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 Vol. 47, No. 2, May 1981

Theresa A. Waldspurger, Heinrich Wichemann, Raymond D. Snyder, Jennifer Bassett, Jean Morrison, John Mulvey, Steve Martino, Diane Newell, Christopher Poe, Duncan C. Atkins, Robert Pfeiffer, Angela Morrison, and Xenia Constantine Politis

• Festival
• Ode to Old Tom
• Living Room
• Writing a Poem
• Mission Impossible
• The Hinge is Oiled
• The Potter's Field at Malvern
• Points of Time
• Attempted Autonomy
• My Love
• Love, not War
• Death Comes Quickly
• You Can't Always Get What You Don't Really Want
• You See (Johnny's Tale): An Elegy
• Sanguine Hopes
The Lantern Vol. 47, No. 1, December 1980

Diane Newell, Jennie Reichert, Xenia Constantine Politis, Steve Martino, Kathy Kuehner, Chris Kile, Lori Reinhart, Drew Procaccino, Dorene M. Pasekoff, Rob Oscovitch, Carol A. Hykel, Robert Pfeiffer, Barbara A. Mathers, Jennifer Bassett, and James H. Wilson

• Renewal
• She Threw Down Her Diamond
• Ragnarok
• Cinquains
• Euphoria
• To the Nahua of the Valley of Mexico
• Inamorata
• Unspoken Passion
• Clouds of Circus Cotton Candy Pink
• The First Mate Finds a Captain (Almost)
• Dance of Defiance
• Concert
• Blame
• I've Seen That Movie Too
• Greystone
• The Philosophers of The Tower
• Span
• Commando
• Cheshire
• Summertime, Kryptonite and Falstaf(f)
• Experience
• Fluid Time
• The Plight of Fred in Bed
• A Way With Men
• Courage to Love - (To A.)
• Winter Sleep
• Bernie
The Lantern Vol. 46, No. 2, April 1980

Jack Rosenfeld, Shannon Emery, Joanne McPhillips, Robert Pfeiffer, Mari K. Brown, James Wilson, Terry Waldspurger, Margaret Higgins, Patrick Benjamin Walker, Drew Procaccino, Lori Reinhart, Bruce Dalziel, Marian B. Dugan, Jill Hadley, Shari Slavin, and Jeanne E. Hayes

• The Voyage to Man's Destiny
• If I Could Keep the Times
• Barstool Blues
• I Didn't Know
• Felonious, Friend
• Cool Ride
• Georgia
• Let Us Eat and Drink
• In a Field
• New Born Foal
• Union to Freedom
• In the Woods
• Anthropomorphism
• Runner
• C.C.
• Lake Attempt
• A Fuzzy Blue Line
• Trust Me
• "Haven't We Met Before?"
• Rationality
• Expecting Me
• Short Story
The Lantern Vol. 46, No. 1, December 1979

Drew Procaccino, Chris Kile, Charles W. Brynan III, Xenia Constantine Polites, Barbara Foley, Lori Reinhart, Bruce Dalziel, Linda Daly, Scott Fleagle, Jack Rosenfeld, Terry Silva, Mari K. Brown, Ed Daly, and Mark Malkames

• Visions in Chains
• The Bean
• "Who Can We Watch Tonite?"
• Night Glider
• The Hurricane
• "Crisp New Paper"
• Compassion
• Loneliness
• 301
• Ode to Man
• "Unsteady Hands"
• The Beachcomber
• The Pounce
• Graveyard Shift
• Houston Refineries
• Haiku
• The End of the Game
• A Rose
• Ode to a Ziffle
• To Carson McCullers
• In the May Month
• "Ghostly Chanting"
• Travel Excerpts
• Face in the Crowd
• Waiting in an Airport
• A Taste of Winter's Embrace
The Lantern Vol. 45, No. 2, April 1979

Keith Strunk, Kathy McSharry, David Hoag, Jeff Carlow, Lori Reinhart, Karen Sheldon, Jack Rosenfeld, Steve Kratz, Scott Watson, Chris Kile, Teri R. Clemmer, Lisa Ungrady, Robert Pfeiffer, Joanne McPhillips, and Martin Atreides

