The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

The Lantern is the student literary magazine of Ursinus College. In the early years of the college, creative works appeared in the Ruby yearbook and as an eight-page literary supplement in The Weekly newspaper. With the inauguration of clubs, advocacy began for a literary magazine - the first issue of which appeared in 1933. The magazine, published and edited by students since its inception, was first produced several times a year. It is currently published once a year in April.

The Lantern is named after the light in Pfahler Hall's tower and symbolizes "the light shed by creative work," as stated in the inaugural issue. Throughout the run of the magazine one will find student-submitted fiction, poems, essays, book reviews, creative nonfiction and artwork.

Works featured in the magazine are copyrighted by the individual authors and artists and are not to be copied or distributed for commercial gain.

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The Lantern, 2023-2024

Grace Wurzer, Naila Twyman, Owen Fazzini, Catherine Stump, Aiden Jones, Keegan McGowan, Nanditha Vinod, Olivia Cross, Tatiana Kent, Sidney Belleroche, Zach Devita-Paulson, Christopher Gerrow, Morgan Grabowski, Leyna Maio, Derek Matarazzo, Madeline O'Connor, Luke Peloquin, Ze'ev Shaheen, Hana Yolacan, Mary McNabb, Mary Lobo, Hannah Conley, Matilda Dumaine, Mairead McDermott, Abigail Prince, Livia M. Nocito, Heather Reitnauer, Ashley Adam, Ryan Bernier, Erin Corcoran, Leo Cox, Julia Decamp, Izabella Entrekin, Georgia Gardner, Emily Gurganus, Amber Leech, Kelsey Lyons, Aurora McKee, Amy Smith, and Miara Truog Sebouhian

"God," worship, and damnation in the font of my body • The Men in My Life • Vagabond Fishermen • Unfinished Elegy • Big Game • Bitters • On the Ferris Wheel • Ruffling Feathers • Haunted House • Dragon in the Pond • Saint Sebastian • The Last Supper • The Perfect Babka • Session • Sunrise • Dish Dog • A Love Letter to Hands • In Memoriam: Mary Lobo '15 • Champagne • Resting Place • Balance • An Arboreal Requiem • Moving Forward • Bye-Bye Beach Days • Portofino • The Moth on My Dashboard • Golden Ash • New Chapters, Old Books • Visions of a Tired Receptionist • If It Ends • Salt-Lined Sidewalks • Poetry Can Be Anything • Happy Birthday • Overlooked • Dead Water • Daylight • Morn • The Last of the Bulgarians • To the Infamous • Loneliest Boy in the World • Barn on Fire • Mustang • Rhea • At Fault • Magic Circle • Thursday Afternoon • That Beautiful Blue • Post-Roe Lullaby • A Redefinition of Childhood • Frankenstein's Monster • Eyes • Of Fields and Forests • A Toast to the End of My Life • Water Buffalo • Harvest Season • A Child of Cain Threw a Can Across the Room • To Be the Fairest of Them All • Chaos
The Lantern, 2022-2023

Kate Isabel Foley, Jenna Lozzi, Emily Gurganus, Elliot Cetinski, Juliana Valerio, Morgan Grabowski, Laura Bradley, Elliott Hannam, Catherine Stump, Tyler Ways, Alessandra Armour, Emily Bradigan, Erin Corcoran, Leo Cox, Olivia Cross, Connor Donovan, Tatiana Kent, Andrew Kmett, Olivia Negro, Miles D. Noecker, Leo Quinn, Emilia Reed, Ryan Savage, Ze'ev Shaheen, Amy Smith, Vanessa Worley, Aurora McKee, Evan Chartock, Matilda Dumaine, Sharon Gearhart, Yemu Huang, Sophie K. Louis, Mairead McDermott, Jordan Ulsh, Mattie Young, Emilio de Sousa, Sarah Fales, Owen Fazzini, Georgia Gardner, Christopher Gerrow, Jonny Gherman, Keegan McGowan, David McCauley, Madeline O'Connor, and Hannah Conley

The Genie and the Scotsman • Taxi Driver Savior Complex • Midnight Waltz • Eulogy of Caution • Don't cry over spilled milk!! • I am the spider • The Lamb • The Witch and the Shepherd • Nostalgia • In the Summer I Want Light • I Am (Not) • Thanatophobia • We're not children anymore • Hamlet's Fool • Lemon • the last two people in the world • Amongst Chaos (what captivated me) • How About Now, Billy Joel • Bug Trap • Spring, Musser Hall, Room 219 • Time's Denial • A Song of History • A Haiku for You • Hello! My Name Is: • Toilet Humor • Waterfalls • Communion • Shift • Mama Told Me Not To Waste My Life • Writer's Block • Sharp-Tongued Women • Off Trail • Paper Bag Town • Serenity • Landscape of Ursinus Courtyard • Image #07, Affinist designer • Love Birds • Discount Narnia • False Security • Stripes and Illusions • The Burning of Ophelia • Molly's Folly • The Son of Bethany • Meta • Little Blue Sailboats • Grease Trap • Hitchhiking With My Eyes Closed • The Donna of Our Time • The Magic of Cooking • The Closing Shift • A Baptism of Teeth • Dear Beloved • How Kansas Got to Chicago • Anywhere, if you look hard enough
The Lantern, 2021-2022

Sarah Buck, Amy Litofsky, Julia Paiano, Juliana M. Valerio, Lauren Flanagan, Miles Noecker, Amelia Kunko, Isabella Almonte, Makayla Heisler, Bradley Kocher, Kate I. Foley, Jasmine Ruiz, Aurora McKee, Marie Sykes, Morgan Grabowski, Jessica Schnur, Jenna Lozzi, Tyler Ways, Kyle Guzy, Benjamin Tobias, Elliot Cetinski, Leo Cox, Ian Abrahams, Gabbie Pitt, Derek Matarazzo, Alessandra Armour, Jessica Celli, Emily Crocker, Anastasia Dziekan, Rimsha Maryam, Ryan Savage, Vanessa Worley, Jesse White, Amy Smith, Sarah Fales, Christine Heren, Emily Bradigan, Kristen Cooney, Rishabh Kancherla, Mairead McDermott, and Kylie Halko

