Selam~
Since the conception of Metrosphere nearly 20 years ago, the staff size has gone from double digits to single. Meanwhile, the vision of MSCD’s annual literary and arts magazine has done nothing but grow!
We give you Metrosphere 2002/2003…
Welcome and thank you for taking the time to experience Metrosphere’s positive energy. Students express themselves in their poetry, fiction and non-fiction short stories, and visual art pieces. Make sure to check us out at www.mscd.edu and link up to the “News, Events, & the Arts” tab to listen to original music by MSCD students.
Metrosphere was "born" in 1983. The idea originated from several magazines that students in Professor Robert J. Pugel’s creative writing workshops put together. The late Richard M. Fontera, then the President of Metropolitan State College, urged Pugel to organize a literary magazine for Metro. Pugel took the assignment, and in the fall of 1983, an upper division English course that included magazine publication was offered. There, a small group of students under the direction of Pugel and supported by Fontera planted the Metrosphere seed—one that has been watered by each group that gets involved every year.
The first published Metrosphere, a Christmas sampler, was put out by the staff during winter 1983. President Fontera, however, did not live to see the Premier Issue of the magazine.
If you’re wondering which brilliant writer in this issue sat next to you in that English 1010 class, if that talented painter you saw at the 9th St. Park contributed, or why YOU didn’t send in a piece, know that our arms are open…
Metrosphere
MSCD Office of Student Publications
P.O. Box 173362, CB 57
Denver, CO 80217-3362While you’re flipping through, feel free to write down some thoughts, or go all the way with it—we’re here to inform, entertain, and inspire!
Let your spirit flow…
~Yodit Gidey