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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 ...
2nd Place, Poetry, 2021 Literary Awards The night belies the city skies, And in thine eyes it glistens. From on the moon, down to the stars, A heartbeat and a rhythm. The tree defies the iron ties, Your arms rake up the leaves. From on the hills, down to ravines, A beauty free from thieves. Read More …
I want to see the world from my own eyes. Look up from the dull, pewter sidewalk, Away from monochrome litter clinging to parkways, Towards the milky white birch branches that hang low above Or the yellowed moon that decided to stay into the day to check up on us. I want to stop looking Read More …
the clouds rolled in quickly during the picnic the blue of the sky above melting away into grey clouds growing, threatening to spill like tears i plucked an apple from my basket and handed it to you the earth began to weep you dropped the apple maybe you were surprised by the storm maybe you Read More …
2nd Place, Creative Prose, 2021 Literary Awards Ding-dong! The sound of the doorbell is squeezed among the sizzle and pop of onions and green peppers sauteing in a pan. “Ry, could you get that?” Janie calls from her place at the stove. The pasta almost seems done, but she needs to check it. She gets Read More …
First Place, Creative Prose, 2021 Literary Awards Ira The living room carpet is scratchy against my cheek, but I don’t move from where I’m lying. To move would be to accept the events of the last week, events I don’t want to even acknowledge. If I stay right here, mindlessly petting Mom’s cat, then maybe Read More …
Her mandible cushioned safely in the palms of my hands Held ever so safe preserving the fragility of her past Necrophagic insects spewing from her vacant eye sockets Terrorized by the uprooting of her skeleton while The half dug grave halts in operation Who was this jane doe accidentally undug? If a body is unknowingly Read More …
Listen here: https://record.reverb.chat/s/IJ6zeznDbU6sV8NuTJEn Today I’m going to be talking about change. After reading the novel Zone One by Colson Whitehead, I’ve been really thinking about why humans struggle so much with change. It’s clear that change is an integral part of being a human, yet most of us, myself included, have an overwhelming fear of Read More …
1st Place, Critical Essay, 2021 Literary Awards In the search to understand identity and desire, same-sex relationships have become an important pillar of modern literature. Authors such as James Baldwin, Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and Oscar Wilde have explored such relationships, whether subtly or openly. For example, Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, first published in 1956, is Read More …
Chris Cornelius is a U.S. Army veteran, currently pursuing a Bachelors degree in Communications and a minor in Graphic Design at St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin. Chris is a member of the Oneida Nation from Oneida, Wisconsin. When she is not taking photos of her Dad on his farm, she is taking photos of Read More …