No More Buses through El Paso • A Woman's World • The Angel of Tragedy • A Victim of Circumstance • Ace of Hearts • Ghost Light • Missing Diamonds • The Upside-Down House: A Dialogue with the Self • What is Chronic Pain? • A Sunny Day in Sinkhole • Extra Marshmallows • Fourth Wall Broken • Hemlock • In the Comfort of Others • Lasting Impressions • Let's Do the Time Warp Again • One Last Afternoon • Space Invaders • The Dogwood Tree • An Ode to Poppies • Charlotte's Web • Crab • Crossing • Dandelions • Dandelion Sandwich • Grizzly Hood • Help Wanted • I Gave Way • I'm not who you wanted but maybe one day I can be • Kneeling • Lemon Cookies • Lies • Method Acting • Moment of Tranquility • Our Home • Overthinking • Sea Glass • Seasonal • Thirty-Two (No Spares) • The Autumn Beast • The Miller's Daughter • Theodore • To the Earring I Left Behind in Your Carpet • Virginia • Waltzing • Yellow House • 1/25 British Monarch • Cracked • In the Shadows • Jewelwing • Life on the Wing • O' Captain my Captain • Stars Above the Bay • The Common Fall • Tom • Cats + Crows
The Lantern, 2020-2021

Adam Mlodzinski, Julian Barocas, Liam Worcheck, Sarah Buck, Jenna Lozzi, Samuel Ernst, Aurora McKee, Jessica Schnur, Griffin Banks, Ryan Savage, Gabby DeMelfi, Marie Sykes, Kayla Weil, Benjamin Tobias, Anastasia Dziekan, Emily Bradigan, Nadia El-Mourli, Isabelle Wessman, Mairead McDermott, Chandrasekhar Palepu, Robert Fisher, Kelsey Gavin, Kathleen Saddler, Liam Powers, Matthew Schmitz, Shayna Kushner, Yakira M. Serrano Rodriguez, Haley Bestrycki, Anaya Demota, Amy Litofsky, Vanessa Worley, Amanda Webber, Morgan Mason, Christian Ndaye, Leo Cox, Olivia Cross, Amy Smith, Valerie Eicher, Ian Abrahams, Amelia Kunko, Ava Compagnoni, Rimsha Maryam, Aviva Schuch, Cyn Ercole, Colleen Murphy, Sarah Fales, and Ella Spencer

One Thousand and One is Never Enough • House on Hazel Ave. • Crooked Men at Crooked Alley • Home • Honeybee • The Witch's Daughter • Traveling to Reyu • December 31st, 2019 • The Dominator Rolls the Dice Again • Red Flowers • Military Ball • Drowning in Color • Early Bird • Introspection • Hot Water • Reaching Into Space • Floating Marigolds Before COVID-19 • Smokestack 4 • Longing • His Fifth Year on Amstel Road • Wonderful Moments • Clean Glass • Betty, the Debutante • Teakettles Have it Easy • Fuimos, Somos y Seramos Parte de la Historia de la Isla • Kitchen Table • She Couldn't • Cooling Down • Not so Precious Stones • Domestic Wild • Violet Eater • I Will be Sweet • Flavor of Life • Clogged Artery • All Twenty-Six • The Greatest • From Ashes of War to Golden Cities • A Good Thing • Introduction • Devotion • Life of the Gambler • Impressions: Or a Dining Table's Soliloquy • Looking Glass • Montgomery Pie • Under the Hill • Paperback Lesbian • Girl With Pearl Earring • Your Mirror • Jacket • Illusions • Strawberry Girl (Raw Sugar, Shattered Glass) • I Don't Jam With Instagram • The Morning After Saturday • A Brisk Monday Morning • Emergence • Politeness and Pattern Recognition • Douglas Adams' Guide to Florida • A Love Story With Femininity • Roots • Dysmorphia III
The Lantern, 2019-2020

Colleen Murphy, Jeremy Moyer, Adam Mlodzinski, Samuel Ernst, Lauren Toscano, Gabriel Tenaglia, Griffin Banks, Madison McColgan, Ria Malones, Rachel Thornton, Gabby DeMelfi, Liam Worcheck, Ryan Savage, Vanessa Worley, Aviva Schuh, Emily Bradigan, Kiley Addis, Shayna Kushner, Kevin Leon, Tommy Armstrong, Matthew Schmitz, Millie Drury, Jenna Lozzi, Sarah Buck, Cyn Ercole, Morgan Mason, Janice Partee, Madison Rodak, Daniel Walker, Jordan Gagan, Brooke Yanaga, Kate I. Foley, Matthew Li, Zach Brink, Jessica White, Anastasia Dziekan, Jadidsa Perez, Ian Abrahams, Lindsey Reilly, Kalina Witkowska, Kristen Cooney, Julia Paiano, Kylie Halko, Tiffini Eckenrod, and Kelsey Gavin

Cochlea, Greek for Snail • That Light in the Sky • Overview Effect • The Running Man • Sunset • Rabbits • What Happened While You Were Drunk Last Saturday Night • 21st Century Frankenstein • Passing • I Saw the Veil • Star Crossed • Subtle Hints • Hungry • Basement High • The Night Who Lost Its Stars • Remnants • Nostalgia • I Want to Go to Bed • Wooden Car Blues • Silver Honey • The Breakup • Here's to Losing You • Marfa • Cold Wind Blows • Last Week • 6/12/2019 • These Feather Earrings • Every Piece of White Trash Comes from Somewhere • Color Motion Blur • Song of the Kauai O'o • You/Me/Him • Girl in Three Parts • With Anxiety • Foreigner • Eating Your Own Field • Mary Cassatt Sits for a Self Portrait • Thanatourism • Lost in Transportation • Chicken Pot Pie Picture Show • Curses, Foiled Again • From Amelia Goldstein's "Movement in Your Words" 2019 • At the Altar • More Than Words • Show Me Your Eyes • Ears • The Deflowering • Space • The Tea Bags • Make No Mistake • What Does He Do With the Body?: Four Possibilities • The Story of How I Died, or What the Witches Gave Me • Fortune-Teller • No Thanks • Winter Words • Fluorescent Adolescent • Etiquettical Triptych • Curls and Flower Petals • Being or Falling • Fond Memories • You • All to My City • The Shoreline • Tranquility • Eggs • Burnt • Anthony • Targets • Looking Up • Nebula • Eastern State • Beach
The Lantern, 2018-2019

