The Vox Box

Wed., June 25, 2008

Got a secret to get off your chest?

This site was pointed out to me by graduate copy editor Ashley: PostSecret.com

"PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard."

You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a hope, regret, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.

Warning: language and image alert! Some of the contents of the postcards could be offensive to some. But more than that, reading the cards is addictive.

The cards are only updated on Sundays. You get a new set each week.

QUESTION: Do you think "letting go" of a secret in this sort of fashion is theraputic and healthy? Do you think this is art?

Posted June 25, 2008, 1:13 p.m.

In 2006, then-editor Steve Smith of The Spokesman-Review had the idea of starting a publication for an often forgotten audience: teenagers. The Vox Box was a continuation of the Vox, an all-student staffed newspaper published by The Spokesman-Review. High school student journalists who staffed the Vox made all content decisions as they learn about the trade of journalism. This blog's mission was to give students an opportunity to publish their voices. The Vox Box and the Vox wrapped up in June 2009, but you can follow former staffers' new blog at http://voxxiez.blogspot.com.