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  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Meet the Team
    • About WCSU Writing
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    • Submission Guidelines
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  • Contest
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  • Poetry

    Butterfly, by Leah Mukhtarzad

    November 3, 2026 /

    Click for PDF Paper butterfly Is still watching from the shelf Old memories rest Leah…

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    Writer, by Leah Mukhtarzad

    November 3, 2026 /

    Click for PDF Ink besides my lines She saw a writer waiting Before I believed…

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  • Poetry

    Just breathe, by Leah Mukhtarzad

    November 3, 2026 /

    Click for PDF The hallway felt too narrow for the day. The noise of everything…

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  • Poetry

    The Margin, by Leah Mukhtarzad

    November 3, 2026 /

    Click for PDF Within the margin of a humble page, Five simple words rested, small…

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  • Poetry

    Flowers, by Leah Mukhtarzad

    November 3, 2026 /

    Click for PDF The flowers are gone now. Petals do not negotiate with time. They…

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  • Poetry

    Love, my mystery, by Aiden Mathis

    October 27, 2026 /

    Click for PDF Love, My Mystery   I walk this land with Dead hands and…

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  • Poetry

    falling, by Brielle Barlow

    October 20, 2026 /

    Click for PDF Red and orange-tinted leaves fall from the trees above, hovering before resting…

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  • Poetry

    Death to Life, by Brielle Barlow

    October 20, 2026 /

    Click for PDF Your latest facadeThis lie that you liveI collect truthHarsh, but not falseBreak…

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  • Poetry

    the human heart, i am hypnotized by you, by Cecelia Tivey

    October 15, 2026 /

    Click for PDF the morgue is even colder at night but i’ve snuck in to…

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  • Poetry

    Ode to Eurydice: I Think of Your Hands Most Often in the Winter, by Cecelia Tivey

    October 15, 2026 /

    Click for PDF                After “Hadestown” by Anaïs Mitchell…

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