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. 34, No. 2, May 1968
Thomas Miller, Lance Diskan, Gregory Epler, Gerald Miller, Timothy C. Coyne, David Burkhardt, Vicki Van Horn, L. Barry Erb, Linda Richtmyre, Sharyn L. Negus, Linda DiMauro, Howard Solomon, Yolanda Roth, Margaret S. Wright, George Eastburn, William Norcross, Lee March, Robert MacFarland, Barbara Ann Bald, Wilhelmine J. Lysinger, and Wendie A. Eggleston
• The Man Without a System
• A Medal for Malcolm
• On Hearing That Tonya Will Be Married
• The Black Sea
• Odyssey '67
• Second Poem to Chris
• Singularity
• Period 5-A Began
• Long and Aching Ride
• Souvenirs
• My Eschatological Epitaph
• Discotheque
• Some Borrowed Words
• False Breakthrough
• Shore Morning
• The Beholder
• Thursday Childless
• A Most Prominent Role
• It Ran Out
• Shades of the Living
• The Dark Night of the Mind II
• One Step Beyond the Doors
• A Note of Thanks to My Parents and Teachers
• To a Dead Hippie
• A Scrap
• Love
• Haiku No. 30
• Rachel
• There Is No Present
• Winter Woods
• One Hundred Per Cent Genuine
• Heaven
• Silence Is Like God
• I Soaked Up Silence
• Opened Letter From Whistler Homer, Insaned Assailant
• Sol Clutch Rides Tonight
• I Have Seen Destruction
• Upon That Night
• That's Weird
• Alone
• Kathy's Tune
• On Walking Home
• The Wheel
• Some Excuse, at Least
• Freedom to Flap
• Awareness
• Okay, You Guys
• You Say You Dream
• Bacci Mia -
The Lantern Vol. 34, No. 1, December 1967
Vicki Van Horn, Edward Sinne, Scott Esslinger, Brian Mar, Lee March, George Eastburn, Linda Richtmyre, Susan Kegerise, Wilhelmine J. Lysinger, Robert MacFarland, Thomas Miller, Edward Birdsong, Gerald Miller, Lance Diskan, Barbara Ann Bald, Paul Sautter, and Karen Crist
• il se fait tard
• il pleut
• For GM
• A Fragile Fragment
• Epic in Stereo
• Kisskraft
• The Critical Marquis
• Sea Flame
• Belladonna
• Haiku
• Symphony
• Ziegfortenblat
• It's One of Those Nights
• Contentment
• Short-sighted and Mildly Unbelievable
• Society's Children
• Crowded Mirrors
• Child in Bright Colors
• The Long-range Accident
• The Ultimate Machine
• They Live in a Crowded Area
• Beastiary
• Nocturne
• I am Like a Candle
• Two A.M. and After
• Question Times Ten
• College Blues
• Poem at Midnight
• Love Chaos-Style
• Once Knew a Homespun Nanny
• He Who Argues
• Dying by the Water
• Is This Prose
• The Subintellectual
• Untitled Series
• Sunset Skirmish
• Lyrics of the Field
• That Day When I See
• Haiku
• When the Shadows Stopped
• Luz-Maria
• Prayer -
The Lantern Vol. 33, No. 2, May 1967
Craig Bender, Gerald Miller, L. Barry Erb, Robin S. Miller, Barbara Ann Bald, John S. Picconi, and Vicki Van Horn
• The Plea
• Arrival
• Nouvelle
• Poem on Theme by Leroi Jones
• Night Thoughts
• Finals
• Caught in the Act
• Tomorrow
• The Rail
• The Price
• Lost
• It's a Svaden Spring
• No Thanks to City Hall
• Grinding Them to Dust
• Four
• Five
• Nine
• Ten
• Twelve
• Thirty-Six
• Psyched Up and Out
• Gutted Glory -
The Lantern Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 1967
Barbara Ann Bald, Tom Miller, Jerry Miller, Craig Bender, L. Barry Erb, Jeffrie Ann Hall, Dottie Kimmel, Vicki Van Horn, Robert MacFarland, and Lance Diskan
• The Implement
• A Broken Backstop
• City
• My Friend Is
• Meditation on Eight Dead Nurses and a Mad Austin Sniper
• Fact and Fancy
• Valhalla
• A Blandishment
• You Say You Were a Name So Sweet
• Preview Rerun
• To Lynne
• Shards
• The Initial Error
• Daniel
• Gold on Gold
• If Morning Ever Comes
• Third Poem to Tonya
