The Tower is the University of Minnesota’s undergraduate art and literary magazine. It is edited and produced by students enrolled in a two-semester class offered by the English Department. The Tower originated in 1952 as a column, “The Ivory Tower,” in the Minnesota Daily. It soon evolved into a magazine insert, which ran until 1969, staffed by what would become a who’s who of arts and letters in Minnesota and beyond. The magazine was revived in 2006 and reimagined as a literary publication. In the years since, alumni of this second iteration have gone on to work in publishing and communications, to found their own companies, and to publish their own work.
We see The Tower as a community in addition to being a magazine or a course, with a mission of supporting free, artistic, and creative expression on the Twin Cities campus.
