Winter 2025 Mini Issue

Winter 2025
Mini Issue

Photo by Samuel Cornett

Dear Readers,

Welcome to The Trinity Review’s 2025 Winter Mini-Issue. 

Our editorial team is excited to display this collection of creative expression across an array of disciplines taught at Trinity University. This edition features prose, poetry, visual arts, and even music, highlighting the creative spirit and value of expression in our ever-changing world. As each day brings something new, we hope to do so as well. We hope these pieces stay with you through the changing of the season. 

We are incredibly thankful for all of the dedicated work of our editorial staff members and to our faculty advisor, Dr. Carlisle, for helping us make this issue possible. We also want to thank Trinity’s Creative Writing interns and the department for their instrumental work in building a community that has welcomed so many creatives, including those who participated in this publication. Thank you to all of our contributors for trusting us to give your creations a home. Finally, thank you for reading our 2025 Winter Mini Issue and for your continued support of The Trinity Review.

Happy Reading,
Martín Rosales & Avery Letendre
Editors In Chief
The Trinity Review

Contents

Poetry …… Prose …… Visual Art …… Music …… About the Artists

Poetry

Canvas

Melody Adeshina

Da Vinci Adoration

Samuel Cornett

Scales

Samuel Cornett

Look At Your Eyes

Fraebart Hawkins

Like Vines

Matthew Dial

Daily Cardio

Parras Dumlao

Currents

Betsy Hammer

Finding Spring

Betsy Hammer

2004 Volkswagen Touareg

Avery Letendre

Hiking the Pass

Avery Letendre

Cuerpo mío, perdón

Keyla Limones

I’m not sorry

Keyla Limones

My Feminist Parasite

Keyla Limones

Te amo, menos

Keyla Limones

Lobotomy #2 Wishlist

Julian Magee

Temple

Jinx Markides

A Cinquain on Sound

Cristian Martinez

Grace Reprise

Cristian Martinez

River City

Cristian Martinez

bats

Zinab Mohamed

The Feeling of Health

Anthony Rivas

Frying an Egg

Lily Roberson

Parallel

Lily Roberson

Dread

Justin Rodriguez

My Favorite Thing About You

Justin Rodriguez

A Night at the Theater

Anthony Romero

windburn cheeks

Dylan Wilford

Prose

Primeriza

Keyla Limones

Goldfish Husband

Jaden Martens

What Happened?

Linda Robb

Making Yogurt

Lily Roberson

Excerpt from “Cobwebs”

Martín Rosales

In All the Things

Charlotte Sloan

Thicker than Water

Charlotte Sloan

Visual Art

Florence

Samuel Cornett

Looking

Samuel Cornett

Estarya

Jinx Markides

Femme Fatale

Jinx Markides

Garden Reflection

Jinx Markides

Library of Rosestone

Jinx Markides

White Water Raider

Jinx Markides

Just Us

Ciaran Williams

Music

CACTUS JACK OUTLAW

Jorge Murillo

DIE IN YOUR ARMS AGAIN

Jorge Murillo

About the Artists

Melody Adeshina

Melody Adeshina is a senior BAT and Computer Science double major. She doesn’t have a particular genre of poetry she writes in, she chooses to engage with what is relatable to her in the moment. Sometimes she use the poems she writes to turn them into songs.

Devon Bellamy

Devon Bellamy is a senior English major with minors in mathematics and creative writing. They typically write fiction short stories, though one of their favorite things is to write in as many genres as possible. You can see them writing nonfiction essays, articles for the newspaper, and the occasional poetry collection. They will graduate in May 2026, and they’re hoping to attend a graduate school to earn an M.F.A. in Creative Writing with a Fiction concentration. 

Samuel Cornett

Samuel Cornett is a sophomore English major and Creative Writing and Music minor. He primarily writes poetry at the moment, and hopes to finally get some time to edit his poems soon.

Timber Darling

Timber is a first-year majoring in Art History and English, with minors to be decided along the way, and a chronic reader and writer of fantasy.

Fraebart Hawkins

Fraebart Hawkins (class of 2028) came from the city of Houston and is taking an International Economics Major and International Studies and Spanish Minors. Typically, they work in poetry, although they’ve been working on a short story collection as well. They hope that in the future they can work in development or negotiation.

Matthew Dial

Matthew Dial is an English and Math major. He is a person with too much free time who has no idea what he wants to do with his life but is determined to live it anyways. 

Parras Dumlao

Parras Dumlao is a junior English major who writes predominantly poetry with the occasional speculative prose thrown in there. He hopes you enjoy this winter’s mini issue!

Betsy Hammer

Betsy Hammer is an Urban and Environmental Studies double major, with a minor in Architectural Studies. Beyond writing poems, she also enjoys painting in all mediums, particularly focusing on landscapes and botanicals.