• The Kiss
• Her Soul Was Slippery
• Quietly -
The Lantern Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer 1966
Craig Bender, Barbara Ann Bald, Connie Church, Jeffrie Ann Hall, Barbara Bray, Barbara Zucker, Robert Sharpe, and Susan Kegerise
• Commandment Point
• The Descendant
• The Ultimate Journey
• Thoughts While Riding New York Subway
• Crazy Arthur
• Confession
• The Gull
• One Boy
• Cinquain: Cruel Life
• Quality of Revenge
• The Bull
• Chinese Landscape -
The Lantern Vol. 32, No. 2, January 1966
Paul Sautter, Craig Bender, Sue Hartenstine, Mack Whitlock, Barbara Ann Bald, Craig Bennett, Barbara Worthing, Bruce Hofsommer, Stephen L. Sullivan Jr., Howard Wester, and Nancy Cliff
• Mission 63
• The Kiss
• The Dream
• Silence is Golden
• Self-Pity
• The Excuse
• Car Eighteen
• Clothes Make the Man
• The Place of a Just Man
• Golden Gods
• The Journey
• Third Prize Picture
• Gone Now
• In Vain
• Deep Dying
• Marnie
• Rut -
The Lantern Vol. 32, No. 1, January 1965
Philip Sterling Rowe, Carol Flood, Bill Lybarger, Peter Vennema, Harry L. Serio, Phyllis Furst, D. Newcombe, Roy Christman, Steve Dearsley, and Linda Leeds
• The Wise Man
• Of Men and Lobsters
• Deliberate-Beyond Conception
• Villanelle
• Villanelle: Interlude
• Rune Green Stones
• Redemption
• John Ten
• Torch Ends
• The General and the Birdnest
• Not Quite Free
• Hymn to the Morning
• Walking Together -
The Lantern Vol. 31, No. 2, May 1964
John Bradley, Bitsy Flint, Lynn Martin, Roy Christman, Craig Bender, Sue Hartenstine, L. Noll Evans, Elwood R. Pollock, Carl F. Peek, McDonald L. Whitlock, and Sally Campbell
• The High, Forbidding Wall
• Sonnet One
• Sceptic
• The Witch, the Prince, and the Princess
• Portrait in Gold and Black
• The Music of the Drum
• Sweat It, Jack
• Cold Blue and the Moon
• Another Carpenter: Circa 1963
• At a Conference of Colonial Historians
• Pineland Places
• Diasia to Death
• Hey!...
• The Hour
• I'll Not Return -
The Lantern Vol. 31, No. 1, December 1963
David J. Phillips, Sally Campbell, Roy Christman, Elwood R. Pollock, Rudolph W. Keehn, Connie Church, Eugene H. Miller, Craig H. Bennett, Larry Meyers, and George E. Rutledge
• Today's Memory
• The Realization
• Life Fire
• Come Sleep
• The Ends Meet
• Dawn of Darkness
• Closed and Done: With Apologies to No One
• A Search
• Concern
• Obvious Oblivion
• Love's Ashes
• Silence
• To My Dentist
• Snow
• Wisdom
• Look Up
• Nepenthe
• With Apologies to Charles Schulz
• Autumn and You
• What is Optimism?
• Agnostic?
• Potpourri of Being -
The Lantern Vol. 30, No. 2, May 1963
Pam McDonough, Karen Rodenhausen, Geoffrey Bloom, Dorothy Davis, Harry L. Serio, George E. Rutledge, Sally Campbell, David Sall, Elwood R. Pollock, and Peter Vennema
• An Observation
• Interim
• The Collected Raid
• Please
• Love Me
• Waiting With the Sun
• Upon a Summit
• A Hedonist Comments on His Religion
• Like Ice
• Dark Morning
• So Soft the Breeze
• The Heat of Youth
• Solemnity
• A Laugh
• Peter Departing -
The Lantern Vol. 30, No. 1, February 1963
Harry L. Serio, John Cowen, Sandra Hoffmann, Larry Meyers, Ted Wilf, Roy Christman, Woody Pollock, Peter Vennema, R. Kechn, Esar Reuben, and Jeffrey Hallinger
• Mechanical Duplicity
• The Practical Profits of Purism
• 'Tis Better
• Misha
• Manuel
• An American Fairy Tale
• The Christ of Christopher Street
• Nocturne
• Various Reflections
• He Came and Gently Lifted Me
• Poem, In a Minor Key
• World Fell to Ruin
• The Map
• On Being Jilted
• Manna
• Traitor
• The Leaves Cling
• Oh Freedom!
