2002
The Messenger, 2002
Complete Issue
Artwork
To JoJo in Florida
Eric Holdorf
Pen and Ink
Melissa Leftwich
Pencil Sketch
Kristin Stoll
Photo - award winner
Grace Brady
Pencil Sketch
Barbara Warren
Photo - award winner
Lisa Hinkle
The Step - award winner
Elizabeth Bostwisk
The Spirit of the Tree
Jennifer Jenkins
Charcoal Sketch
Laura Allen
Transformation
Polly Branch
Fiction
A Father's Legacy
Craig A. Janson
In a Doll's House
Janine Hummel
Poetry
Fire and Reign
Michael Almasian
A Votre Santi
Christina Spink
The Hardest Thing
Carole Sewell
Our SunShadows
Polly Branch
A Sunrise on Your Skin
Ron Bullis
The Perfect Darkness
Michael Almasian
Colors of Expression
Mike Liebman
Now to Then and Back Again
Ty Schwartz
On the Marsh
Merry Higgs
Real Love Poem
C. Bradley Jacobs
Tiny fathers
Janine Hummel
Lobster Song
Justin Belsley
To the one, from the other
Lydia Greeley
Wandering Obligados
Stephen Jones
Metaphysics My Ass
J. E. Bostock
Poem 21323
C. Bradley Jacobs
Reflections After Dark
Edith Demas
Thunder and Lightning
Yancey Knight
Prose

The Messenger Staff
2002
- Editor-in-Chief:
- Sam Keyes
- Assistant Editor:
- Robin Hoffman
- Poetry Editor:
- Melissa Patterson
- Prose Editor:
- Erin Flanagan
- Graphic Designer:
- Haven Herrin
- Poetry selection committee:
- Emily Kay Carson
- Matthew Harrison
- Tracey Holmes
- Melissa Minetola
- Terry Smith
- Chrstine Varoutsos
- Prose selection committee:
- Patty Devlin
- Katie Faraone
- Mo Kiley
- Megan Marconyak
- Kate Mullins
- Jenni Skorupa
- Jenn White
- Publicity:
- Patty Devlin and Jen Hansen
- Advisor:
- Dr. Joseph Essid
Prize Winners
- The Margaret Haley Carpenter Prize for Poetry:
- "The Ceaseless Rings" by Emily Kay Carson
- "The Vocabulary of Love" by Mo Kiley