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By Remedy Ryan the song says “modernity has failed us” and we bang our heads in agreement what else can save us narcissistic loners in the underbelly of empire yearning for love Remedy Ryan ’21 (remedyryan@college.harvard.edu)
Arts
Untitled Poetry
Untitled I By Jose Forgive me, Gentle paramour, For showing you how Soft lead remains yet lead And how iron at a distance Appears liable to indention, Welcoming a hand to an altogether Unpliable surface. My deceit made so similar By unwilling nature of the thing, I hope you are merciful enough to realize […]
Everything is in the air: A Poem
(A poetical study of what we inhale) By: ANA NICOLAE It’s all in the air Fumes, body, soul Your breath stagnates the atmospheres of people Your body disintegrates in particles of dust Your soul pollutes the heavenly skies And yet you breathe And yet you grow And yet you die Whatever comes to be Innovation and […]
Work of the Week: Jo Roberts
By Rosie Collier Jo Roberts is not confined by a medium. The freshman from Washington, D.C. explores materials and styles in her art freely and with marked skill. Fluidly translating her preferred subject of portraiture from graphite to acrylic to photography, Jo’s artistic abilities extend from the two-dimensional into musical composition, costume design, and theatrical […]
Warming Warning
A public climate art sculpture By ANA NICOLAE What in the world is that? Officially it’s an ‘’educational installation at Harvard University that combines science, art and environmental design to communicate global climate change data’’. The designers, Harvard Bullard Fellow David Buckley Borden and Harvard Forest Senior Ecologist Aaron Ellison, have created a quite intuitive […]
The Fading Days of a Crumbling Empire
by Remedy Ryan I felt a pang of longing but maybe it was just hunger I felt a flash of anger but maybe it just was Maybe you should eat something I thought I was falling in love but maybe I was just falling I thought I could get to the bottom of it but […]
Phoney Friend
By Abigail Jade Koerner Remember when we used to read? Now, between every page I see I check up on my Instagram feed Real faces smile back at me Not the faces my mind wanted them to be Can’t see clearly The words become blurred Time ticks away My phone battery dwindles just like every […]
Overnight Dreaming
A Poem By Remedy Ryan and Abigail Koerner Your arms feel like a long-lost sweater I knew I would find I am not any kind of perfect But I am warm and I am alive and so are you “Tu tump” is Italian and my heart hits boom I said I don’t use […]
Poems
By: Jose Espinel Poem 1: Untitled So many nights I’d branded myself Mycenaean And wondered in silence Whether Helen might visit my dreams If I walked down Allenby Street And continued into the sea. I swore I’d stay there, Devoting my days on Elba To studying the taxonomy of stones And other enlightened arts […]
“Honk! Street Musicians attempt to Blast Students out of Harvard Bubble”
by Tushar Dwivedi Through the nooks and crannies of Harvard Square, the echoes of HONK! brought cheer to a subdued, lazy Sunday afternoon. From Reggae themed street music to Edward Jones booths, the fair dominating the small region offered a different delight for everyone. HONK! itself is a self-described movement, with the purpose of combining […]