MISSION STATEMENT

POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE is a lifestyle magazine for the growing demographic of positive 18- to 34-year-olds who want global commentary on their urban passions. POMP reengages readers with their changing world through sharp, confessional commentary on a range of topics from technology and nature to fashion and politics.

CONTRIBUTORS

Kastoory Kazi Editor-in-Chief Summer drink of choice: A “Hemingway” lemon-iced-tea First concert ever: Something awful like Jimmies Chicken Shack Last concert so far: Something wonderful like Taken by Trees Favorite coming-of-age book: The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides Dead person you want to have a drink/lunch date with: Condé Nast

Wythe Marschall Section Editor – Technology and Faith Summer drink of choice: Chartreuse on the rocks. First concert ever: Korn, probably (imagine the backwards R), or Outkast. Last concert so far: Rye Rye / Sleigh Bells / Skream and Benga / Die Antwoord / MIA. Favorite coming-of-age book: Labyrinths by J. L. Borges. Or VALIS by P. K. Dick. Or—no, really—At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft. (Lol.) Dead person you want to have a drink/lunch date with: Only one? Watercress sammiches with Woolf. Or a bottle of deep, silky-red port with Elizabeth Báthory. Or a political bull sesh with Walt Whitman and Karl Marx. It’s a toss-up between those three.

Michelle Enemark Section Editor – Science and Nature Summer drink of choice: Watermelon Juice First concert ever: Mighty Mighty Bosstones (sigh) Last concert so far: Wolf Parade Favorite coming-of-age book: Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham Dead person you want to have a drink/lunch date with: Jean Painlevé

Tomas Gomez Section Editor – Music First concert ever: Metallica Last concert so far: Hardfest Sleigh Bells Favorite coming-of-age book: Genius and The Goddess by Huxley Dead person you want to have a drink/lunch date with: Attila the Hun

David Greenwood Section Editor – Fiction Summer drink of choice: blueberry milkshake First concert ever: Olatunji Last concert so far: High Places Favorite coming-of-age book: A Confederacy of Dunces Dead person you want to have a drink/lunch date with: Hector Berlioz!

Russell Powers Designer/ Art Director Summer drink of choice: Port and Lemonade First concert ever: Metallica Last concert so far: Sonic Youth Favorite coming-of-age book: Philosophy in the Bedroom. By the Marquis De Sade Dead person you want to have a drink/lunch date with: (Vice Admiral) Lord Horatio Nelson

Martha Cipolla Copy Editor Summer drink of choice: Did you know that a gallon of sweet tea should have at least one cup of sugar in it? True fact. First concert ever: Oldies. Pretty sure Frankie Valli, sans falsetto, was there. *shudder* Last concert so far: Harry and the Potters. Obviously. Favorite coming-of-age book: That one with the kid who has all the angst, goes through an Important Experience, and is a better person for it. You know which one I’m talking about, right? Dead person: Jane Austen. We’ll get soused and then daringly reveal our ankles in the presence of gentlemen.

Royal Young Section Editor: Personal Essay Summer drink of choice: Everything & a lot of it First concert ever: Fastball and Sugar Ray opening for The Goo Goo Dolls (it was the ’90s. I did it for a girl, ended up stoned and crying by a garbage can in upstate New York) Last concert so far: Drake except there were riots at the South Street Seaport Favorite coming-of-age book: The Count of Monte Cristo Dead person you want to have a drink/lunch date with: Jean Rhys, definitely drinks

Mackenzie Cassidy Section Editor: Politics Summer drink of choice: Cool glass of Beck’s First concert ever: AC/DC in Albany, NY Last concert so far: Ratdog in Fort Myers, FL Favorite coming-of-age book: Tobias Wolff’s “This Boys Life” Dead person you want to have a drink/lunch date with: Frank McCourt

Precilla Poonam Ullah
Section Editor: Fashion
Summer drink of choice: An oldschool brazilian caipirinha, the way better version of a margarita
First concert ever: Lata Mangeshkar when i was 7 with my parents and older cousins, i was too young to realize what a legendary singer she was
Last concert so far: Rihanna… it was free so it was awesome
Favorite coming-of-age book: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Each character is so deliciously wicked and witty
Dead person you want to have a drink/lunch date with: Either Marie Antoinette or Marcello Mastroianni