Madison Rodak, Griffin Banks, Kieran Demelfi, Tommy Armstrong, Isaiah Braugher, Sophia DiBattista, Courtney A. DuChene, Samuel Ernst, Sarah Howell, Michael Kibblehouse, Daniel Walker, Robert Wilf, Kiley Addis, Kim Corona, A. J. Cutrufello, Taahira Davis, Sarah Defelice, Matt Dwyer, Sydney Gonzalez, Rachel Haas-Gutin, Jenifer Joseph, Kevin Leon, Amy Litofsky, Janice Partee, Thea Pastras, Maddie Ressler, Julia Stern, Ren Toscano, Liam Worcheck, Clara Baker, Anastasia Dziekan, Valerie Eichler, Lola Holcomb, Alexa Beacham, Emily Counts, Millie Drury, Sophie Gioffre, Melanie E. Lee, Lilly McQueen, Robert Varney, Taylor Wilson, and Kristen Cooney

The Treasure Buried in Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park • High Cards on the Low River • Sestina of a Vagina left in the microwave too long • Keeps on Tripping • The Auction • Nuclear Meltdown on Seedship C5B.6 • Cock Fight • An Interview with God • Minimum Wage • Star-Crossed Lovers • Romeo Echo Alpha • PM Entertainment, or Action Beats • The Gospel of Aggregates • Hel Hath no Fury • Crossing the Line • Mango de la hora • Stress Judgment • Perception (Part 2) • Rain Falling Up • Church: the Italian Market • Landscape with the Fall of Hillary • Forced to Ponder • Morally Upright • Adulthood • Migration in Tandem • Hospital Bed • To Autumn (After Keats) • Selected Tweets • Hidden Moments • Mysteries are Wrong • Jukebox Memory • Flames • A Simple Moment • The Farmhouse • Lord, Let Me Catch a Fish • Sun-Kissed • Five • The Thing • The Moons of Mars • "You are Weak" • You Kept Me Quiet • Offer Her a Seat • Sacraments • Cigar • The Lake George Mafia • Houses • Spun Out • To Romanticize the Restless • 12/25/17 • skylight • lanternflies • Goo Girls • Toi Le • Lovers, Thinkers, Rebels • home in paradise • Irreverence • The Fisherman • St Mary Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh • Mirror 2
The Lantern, 2017-2018

Solana Warner, Chiara DeMelfi, Emily Shue, Matt Dwyer, Clara Baker, Jason Bennett, Brandon Carey, Kim Corona, Millie Drury, Courtney A. DuChene, Samuel Ernst, Giselle Horrell, Sarah Howell, Nicole Kosar, Malcolm Loh, Morgan McAfee, Johnathan Myers, Ren Toscano, Daniel Walker, Robin Gow, Albert Hahn, Rae Hodenfield, Paige Szmodis, Madison Bradley, Teddi Caputo '18, Faith Carson, Taahira Davis, Chiara DeMelfi, Mya D. Flood, Sophia Driscoll Gamber, Jada A. Grice, Kevin Leon, Joseph Makuc, Valerie Osborne, Janice Partee, Megan Sear, Kara E. Travis, Julian Barocas, Sarah Defelice, Olivia Glover, Mario J. Heitman, and Robert Varney

On Dissociation • Untouchable • After "Rocket Man" • The Science Fair • Cardinal Rule at Stephen J. Memorial • Quentin & Sylvie • Cabello • The Get Out • Painting Day • Black, White and Grey • Family Pruning • How to Remove a Stain • Becoming Ourselves • Wonderbread U • Overture • Pescadero • Gross • Stage Fright • Lucky Daddy • Sarah • Rumble • Silvermine • The Green Iguana • A Poem for Ghost Children • A Poem for Lost Boys • Mother • Drop of Grease • Don't Wanna be White • I • Amelia Earhart Disappeared Into My Vagina: An Ode to Cunts, Menstrual Cups and All Things Woman • Suburban Summer • Nightmares and Dreams Induced by My Mother • Teacups, Skins, etc. • Three Thoughts About My Bedroom • Dear Siri • 2 Queens (Beyonce in Reference to Sonia Sanchez) • Voyeurs • In Front of the Bathroom Mirror • To a Rose • Howl • Mice • Mirror • Language Accordion Volcano Mouth • Lucky Woman • Butterscotch • To Persephone • Wolf • Notes Never Passed • Topple • Bust • Kyoto • Identity • Sunflower • Tornabuoni Bubbles • Olympia • Decayed Hall • Perspective
The Lantern, 2016-2017

Lauren Toscano, Kara Travis, Courtney Duchene, Sarah Gow, Ray Macedonia, Ria Malones, Kevin Moore, Serena Schaefer, Paige Szmodis, Brian Thomas, Solana Warner, Zooey Cox, Mara Koren, Nicole Kosar, Eden Patrick '17, Arthur Robinson, Emily Shue, Tommy Armstrong, Angela Antoinette Bey, Kathryn Bormann, Dustin Brinker, Chiara DeMelfi, Matt Dwyer, Athena Gainey, Sophia Gamber, Michael Heimbaugh, Rae Hodenfield, Juan Lopez, Joe Makuc, Valerie Osborne, Megan Sear, Althea Unertl, Anthony Alvarez, Sydney Cope, Sarah Defelice, Neomi Haut '17, Yanlin Li, Sarah Wilbert, and Mario Heitman '18

