Featuring original poems from several Monmouth College students, the night was put on by the poetry group and creative arts magazine respectively, in hopes of providing a creative outlet for students.

     Sophomore Krissy Heinzman began the night with her work entitled "Intentional Leaves." Speaking of a doting beau, she was "falling just like the leaves," as she intertwined natural imagery with her relationship.

     Next, sophomore Wesley Teal, head editor for Coil performed "Fairfield Transcendental," which featured a silky flow and intermeshing rhyme scheme, such as in the line, "at last out of gas to fill up at a Phillip’s." He continued with "Unfortunate Conjunction of Car, Ice and Pole," which was about "running into a pole in your car," and finished with "Portrait of the Artist as a Nervous Wreck."

     Junior Fannetta Jones then took the stage with "Good Morning," and then went on to "Soul Mates," which was "in dedication to Tynan." The audience listened and rocked to the beat as she spoke of how "love ran too fast in her stiletto heels," and that it was "more than something for Hallmark to paste into greeting cards."

     Junior host Melissa Bankes "punctured the rain of reality" with her piece "Quick Wright #1." Her sharp imagery and tight word choice made no error in depicting a scene for her audience.

     Senior Lindsay Johnson presented some transgender poetry with "Crimsonesque" in the point of view of the boyfriend of one of her friends. Her words became brush strokes of a finely-painted portrait as she spoke of how "her tears are like ink that mark this paper… her nights bursting with harlequin prophets… her face reflected in the shards at her feet."

     Jones returned to the stage with "Our Time," where she "wouldn’t have to ponder if your mind would wander to the same place as mine," and then finished with a jealous lover in "High-Strung Affair," because "she was the light at the end of your tunnel vision."

     Heinzman closed out the night with "Mother Wind," whose hands "got too cold to touch," so "they cried and cried" and "she calmed them by swaying."

     Sophomore Marcus Bailey thought everyone did pretty well, and especially liked "High-Strung Affair" by Jones.

     Sulci, named for the psychological term meaning "grooves of the brain," plans to sponsor more events in the future while meeting every Thursday in the Mellinger Great Room to read poetry, songs, and stories.