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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 ...
What a folly, building with sand. Using water to tamp and mold walls and ramparts, Envisioning in your head great halls and soaring spires, In reality, you have to work just to keep the whole thing from crumbling in your hands. Fighting off the tide, birds, bullies kicking at your work. Just dig up a Read More …
How charming it would be to return to that expanse, That ever curious mold perpetually reformed and shaped And full of the remedies to my laments; Whatever perfect notion my ideal self could inhabit Become one with. So effortlessly it used to captivate me. Oh the possibilities were endless, The stories complex with swerving plots, Read More …
A military parade. A display of might from a nation to its people. Civilians fill the streets and cheer as soldiers march past in perfect unison. The gleaming armor, the war horns, the drums, the stories of glory and heroism, all enticing to the young generation still in their childhood. But none of them see. Read More …
I think about the thing That will be my first last time Last donning of ring Last quarter or dime Last kiss of the sun Last walk through the street Last daughter or son Last step with my feet Last time I will die First last breath And last last breath Abby Russel is a Read More …
Dearest Cacilié, I think it might be the stench of this sour restroom that gives me these visions of you tonight… Pervasive and afraid, I can see you now across the table in the cafe, tucked in upon yourself, sipping your deep brown tea as you babble neatly about your reading and your songs, your Read More …
i feel as though i’m flowering now flowering? no, blossoming. that’s the correct word. but it isn’t true. i feel as though i’m flowering now. nothing changes that. say all you want that ‘flowering’ is not the word i should be using in my lines. i feel time tickle my cheeks. and it is the Read More …
she was floating over the sidewalk, a bubble in sunset tea. swirls of grace glanced her eyes and suffocated as she smiled. her hair felt hot when my hand ran through, as its frizzy brown ate up the fading sunlight, boiling each strand into hues of sandy, dim blonde. my head was in agony in Read More …
As I grew up I always thought, Childlike wonder leaves you. You wake up one day to the world a duller place. So I braced, for an impact that never came. Wondering when “things would never be the same,” It’s what we’re all told at a certain age. “Get ready for the real world,” But Read More …
My words held near, Only come forth at slow. Building my way up, Takes some time. But when they fall from me, My lips parted to speak, I know they care not For what I give. My stories are gray, Clouded in mist, Make people worry Or bored Or miss What I find near and Read More …
In my eyes A soft blue glow Muffled cries Ill thoughts go Sunbeams skim Across my skin Their light uplifting I drown in their warmth Abby Russel is a sophomore studying English, but most of her time outside school is spent teaching dance at a local studio. She is a big movie buff, likes audio-books, Read More …