• A Runner's Motivation
• For A Little While
• Nameless
• We Must Remain Liberal Minded
• Solstice of Paradise
• Sunset
• One More Love Poem for an Imperiled Society
• A Poor Winter Poem
• A Parody
• State Hospital
• Long Distance Love
• The ID
• Cereal Art
• Stepping Stones
• Message to the Populace
• Therefore Must We Yearn
• Anticipation
• Dregs
• Band of Devils
The Lantern Vol. 45, No. 1, November 1978

Lisa Ungrady, Martin Atreides, Stephen Saylor, Kim Espenshade, Bruce Dalziel, Robert Francis Pfeiffer, David Hoag, Jack Rosenfeld, Karen Sheldon, Michael Voyack, Jennie Reichert, Chris Kile, and Lori Reinhart

• Here is the Dance
• To V.E.H.
• The Hard Fist of the North
• Early Ridicule
• Spectrum - October 6, 1978
• Finally Someone Looks
• Windjammer
• Bereft
• Waiting
• Solitary Season
• Drifting Downstream
• The Dirtiest Joke
• The Mannequin Factory
• Me
• When I am Famous
• A Letter to John Hansen
• Who Said the Sound of Laughter is Nice?
• Throwing Back Her Hair
• Don't Let the Cold Become You
• Sister
• Marxist Drama
• Fleeting Love
• Music of Spain
• (A Selection of Happy Poems)
• Sterling St. Jacques
• Winter, Verse II
• Aventure Chez Le Psychiatre
• For Marya
• The Night Train
• A Rude Awakening
The Lantern Vol. 44, No. 2, Spring 1978

Jack Rosenfeld, Tracy Dewees, Scott Watson, Rory M. Wade, Leonard Ulan, George Young, Jonathan Zap, Amy Rowland, Stephen J. Saylor, David Hoag, Gary Aaronson, Robert Brancatelli, Thomas A. Reilly, Keith Strunk, Brian Malsberger, Jeff Carlow, and Karen Sheldon

• Ode To the Death of a Patient
• The Bloody Brand of Honor
• Deserted Trail
• The Apple Revisited
• Consciousness in Awares
• Middle Class
• Clock
• Snow
• The Case
• Your Eyes Speak Falsely
• Finding a Place
• Legacy of Ellis Island
• John
• Work
• A Gift
• When She is Gone
• Qual. Lament
The Lantern Vol. 44, No. 1, Fall 1977

Robert Brancatelli, Stephen M. Lange, Chris Kile, Lisa Ungrady, Len Ulan, Leslie Bechtel, Stuart Dearden, David Hoag, Ted Lis, Pamela Roediger, David Donia, and Jonathan J. Zap

• Onto My Love
• Saturday Midnight
• Michelle
• Today
• Firefly
• Black Midnight
• Bamboo Arms
• Caesaropapism
• A Day In My Life
• I Only
• For Stephen
• April 18, 1958 to July 15, 1977 with Emphasis on July 15
• Ode to Little Sisters
• Privacy Warning
• For Susan, Someone I Used to Know
• A Parting on the Night of June 26th
• Infant's Universe
The Lantern Vol. 43, No. 2, May 1977

Karen Sheldon, Donald Philhower, Ron Baltz, Risie Power, Craig Mally, B. Bloemfontein, Kcir Sirrom, Leslie Bechtel, Peter Geoffries, Bruce Dalziel, Janet Knauerhase, Lisa Ungrady, Cindy Shelmire, Laurie Duff, Bob Shuman, Joanne McPhillips, and Stephen M. Lange

• Ode to Loneliness
• Windy Grief!
• Death
• The Icicle Vase
• To Ellen
• The Arrival of Night
• The Reserve Clause
• The Unspoken War
• Bull's Eye
• Closing Scene
• Brown Bottle Candles
• Goodbye
• There's Individuality In The Surf
• Impermanence
• Dark Nights
The Lantern Vol. 43, No. 1, Fall 1976

