For seven years, Mount Holyoke has been without a student literary magazine. Now, thanks to student initiative and the support of the English department, Verbosity, an eclectic, entirely student-run publication will hit newsstands in early May. The publication will showcase student paintings, photographs, poems, and prose compositions and will be available at the Blanchard Campus Center. Says founding editor Emily Leithauser, whose literary roots run deep (she is the daughter of literary luminaries Mary Jo Salter and Brad Leithauser, who share the Emily Dickinson Lectureship in the Humanities), "The magazine is rich in the diversity of its themes and reflections, but all its offerings contribute to an artistic harmony that embraces the variety of experience, expression, and imaginative vision we stumble across every day. It was my pleasure to work with a dynamic, gifted, poised, humorous, curious, alert, and indefatigable team and to review works by all the talented contributing writers and artists."