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It’s been a hot minute since anything posted on this site. That’s because life has gotten its hooks into us and we’ve let the important things — like poetry, fiction, artwork, writing about writing, personal essays, and general expression imagination magic — slip away. You can help us. How? You can submit your artwork and Read More ...
We invite you to share your creative expressions with us — poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, critical essay, drawings, paintings, photographs — so that we can publish them here. Contact Dr. Laurie MacDiarmid via email. Artists may submit: Upload each submission separately. (With the exception of poetry: If you’re submitting more than one poem, create a Read More ...
Graphos, a creative space maintained by and for undergraduate artists, is spearheaded by students at St. Norbert College, a Catholic, Norbertine, liberal arts institution founded in 1898 on the banks of the Fox River, in De Pere, Wisconsin. Some form of Graphos has been in existence since 1990, staffed by students and faculty, serving the Read More ...
The blades of my little white ceiling fan spun languidly in the heavy July air, throwing humidity down at me as I lay on my bed watching them turn. I shifted uncomfortably on the zebra stripes of my comforter, wishing for about the hundredth time that summer that we could afford an AC. Some wishes Read More …
I am water. An almost idyllic life rippled by under currents Too deep to glimpse the sun. I am the conflict at my crossroads forged as if in a Dream that goes on and on watching for the decision to be made not realizing it is my own. I am a parallel of my mistakes Read More …
tonight, i wish to sleep in a cloud; to have my mind muffled, so it’s not so loud. floccose tufts to bury my arms, let it help me forget all of the day’s harm. i would watch the sun set, become drowsy, and let myself forget the list of the next day’s to-do’s that stretches Read More …
I took my eyes off of Jesus for one moment and I felt myself fall Ignorant of everything instead of answering the call Anxiety, depression, I felt out of control Alone and ashamed, falling deeper into this hole I was clinging on to anything my old self knew Instead of clinging to what gives me Read More …
Meet me under the stars where your soul found mine When the world around us seemed to shine Meet me in the Madison rain where our lips locked When you looked at me and knew our love could not be stopped Meet me in the summer sun where our hearts began to melt When nothing Read More …
We were chasing low tides and the sunrise With the look of adventure in our eyes Hoping we would break the ties Of the world and all its lies Telling us to just work until we die We were living our lives With the past behind And nothing but the present in our minds Alejandrina Read More …
So fair and elegant with her porcelain skin When she begins to grin Her cheeks get so high and defined Higher than the sky, and I think in my mind Of her eyes like the ocean blue, I wish that I had those too Her lips are full and rosy pink From them come praises Read More …
it wasn’t like electricity zapping or two magnets snapping together yet it wasn’t as unexpected as a hurricane destroying a clear day it didn’t strike me like lightning or give me butterflies i didn’t feel like i was falling but it crept up on me instead, i felt at Home not like i was lost Read More …
Nothing can be destroyed, only changed So it stands to reason that, I can only change these thoughts My train can’t be stopped. Dead in its tracks. It has to gradually shift, Change over time and adjust I might take leaps forward I might fall behind and have to work a little harder I’m not Read More …
2nd Place, Poetry, 2021 Literary Awards i woke up on a sidewalk bench once again, covered only in cloth, soggy from the dew. my eyes felt as though they were sinking. the sky was light and sparse with haze. sun beams would dart into my squinting retinas when they flick open. my ragged back is Read More …