• The Insurance Man
• Translation - The Vampire
• Four Poems
• Sanguis
• Phoney is the Color of My Love's Life
• To a Barmaid -
The Lantern Vol. 29, No. 2, Spring 1962
John Cowen, Harry L. Serio, J. R. Cameron, Nikki Newcomb, Peter Vennema, Robert J. Broselow, and Bill Lybarger
• A Deadly Diatribe on Daydreaming
• Iter Animae
• In Retrospection
• Collegiate, Collegiate, Yes We Are Collegiate
• Saint Zachary
• Lost Horizons
• Rune Green Stones
• Druidics
• Leanthalamion
• Thoughts on Leaving Derr Hall
• Opus 36; Literature 3
• Chinese Gill
• Times of Sand -
The Lantern Vol. 29, No. 1, December 1961
Peter Vennema, Carol Flood, Bill Pratt, Ralph J. Kronwood, Bill Lybarger, Sharon Lucas, and James H. Ryan
• King Fitzgerald's Court
• Deliberate Beyond Conception
• Jean
• The Dumb Superman
• Epilogue to Death
• Afternoon in August
• Eichmann
• A Nose Thumbed
• Observation
• The Forgetful Evening
• Truditur Dies Die
• The Deserted Pier
• Thoughts on Love
• Laughter
• A Waste?
• Villanelle: Interlude
• Lines on a Rhetorical Question
• Villanelle -
The Lantern Vol. 28, No. 2, Spring 1961
R. Newcombe, Harry L. Serio, Linda Leeds, Peter Vennema, James H. Ryan, Anne Mendelson, Larry Snyder, Susan M. Wilding, Bob McClellan, John J. Reeves, Ted Wilf, Richard F. Levine, E. R. Neubauer, and Michael Boris
• A New Bedlam
• A Priori
• Germ Warfare
• Verse for a Sympathy Card
• On Lamartine's Crucifix
• On Art
• Hope
• Hymn to the Morning
• An Educator Speaks
• Come Out
• Insemination
• A Day's Hope
• Laura
• Walking Together
• 20 September 1960
• 15 October 1960
• The Governor's Dog
• One of the Gang
• Poem
• Knowledge is Freedom
• To Conservative Child
• Seventeen American Skating Careers at the Zenith -
The Lantern Vol. 28, No. 1, January 1961
J. H. Ryan, Phyllis W. Furst, Pete Vennema, Sharon Lucas, D. Newcombe, Steve Dearsley, Richard F. Levine, Gail Ford, and Harry L. Serio
• I Felt Horror That Day
• John Ten
• Term Paper: Circa 3032 A.D.
• Villanelle
• Lament
• Joy of Bearded Boy
• U.S. Foreign Policy: The Future
• Contrast
• Camp Crowder
• Whispered Sounds
• Pity, Love
• Not Quite Free
• Experiences of a Heroin Addict
• The Hawk
• The Second Apple
• Reaction
• Poor Family, Moving
• Torch Ends Sputter in the Pall
• Late Date
• She'll Call Me -
The Lantern Vol. 27, No. 3, Fall 1960
Joel Roberts, Phil Rowe, Phyllis W. Furst, Steve Dearsley, Carol Flood, Jill Springer, Naomi Ruth Herre, Betty Heale, J. H. Ryan, Bea Hauer, Michael Boris, Pete Vennema, Anne Mendelson, Sandy L. Pfaffhausen, and Timothy H. C. R. Combe
• Thoughts in DaVinici's Coffeehouse
• Kinesiology Class
• No One is Named Alistair
• The Beat Generation
• The Super Highway Blues
• Panic and the Mountain Peak
• The Lake
• Later
• Ares
• The Light
• The Room
• Thoughts After Three-Thirty
• Critique
• There
• Organized Religion - Pro
• Organized Religion - Con
• Longing
• Apologies to Francois Villon
• The Fortune Teller
• At Twilight
• The Ledge
• Waiting at Evening for the Sky to Fall
• In Memory of a Friend
• The Gentleman
• Consumption
• Post-Panegyric
• The Everglades
• Awareness
• The Art of Two-Timing
• Meditations of an Egyptologist
• Sonnet to Mao Tse-Tung
• A Strange Affair
• With Us Tonight
• The Form in Front -
The Lantern Vol. 27, No. 2, Spring 1959
Bruce P. Sherman, Marvin Koff, A. D. Roberts, David Williams, Sandra Piper, Filmore Z. Crump, Timothy H. C. R. Combe, Linda B. Foard, George R. Herman Jr., Roy Moyer, John Swinton, Carolyn Carpenter, Judy Adams, Nancy Springer, Elizabeth Lewis, Archibald McKown, Tama Williams, Marcia Facchinetti, Linda Lee, and Charles Hudnut
• The Case for a Stratified Society
• Education Courses
• Some Thoughts for God's Thinking Creatures
• Sawdust to the Oats?