• Our Lady of Perpetual Virginity • Essential Terms for the Audience • Stories Untold • Jesus Camp • The Second Avenue Schmear • Driving to the Beach • Thanks, Alice • Decay • Peanut Butter Rhapsody • Transactions • Traffic • Sissy • Melting Wings • Ocean • Small Town Summer • Third Story • Family Trees • Mixed, Just Like Me • Sour Graves • How Sweet the Sound • Goodnight, Halfmoon • I'm Going to Ask Him How • Music • Pizza • Manhoodlike • Meditations From a Bunk Bed in a Home on Mount Pocono • Soft • Twilight's Palette • The Oracle • Cynicism • River Ganges • Pinata Body and Hearing the Gun Shot • Song With No Music • Of Mornings Considering Womanhood • 10 Hours in Philadelphia • To Cut • Sachrang • Bavarian Wave Swinger • Irish Rain • Remembrances, Well • The Roses • Buttermilk • The Universe Will Always Listen if You Ask Her, Which is Why I Like Her More Than God • A Lukewarm Light • A Thought of Death • Hobson • Decaying Light • Window Women • Dead Bee • The Imagery • For Rent • Mona Lisa MMXVI
The Lantern, 2015-2016

Blaise Laramee, Sarah Gow, Mara Koren, Adam Anderson, Madison Bradley, Sophia Gamber, Linden Hicks, Joshua Hoffman, Giselle Horrell, Alexander Kramer, Chi-e Low, Alexzandria Luben, Kevin Moore, Brian Thomas, Mayuko Todaka, Kara Travis, Solana Warner, Henry Willshire, Alyse Brewer, Kristen Costello, Rae Hodenfield, Jason Varma, Allison Arinaga, Brandon Carey, Faith Carson, Kevin Choice, Julia Crozier-Christy, Courtney Duchene, Ryan Ferguson, Lauren Geiger, Jada A. Grice, Albert Hahn, Alexandra Hemp, Michael Heimbaugh, Darrah Hewlett, Jordan Hodess, Sean Kenny, Dana Kluchinski, Brian Leipold, Juan Lopez, Mary-Kate McGrath, Johnathan Myers, Temi Olafunmiloye, Valerie Osborne, Serena Schaefer, Nicolas Shandera, Emily Shue, Amanda Sierzega, Samantha Straughn, Paige Szmodis, Collin Takita, Kathryn Bormann, Sarah Defelice, Mario Heitman '18, Mary A. Holmcrans, Chukyi Kyaping, Morgan Larese, and Andrew Tran

• Ghosts
• Going to China
• 98% Guaranteed
• Constellation/Boulevard
• Prayer
• The Little One
• Burning
• The Amber Macaroon
• Becoming
• Requiem
• Construction Site
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Dragon
• Charlie
• No Sleep
• A Lesson in Physical Education
• Statues
• Who Can Love a Black Woman?
• Apples
• Fun Craft
• The Door at Midnight
• Eve as a Book in the Bible
• Boys
• Diamond Heart
• To Apollo
• Joanne and Her July Garden
• Option A, 1936
• Young White Girls, Hollow Bodies, and Home
• Mama's Stance on Sugar
• The Mariana Trench
• Hurricane
• Part of the Job
• Avenue H Blues
• Hour of Nones
• Send Toilet Paper
• Grave Robbing
• Wild Turkey
• The Creek
• Let's Go for a Walk
• Deaconess
• Border of Love
• Your Father, Rumpelstiltskin
• Purchasing Poplars
• Red Tatters
• Sunken
• Whispers
• Existence
• God Took a Cigarette Break with Police Officers
• Martian Standoff
• In the Headlights
• It's a Subtle Thing
• Dear Kent
• Hanako-san
• A Brief Interlude
• On Fencing, Gummy Worms, and my Inescapable Fear of Living in the Moment
• Stolen Soul
• Block
• Mortem Mei Fratris
• Kalki
• Lake Placid
• Atom and Eve
• The Baerie Queene
• Gladston
• Soldiers at Gettysburg
• Pattern
• Foliage
• Mass Media
• Arrow
• Move Out
• Wanderers
• Riverside Garden
The Lantern, 2014-2015

Nora Sternlof, Blaise Laramee, Sophia Gamber, Kara Travis, Maxwell Bicking, Emily Duffy, Amanda Sierzega, Collin Takita, Isabella Esser Munera, Brian Cox, Annie Rus, Dominick Knowles, Solana Warner, Brian Thomas, Sarah Gow, Alyse Brewer, Mara Koren, Briana Mullan, Albert Hahn, Aubrey Atkinson, Eliana Katz, Josh Hoffman, Caylon Fowlkes, Dana Kluchinski, Lauren Geiger, Michele Snead, Andrew Tran, Erica Gorenberg, Henry Wilshire, Emily Shue, Rae Hodenfield, Madison Bradley, Kristen Costello, Brian Leipold, Quinn Gilman-Forlini, Lauren Marano, Mary Lobo, Arthur Robinson, Kevin Moore, Mary A. Holmcrans, Angier Cooper, and Michael Heimbaugh

• The Retreat
• Part of Eve's Discussion
• Buchanan
• Hypotheticals
• The Baby Hippo
• Sertraline and Cheerios
• Margins
• Anatomy of Me
• Orange
• Ode to Mathematics
• Garden Path
• Periphery
• 10n Power=Our Maybe Domains
• Hillside
• Baltimore//Analogues
• Work is a Religion
• At the Bridal Shower
• November
• Revisionist History
• Cold Front
• Lung (for D. Avitabile)
• Tether
• Hold Still
• Reverb
• An Almost English Major and His Daughter
• Clocks
• In the Kitchen on a Sunday Afternoon
• Amy
• Nine
• Customary Thoughts
• Showers
• Te Encuentro
• I Find You
• Literary Analysis
• The Diamond on My Face
• Catherine
• Hunsberger Woods, 11:42 on a School Night
• Cabbage
• After Class
• For Chell
• To Whom It May Concern
• Contra
• Shards
• Smoke and Roses
• Polaroid
• Spring's Debut
• The Deadline
• A Previous Life
• Wet Canvas
• Obsessions and Compulsions
• For Xandra
• The Seagulls of 17th Street
• No Man's Land
• Summer Flowers
• Float
• Dana Reads
• A Barcelona Moment
• Business Meeting
• Posted
• Champagne
The Lantern, 2013-2014

