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OPEN MIC AT HALLOWED ON FRIDAY! Get in the Valentine’s Day spirit (💘💐) or throw it out the window (💔🥀). We don’t care. We just want to hear your music and poetry! Bring all your friends for a fun Friday evening! :) pssst…. PSSSST!!!! What’s that? It’s time for our ANNUAL PROSE CONTEST????? Submit your recreations, retelling, adaptations, etc., of a MYTH OR FAIRY TALE by FEBRUARY 17 FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN 20 WHOLE DOLLARS!!!! DM for details and GET WRITING Don’t miss our launch party this Friday at Hallowed Grounds! Stop by from 5:30-7:30 for live performances from Jake Marsh, Jhung, and Puddle Jumper, as well as readings from our newest issue. Bring your friends and hang out with us!! :) Happy Holidays, Euphoneers! We’re back with another staff bookcase tour. Today we have @sammy.aiko , our wonderful poetry editor! What’s everyone reading this winter break? When you’re the oldest literary magazine on campus, you’re bound to have some ghosts lurking about…… WINTER 2023 ISSUE COMING SOON!!! Hey Euphoneers! Our next bookcase tour features our managing editor Julia’s picks!! What are you currently reading? Let us know! We hope your Monday is going great :) ❤️ BOOKCASE TOUR TIME! Check out Ethan’s top picks! We’d love to hear what you’re currently reading—let us know! And of course, have a lovely weekend!!!❤️ EUPHONEERS!! Guess what?! It’s bookcase tour time. Let’s see what everyone’s reading—I’m Madeline and I’m starting us off. What’s on your shelf?! Send us what you’re reading and have an awesome weekend!! ❤️📚🤧🤓 Also, spot the stack of Euphony issues… #bookstagram #booktok #bookrecommendations #literature No prior experience needed! Come to Euphony’s first meeting tonight at 7pm, on the second floor of Reynolds Club. Discuss prose and poetry with us!

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Tag: poetry

POETRY: “Lotería” by Philip Kobylarz

At the gate, bottles with cut lips. Crypts of grass cuttings. Moth wings. Stationary […]

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POETRY: “Eavesdropping On The Redwoods” by Sharon Lopez Mooney

I thought I heard some tough young redwoods
trying to get the ancients’ attention
but the elder trees are not interested in prattle, […]

Read More POETRY: “Eavesdropping On The Redwoods” by Sharon Lopez Mooney

POETRY: “Ribs” by Corey Hill

I’d like to know the
Funny thing in your ribs. […]

Read More POETRY: “Ribs” by Corey Hill

POETRY: “Music Lessons” by Ellis Elliott

I can tell you about the student learning
by holding a bag of beans in her palm
in order to feel the weight of the notes […]

Read More POETRY: “Music Lessons” by Ellis Elliott

POETRY: “Hawk Over Nantasket Beach” by Sarath Reddy

At first my eyes said
a kite hovering a hundred feet above
but there was no thread attached,
no child anchored in sand, arms outstretched,
countering the coastal gale. […]

Read More POETRY: “Hawk Over Nantasket Beach” by Sarath Reddy

POETRY: “The Remover Of Obstacles” by Sarath Reddy

Deities sat perched on temple parapets,
concrete birds gleaming in the Georgia sun. […]

Read More POETRY: “The Remover Of Obstacles” by Sarath Reddy

POETRY: “THE STACK” by Michael Salcman

I apologize for not reading the stack of books
you’ve sent me,
those wet stories of a West Virginia childhood
with nighttime drives around cliffs […]

Read More POETRY: “THE STACK” by Michael Salcman

Poetry: “Yesterday,” by Abie Irabor

we neighborhood kids flooded the sidewalk
waiting for the ice cream truck to sing its tunes.

Jelly sandals melted into the concrete while jean skorts
and tank tops colored the bleakness of the apartment block. […]

Read More Poetry: “Yesterday,” by Abie Irabor

Poetry: “SUNFLOWERS AND YELLOW LILIES” by Emily Hyland

We finally talk, palm tree humid balm doesn’t
wilt the rules. This rehab center is strict.

Read More Poetry: “SUNFLOWERS AND YELLOW LILIES” by Emily Hyland

Prose: “Deidre” by Heather Rutherford

The bottle of Jameson shattered into fine green needles and sprayed across the Connellys’ white kitchen floor. Conversations went so quiet that Thomas’s whispered “shit” could be heard across the room. […]

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