Poetry: “Gavone” by Lynn Hoffman

I was here before you and you and youse especially. When there was room to hide on downwind side of brownstone stoop or in the alley by Carmine’s where me and Eddie doo-wopped, doo-wopped. I owned the street. It was wild then feral, forest, lamppost trees offa parking lot steppes. and we were the wolves […]

Spring 2013 Issue

It has arrived. Click the image to download a PDF.

It’s Almost Here!

The winner of our Spring 2013 issue is Laura Aydelotte! Congratulations! For our lovely readers, make sure you check back on Monday for the release of our Spring 2013 issue. We can’t wait!

Spring 2013 Cover Contest

Spring is (kind of) here in Chicago, and Euphony is looking for another cover! Send your photographs and artwork for our Spring 2013 issue. Email your images to euphonyjournal@gmail.com by April 30th. We welcome multiple submissions.

Winter 2013 Issue

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Save the Date: February 28th

Quick announcements: As you may have noticed, we’ve changed our web page design again. Hopefully, it’ll provide a better reading experience. (Of course, let us know if it doesn’t. We like hearing your opinons!) It’s almost here! On February 28th, check our homepage for our brand new winter issue! For those of you around UChicago, […]

Winter 2013 Cover Contest

Euphony is hard at work on the upcoming Winter 2013 issue, and once again, we’re searching for a cover! We invite anyone who works with photography or any other visual art medium to enter our Winter 2013 Cover contest. Send your images to euphonyjournal@gmail.com by Friday, February 1. You are welcome to submit multiple entries, and the […]

Essay: “Parody in Philip Larkin: A Trick Which Dispels Fear” by Charles Holdefer

“Books are a load of crap.” This is the conclusion of Philip Larkin’s ‘A Study of Reading Habits’. In this poem, a disillusioned reader recounts how literature has let him down. Nowadays he prefers to get drunk. In three short stanzas, he describes a lifetime of searching and changing tastes and, in the process, deftly […]

Fiction: “The Revolution” by Ling E. Teo

Tired of the male machismo and sexist attitudes, Ms Delacruz dresses differently. Today, Ms Delacruz wears a cowboy outfit, complete with bolo tie, a departure from her peach-colored dresses with floral prints. She stands up in front of us – one hundred and thirty middle school teachers – as the female Assistant Principal’s indispensable school […]

Poetry: “Summer’s End” by Linda Beeman

Summer’s End summer’s first light skims top most limbs of hemlock incites swallows to their aerobic labors and peeks under the skirts of my uphill big leaf maple angular beams mottle through elder and salmon berries painting lime grass nile bottle greens highlight slug slime calligraphy on my window glass agonizingly slow action painters those […]