2021
The Messenger
The objective of The Messenger is to encourage the appreciation and exploration of the creative arts on the University of Richmond campus. Since 1876, The Messenger has celebrated student work by publishing submissions in a literary and visual arts magazine. More information on the
magazine, as well as past publications since 1987, can be found on messengerur.wordpress.com.
Complete Issue
Artwork
Rockfalls Drive
Casey Murano
Sleeping Infant
Charles Mullis
View from Mount Magalloway, NH
Nathan Burns
enlightened?
Pamira Yanar
Garfield Falls in the Late Afternoon
Nathan Burns
Butterflies Around the Summer Solstice
Nathan Burns
An Ogre Lives Here
Olivia Lomax
Left at the Z
Casey Murano
Slow Gallops
Casey Murano
Warped Reflection
Nichole Schiff
i imagine her memory looks something like this
Tra My Anderson
Tacky Hell (Long Live Bad Taste!)
Kathleen Firment
New Hampshire in the Late Summer
Nathan Burns
morning fog
Tereza Hernandez
Awards
Fiction
Branchland
Riley Fletcher
My Mother's Books
Riley Fletcher
Taxes and Forms
Conner Evans
Furnishings
Cole Richard
Saturdays are for Laundry
Kristin Santana
Poetry
the rupture
Naomi Mitchell
20 minutes
Jassiem Konrad
Have Faith
Kaelyn Reid
first generation
Lucia Orlandi
Undiscovered
Naomi Mitchell
A Land That Will Not Sorrow The Sadness
Megan Brooks
god of lightning
Kaelyn Reid
resented year
Megan Brooks
Minor Arcana
Lillian Tzanev
Thoughts Beside the James
Benjamin Mathios
Ode to Barbershop Quartets
Ray Barr
Mopon Musings
Colette Creamer
A walk, in the rain,
Maddie Olvey
Prose
A Letter from the Editors
Gabby Kiser and Molly Kate Krieder
The Messenger
Spring 2021
- Staff
- Editors-in-Chief
- Associate Editors
- Social Media Chair
- Treasurer
- Art Editors
- Design Editors
- Poetry Editors
- Prose Editors
forward
onward so as to make progress; toward a successful conclusion. “There is a way forward and yes it is with a broken heart but it is our own way collectively convened, pondered, Shared.” Alice Walker