A Poem By ABIGAIL KOERNER Brain peace when I got what I wanted And had what had to be had and Done and did. Brain peace because Each step should be a leap and Each hill a mountain when I’m climbing up! “Take me away,” I’d ask But there is nothing to take In […]
By ABIGAIL KOERNER On Saturday, March 3rd, Sanders Hall became a blur of colorful fabrics and eclectic sounds. It became the annual Cultural Rhythms showcase. Each year, Harvard welcomes students to perform songs, dances, and poetry from their native cultures. In Dean Khurana’s opening speech, he noted that Harvard students have been involved in social […]
A late take on “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” in a pre-Oscars review series. By: CLAIRE PARK In Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” Frances McDormand perfects the exquisitely subtle acrobatics of rage as Mildred Hayes, from the way she crunches on her nails as she surveys the billboards that will announce her […]
By REMEDY RYAN When I first heard about the shooting I was in church The priest had just rubbed a black cross on my head and he told us to pray for Florida Later, I skimmed the news update and after concluding the shooting was a safe 45 miles from my alma mater went on […]
I. What is it that I am doing here In the fresh green breast of the New World? What was I thinking when I chose To land in these shimmering shores? My shores—white, sandy, palmy shores Are due South, due where the green Becomes so lush it can murder The air so pure it […]
By LUCY HAMILTON The photos pictured here were arranged months after I took them. The first photo pictures my father’s eyes in the rearview mirror. I took it last Thanksgiving Day, as my entire family was travelled to see friends for dinner. We piled into the car, everyone was fighting, and of course, we were […]
A late take on Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” in a pre-Oscars review series. By CLAIRE PARK In “The Shape of Water,” we are plunged into the green netherworld of early 1960’s Baltimore. Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) is a cleaning woman at a government research facility. She falls in love with the newly […]
By SOPHIE BENSON We stand here more than a year removed from the election of our 45th president and yet I still struggle to express the progression of emotions I felt that day in a coherent and linear manner. In my piece, titled “November 8th, 2016”, I turned to faces from across America, as captured […]
By Remedy Ryan ’21 and Abigail Koerner ’21 I stick out my tongue letting the cold droplets caress it Take in the shimmering white that has covered the trees, the sidewalks, the people Still, all I can think about is the sea The sea and me? Or maybe we? Pleasant thoughts of fleeting moments […]
A late review of Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird,” in a pre-Oscars review series. By: CLAIRE PARK Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, “Lady Bird,” is an affectionate meditation on the ecstatic missteps of adolescence. Her script is peppered with witticisms that teenagers will throw out, often inappropriately; taken out of context, Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson’s (played […]