Isabella Esser Munera, Rayna Nunes, Blaise Laramee, Chukyi Kyaping, Bobbi Stone, Erica Gorenberg, Anne Rus, Dana Kluchinski, Arthur Robinson, Emily Duffy, Jane Lee, Leah Garrity, Brian Thomas, Michele Snead, Melanee Piskai, Chloe Kekovic, Kevin Moore, Codey Young, Dominick Knowles, Richard Schulz, Quinn Gilman-Forlini, Collin Takita, Amanda Sierzega, Mara Koren, Epiphany Summers, Caitlin Jackson, Benjamin Jones, Joshua Hopkins-Desantis, Rebecca Galarza, Kelsey Knowles, Aubrey Atkinson, Michael Heimbaugh, Sophie Zander, Kendal Conrad, Nora Sternlof, Henry Willshire, Elijah Kineg, Joshua Hoffman, Maxwell Bicking, Andrew Tran, Arthur Robinson, Nicolas Shandera, Grace Buchele Mineta, Meaghan Geatens, Nina Petry, Sean Dolan, Kayla Sallada '17, and Sam Cermignano

• Strikes
• Pietro di Venezia
• To the Lover of Small Things
• Jim's Big Day
• Akademiks
• Redamancy
• A Love Poem for Arctia Caja
• Mother River
• The Lyrics to Your Song
• Nerves
• Gemini Season
• White Interface
• The Last Time I Played with Dolls
• The Mechanic
• My Goldfish
• Put Down Your Hammer
• Strip
• Hollywood
• Identity
• The Grey Zone
• Sophia
• When I Became a Poet
• Unbroken
• The Veteran Aeronaut
• I Have Running Water but They had the Stars
• Not A Nigga
• Mother, Adam, Eve
• From Fragile Seeds: A Palindrome
• Conspiring, The Spires
• Finally Working Out What Goes Where (God, For Example, is in His Kingdom)
• Identity Crisis
• Affection
• Patience
• An Enchanting Lost Cause
• False Starts
• Soggy Rice, Lukewarm Water
• The Glow
• Heat
• 9-14
• Filigree
• Diane Arbus
• Touched
• Dying Alive
• Just Another Drunkard on the Train
• Dinner
• The French Legionnaire
• Conspiracy and Theory
• 1249am
• Colored Pencils
• Sea Glass
• Roundtrip
• The Muse Heard Music
• Lacrimosa
• The Allegory of the Maze
• The Stars on Stuart Road
• To Isabella
• For Want of a Potato Chip
• Termite Nests
• Saving a Rose
• Today and Yesterday
• A Foggy New York
• Cat; Wurtzburg
• Embrace
• Faces
• Geisha
• Pacis Leo
• Patterns
• Te-Whanganui-a-Tara (The Dock)
The Lantern, 2012-2013

Nora Sternlof, Kerrey Kahn, Quinn Gilman-Forlini, Chelsea Callahan, Anna Lorine, Sophie Zander, Caroline Putscher, Dominick Knowles, Samuel Brenner, Amanda Sierzega, Emily Duffy, Emily Fogel, Chloe Campbell, Andrew Tran, Maxwell Bicking, Jillian Goldstein, Erica Gorenberg, Alex Niedmann, Kelsey Knowles, Logan Metcalf-Kelly, Edwin Kosik, Gladys Martinez, Olivia Hovick, Shane English, Brooke Haley, Isabella Esser-Munera, Joshua Hoffman, Michael Heimbaugh, Anna Lobo, Kristin Cichowski, Brett Neslen, Allison Cavanaugh, Monica Reuman '15, Rikki Kathryn Eble, Angier Cooper, Rayna Nunes, Stephanie Breitsman, Julianna Lepore, Rachel Blunt, and Nicole Kovacs

• How They Run
• What Was Said in Boston
• On the Last Day of the Month
• An Angel Tries to Surprise Humans
• I Wonder if God Modeled Boys After Books
• Marred with Modern Scars
• Feather Bed
• Ode to a Pen
• Objet Petit A
• Breaking News: Grownups Fear Return of Disco
• Neuroscience
• New Document
• We Were Stars, and the Sky was Our Grass
• About a Man
• Trojan
• An Ode
• Yr Body Sour
• That Lake in Jamaica
• Live While Chiefs are Still Fighting
• Lament for Mathematics
• The Robert Frost House
• People Fell in Love on Me
• Sunday Review
• Looks Silly in Tiny Desk Chairs
• Two Years Later
• Better Than Nothing
• Istanbul
• Packs of Cigarettes
• Sonnet
• Outside King of Steaks
• Obstinance
• Coffee Grinds
• Autumn Equinox
• Homecoming
• Oh, San Francisco
• Slide: A Beginning
• Slowly Last Summer
• Of Dogs and Men
• Letters Not Sent
• Before the Race
• The Little Things
• Tarpon Springs
• Payment for Rebellion
• Wednesday
• When is President's Day?
• Heartless Parallels and Perpendiculars
• Railway
• Presto Agitato
• Easier Said Than Done
• Waves
• Four White Women
• Rope
• Alter Ego Self Portrait
• Pebbles
• Coney Island
• Guanjuanto
• Growth
• Evolve
• Winter Blackout
• Honeybee
• Frames
• Wanderlust
• Guiding Light 1
• Frick's Lock
• The Ones That Never Leave
• In Memoriam: Rachel Blunt
The Lantern, 2011-2012

