Teen Ink Magazine, March 2011 Edition
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Articles from this Issue
Fiction
If I'd Never Met You 
Last Man Standing
Food for Thought
Jane's List for Surviving Life By Anonymous, Houston, TX
Paper Football
First Love
Last Man Standing
Food for Thought
Jane's List for Surviving Life By Anonymous, Houston, TX
Paper Football
First Love
Hot Topics
BullyingThe Legacy of Tolerance
Community ServiceLight, Hope, and Miracles
Community ServiceThe Overlooked Need By Kaitlin O., Franklin, MA
EnvironmentDying Body
EnvironmentNo Impact Man by Colin Beavan
EnvironmentTranscendentalist Forest Walk By Ryan K., new city, NY
Letters to the EditorA Homeless Soldier By Victoria B., Phoenix, AZ
Letters to the EditorCute & Cuddly Versus Creepy Crawly
Letters to the EditorDrag Queen Dreams
Letters to the EditorDrinking Laws
Letters to the EditorFeedback on Alaska: The Lovely Cold By Jen H., Bexley, OH
Letters to the EditorFeedback on Tale of a Novice Bucket-Rattler
Letters to the EditorHands of a Writer
Letters to the EditorSexism in Fantasyland
Pride & PrejudiceThe View from Above By Madeline C., Defiance, OH
Community ServiceLight, Hope, and Miracles
Community ServiceThe Overlooked Need By Kaitlin O., Franklin, MA
EnvironmentDying Body
EnvironmentNo Impact Man by Colin Beavan
EnvironmentTranscendentalist Forest Walk By Ryan K., new city, NY
Letters to the EditorA Homeless Soldier By Victoria B., Phoenix, AZ
Letters to the EditorCute & Cuddly Versus Creepy Crawly
Letters to the EditorDrag Queen Dreams
Letters to the EditorDrinking Laws
Letters to the EditorFeedback on Alaska: The Lovely Cold By Jen H., Bexley, OH
Letters to the EditorFeedback on Tale of a Novice Bucket-Rattler
Letters to the EditorHands of a Writer
Letters to the EditorSexism in Fantasyland
Pride & PrejudiceThe View from Above By Madeline C., Defiance, OH
Nonfiction
Blaming Dorogov By Anonymous, Los Altos, CA
It's Possible
Make Me a Sunbeam
Missing Lindsey
My Selfish Wish
My Silent Teacher
The Oldest Sister By Abby W., Defiance, OH
Virtuoso
Wolfgang
Celebrity interviewsAuthor Holly Thompson
HeroesFriend Katelyn Mead
HeroesStrawberry Bliss
Personal ExperienceBarely Breathing
Personal ExperienceFacing It By Anonymous, Perrysburg, OH
Personal ExperienceJack's Fence
Personal ExperienceThe Blue Umbrella
Personal ExperienceThe Results
Personal ExperienceThe Shoe Must Go On
Personal ExperienceTransaction #23
SportsCollege Girl
SportsFor the Love of Running By Anonymous, Lake Oswego, OR
SportsOne and Done By Keaton R., McDonough, GA
Travel & CultureKekkonshiki (A Japanese Wedding)
Travel & CultureLancaster County By Kyle T., Marcellus, NY
Travel & CultureTouring Birkenau By Sarah A., Glenview, IL
It's Possible
Make Me a Sunbeam
Missing Lindsey
My Selfish Wish
My Silent Teacher
The Oldest Sister By Abby W., Defiance, OH
Virtuoso
Wolfgang
Celebrity interviewsAuthor Holly Thompson
HeroesFriend Katelyn Mead
HeroesStrawberry Bliss
Personal ExperienceBarely Breathing
Personal ExperienceFacing It By Anonymous, Perrysburg, OH
Personal ExperienceJack's Fence
Personal ExperienceThe Blue Umbrella
Personal ExperienceThe Results
Personal ExperienceThe Shoe Must Go On
Personal ExperienceTransaction #23
SportsCollege Girl
SportsFor the Love of Running By Anonymous, Lake Oswego, OR
SportsOne and Done By Keaton R., McDonough, GA
Travel & CultureKekkonshiki (A Japanese Wedding)
Travel & CultureLancaster County By Kyle T., Marcellus, NY
Travel & CultureTouring Birkenau By Sarah A., Glenview, IL
Reviews
Book ReviewsAbarat by Clive Barker
Book ReviewsSuite Francaise By Maddie B., Homer, AK
