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“Picture This” is a student literary event where MVCC creative writers of fiction and poetry get together to read work original works they have composed in response to photographs they have created. Below is the gallery of images mostly submitted by the students for this project. (There are a few other images mixed in.) Students, [...]

It’s that time of year again when I ask my composition students to speak with conviction about what is important to them–about what they believe. I emphasize to them, though, that this project is not really about speaking at all; it’s about listening. So, please, in the spirit of peace, give a listen to what [...]

“The world is tearing itself up because of one thing, and that is belief. The idea is that rather than screaming about it, we ought to just listen. . . . It rather idealistically and rather quietly suggests another way to talk to each other.”           –Jay Allison, Host and Co-Produce of “This I Believe” The [...]