Arielle Ross, Maire Moriarty, Rosie Clark, Sydney Dodson, Marissa Perilli, Connor McNamara, Anna Lorine, Kristin Cichowski, Ellyn Rolleston, Amanda Blythe, Dominick Knowles, Scott Sherman, Anna Larouche, Madeline Constantino, James Harper, Sara Sherr, Callie Ingram, Dixon Speaker, Brooke Haley, Allison Cavanaugh, Travis Quinn, Quinn Gilman-Forlini, Chris Dickerson, Grace Buchele, Rayna Nunes, Brett Neslen, Rachel Perry, Matthew O'Brien, Kendal Conrad, Kurt Stumpo, MJ McGinn, Sarah Cogswell, Lindsay Hogan, Jenny Phillips, Emily Dugan, Bethani Zeller '12, Kaitlin Murphy, Monica Reuman '15, Kyle Davis, Rikki Kathryn Eble, Alexandra Duch, Karen Levandoski, and Liz Palovick

• Frangipani
• A Shadow
• Dear Anne, In this Place, Stringbean Girls
• Back to a Dandelion
• How to Plant a Room
• Swimming Pool Poem 30
• The Naming of Daughters
• Berman Museum Photographs
• Truth or Dare
• The Song of Remembrance, L'vov, Poland, 1940
• Headlights
• Prayer of Thanks
• Numbers Game
• Pediment
• Home Sick
• Lust
• Sand Lining Instructions
• A-A-Ask a Question
• Flash Cards
• Columbus Day
• Mr. Yoest Gives His Report to the Police Officers on Wednesday Night
• Gender Trouble
• The Internet Connection at Ursinus College
• Assuming You'll Still be Here
• 10/28/11, Third Poem
• October
• Actions that Affirm and Confirm Us as a Community
• Why I Hate The Lantern
• Confessions of an Ex-Vegetarian
• Run
• Lunch at Caltort
• Schemers
• You Will Make Beautiful Babies in America
• The Black Dirt Region
• Il Travatore
• Ghost Story
• Blue Eyes and Sunny Skies
• A Little Sincerity
• The Bookstore
• The Opposite of Serendipity
• The Human Doll
• Evil Deeds
• Francesca
• Sunday Morning
• Jersey Aesthetic
• Jump!
• Behind Reimert
• Seaweed in New Zealand
• Tombee de L'elegance
• The Window
• Esperando
• Rainbow to the Heavens
• Encased
• In Springtime
• A Fiesolan Monk's Room
• Inside a Bone
• Neon Indian
• Moments of Clarity
• OneFeral: A Feral Self-Portrait
• Cover Image: The Conqueror
The Lantern, 2010-2011

Joshua Aungst, Amanda Blythe, Dominic Castanzo, Kristin Cichowski, Elisa DiPrinzio, Atticus Graven, Brooke Haley, Josh Krigman, Greta Martikainen-Watcke, Connor McNamara, Logan Metcalf-Kelly, Benjamin Mooney, Andy Murray, Samantha Owen, Rachel Perry, Ellyn Rolleston, Scott Sherman, Dixon Speaker, Trevor Zumpano, Sarah Round, Rosie Clark, Edwin Kosik, Nick Hanford, Alyse Donnachie, Andrew Eron, Shane Kowalski, Josh Krigman, Anna Lorine, Tony McDonnell, MJ McGinn, Rayna Nunes, Jonathan Palmisano, Allison Cavanaugh, Sarah Cogswell, Adam DiCaprio, Noelle Goldcamp, James Harper, Lindsay Hogan, Cory Kram, Katherine Murphy, Arielle Ross, and Regan Dohm

• The Graterford Department of Corrections
• Visiting Room: Lewis Considers the Space & Time Continuum
• String
• The Tale of Lad Wadley
• The Devout
• One Moment in the Garden
• Water, Focused and Tumbling
• Bomber
• Another
• I Walked Home
• Perhe
• I Describe the Last Time My Parents Had Sex
• Butterflies
• Ship Without Fools
• The Interview
• Cyane
• An Imaginary Portrait of Stella as a Young Girl
• At the Farm Market in Early Autumn
• Victor Jorgenson's Photograph of the V-J Day Kiss
• Lightning
• The Citadel
• Whenever You Come Home From School
• It Came in a Dream
• What I Know About Fission
• Please Don't Fire Me for Saying Such Things
• Femina Irata
• Thank You For Shopping
• Sunday, November 27th
• An Introduction to The Lifestyle
• Laid-Off Perception
• Good-Night, Sweet Prince
• Requiem for a Marriage
• Gertrude's Book
• Passing
• Elk Run II
• Shady Tides
• A Quiet House
• Tell Him. A Manual
• Silence
• Google This
• The Dinner Table Dance
• The Inevitable Extinction of Filing Cabinets
• Chateau d'If
• Man Smoking in Charcoal
• Inside Auschwitz
• Bark Glow
• Anticipation
• Look Up
• Major News Networks
• Others Wage War
• Insert Bible Verse Here
• The Empress
• Candy Castle
• Venice, Italy
• Quebec
• Bhutanese Child
• Jumper
• Pomegranates
• Cover Image: Octopus Hat
The Lantern, 2009-2010

Ronak Darji, Callie Ingram, Robert Whitehead, Scott Sherman, Katherine Murphy, Josh Ecker, Sophia Lazare, Elisa DiPrinzio, Allison Cavanaugh, Sarah Brand, Nathaniel Rosenthalis, Pete Lipsi, Ellyn Rolleston, Shane Kowalski, Josh Aungst, Ciara Adams, Gianna Paone, Brooke Haley, Connor McNamara, Sarah Schwolsky, Arielle Ross, Greta Martikainen-Watcke, Katie Simmon, Stephanie Bartusis, Ross Whitehurst, Jared Ellis, Amanda Schwartz, Shaun Frank, Judson Monroe, David J. Hysek, Sean Rosenberg, Maeve Sutherland, Nicole Feight, Edwin Kosik, Tanja Johansson, Maire Moriarty, Elizabeth Cannon, Elizabeth Mathis, Amber Spurka, Josh Krigman, Lindsay Hogan, Samuel Stahller '10, Deanna Hayes '10, Anne Johnson, Matt Whitman, Kieslana Wing, and Ananda Holton

