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Murray Library April 2024 Newsletter, Murray Library

Library Publications

Contents of this issue include:

• Meet Murray’s New Director, Janet Vogel
• Library Student Research Grant Award
• The Living Library: Signups are live
• National Library Week is nearly here!
• Murray’s Seed Library Newsletter
• Sow and Grow Recap
• Seed Library Lunch and Learn event

Murray In A Hurray Fy24, Sarah K. Myers, Murray Library

Library Publications

Murray Library at Messiah University created a unique marketing tool called Murray in a Hurry. This newsletter is typically distributed every two to three weeks and is hung in all bathroom stalls at the library. It provides information on library events, new materials, literary quotes, fun facts, and humor. This combined document includes all 11 issues during the 2023-2024 academic year.

Hdfs Spring 2024 Newsletter, Raeann Hamon

Human Development and Family Science Student Work

Annual spring newsletter created by the Human Development and Family Science Department. Student, faculty, and alumni updates.

• Message From Dr. Johns
• Dr. Hamon Legacy Award
• HDFS Administrative Assistant News
• Kim Valvo - Outstanding Alumni Recipient
• Jordan Thompson AFCS Board Election
• NCFR News
• FCS News
• Elder Service Partner Program
• MCFR News
• FCCLA And Dr. Hamon’s PA FCS Award
• FCS Educator Day
• 2024 Graduates

Words Without Faces: Anonymous Social Media On Campus, Evelyn Kelly

Language, Literature & Writing Student Scholarship

"A new anonymous social media app, Fizz, has announced intentions to launch on Messiah University’s campus. Anonymous social media apps allow users to post within a set community without their comments being traced back to them. One such popular app around campus is Yik Yak..."

Letter From The Editor, Micaiah Saldaña

The Peregrine Review

It is a joy to present you this volume of poems, photographs, stories, and more. Each of these pieces gives a small window into the Messiah community. Sorrow, joy, worship, hope, wonder...all of these and more fill the pages of this twenty-seventh edition of The Peregrine Review...

Untitled, Benjamin Gates

The Peregrine Review

Photo of sunset

He Has Brushed Away The Stone, Myles Lynn

The Peregrine Review

Oh, creatures, hear the trumpet sounds, He has brushed away the stone!...

Metallopoesis, Nik Lego

The Peregrine Review

Pray, do not fear The baleful kiss of fire And say no elegies For the half-melted stone For as I watch you bleed You bleed…

Serenity Petal Path, Rutu Amin

The Peregrine Review

Black and white artwork featuring flowers

Prayer, Ana Sakore

The Peregrine Review

Sometimes I push my piano down the wishing well ivory tinkles slicing its Adam’s apple which convulses so three-year-old sweets are swallowed…

They Say / I Say, Abby Smoker

The Peregrine Review

a sparrow chirps there are memories in the riverbed they used to be silver treasures now i scoop them to the surface to see them clearly and they don’t even gleam—…

The Great Literary Marriage: Why All Good Readers Are Also Writers, Olivia Reardon

The Peregrine Review

I once heard a fellow English major say, “I read because I want to; I write because I have to.” In this particular instance, the student was lamenting all the papers she had to write and explaining that writing is simply the chore she must do in order to study literature, her true passion, in college...

Untitled, Becca Nicolson

The Peregrine Review

Photo of tourists on a stone walkway

...Nicked Myself Shaving Last Night, Eleanor Mund

The Peregrine Review

a flickering light blinks above my phone screams midnight as I prop my leg up on a plastic white shelf I didn’t want to do this tonight because I’m lazy— or defiant— or something else— who knows…

Embellished Arch, Emily Frith

The Peregrine Review

White sculpture featuring an arch

Frog, Connor Duncan

The Peregrine Review

Up close photo of a frog

Regrets, Tiffany Oponski

The Peregrine Review

I stand in a green pasture filled with wildflowers. I am surrounded by my regrets, reminding me every hour. They lurk in the form of shadows…

Cherry Blossoms, Joseph Fan

The Peregrine Review

Look at the beautiful cherry blossoms…

Winter’S Harvest, Benjamin Gates

The Peregrine Review

Photo of crisp, snowcovered field at sunrise or sunset

Brownstown, Usa, Timothy Shea

The Peregrine Review

A mild October evening. Streaks of orange and blue accent the night sky and the distant rhythmic tapping of high school drums echo on the other side of town another iteration of a great American tradition— the local community parade!...

Ocean Whispers, Rutu Amin

The Peregrine Review

Colorful artwork featuring flowers and starfish

Lakeside Reflection, Benjamin Gates

The Peregrine Review

Photo of a lake and dock

Decolonize, Montika Smith

The Peregrine Review

I wrap my fingers around my locs Favorite strands adorned with gold I tuck my masterpiece into a bonnet For the night…

The End, Lauren Mock

The Peregrine Review

When they told us the news—through CNN, phone alerts, front pages of magazines, and televised messages from celebrities like Chris Evans and Emma Watson—we didn’t believe a word they said...

Solitude, Evelyn Kelly

The Peregrine Review

It is time to stop living like this is an interlude in some masterpiece—just a few pages to skim— momentary instrumental bars to endure before the harmonizing begins…

Moonlit Magnolia Fantasy, Rutu Amin

The Peregrine Review

Black and white artwork of flower

Soft Hands, Alessandra Lageorge

The Peregrine Review

I want my daughter to have soft hands. Hands that don’t know the labor that mine are so familiar with. Hands that don’t know the repeated action that my body responded to by giving me these calluses…

Haarlem Church, Micaiah Saldaña

The Peregrine Review

No abstract provided.

Lambs, Courtney Kehler

The Peregrine Review

If you haven’t seen a lamb pitching forward on ten-minute-old legs using all its strength to wobble in the hay, making the heroic effort to live as its mother licks placenta off its jet-black wool…

Lamentations, Anna Cheng

The Peregrine Review

Art by Anna Cheng