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 […]

Fiction: “Good Neighbors” by Kristen Hamelin Tracey

Over breakfast, Jillian refused to go to the funeral. “It will be boring,” she said. Her brown hair was messily escaping from yesterday’s ponytail and dipped into her cereal. Colette allowed herself to be distracted long enough to minister to the errant hair with a bobby pin, grabbed from a basket of trinkets she kept […]

Fiction: “Weight” by Woody Skinner

It’s your birthday. You sit in your room finishing your homework and listening to music while you wait for him to come over. The television is on the Disney channel, but the volume is down. Your room is very small, and all of the furniture in it is made of wicker. You’re beginning to feel […]

Fiction: “These Are the Eyes of Norah Jones” by Phillip Gardner

Adam’s Rib was located near the office where we spent our days cursing the stock market and counting down the hours, where Robert, Peter, Wess and I no longer sold high-end real estate. Wess referred to the bar simply as “The Chain” although to my knowledge it belonged to no franchise. “Nooo,” Robert said—this was […]