• I'm Pregnant. It's Yours
• The Nightmare
• What Death Became After Cyparissus
• Substances
• Ain't That a Man?
• Portrait
• The 100th Chemo
• Looking into Her Toy Box with a Lover
• They Used to Talk About Burning Cities
• MESSAGE: Absence for Allen Ginsberg
• Lunch with Candide
• Behold! Man of Unbelief! Behold!
• Dream #1 Final Strophe
• Patience (Things You Will Discover)
• Four Years
• He Falls Like Leaves
• The Quilt
• Ariel (Turning Tricks at Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey, California)
• Extranjera
• The Taste of Morning
• Fear of Glory
• The Rum Bottle's Fortune
• While Thinking of What to Write
• Dying in Spring
• Tutte le Eta di Firenze
• Token
• A House Grows Into Itself
• Gravity
• Father with the Skyy
• He Says He Dreams of Me
• Myth
• Sun-Veins and Wishbones
• Attempts at Bravery
• One Boy in Four Parts
• Blacktop Rollin'
• Getting My Feet Wet
• The Long Ride After Ending
• Wet Tongues and Sweaty Cotton
• Norman Bates is My Mother
• Sims Trek
• Tomorrow Comes Today
• The Writer's Process
• This Too Was Real
• Venus from the Waves
• Shark
• Monday's Expectations
• Recognition
• The Black Shoes
• Climax
• Andrew
• Bottles
• Calle de Cusco
• God in the Machine
• The 26th of December
• Lollipop Lollipop
• When Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth
• Meaning
• Jeffrey
• Looking
• Jagged Edges
• Fading Storm
• Shoes
• Cover Image: Death by Chocolate
The Lantern Vol. 76, No. 2, Spring 2009

Chelsea Catalanotto, Robert Whitehead, Callie Ingram, Paul Rossman, Katherine Murphy, Maire Moriarty, Pete Lipsi, Josh Aungst, Nathan Taylor, Ellyn Rolleston, Liz Brennan, Nicole Dillie, Stephanie Bartusis, Robert Evans, Amber Hyppolite, Kevin Bendis, Christopher Schaeffer, and Shane Kowalski

• Coffee and Morning
• Charlie Brown Testifies at the Trial of Westley Allan Dodd, Convicted Child Killer
• In a Women's Bathroom
• The Naming
• An Urban Nightmare
• In the Yellow Kitchen
• City Streets
• Engineering
• Walter Bixby Walks Through Hunsberger Woods
• Sing a Happy Tune
• Apology
• Will You Wear a Helmet?!
• Molly Can't Answer the Phone
• Marked Man
• He's Under a Lot of Pressure
• Ne Me Quitte Pas
• Last Night
• All of Our Second Hand Books are Lightly Worn
The Lantern Vol. 76, No. 1, Fall 2008

Louisa Schnaithmann, Dayna Stein, India McGhee, Callie Ingram, Nathan Taylor, Nathaniel Rosenthalis, Brett Celinski, Chelsea Catalanotto, Nicole Dillie, Robert Whitehead, Ryan Sullivan, Maire Moriarty, Katherine LeCours, Christopher Schaeffer, Robert Evans, Colin Ottinger, Amanda Schwartz, Abigail Raymond, Sarah Round, Maximilian Kreisky, and Patrick Hayakawa

• Cruel
• A Night in Three Parts
• The Moment I Said It
• To Know
• I Will Never Skipskipskip a Rock
• The Ravine
• Untitled
• Skeleton
• Midnight Letter
• Where Children Come From
• Orphan of War
• Ciega / Mezquita
• The Other Side
• Those Dancing Days are Gone
• Cycling
• The 2nd of July
• The Tantric Semantics of Studying Abroad
• A Three-Part Study in Musical Relations
• Amway Man
• Hard Luck Investigator
• Spring
• Interview With Poet Eleanor Wilner
The Lantern Vol. 75, No. 2, Spring 2008

Robert Whitehead, Stephanie Bartusis, Natalie Rokaski, Dayna Stein, Jennifer Mingolello, Josh Krigman, Tori Wynne, Jen Bowlan, India McGhee, Nicole Dillie, John Lukacs, Steven Markoe, Andy Brienza, Christopher Schaeffer, Joshua Solomon, Christopher Curley, Eric Relvas, Michael Taggart, Dan Sergeant, Samantha Owen, Patrick Hayakawa, Laurel Salvo, and Ian O'Neill

• In a French Courtyard at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Picky Mangoes
• And for My Un-Birthday I Drank Poets' Tea and Got to See
• Tree-Baby
• Wrestling With Plants
• I Smile
• Walking Home
• The Wall Between
• Phalangese, or the Art of Speaking to Fingers
• Early Spring
• Karma Kids
• A Bazaar Triptych
• The Joys of Ritual Circumcision
• [Of] Archetype[s] or I Don't Like Your Poetry
• Truth and Beauty Bombed
• Chevalier Anachronistic
• Kinds of Birds
• Sparknotes Entry for The Changing Tide by Eric Relvas
• Thirst
• The Devil's Dictionary
• Portrait of an Artist Who Loves Icarus
• Dinner at the Old House
• The Meaning of a Dust-Buster
The Lantern Vol. 75, No. 1, Fall 2007

Brett Celinski, Katie LeCours, Dayna Stein, Louisa Schnaithmann, Tim Garay, Tori Wynne, Christopher Schaeffer, Pete Lipsi, MaryKate Sullivan, Jen Mingolello, India McGhee, Colin Ottinger, Megan Ormsby, Natalie Rokaski, Georgia Julius, Abigail Raymond, Christopher Curley, Aaron Garland, Ian O'Neill, Kristin O'Brassill, and Marjorie Vujnovich

• Black Cat
• Divorce
• The Picture in the Basement
• An Ode to the '50s Housewife; or Go Go Sylvia Plath
• Paradise from a Clock
• The Fifth
• Moveable Feast
• Deathbed
• July 17th
• Words
• Autobiography
• The Raving
• The Dream Hater
• The Moon Rose Late
• Tree, the Big, Very Old One in the Middle of Campus
• Apple Bit
• Sub Atomic Romance
• God Came
• Extinction
• Ski Masks and Knee Caps
• Of Silhouettes and Dominoes
The Lantern Vol. 74, No. 2, Spring 2007

