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  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • About WCSU Writing
    • Founding Members
  • Submit
    • Submission Guidelines
    • Consent Form
  • Contest
    • Contest Guidelines
    • 2026 Contest Winners
    • 2025 Contest Winners
  • Content
    • Poetry
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  • Poetry

    After the boy from my history class threw orange juice at me, he said, “You could learn a thing or two from my friendliness.”, by rhea Xie

    May 3, 2026 /

    Click for PDF His friendliness is expired hair dye. His friendliness is a laugh he…

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  • Poetry

    My Version of Longing’s Version of Longing, by rhea Xie

    May 3, 2026 /

    Click for PDF The woman in the green beret ordered a “Hateful Love.”   The…

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  • Contest Winners,  Poetry

    I speak with the same tongue, by Paul Potts

    April 28, 2026 /

    Click for PDF yes—can you hear the youth still being eaten away in my voice?…

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  • Poetry

    Mother’s Phone, by Lleyton Kane

    April 21, 2026 /

    Click for PDF Mother’s Phone – Died 2025Her number still works.I call it so the…

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  • Poetry

    The Coldest War, by Alice Hong

    April 16, 2026 /

    Click for PDF You were opened unwillingly, melted away, in time.   You never knew…

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  • Poetry

    A Flamingo’s Favorite Drink, by Amon McConnell

    April 14, 2026 /

    Click for PDF in a cool springone leggedin its swayingstate of affairsthe baking sundripping offits…

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  • Poetry

    Here is what I like to believe, by Hazen Palamar

    March 24, 2026 /

    Click for PDF I like to believe that Icarus laughed as he fell. That he…

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  • Poetry

    Lockdown Drill, Third Period, by Lleyton Kane

    February 26, 2026 /

    Click for PDF The alert comes mid-sentence,the same chord they usefor severe weather.Ms. Chen stops…

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  • Poetry

    Under, by Tegan Cook

    February 17, 2026 /

    Click for PDF I live under an ultraviolet light, a constant invisible ink pen,one where…

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  • Poetry

    First Love, Second Window, by Lleyton Kane

    February 17, 2026 /

    Click for PDF We called it seeing each other,though mostly it was glass—the reflection of…

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