About The Icebox |
Since its place in 1892 as an all-male training school, duPont Manual High School has morphed into a diverse magnet school with nationally recognized liberal arts programs. For the first time in its history, duPont Manual released its very own poetry and fiction audio series in the fall of 2020. The Icebox is hosted by three of the school's emerging creative writers. Twice a month, these editors get together to analyze a published work of literature and a student piece or occasionally a work of their own. They welcome pieces in their frozen, rigid forms, discuss them, disagree a little, and thaw them out into possibilities listeners can take away with them. In some episodes, the editors engage in discussion with published authors and Manual faculty.
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duPont Manual High School |
Meet the Editors
Mayukha, a senior in high school, is a spirited academic and creative writer and the President
and Founder of the duPont Manual Creative Writing Club. She has been published in a myriad of magazines and anthologies and is a 2019 alumna of the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts in the Creative Writing art form. She has a blog platform titled Utterly Ineffable http://utterlyineffable.com dedicated to all types of artistic expression (i.e. poetry, music, henna art, photography, etc.). In the future, Mayukha wants to study economics and linguistics, as well as pursue poetry and music lifelong. In her spare time, you can probably find her singing, playing badminton, or going on a sunset walk. |
Baker grew up in Louisville Kentucky and is currently enrolled in Manual’s Journalism and Communications and Youth Performing Arts School programs with focuses in creative writing and percussion. He will major in creative writing as an undergraduate and expects to minor in political science. Baker’s poems, short fiction, and essays on the craft have appeared most notably in The Evocations Review, Up North Lit, The Ice Colony, The Elevation Review, Straight Forward Poetry, and the K’in Literary Journal. Visit Baker’s website to view more of his works. http://sambakercreativewriting.weebly.com
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Creative Writing Club Connection The Icebox was created in affiliation with the Creative Writing Club at duPont Manual High School. The duPont Manual Creative Writing club provides a setting where writers can encourage each other, peer-review their work, discuss the challenges of writing, read and analyze contemporary literature, and refine their creative, literary, narrative, and poetic sensibilities. |