Jan Cohen, Chris Schaeffer, Jennifer Mingolello, Dayna Stein, Serena Mithboakar, Dan Sergeant, India McGhee, Brett Celinski, Stephanie Bartusis, Trevor Strunk, Phil Repko, Thomas Richter, Tori Wynne, Ian O'Neill, Menaka Gopalan, Monica Crary, Michael Silber, Rachel Heller, Jon Gagas, Kevin Bendis, and Christopher Curley

• La Viuda
• The Curb After Light Drizzling
• Loose Cream
• The Problem of Ants
• Streetplay
• Avignon, Anno Domini 1348
• Autophagia
• Silverette-New Wave Fascist Date Routine
• Mint Shavings
• Dogtags
• Millenials
• Rain That Sleeps by Itself at Track Number 5
• Amorphous
• I Found a Flashlight
• Sippikkul Muthu: Pearl Within Shell
• Of Lies
• The Complications of a Fish-Only Diet
• Ashes
• Unto the Fourth Generation
• Marooned on Piano Island
• Sweet
The Lantern Vol. 74, No. 1, Fall 2006

Patrick Roesle, Dayna Stein, Thomas Richter, Ivy McDaniels, Liora Kuttler, Sara Campbell, Jason Comcowich, Peter Lipsi, Christopher Schaeffer, Christopher Curley, Trevor Strunk, India McGhee, Ashley Higgins, Brett Celinski, Phil Repko, Brittany Fernandez, Tori Wynne, Tracey Ferdinand, Caroline Meiers, Kerri Landis, Marjorie Vujnovich, Dan Sergeant, Joe Wasserkrug, Sam Greenfield, Trick Barrett, Sean Sasscer, Erin Rafferty, Nick Shattuck, Stephanie Bartusis, and Ian O'Neill

• Seven Haikus About Insomnia
• Lunch Hour
• Divorced Parents and Flower Guts
• 24
• Lily
• Growth
• Narcissistically Admiring You
• Mysterious Avocado
• Aloha Roast
• Summer
• Lines
• Internalizing
• San Francisco
• Numb Candle
• Moments No. 1
• Tanka
• Euphemism
• We be Malllllll
• Dragon Magic
• Time for the Magic Show
• Green
• Job
• The Shire
• Venom
• The Seasons of Love
• The Position
• Fragments of an Artist
• Peace
• Vagabond Nights
• Rerum Concordia Discors
The Lantern Vol. 73, No. 2, Spring 2006

Christopher Curley, Patrick Roesle, Klaus Yoder, Ashley Higgins, Phil Repko, Rachel Daniel, Rori Smith, Andrew Brienza, Brett Celinski, Nathan Dawley, Katy Diana, Georgia Julius, Joshua Solomon, Trevor Strunk, Tori Wynne, Jennifer Mingolello, Julie Gentile, Brad Smith, Rachel Bower, Natalie Rokaski, Katharine Jones, Ian O'Neill, Harrison Ziskind, Christopher Wierzbowski, Richard Veale, and Maureen McCarthy

• Of the Man
• Beauty in America
• Kindling
• Genevieve
• Bits of Copper
• A Love Song to Hip Hop
• From James' Journal
• I Want a Woman
• Peregrine Rain
• Resurge
• Frustrations
• (At Least) You Gave Me Something to Write About
• The Fun of Giving Interactive History Lectures as a Summer Job
• Exigence
• White Water
• My Summer, with Salt
• The City With Two Faces
• I Dig Your Cello
• Life-Filled Ghost Town
• Laura, On Happiness
• Integration/Assimilation
• Sunny Side Estates
• Every Night I Shut My Eyes
• New England State of Mind
• Your Body's Weight in Water for Your Soul, Thank You Very Much
• A Story That's 10 Percent True
The Lantern Vol. 73, No. 1, Fall 2005

Daniel Sergeant, Nathan Dawley, Katy Diana, Klaus Yoder, Brad Schutts, Trevor Strunk, Joshua Solomon, Patrick Roesle, Thomas Richter, Jennifer Mingolello, Nathan Dawley, Tori Wynne, Tracey Ferdinand, Natalie Rokaski, Katherine Jones, Elsa Budzowski, Brett Celinski, and Ashley Higgins

• Newspaper Clippings Found on the Wall of Giuseppe Luchenzo's Home When it was Raided by Police
• All the Time in the World
• The Man Who Would Win
• Souffle Suit
• A Day in the Mind
• Context
• Felicity / Awareness
• Frivolous
• Thank You Note to J.S.B.
• September 17, 2005
• Eight Ways of Looking at a Highway
• Dusty Glass Spreads Air Like Light
• Clockwork
• Rubber Band
• Outside Eye or I Am?
• A Mundane Mysticism
• Half Carat
• Things I Learned on My Trip to the Mutter Museum of Medical Oddities
• Peer Editing
• The Attic Bones
• Yes
The Lantern Vol. 72, No. 2, Spring 2005

Patrick Roesle, Julie Gentile, Joshua Solomon, Ashley Higgins, Megan Bossler, Rachel Daniel, Thomas Richter, Victoria Wynne, Susannah Fisher, Jennifer Mingolello, Sarah Kauffman, Trevor Strunk, Jessica Schoff, Abi Munro, Klaus Yoder, Sean Neil, Alison Shaffer, Shane Borer, Whitney Roper, Daniel Bruno, Chris Curley, and Shannon Burke

• Transmigration
• Faces of the Moon
• Euphony of the Euphonium
• He Met Me in the Arcs & Ebbs of Frailty
• An Adoration of Ordination
• Ebony: The Essence Thereof
• Curbside Statue Has No Legs Left
• Triggerfinger Romance
• Lost
• Running Through Connecticut
• Eve
• The Day Lates and the Dollar Shorts
• Somnambulist
• That's That
• The Glenn Machine
• Evenfall in Bad Homburg
• Absence of Field
• Dating Myself
• Traveling Without a Map
• The Non-Euclidean Way to Get Some Bagels
• La Belle Epoque
• Satin Boxes