Editor's Blog

One Twenty-One is BACK and we are so thrilled to bring you ISSUE THREE! This year, we saw a lot of amazing poetry, fiction and even some...

Another semester comes and goes as we put together our second issue of One Twenty One, Virginia State University's online journal of...

One Twenty One is a new online journal of Literature and Art here at Virginia State University, and we have done remarkable things this...

Welcome to One Twenty-One, a national journal of art and literature. We, the staff of One Twenty-One, created this journal with the goal...

The Virginia Normal faced unique challenges this semester. With the arrival of COVID-19, Virginia State University decided to finish the...

Ekphrasis, a style of poetry that aims to describe a work of visual art in a way that deepens the experience of both poem and image, is a...

by Branson Neuman Kendrick Lamar is one of my personal favorite artists, so I’m very excited to delve into his work and how he has...

by Stacy Benson Thanks to the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, I had a plane ticket to Paris. After the long transatlantic...

by Tedria Smith The Virginia Normal had an amazing year with endless opportunities given to the students at Virginia State University....

by Stacy Benson In his new book, Two Towns Over, Darren C. Demaree uses poetry to bring awareness to the reasons behind an individual’s...