Avery Letendre

Avery Letendre is a junior English and Computer Science double major with a minor in Creative Writing. This is her third year working on the Trinity Review staff and her first year serving as one of the Co-Editors in Chief. She primarily writes poetry and short stories.

Keyla Limones

Keyla Limones is a Mexican-American first-generation student from Pharr, TX, in the Rio Grande Valley. She is a junior at Trinity University, where she is triple majoring in International Studies, Political Science, and English, with a focus on diplomacy, security, war, and peace. On campus, she is a member of Revolución Violeta, the Trinity Review, and an Assistant Student Worker in the IT Service department as well as a Student Desk Assistant for ResLife. She has a deep passion for prose, poetry, and the arts, and she finds her greatest joy in crafting Spanglish poetry, using language to bridge cultural experiences and break from normal conventions. She wants to publish her own book of a Prose & Poetry collection someday and become a lawyer. ¡Adelante, siempre para adelante!

Julian Magee

Julian Magee is a junior Music Composition major. He would like to thank his mother for giving him Poptropica membership.

Jinx Markides

Jinx is a freshman with an intended psychology major and double minor in creative writing and chemistry. They work in a variety of mediums, but they prefer working with photography, digital art, and ink. They also write once in a blue moon when they’re feeling inspired and motivated and prefer to write short stories. They love working with fantastical and dark themes in both their writing and visual art. All of their art belongs in one universe that they have created over the years, each piece a part of a story. After college, they’re planning on going to graduate school and then work in crime scene investigation.

Jaden Martens

Jaden (class of 2027) is a Psychology and Religion double major with a minor in creative writing. They hope to be an author some day.

Cristian Martinez

Cristian Martinez is a senior Anthropology Major and Spanish Minor. Poetry is their medium for processing life and Fiction Writing their medium for sharing their vibrant imagination. They are excited to share with you some of their poems, and they hope you enjoy a glimpse of the world through their eyes and words.

Zinab Mohamed

Zinab Mohamed is a second-year from Houston, Texas. She is an English and economics double-major and hopes to be an attorney in the future. She loves dabbling in different genres and exploring new places, both literally and figuratively.

Jorge Murillo

Jorge Murillo is a biology major. One fun fact about them is they absolutely love music and have had a huge passion for it for many years. They typically create beats within the genre of trap/cloud rap, but can also create synth wave beats. After graduation they are looking to join a PA program to become a Physicians Assistant.

Anthony Rivas

Anthony Rivas is a senior philosophy major whose creative work spans poetry, short prose, and song writing. He writes from the body, tracing how perception flows through its wounds, movements, and vitality. After graduation, he hopes to continue writing while working in a field connected to education or music.

Linda Robb

Linda is a sophomore from Dallas, Texas. She in the CAT Alliance and has been enjoying meeting more cats. She is also the social media manager of the TU Rotaract Club. And she always enjoys a good read.

Lily Roberson

Lily Roberson is a freshman planning to major in biology with a creative writing minor. She enjoys staying in bed to watch The Walking Dead and YouTube house renovations. She plans to become an epidemiologist.

Justin Rodriguez

Justin Rodriguez is a first-year Computer Science student. They love writing poems because they think they are a great way of sharing our emotions with other people without having to worry a great deal about eloquence or other similar things.

Anthony Romero

Anthony Romero is a senior English major. They have been working on countless drafts of a novel that’s been in the works for the longest time, and they hope to see its final product someday! After graduation, they aim to attend grad school so that they can get into teaching at a community college.

Martín Rosales

Martín Rosales is a junior English Major with a Creative Writing and History Minor. This is his third year working with the Trinity Review, and his second as one of the Co-Editors in Chief of the Trinity Review. He works as a student assistant for the Digital Technologies department in the Coates Library. He loves reading fiction and spends his free time writing short stories.

Charlotte Sloan

Charlotte Sloan is a senior English major with creative writing and Latin minors. She typically writes horror short stories and flash fictions, but she also likes to write realistic fiction, so oftentimes a lot of her own experiences will come across in her writing. She likes making the real world and fictional world merge. After she graduates in May, she hopes to go to graduate school to pursue a MFA in creative writing. After that, she plans on becoming a literary journal or magazine editor while pursuing her writing separately. One fun fact about her is that she is a pro air hockey player (pro as in really good, not necessarily in an air hockey league, but that would be really cool, too).

Ivy Toler

Ivy Toler is Environmental Studies Major. They really enjoy fantasy fiction, crocheting, and theater!

Dylan Wilford

Dylan Wilford (class of 2026) is a senior history and political science double-major. He edits for the Trinitonian and the Undergraduate Journal of Contemporary Affairs.

Ciaran Williams

Ciaran Williams is a junior psychology and philosophy double major. He normally doesn’t do all too much creatively, but he really wanted to make something and try to put it out there.