Sarah von der Ruhr

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Help Us Reboot Graphos!

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 ...

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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 ...

About Graphos

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 ...

Protect & Preserve Wild Places/Sarah von der Ruhr

Posted onDecember 17, 2022December 20, 2022Leave a comment

Sarah is a freshman majoring in Business Administration at St. Norbert College. She enjoys a variety of styles and mediums across her writing and art. She currently works in the Writing Center on campus in addition to running her own small business selling her artwork. In her free time, she enjoys reading and writing, sewing, Read More …

Lord Nier and the Beast/Sarah von der Ruhr

Posted onDecember 17, 2022December 20, 2022Leave a comment

The first victim found still had her head; many of those who followed would not be so lucky. She was a shepherdess, tending her family’s flock on the rolling hills of the French countryside. One night, she failed to return home. When the other shepherds went out the next day, they found her with her Read More …

Learning about Dead Animals/Sarah von der Ruhr

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Lament of a Local Changeling/Sarah von der Ruhr

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I, unlike my loved ones, am not wholly convinced I am of this world. I look the part until I stare too long; I act the part, but there are gaps in the script; I trust the part, except when I feel the hum in the wild – tugging me towards something strange and familiar. Read More …