Student Story: Mr. Silas Grout
Student Story: Mr. Silas Grout By Faith Walessa It couldn’t have been anything but a Tuesday—Mr. Silas Grout’s least favorite day of the week, and his thirty-eighth birthday. …
Student Essay
Lessons From Purgatory
Lessons From Purgatory By Autumn Kennedy In its own capacity, Dante’s Purgatorio resembles Virgil, shepherding its readers up the sacred mountain in this life as he shepherded its …
Student Poem: Show Me the Coin Used for the Tax
Student Poem: Show Me the Coin Used for the Tax By Autumn Kennedy To Cæsar what is Cæsar’s give, . To God give what is His, For …
Student Poem: Photographs
Student Poem: Photographs By Autumn Kennedy A photograph is two degrees From Eternity, an image of An image of Reality. My life is livelier than these, And yet …
Student Poem: Windy Day
Student Poem: Windy Day By Autumn Kennedy Why do the oak-leaves rustle? aaaaBecause the wind is blowing, or aaaaBecause a Spirit presses? Why do their branches bow? aaaaBecause …
Student Essay: Knights and Knaves at Avignon
Student Essay: Knights and Knaves at Avignon By Mikayla Pipes The fourteenth-century debate over the legitimate papal line seems as if it can only be a matter of …
Student Essay: Times and Seasons
Student Essay: Times and Seasons By Anne Marie Austin Rituals and traditions may seem obsolete, opaque, or pointless nowadays, but nothing could be further from the truth. Human …
Student Essay: Hector and Heroism
Student Essay: Hector and Heroism By Eamonn Flynn Achilles is the protagonist of the Iliad, but most readers see Hector as its moral “hero.” Yet is the conventional …
Student Story: Surfaces
Student Story: Surfaces By Liam Hopkins I dreamed of death. Shadows of my dreams flitted by me, pulling along pieces of memory, but when I reached out to …
Student Story: The Fiend-Slayer
Student Story: The Fiend-Slayer By Caleb Dummermuth Hreth stood in victory over the dragon corpse. Though the sea-monster’s spirit had been broken, its vicious power lingered in the …