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“Oblitus” by sophomore Samantha Burggraf won 2nd Place for Poetry in the Writer’s Conference annual contest and will be published in the online magazine The Writer’s Slate later this spring. Congratulations, Sam!   Oblitus It is the same sorrow the … Continue reading →

“A Twist on Translation” by junior Elliott Zorintsky won 3rd Place for Poetry in the Writer’s Conference annual contest and will be published in the online magazine The Writer’s Slate later this spring. Congratulations, Elliot!   A Twist on Translation … Continue reading →

A Thought After I die, I will wander the world the way I’ve always wanted to, see the cherry blossoms in DC and the broken ground of the Berlin Wall and the barren earth of the DMZ where the voices … Continue reading →

This poem by Alena Zhang ’18 was published in January/February 2017 issue of Cicada Magazine. She sees / I see water crawling beside a fresh spill of glitter lava silhouettes of spotted embers glowing by the hands of the summer … Continue reading →

“Butterflies” by Kennedy McNeilly-Anta ’20 “On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.”  ~ Douglas MacArthur

“Dangerous Habits” a villanelle by Francesca Badalamenti ’18 was published in Fall 2016 Volume 50 of the Claremont Review. Established in 1992, the Claremont Review has published work by artists and writers aged 13-19  from all over the English-speaking world.  … Continue reading →

Chloe Kent wrote these poems in Oregon. She is actually allergic to flowers but thinks they are good subjects for poetry! Plant Her Plant her. Let her roots grow low with petals high, stamens drying in the sunlight, scorching away … Continue reading →

This poem by Spencer Wang ’19 was selected for publication by the Live Poets Society of New Jersey as a Topical Winner in their American High School Students “My World” edition. Congratulations, Spencer.   Happy Hour Starts at Nine He … Continue reading →

“Waiting at midnight for something, some…”   by Elizabeth Hawk Waiting And listening at midnight It’s almost silent The only noises are that of the old house It’s almost tomorrow No one else is awake as you silently Gaze outside … Continue reading →

This poem by Anne Ruble ’17 was published in the literary magazine Polyphony. Polyphony H.S. is an international student-run literary magazine for high-school writers. It was founded in 2004.

Junior Abbey Zhu had three poems recently published in national print magazines. “Ground Zero” appeared in the Fall 2016, Volume 34 issue of The Apprentice Writer, Susquehanna University’s annual anthology of distinguished high school work. “Impediments” was published in the … Continue reading →

Poetry can happen anywhere! During National Poetry Month, April 2016, the Performance Poetry Club invited students, faculty and staff to post spontaneous, anonymous poems on bulletin board displays outside Kaltenbacher Hall. The responses were honest, heartfelt, silly, cynical, hopeful and … Continue reading →

“The Long Sun” by Mark Dempsey ‘16 Stuck in space like suspended amber, we stare upwards at it, our torch in the night. It sits in dispassion, content to scald. Flax-colored over blue, pearly-lustrous through the clouds, and bloody before … Continue reading →

“Revolution” by Sarah Chang ’18 After “Revolution” by Blas Falconer Cherimoya trees disperse at the edge of ruta panamericana, clamor for shadow under a whitewashed sky. They seem to stand fierce and proud, filling the spaces between the scrawling hand … Continue reading →

The following poem by Katy Kim ’18 was published in the summer 2016 issue of Canvas Literary Journal. “Bitter Words” Cinnamon dust flecks on a persimmon mortar the tang of our stone and bone dinner, that rests stout in the … Continue reading →

Joint Pain I move my joints and marrow leaks out. The bones are cratering like moonshine, pulling Corinthian lines over my ribs– there’s a dull ache in my back and no way out. Consider the architecture of falling apart– cartilage, … Continue reading →

Legacy: A Sestina by Maggie DeNoon As time marches forward, mythology shows you the same characters. A hidden clue to life. How could it be that a people who are separated by oceans and see the sun rise at different … Continue reading →

This poem by Valery Tarco ’16 won a 2016 New Jersey Council of English Bronze Medal for Poetry. “Daughters Become Their Mothers Become Their Daughters” 1998 at 6 a.m. they dragged me out of You- You would have heard me … Continue reading →

“Ode to a Spring Semester” by Maggie DeNoon ’16 The first sign of spring creeps up, not like a lamb, but like the ant who found its way onto your book, inching across the pages. A faint small breath of … Continue reading →

The Soldiers in the Night The soft lifeless snow packed down with every step they take. Changing colors. From a beautiful soft white, To a darkening hard grey. Their boots imprint the ground as they march. Step by step in … Continue reading →

The following poem by sophomore Young Se Choi was selected as a topical winner for the “Of Faith and Inspiration” issue of the Live Poets Society of New Jersey and was published in their Fall 2015 issue. Bravo, Young!   … Continue reading →

This poem by Isabel Young ’17 was published in the Fall 2015 edition of Live Poets Society of New Jersey. Congratulations, Issi! Hold Her Hand 1 That uneven terrain, the grounds of swollen veins like the roots of an elderly … Continue reading →

Here is where the road begins and where adolescence ends. Here the weeds die, breathless and expired and here the moon melts, a powdery grey and here the sundog awakens from his rest away from the sweltering cinnamon glow. Where … Continue reading →

Persephone Long ago you poured the orange juice with both hands. Your knuckles turned white from a weight too heavy for your songbird wrists. Someone called you honey. The carpet tickled the skin between your toes and cereal took you … Continue reading →

Broken You Fall                                  (After “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou) I cannot tell you the future without my candied, fraudulent truths. I cannot halt your isolation, so broken, deserted, you’ll fall. When has your silence ever comforted me? When am … Continue reading →

The Second Law of Thermodynamics When I write over this poem, I will cross out every word but time. repeating time time passing passing time passing You can never go back if you drop a glass you will never pick … Continue reading →

  Night Without Words As I approach my father lying serenely in his hospital bed, I feel ashamed to be called his son. What kind of father would abandon the ones he says he loves and look so peaceful lying … Continue reading →