy illustrator. Art, for her, began as a fun influenced by John Keats and says that he loves pastime, but now it’s a method of intrapersonal career at Davidson College and graduate school at the Harvest ...... 38 Stars and Circles ...... 11 University of North Carolina at Greensboro, he worked photography because of its ability to capture a moment connection. Assistant Art Editor and bring out forgotten emotions. at the Publishing Office of the Library of Congress. Dustin Dunaway HaydnMary KatherineSchroader Stovall (Strayhorn) says that her Zoe Fowler MaryMoses Owings . . (Columbus) ...... claims . . . .that . . everything. . 33 momBrackish is her hero Blood because . . . she. . .handed . . . .Katie . . . a . camera10 Father’s Sacrifices ...... 43 Photography Judge happens for a reason, and that one day she hopes to Emilyand said, Shy