Within the gray walls of the Warren County Regional Jail’s small library, Jennifer Douglas waits patiently for class to begin. She has just gotten off from a sh...
In 1989, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled “Why Hide Rapes?” by Geneva Overhosler. Overhosler, an editor at the Des Moines Register, argued a...
This story was originally published in early May in “Well-being,” the second issue of the Talisman magazine.
For Shelbyville junior Courtney Thompson, mental...
Talisman writer Shantel Pettway addresses race, injustice, and empowerment in her original, spoken word poem entitled "Generations."
Video by Morgan Hornsby....
Elizabethtown junior Anna Williams' shoulder propped her phone to her ear as she spoke to her husband, Glendale junior Roy Williams, while she stirred the spagh...
I had never been as nervous and excited than when I started my freshman year at WKU. After failing to complete even a semester at another university the previou...
It began in seventh grade with a life science class. Then it was eighth grade physics and chemistry. That year they built mousetrap cars, and she loved the way ...
The Aristocrat
Goodwill has quite a few clothes from yesteryear. Check out this vintage wide tie, it’s just like the kind your grandfather used to w...
Three mornings a week, I find myself in a cramped classroom in the basement of Cherry Hall to teach two sections of English 100. As a graduate assistant and fir...
Clovers and green lights hang from the ceiling, shining an emerald glow on merry faces by the bar. A burly man with a burlier beard welcomes guests to their s...
