{"id":3487,"date":"2013-04-02T01:13:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T05:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=3487"},"modified":"2017-08-13T02:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T06:00:27","slug":"xylem-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2013\/04\/02\/xylem-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Xylem Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, March 29 2013 while strolling down State Street, full of grilled cheese and veggies from Mark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Carts<\/a>, the commotion and bustle of the Work Gallery captured me. Low and behold, the perfect post-dinner snack for the mind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye lay before me in the form of the Xylem <\/a>Release party. \u00c2\u00a0Select writers were chosen to perform their pieces during this release, personal works that I only dare to scribe.<\/p>\n

The most striking piece was a poem written by Seth B. Wolin. I do not know Seth B. Wolin. And yet, his piece spoke volumes to me. He spoke of the simultaneous individuality and anonymity of the masses, as well as the simultaneous cultural preservation and gentrification balance that most cannot seem to hit correctly. He spoke without excess drama and perfect smoothness.<\/p>\n

Wolin explains his poem to be about a man he encountered in New York City, one that he would never meet again.\u00c2\u00a0 I truly respect the lack of narcissism in this piece, the ode to observation, and the understanding of the cultural struggle that is so prominent and often escapes those who are not overtly foreign. \u00c2\u00a0He perfectly taps into the thought process I constantly experience on the subway in NYC, running into <\/p>\n

biletul zilei cu meciuri din fotbal biletul zilei<\/a> biletul zilei de azi la pariuri sportive<\/div>\n

strangers and wondering what their story is, and how they ended up here. The poem reads:<\/p>\n

Figure on the Five Train
\n<\/em><\/strong>5\u00e2\u20ac\u21229\u00e2\u20ac\u009d fresh-faced<\/span><\/p>\n

transplant from Ukraine.
\nWhere is your father?<\/p>\n

Here, there is no province.
\nOnly concrete asphalt red win
\nsky \u00e2\u20ac\u201c starless, bounded monolith of<\/p>\n

sky.
\n<\/em>
\nNot like home. And yet, neither
\nare you.<\/p>\n

Short, precise, and powerful. Just the way I like em.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<\/span>Xylem Literary Magazine<\/em> is an independent, student-run literary magazine at the University of Michigan that annually publishes original undergraduate student writing and art, including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, artwork and photography. The journal exclusively features the creative work of University of Michigan undergraduates, and all aspects of the journal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s publicity, production, and publication are student-run.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, March 29 2013 while strolling down State Street, full of grilled cheese and veggies from Mark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Carts, the commotion and bustle of the Work Gallery captured me. Low and behold, the perfect post-dinner snack for the mind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye lay before me in the form of the Xylem Release party. \u00c2\u00a0Select writers were chosen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3487\/revisions\/8418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}