Book ReviewsThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Book ReviewsThis Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book ReviewsWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Movie ReviewsTangled By Liana C., Phoenix, AZ
Movie ReviewsTrue Grit
Movie ReviewsVampyr
Music ReviewsEminem – By Naeem B., Grapevine, TX
Music ReviewsMuse -
Music ReviewsSimple Plan –
Music ReviewsTaylor Swift –
Music ReviewsYiruma –
TV show reviewsModern Family By Evan B., Phoenix, AZ
Book ReviewsSuite Francaise By Maddie B., Homer, AK
Book ReviewsThe Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Book ReviewsThis Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Book ReviewsWater for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Movie ReviewsTangled By Liana C., Phoenix, AZ
Movie ReviewsTrue Grit
Movie ReviewsVampyr
Music ReviewsEminem – By Naeem B., Grapevine, TX
Music ReviewsMuse -
Music ReviewsSimple Plan –
Music ReviewsTaylor Swift –
Music ReviewsYiruma –
TV show reviewsModern Family By Evan B., Phoenix, AZ
Art / Photo
"I am not fearless, I am courageous" 
Abstraction By Emma R., Cambridge, MA
Behind It All
Best Friends
Break Dance
Bubbles
Choco choco chocolate
Country Style
Freckles
Graffiti over the City
Hold On
Horses on a Farm By Kseniya O., Flushing, NYC, NY
Iron Bars
jigsaw juggler
Just Jump By Canela C., Wilmington, DE
Kimono Elegance Beneath Cherry Blossom Clouds
Marbles and the Gabilan Mountains
Midnight Snack
Movement in Color By Mallika D., Tampa, FL
Neon Lights
night of the living dead
On the Outside
Playground Friends
Reflection By Sarah F., fairfax, VA
Reflection.
Royalty
Shipwreck
Silence in the Library
Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean By Erin H., Carrollton, TX
Strawberry and Mango
Sunset Arabesque
Sunset Paint.
Tall tree
Tea By Megan R., Maumee, OH
The Apple Tree
The Last Homerun By Nicole G., The Woodlands, TX
The sun sets so the stars may bring dreams
The Trap
Twisted Beauty
Warm Chocolate
Abstraction By Emma R., Cambridge, MA
Behind It All
Best Friends
Break Dance
Bubbles
Choco choco chocolate
Country Style
Freckles
Graffiti over the City
Hold On
Horses on a Farm By Kseniya O., Flushing, NYC, NY
Iron Bars
jigsaw juggler
Just Jump By Canela C., Wilmington, DE
Kimono Elegance Beneath Cherry Blossom Clouds
Marbles and the Gabilan Mountains
Midnight Snack
Movement in Color By Mallika D., Tampa, FL
Neon Lights
night of the living dead
On the Outside
Playground Friends
Reflection By Sarah F., fairfax, VA
Reflection.
Royalty
Shipwreck
Silence in the Library
Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean By Erin H., Carrollton, TX
Strawberry and Mango
Sunset Arabesque
Sunset Paint.
Tall tree
Tea By Megan R., Maumee, OH
The Apple Tree
The Last Homerun By Nicole G., The Woodlands, TX
The sun sets so the stars may bring dreams
The Trap
Twisted Beauty
Warm Chocolate
Poetry
A Book’s Life By Anonymous, Pine Island, MN
Confession By Ameerah A., Rose-Hill, Mauritius
If You've Got a Minute By Emanuella R., Brooklyn, NY
Muse …
Once Told By Anonymous, Englewood, NJ
Pretty Little Bones By Morgan S., Victor, NY
Stolen
The Tao of the Daughter
To Be Hip or To Break a Hip: That Is the Question By BreAnna R., Oak Ridge, TN
Train By Emily P., New Salisbury, IN
Here I Sit
Thank You
(dis)orientation
21st Century Puppet
A Fresh Pair of Eyes
A God Walks the Halls at School
A Kid Making Noise
Alone on a Friday
An Unlikely Friend By Anonymous, Melrose Park, IL
And Yet
Angel's Telegram
Angels By Morgan B., Buffalo Grove, IL
Black & White By Anonymous, North Tonawanda, NY
Blush By Lauren T., Annandale, MN
Bowl of Oranges
Boys and Shoes