• To Change the Things I Can...
• Vignette
• I Meet Goliath
• Reverie and Reminiscence
• On Flight
• In Defense of Jazz
• A Description
• Line of Retreat
• Alan Lomax and the American Folk Song
• Dawn Stillness
• Seasons
• Two Poems
• Despair
• Too Late
• Education
• For All Practical Purposes He Was Bald
• Contrast
• I Belong to the Sea
• Waves
• Love
• The Glory and the Dream -
The Lantern Vol. 27, No. 1, December 1958
Samuel C. Miller, Irv Moore, Linda Lee, Richard T. Schellhase, Carolyn Carpenter, Carol Borthwick, Flora McQueen, Tomas M. McCabe, and Timothy H. C. R. Combe
• Thoughts
• The Fifth Year
• Grouse Shooting
• Light
• On Selfishness
• A Christmas Prayer
• Modern Magnificat
• Pauses
• Termination
• Cynthilia
• My Petticoat Princess
• ??
• Storm -
The Lantern Vol. 26, No. 3, June 1958
Allen Matusow, Bruce Lewis Heller, Samuel C. Miller, Philip Sterling Rowe, Norman R. Cole, and Tomas M. McCabe
• Reflections
• Recession: A Matter of Opinion
• "His Name Was..."
• The Outward Bound
• A Champion There Was
• Notes from the Sukura
• Undaunted -
The Lantern Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring 1958
Philip Sterling Rowe, Anne C. Markland, Roy Moyer, Arthur King, Linda Lee, and Tomas M. McCabe
• The Wise Man
• Of Men and Lobsters
• The Painting
• The Ghost of Moon Mountain
• Song for the Atomic Age
• Opus I
• Stillness -
The Lantern Vol. 26, No. 1, December 1957
Walter W. Montgomery, Samuel C. Miller, Philip Sterling Rowe, Carl Fontain, Tomas McCabe, Ann Leger, Jerry Crossley, and Laura Loney
• A Brazilian Dirge
• Motion in Retrospect
• The Power
• The House on the Edge of the World
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
• Christmas at Ursinus
• Grey Purple
• A Woodland Idyll
• Four Trees
• Life -
The Lantern Vol. 25, No. 3, Summer 1957
Betty Tayes, Tomas O. Rosenborg, and James R. Bartholomew
• Thunder Rock
• Observation Concerning the Life of an International Nomad
• The Dingleworm Dilemma -
The Lantern Vol. 25, No. 2, Spring 1957
Harold McWilliams, Norman R. Cole, Tom O. Rosenborg, W. W. Montgomery, Barrie Ciliberti, Arthur King, and Ira Lederman
• Samarra Train
• Caleb: A Story of the Civil War
• Pursued
• "Coup d'Etat"
• Medieval Portraits, Somewhat Diagrammatic
• London: 1951, 1952
• Spot: A Tale of the Sea
• The Big Mistake
• Poetry and College Poetry -
The Lantern Vol. 25, No. 1, December 1956
Barrie Ciliberti, Ismar Schorsch, Paul Chalson, Ira Lederman, Arthur King, and Peter Booke
• Diamonds and Mushrooms
• Excerpts From the Values and Functions of History
• Nor Bars a Prison Make
• A Parable
• An Original Album (Poetry)