After reading "On the Conjunction of Editing and Compositions" by Peter Gizzi, he had put what editing meant to me in words I couldn't bring forth myself. I felt this qoute sums it up nicely, "In editing, one selects the culture one wants to endure," (231, Paper Dreams). My first role as a Poetry Editor allowed me to do just this, to select the poems I wanted the community to read, to select the poems I felt created a world I wanted to be apart of. I never thought so much would come from joining the Toyon staff, I though it would be a simple class that would satisfy some units and I'd eventually forget all about it. Wrong. For the first time in three years, I knew what I had wanted to do with my life and there was a motivation in me that had never existed before.
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