Reading Juvenilia with MESA

This past Thursday, MESA members and English students gathered at Plymouth State’s Frost House for a reading of juvenilia.

Participants showed off their childhood and adolescent work, which included poetry, picture books, diary entrees, videos, and even fan fiction. About twenty English Department students participated in the reading; MESA hopes to bring the event, titled “MESA Memories”, back for the Spring semester.

Check out some pieces from the event below!

Geneva Sambor’s Simile Assignment (Age 8):

Nathan Theriault’s Poetry (Age 11):

GOPHERS EXPLODING

Gophers blowup

they kill all they see

they eat human flesh

beneath a palm tree.

Gophers blowup they

don’t even die

the only thing that can

happen is they might

lose an eye.

Gophers explode they

love to explode

they tie dynamite to themselves

and jump in the lake

that’s how they got there

dinner, when all the

dead fish float

to the surface.

Andrea Wasgatt’s Shakespeare Movie Trailer (Age 14):