The Aims Review launches a new series every year containing the art made by students throughout the campus published in the magazine booklet as well as online on the Aims Review website. The official launch of this years’ Aims Review magazine was held on Wednesday, May 1st, 2024. This was an exciting event to hold as it was the 16th year of the continuation of the Aims Review. During the launch, the artists published on our website and in our book had the opportunity to read aloud their pieces or showcase any visual art from this years’ drop. Our readers who read their poems and short stories of fiction or nonfiction included Mariah Crawford who read both her poems “The End of Summer,” as well as “These Metaphors, My Body,” Emily Lopez’s “Run,” Sundance Hollingsworth reading his horror fiction story “At The Water’s Edge,” Jeff Thatch’s “To Silence,” Brooke Capuano’s “I am I am I am,” Eli Lundgreen’s “Love and Love’s Hate: A Haiku Collection,” Wyatt Hester’s “Somewhere Near, Somewhere Far,” Emily Clemmons’ “Ode to Death,” Dave Sordi’s “Alone in a Belief,” Edgar Harding’s “For a Moment I Thought She Saw Me,” Liz Webb’s “Greality,” and Zachary Powell’s “The King’s Apple,” Along with the written art that was shared during this year’s launch, there were also displays of many visual art pieces. The art on display during this time was from a handful of Aim’s students and staff including Charis Felsher, Phillip Lara, Marian Hesse, Ashlen Livingston, Lynn Cornelius, Kat Smith, April Singer, and Dave Sordi. The launch this year was beautiful! Come spring of 2025, we look forward to the next one. Submit any of your own work, written or visual, on the Aims Review submissions page for the opportunity to showcase it next year!