Chess By Walter B., Gilford, NH
Chipped By Audrey C., San Francisco, CA
Corner
Dear Dress
Dear You By Caroline H., Nashville, TN
Ditching Spearmint
Eclipsed
Eyeliner
Family
Final Stroke
First Love
Free Flight
FreeFall By Saga B., Ljunghusen, PA
heroes By Anonymous, brown summit, NC
I Hate My Face By Anonymous, Hillsborough, NJ
Identity
Ink Stain
Journey
Just Some Last Thoughts
Labels Are for Food Products By Allie O., Nashotah, WI
Little Butterfly By Anonymous, Olathe, KS
Mathematics
Matins
Mile 198
Much Too Young
Muted
nonsense, but nice
One Autumn Day
Outsidesounds
Paper Cuts
Parent
Perfectly Plastic
Perhaps Because
Possible Impossibilities By Anonymous, Olathe, KS
Reality vs. Hope
Red Poem
Road Trip 2009
Room 21
She Met the End After It Was Done
She Won't Be Broken
Simple Physics
Skipping Stones On Asphalt
Slap
Starlight
The Pain of the Fallen
The Price of Paradise
The Sound
The Speech By Carolina D., Chalfont, PA
The Water
Timothy By Amanda L., Barre, VT
To Be With Her
To Forget You
Too Old for Ice Cream
Troubles By Anonymous, Winter Springs, FL
truth
Truth or Lies
Two dogs By Anonymous, Grover, WY
Vinegar
Violet
We the Spiders
When These Wounds Fail
Whistle By Tessa I., Rockport, ME
Why Waste Good Food?
Word Painter
Yours Truly By Bridget mireya N., wayne, NJ
Chestnut-Colored Hair By Sana J., Doha, Qatar
liquid midnight
Proof
Seasons
Television
They Don't Make Friends
Loose
Live Long, Prosper, and Watch Star Trek
The Little Penguin
Confession By Ameerah A., Rose-Hill, Mauritius
If You've Got a Minute By Emanuella R., Brooklyn, NY
Muse …
Once Told By Anonymous, Englewood, NJ
Pretty Little Bones By Morgan S., Victor, NY
Stolen
The Tao of the Daughter
To Be Hip or To Break a Hip: That Is the Question By BreAnna R., Oak Ridge, TN
Train By Emily P., New Salisbury, IN
Here I Sit
Thank You
(dis)orientation
21st Century Puppet
A Fresh Pair of Eyes
A God Walks the Halls at School
A Kid Making Noise
Alone on a Friday
An Unlikely Friend By Anonymous, Melrose Park, IL
And Yet
Angel's Telegram
Angels By Morgan B., Buffalo Grove, IL
Black & White By Anonymous, North Tonawanda, NY
Blush By Lauren T., Annandale, MN
Bowl of Oranges
Boys and Shoes
Chess By Walter B., Gilford, NH
Chipped By Audrey C., San Francisco, CA
Corner
Dear Dress
Dear You By Caroline H., Nashville, TN
Ditching Spearmint
Eclipsed
Eyeliner
Family
Final Stroke
First Love
Free Flight
FreeFall By Saga B., Ljunghusen, PA
heroes By Anonymous, brown summit, NC
I Hate My Face By Anonymous, Hillsborough, NJ
Identity
Ink Stain
Journey
Just Some Last Thoughts
Labels Are for Food Products By Allie O., Nashotah, WI
Little Butterfly By Anonymous, Olathe, KS
Mathematics
Matins
Mile 198
Much Too Young
Muted
nonsense, but nice
One Autumn Day
Outsidesounds
Paper Cuts
Parent
Perfectly Plastic
Perhaps Because
Possible Impossibilities By Anonymous, Olathe, KS
Reality vs. Hope
Red Poem
Road Trip 2009
Room 21
She Met the End After It Was Done
She Won't Be Broken
Simple Physics
Skipping Stones On Asphalt
Slap
Starlight
The Pain of the Fallen
The Price of Paradise
The Sound
The Speech By Carolina D., Chalfont, PA
The Water
Timothy By Amanda L., Barre, VT
To Be With Her
To Forget You
Too Old for Ice Cream
Troubles By Anonymous, Winter Springs, FL
truth
Truth or Lies
Two dogs By Anonymous, Grover, WY
Vinegar
Violet
We the Spiders
When These Wounds Fail
Whistle By Tessa I., Rockport, ME
Why Waste Good Food?
Word Painter
Yours Truly By Bridget mireya N., wayne, NJ
Chestnut-Colored Hair By Sana J., Doha, Qatar
liquid midnight
Proof
Seasons
Television
They Don't Make Friends
Loose
Live Long, Prosper, and Watch Star Trek
The Little Penguin