Leslie Bechtel, Craig Mally, Cindy Poots, Laurie Duff, Bob Dean, Donna L. Phillips, Tony Woodward, Jill Leauber, Craig Hoyer, Mike Hoffman, John McGonigle, Lisa Ungrady, Bruce Dalziel, Robert C. Lane, Alan Peters, and Barbara Ann Vincent

• Frustration
• Think Again
• My Sweet
• Secret Society of One
• November Ghosts
• A Lonely Girl's Prayer
• Visions of You
• The Innocence Baby
• Society
• Silence
• Don't Turn Around
• Waves
• Loneliness
• "Time Writer"
• Brood
• It's Not Funny
• Four Haiku, Entwined
• "We'll Have to Stop Meeting Like This"
• Castles In the Sand
• The Sea
The Lantern Vol. 42, No. 2, Spring 1976

David Roberts, Craig Hoyer, Elizabeth Tibbitts, Robert Brancatelli, Stanley Cias, Cindy Poots, Thomas Brinkerhoff, Nina Roeder, Craig Mally, Colleen Manning, David Hoag, and Stephen M. Lange

• Cape Cod
• Thoughts
• Circle of Stone
• Ursinus: A Collegiate Game for All Ages
• Spring
• "And The Clown Sings"
• Tainted Dreams
• The Funeral
• With Apologies to Ken Nordeen
• Curiosity
• Crystaline Magical Hue
• Time
• The Stalemate
• Back Porch Genocide
• T-18
• Photo Album
• Eunuch
The Lantern Vol. 42, No. 1, Fall 1975

Laurie Duff, Craig Malley, Felix Roy, Cindy Poots, Jill Leauber, Stephen M. Lange, David Hoag, Robert Brancatelli, Ozzie Fielding, Ted Clemens, John Mathews, Phil Davis, Michael Moyer, Nina Roeder, and Frank-John Hadley

• The House
• The Empty Man
• Time
• Corporea
• Take Me
• Elements of Nature
• Hope
• Acclimation
• Road to Elat
• Sinai
• Jerusalem
• Fatman
• Ode to Grand Rapids
• Ode to Cora
• The Apple Cart
• Next Time You're Down South
• Star Wreck
• Eulogy to John Doe
• A Postal Preoccupation
• The Interview May Be Real (But Don't Bet On It)
• Winter Eve
• My Love
• God's Children
• A View From a Hill
• Freedom For Us
• Sleep Demon
The Lantern Vol. 41, No. 2, Spring 1975

Jill Leauber, Rebecca J. Henry, Cindy Poots, S. L. Welles, Alan M. Taren, Barbara Ann Vincent, Nina Roeder, Robert Simon, David K. Roberts, Thomas M. Rosato, Stu Dearden, and Scott Wagner

• Awakening
• 10:27
• The Box
• God's Children
• The Blasphemous Bean Beetle Levels Limpidland
• First Flight
• In April
• Butterfly
• In the Garden
• The Emperor's Pond
• The Mob
• Date with Destiny
• While Awaiting Death
• Sweet Jane
• Final Thoughts
The Lantern Vol. 41, No. 1, Fall 1974

S. L. Welles, Rebecca J. Henry, David Kenneth Roberts, Kate Swanson, Cindy Poots, Donald R. Whittaker, Gerard J. Mitchell, Jill Leauber, Clint R. Edson, Scott Wagner, Robert Simon, and George Bause

• The Fable
• Landscape - Clear Weather in the Valley
• Josephine Palooka
• Don't Bark Twice - It's All Right
• Masks
• Suicide Note From a Lemming
• The Death of Dame Sexton
• Come September
• Leaves
• Spruce Grove
• The Class of '75
• The Promise
• Images
• Sixth Station
• Borealis
• To Gem
The Lantern Vol. 40, No. 2, Spring 1974

Eva Morgan, David Kenneth Roberts, Stephen Horstmann, Nina Roeder, Edmond Knowles, Debbie Erbe, Darla Wilson, George Bause, Cindy Shelmire, Robert Simon, Phil Henry, Holly Leber, and Fred Reiss

