The Laurentian Magazine

While flipping through some of the poems in one of the journals Ben Aleshire brought in for today’s YAS, the title of one poem by Robert McKay got my attention.  “To be a tourist in your own city,” I read.  In my experience poetry is never just “skimmable,” however since I had both a strong [...]

Earlier in April, I attended a public event on campus. I observed many little moments taking place throughout the event and I compiled them into this moderately fictional piece. Do any of these moments sound familiar to you? Can you figure out where I was for this? Maybe you also saw these moments take place. [...]

There are so many events happening between now and the end of the semester! I thought I’d list them all for you: This Wednesday, 4/17 there will be a performance in the Black Box (aka Edward R. Miles Theater) of Parallel Lives. Thursday, 4/18 will be another installment of the Young Artist Series at 4:30 [...]

  On Thursday creative nonfiction writer Jessica Hendry Nelson spoke in the Brush Art Gallery. She is currently an editor for The Fiddleback is an online arts and literature magazine (much like our very own Laurentian!). Check it out here!  

“Rubber magnets… Highlights magazines with some doctor’s name on them… The snug saltbox houses at the end of the street that he loved so much… Charlotte’s web… Nobody said boo and we walked inside… Selling his record collection for a dollar a piece.” Jessica Hendry Nelson was today’s speaker for the first “Young Artist Series” [...]

On my way up the stairs to the third floor of the student center, I see a middle-aged man sitting in a chair by the fireplace. His young daughter sits on his lap, staring eagerly at the many banners hanging from the stairwell. They do not speak in the time that I see them, only [...]

Check out this event. Denise Jolly, a slam poet, will be performing Friday night at the Java Barn at 8pm. She is also leading a workshop Friday at 3:30pm in Carnegie 10. Read more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/394256320673037/

Around this time of the semester, many students are starting to work on their final papers, or are at least thinking about them. For the ESL students especially, papers can be daunting; staying on top of those grammar and punctuation rules can be difficult when the stress starts to kick in. So, to relieve your [...]

Seeing Abigail Moss’s series of monologues, Witness was an incredibly emotional experience. Each monologue sought to explain the life of a woman with an eating disorder and all of the pain associated with it. From young women vomiting up their dinner while they’re still at the restaurant, to women struggling for decades with their eating [...]

Since the Laurentian Magazine is invested in so many different types of art and writing, I’ve been thinking for awhile that a post on comic books is in order. An art form located right at the intersections between drawing, writing, and entertainment, comics are a great place to get the daily dose of creativity and [...]