Welcome to Metrosphere 2003-2004!

This year art, poetry, fiction, nonfiction and song lyrics are featured from 60 Metro contributors. The online version will feature even more. Having received close to 400 submissions from almost 140 people, it was painful cutting it down and it took longer than planned, but the next 80+ pages are full of work from Metro’s most creative.

I started Metrosphere hoping to make more of a “magazine-y” literary magazine than has been done in the past. I wanted to do what other Metropshere editors have not done -- put things together logically into mini-sections. To some degree, I succeeded.

You will find that the first half of the book is somewhat light, with sections of poems and stories and art about things, people, love, and odds and ends. The second half is a little more serious, a little darker, dealing with death, loss, sex, moving/leaving, and some dark humor.

I have loved this year, and appreciated all of the help and work other people have done on and for Metrosphere. Big thanks go to Doug, Donnita, everyone else listed at right, Joanna Duenas and Karen Raforth, Heidi Grubbs, the Board of Student Publications, everyone in the Pubs office, my family, and all of my professors this year (for their patience).

Thanks even more to everyone who submitted.

Happy reading and viewing,
Jenni Grubbs

This edition of the Metrosphere has been designed with Web Standards in mind, and also ADA / Section 508 rules. It is our hope that everyone finds this edition of the Metrosphere enjoyable. If for any reason we have gone amiss in trying to follow ADA / Section 508 rules, please send us an email.

With this online version we have included several additional written works and images, that were not part of the printed version. Although we strive to do our best, we regret that sometimes errors creep in. If you find, that you have not been given proper credit, or your work is not properly titled or formated, please send us an email.

We thank everyone who has given their input and hard work toward providing the material that makes up this Online Version of Metrosphere for the 2003/2004 school year.

Thank You, from the
Media Solutions Web Team
Office of Student Publications