Kaleidoscope Festival: SLAB (Sound and Literary Art Book) launches its annual literary magazine

SLAB (Sound and Literary Art Book) released its seventh annual literary magazine at 7:30 p.m. in the Russell Wright Alumni House on Apr. 18 in part with the 2012 Kaleidoscope Festival.



SLAB advisors Mark O’Connor, an associate English professor and Danette DiMarco, an English professor, welcomed guests to purchase educational booklets, buy mustaches, and pick up the latest and free SLAB issue.

"The students are awesome," O' Connor said. "They are the best part about SLAB. They get to do the work.”

Jim Daniels, a poet and writer, read his poems during the presentation. He is an English professor at the Carnegie Mellon University and published Places/Everyone, which won the Brittingham prize in poetry in 1985.

English Department Faculty Member, Kelly Miesko, won a creative writing award. Dr. Kim Johnson was the Elizabeth R. Curry Poetry Contest judge. The contest winners are Meg Cowen, first place, C. Dylan Basset, second place, and Meredith Stricker, third place.

Michael Chiappini, a senior English major, SLAB intern and production manager, won the Elizabeth R. Curry Prize for,“In grateful recognition of the person who has gone WAY above and beyond in service to SLAB literary magazine.”

O’Connor’s creative writing class students created the educational pamphlets which were sold for 25 cents each. Adhesive false mustaches were sold in a coin machine for 50 cents each. In addition, SLAB sold creative writing works in a tampon vending machine.

The Student Government Association and the English Department of Slippery Rock University funded SLAB. The managing editors are Paul Cunningham and Tristina Marx. The associate managing editors are Sheena Carroll and Steve McGouldrick. The creative nonfiction editors are Ellen VanWoert and Nora Connlain. The fiction editors are Sheena Carroll and Jocelyn Fisher. The poetry editors are Bridgette Powers and Steve McGouldrick. The database managers are Laura Swanson and Lisa Correll. The layout artist is Paul Cunningham. Rebecca Yokum did the manuscript design and Phil Geist managed the website. The cover art was created by Morgan Cahn. The readers are Michael Barchetti, Sarah Conley, Ashley Cook, Stephani Damato, Jacob Frampton, Susan Gardner, Austin Harvey, Tim Hogg, Jeremiah Klumh, Tesa Maldonado, Emma Neely, Corrie Parrish, Sarah Poeppel, Ariel Wall, Genna Walker, Madeline Weiss, Jessica Wykoff, Bridget Yeager and Devan Zanaglio.

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