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Inkwell Literary Magazine is dedicated to creativity and its cultivation during the constant change of college life.

Since its first issue was published in 1998, Inkwell has published creative writings and artwork generated by the student body at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota. Since then, we have grown and expanded, and yet we still strive to cultivate, encourage, and rejoice in the creativity of our campus and to share that creativity with our community.

Staff

Lars Johnson

Faculty Advisor

Lars Johnson is a Professor of English at Bethany Lutheran College. In his spare time he collects well-wrought urns, which he especially likes to smash, break into a thousand, thousand shards, then reconfigure the pieces into . . . a globed fruit, an old medallion, or something useful like hands that can grasp, eyes / that can dilate / hair that can rise. He believes, sometimes desperately, that lit mags ought to be (like a poem) well-wrought, shining shards that gleam and sing beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

P.S. He would like to thank Cleanth Brooks, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, and John Keats for helping him with his bio.

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