• Response
• Roads
• Ghost Dance
• Natator
• Make Believe
• An English Sonnet
• A Cinquain
• Icarus
• Alchemy
• Pain
• Love
• Scramblen' Zone
• In the Gathering Wind
• The Circus
• Streams
• The Showdown on the Corner of Main Street and Koscuisko Drive!!!
• Fandango
• Ode to an Orange Orangutan
• Nausea
The Lantern Vol. 40, No. 1, Fall 1973

Edmond Knowles, George Bause, James Popelka, Eva Joyce Morgan, Kathy Morris, Peter Dabback, Scott Wagner, Doug Stewart, Alan Bartholomew, and Fred Reiss

• I, The Poet
• Observation
• Haiku
• "Smile and Lift Me Up"
• The Sacrifice
• Prints in the Snow
• Eric
• Ode to a Possum
• The Flower
• Yamato
• You, Sisyphus
• The Love Song
• "Goodbyes"
• Living High With Gary Rutledge in Markevitch's Cucumber and Gourd Patch: Grabbing Lightning Bugs and Stuffing Them in My Hellmann's Mayonnaise Jar!
The Lantern Vol. 39, No. 2, Spring 1973

Cheryl Hiltebeitel, Fred Reiss, Terry Tucker, Vincent Phillips, Kate Swanson, Anne Riehl, J. Olson, Edmond Knowles, Jim Popelka, Doug Stewart, Kathy Morris, Susan Petersen, Mary Spink, Denise L. Young, Jill Thomas, Rodger Blind, Richard Hankison, and Nina Camiel

• Days of Rain
• Reflections On Clifton, New Jersey
• Interlude
• Window Scene
• Eh!
• Odyssey of Malcolm
• Tuna on Toast
• The Second Avenue Bus
• Salutation of the Dawn
• So Say Something
• Mood
• Moriarty's Lament
• I've Been a Lonely Gypsy
• Change
• Cool Ray
• "The Thinker"
• A Southern Sunset
The Lantern Vol. 39, No. 1, Fall 1972

James Popelka, K. Lee Turner, Richard E. Hankison, Nina Camiel, Randy Sargent, Edmond Knowles, Cheryl Hiltebeitel, Vincent Phillips, Raymond Fleck, Kate Swanson, Henry R. Ellsworth Jr., Mary Spink, Kelly Stewart, Robert J. Micklus, and Scott Wagner

• A Journey Into Darkness
• September 5, 1972
• Atlantic Taperecorder
• Aftermath
• Linda
• Sweet Baby Jane
• The Court of the Ebony Clown
• The Cosmic Band
• Poem to the Dreamer
• Dawn
• Too Bad Life Isn't
• Incident at Tiffany's
• Sonnet
• Infinitas
• Podiatry
• 2 and 4a
• Autistic Autumn
• I Walk Alone
• Eyes---and They Were Empty
The Lantern Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring 1972

Cheryl Hiltebeitel, Judy Freelin, Mary Spink, Kevin Akey, Sidney Houck, John Abernethy, Terry Tucker, John Kenneth Park, J. Buckwalter, Debbie Henning, Nancy Frye, Judith Grumet, Bob Houle, Michael Coyle, Roger N. Baldwin, Rob Hanlon, Cynthia Fitzgerald, Doug Stewart, Arthur G. Severance, and Kate Swanson

• Summer II
• For a True Romantic
• The Lyre Neglected
• Hands
• To a Friend
• Sleep
• The Wind's Confusing Sounds
• The Garden
• The Child Has Come Among Us
• The River and the Sea
• The Ice
• La Lamentation de la Fleur
• Nous Sommes
• Upon Becoming
• See!
• Feeling November
• Transience
• Clear
• Isotopes of Reality
• Just Yesterday
• Emergence
• Push
• The Way Love Starts
• Poetic Prosy
• An Agreement
• Spring 1930
• The Summers of '59, '60, '61
• Ode to Optometry
• The Easter Bunny - Noble Beast
The Lantern Vol. 38, No. 1, Winter 1971

