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Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
The Broken Clock is a literary magazine written and published by undergraduate students at the University of Iowa. Founded in 2021, The Broken Clock strives to highlight works from students on campus that focus on aspects of time, whether it be literal or metaphorical.
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Volume 6: Time Is Versatile
"Time is versatile; something humanity can weave, or not. An inconstant ally, or is it the enemy? Can we adapt time, or does it adapt us?"
Full Theme Statement
Time is a liminal space. We exist everywhere we've been and everywhere we will go all at once.
We exist in between moments and doorways, the past and the present. What moment do you instinctively flash to? Existence is a series of retrospections and expectations. This space is physical and emotional, uncomfortably on the verge of somewhere new.
Walk into that hallway, go through that doorway, see where your nostalgia leads. We are a generation on the verge and we don't yet know where time is taking us, so we must roam back to recapture the naivety and enthusiasm that once propelled us into our current future.
This literary journal is written, produced, edited, and published by undergraduate students enrolled at the University of Iowa and working with the Magid Center for Writing.
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