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Appalachia Winter/Spring 2011: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2011 - Volume LXII, Number 1 - issue #231. Up from Devastation: How the Weeks Act Saved the Eastern Forests

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2011: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2011 - Volume LXII, Number 2 - issue #232. Off the Turnpike: Rediscovering Wild New Jersey

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2022: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2022 - Volume LXXIII, Number 2 - Issue #254. The Ubiquitous Cell Phone: Do Cell Phones Help Adventurers or Hinder Them?

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2012: Complete Issue

Appalachia

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Appalachia Summer/Fall 2012: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2012 - Volume LXIII, Number 2 - issue #234. The Lure of Alaska: Five writers tell why they went

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2013: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2013 - Volume LXIV, Number 1 - issue #235. Looking for Thoreau: His pull remains strong 150 years later.

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2013: Complete Issue

Appalachia

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Appalachia Winter/Spring 2014: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2014 - Volume LXV, Number 1 - issue #237. At Large: Four Stories of Escape to Wilder Lands

Appalachia Summer/Fall 2014: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Summer/Fall 2014 - Volume LXV, Number 2 - issue #238. Many Miles: "You Can't Run That" and Other Chronicles

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2022: Complete Issue

Appalachia

Winter/Spring 2022 - Volume LXXIII, Number 1 - Issue #253. Cataclysms in the Catskills and Taconics: Floods, Temperature Swings, and Bluebirds

Appalachia Winter/Spring 2015: Complete Issue

Appalachia

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Appalachia Summer/Fall 2015: Complete Issue

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Summer/Fall 2015 - Volume LXVI, Number 2 - Issue #240. Retelling History: Rusty Pions, Rock Highways, and Other Mysteries

-Wombs- Wounds, Laney Kuczmynda

The Peregrine Review

Wombs Wounds

i can see myself, one day soon –

not yet, or not now at least –

seeing myself in a dark, one-man submarine.

i can’t sit with grief;

i slash and scrub and scald it away.

Grace, Nakiah Baker

The Peregrine Review

Looking down I see

a penny on the ground, head side down.

Bad luck.

Harrisburg Is Green, Ruth Galyen

The Peregrine Review

coals drip and layer

brick and mortar

ash lines the windows to murmur

this is alive

to anyone asking

breath oxidizes until even

stone steps are

worn and green

2022 Full Text Issue, Molly Mckim

The Peregrine Review

The Peregrine Review, Messiah University’s literary journal accepts poetry (50 lines or fewer), prose (10 pages, double-spaced, or fewer), and art/photography. We welcome submissions from all Messiah students, faculty, and staff.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• About Page | 1
• Review Staff | 2
• Letter From Editor | 3
• Editor Submissions | 7-16
• Cover Art: “Carnation Prism” by Jarek Nalewak

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Beyond the Shadows & A Silent Walk in the Woods | Elaine Brandenburg 26 & 68
• God’s Candy, Paula’s Yard & Wildwood | Jarek Nalewak 20, 72 & 84
• West of Cleveland County, The Blue House & Desk Not …

Letter From The Editor, Molly Mckim

The Peregrine Review

Remarks from Editor Molly McKim:

"Initially, I intended to start this introduction by saying, 'Now more than ever, we need art,' but I realized something: Works of art have always been constants in our lives. As much as the world may make us feel bombarded, overwhelmed or small, it has forced us to adapt, overcome, and appreciate what we have in our lives..."

About The Peregrine Review

The Peregrine Review

About the Peregrine Review.

The Peregrine Review is Messiah University’s literary magazine, designed, edited, and written by undergraduate students. The magazine consisting of works of art from prose and poetry to art and photography. Dedicated to showcasing the voices of our community, The Peregrine Review is open to all students, faculty, and staff for submission.

Peregrine Review Staff

The Peregrine Review

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

• Molly McKim

MANAGING CO-EDITORS

• Mackenzie Christie
• Cam Wimberly

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

• Ravi Ahuja
• Nate Castellitto
• Hye Lim Jung
• Courtney Kehler

FACULTY ADVISOR

• Samuel Smith

Whatever May Be, Plant A Tree With Me, Nate Castellitto

The Peregrine Review

Latent destination,

spectacular space––

the soil is rich, and clay is prepared.

Pass me the spade. We will start here.

Gold-Washed Sky, Abby Smoker

The Peregrine Review

tell me how it is that the ugliest days can be redeemed
by a single sunset: gold and shimmering blush
washed across the sky– Winner of the 2022 Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize! Abby’s winning poem, “gold-washed sky,” will appear on the Academy of American Poets website. Alexis V. Jackson, author of My Sisters’ Country described Abby’s poem as an invitation “to wonder at the mundane thing that is a sunset in a successful attempt at theodicy. With smoldering syntax and hypophora, the speaker…reminds us there’s a ‘who’ somewhere in all of this.”

Blueberry Pancakes, Jordan Marcroft

The Peregrine Review

The train is 1000 feet

away, but I hear it run

through my ears and tear through my bedsheets. I plead with it, “Take

me with you.’

Origin Story, Rosemary Jones

The Peregrine Review

I imagine a dark and stormy night,

fat drops of rain sliding down window panels

like spilled ink across a canvas.

She must have been crying—my mother.

In the movies, they’re always crying.

She must have been alone, left behind

by some mysterious lover with dark eyes

too poor to buy a loaf of bread,

much less feed her only daughter.

She was likely wrapped in a thread-barren cloak,

soaked to the bone from the rain and from her tears.

The Church, Jordan Marcroft

The Peregrine Review

They call me naive

because I say

the city streets are as pure

as the waters we baptize with.

And the mother who sees

more night than day—

she is my Saint.

Culture Shock, Abby Smoker

The Peregrine Review

friend, your AC gives me nosebleeds.

you and your house, both

windows-closed types

who can’t sleep well at night

if your habitat isn’t cold and dry.

5 Questions, Samantha Guess

The Peregrine Review

I know it before I even open my eyes, something is wrong. The air is cool and fresh, it feels like the calm before the storm. What happened to me? The last thing I remember is seeing the headlights of that truck coming at me, and...I bolt upright and wince with pain. My head is pounding, and my body is aching all over. That truck, I realize once the pain dies down, it wasn’t just coming at me: it hit me head-on. Then I notice I’m not in my car, nor am I in a hospital. I’m in a white …

Garden Of Joy, Rosemary Jones

The Peregrine Review

A Syntax Virus of “Anatomy of Failure” in Halflife by Meghan O’Rourke

Sunbeams shine over the daisies—
bathing them, coloring, blossoming;
even the leaves are green as ripe bell peppers...

Absence, Madison Casey

The Peregrine Review

Love is felt in many different ways. From the love of a mother, to the love of a brother, to the love of a lover, to the love of a friend. It’s all love. Love is like water, it takes the shape of whatever container it’s poured into.

Raunchy Man, Christian Maloney

The Peregrine Review

The man was here!

The man was there!

The man was everywhere–

The beggars,

the ailn,

the crapulous,

in all, they are The Raunchy Man–

My Prayer Leaves, Kevin Villegas

The Peregrine Review

The large, glass jars of tea leaves

each contains untold secrets.

Shelf above shelf above shelf of secrets

rest on the sunlit wall before me

waiting to be steeped and sipped.