Cheryl Hiltebeitel, Jim Sullivan, Morris Cherry, Nina Camiel, John Kenneth Park, Judith Grumet, William Fox, John Kenneth Park, Michael Mittelbrunn, Mary Spink, and Lindsley Cook

• Thoughts for Today
• Love's Trilogy
• He's My Mountain Now
• Activity
• Crazy River
• Seeyousoon
• Wild Stallion
• A Search
• Nest
• Depression
• Bait
• The Gentle Carpenter
• An Ode to Ralph
• Rain
• Memories
• Paranoiac Dreaming
• The Two Last People on Earth
• Brokedown Blues
• Francis Bacon
The Lantern Vol. 37, No. 1, Fall 1970

Morris Cherry, Kevin Akey, Lindsley Cook, Cheryl Hiltebeitel, Joanne Kurian, Debbie Henning, Debbie Wood, Wesley R. Harden III, Colleen Gleason, Chase E. Kneeland, Judy Freelin, John O. Abernethy, Kathy Sainson, Arthur G. Severance, Robert E. Houle, and Karen Crist

• Circumstance
• Advice
• For What You Do For Me
• Blink
• Love
• Love II
• Magic
• To Be a Child
• A Year Later
• A Poem in February
• The Crystal Brick Road
• Ephemera
• Life
• Whiskers
• Thoughts On Being Sick
• A Non-Poem
• A Gruk Anthology
• Moon
• A Thought
• Dwarf in an Existential Dawn
• Corridors To My Mind
• Sadness
• The Enzyme Song
• Creatures of Sand
The Lantern Vol. 36, No. 2, Spring 1970

Carol Wasserman, Sandy Case, Marc Hauser, Rob Hanlon, Gail Tierney, Tina Meade, Joanne Kurian, Janie Lancey, Richard Dixon, Denise Young, Donald Kline, Lynn Wollentin, Jane Siegel, Cheryl Hiltebeitel, and Arthur G. Severance

• On a Plane From Here to There
• The Earth
• A Cry
• Starry-Eyed
• Day
• Ticking Clocks
• Nadir
• To----
• Mood
• Frost
• Island of Life
• A Non-Poem
• Cooky - Stillborn Like Mother Used to Make
• Solar
• Come Back
• The Hand
• Now
• Free
• Vision of the "Action Scene"
• Potpourri
• Confusions of a Stranger
• In the Darkness
The Lantern Vol. 36, No. 1, Winter 1970

Sharon Holbrook, Cheryl Hiltebeitel, Tina Meade, Robert Houle, Linda Clarke, Janie Lancey, William Hale, Karen Crist, John Kenneth Park, Gail Tierney, Alan Gold, Ken Distler, and Arthur G. Severance

• Reaction
• Offering III
• To a Conglomeration of No One in Particular
• Mom's Cookies
• Sounds of War
• Racetrack, August 2
• The Rain Pool
• Eternal Optimist?
• On the Slipperiness of Summer
• First Snowfall
• Tree--and Beyond
• Eternal Stone
• Thinking Abstract
• Once
• November
• Lifewreck
• Moon Travelin
• Air-borne
• Isn't Dating Fun?
• Escape
• Why
• #1
• Thoughts for a Saturday Night
• A Non-Poem
• A Trilogy in Haiku
• The Poetry of Loving You
• True Blues Project
The Lantern Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring 1969

Ritchie Davis, Janie Lancey, Linda DiMauro, Mary Ellen McFadden, Pam Grant, Beth Bland, and Richard Dixon

• My Steps Alone
• He Said He Hated Time
• Communication
• Evolution
• Morning Almost Faded
• Today I Looked
• Gloucester
• Have You Ever Tried
• It's Contact
• The Galloping Camel
• Life's Flight
• Haiku
• Today is Monday
• At the Waterfront
• He Said to Me
• Somewhere
• A Darkened Window
• The Stomach of the Sea
• And When I Looked There Were Pinprick Holes in the Sky
• Trinity
• You Are a Goof
• In Transit
• Night Will Fall
• Praise Be To...?