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Swinging Bridge - April 2024, Ethan Reisler

Student Newspapers & Magazines

Issue contents include:

• Playlist
  • Sabrina's Pulse-Picks Playlist
• Summer Jobs
• The Swinging Bridge Devotional
  • Written By Students, For Students
• The Road Back Home
  • Returning Home Over Summer
• Ramos & Kovalchick
• Next Year’s Presidential Elect
• The International Gala
• A Two Phase Plan
  • Starry Athletic Complex’s Constructions
• Senior Spotlight
• Got Breakfast?
  • Lottie And Union’s Reduced Hours
• Generational Shifts
  • Engaging Faith In Gen Z
• A Sisterhood Of Swimmers
• A Year In Review
• Movie Reviews
• Satire

Words Without Faces: Anonymous Social Media On Campus, Evelyn Kelly

Language, Literature & Writing Student Scholarship

"A new anonymous social media app, Fizz, has announced intentions to launch on Messiah University’s campus. Anonymous social media apps allow users to post within a set community without their comments being traced back to them. One such popular app around campus is Yik Yak..."

Swinging Bridge - March 2024, Ethan Reisler

Student Newspapers & Magazines

Issue contents include:

• Playlist
  • Sabrina's Valentine's Mixtape
• A Roof Over Your Head
  • Special Interest Housing
• Wizard Battle
  • A Cultivation Of Creative Genuity
• The Swinging Bridge Devotional
  • Written By Students, For Students
• The Lady Falcons
  • A Women's Basketball Dynasty
• Balancing Nutrition Under Dietary Restrictions
• A Revolution Of Missional Athletes
  • Sports For God's Glory
• Sexuality And Gender Education
• Messiah's Gym Culture
• The Culmination Of Craft
  • Senior Art Galleries
• Movie Reviews
• Satire

Brownstown, Usa, Timothy P. Shea

Language, Literature & Writing Educator Scholarship

A poem by Timothy P. Shea read during Messiah University's annual Humanities Symposium, February 2024.

Friday, February 23, 12–1 p.m. “Closing Reception with Poetry Readings and CPH exhibit” Faculty and student poems: “Brownstown, USA,” Timothy Shea (faculty, language, literature and writing), “The Colors We Bleed,” Connor Fleming (communication), “Middle Class in America,” Harrison Keator applied health sciences), “Untethered,” Abigail Rickabaugh (nursing)

2024 Humanities Symposium: We The People, Messiah University

Humanities Symposium

The 2024 Humanities Symposium took place at Messiah University from February 19-23, 2024. The Keynote speaker was Philip S. Gorski, Ph.D.

Swinging Bridge - February 2024, Ethan Reisler

Student Newspapers & Magazines

Contents of issue:

• Playlist
  • Sabrina's Valentine's Mixtape
• Ambassadors For Residential Ministry
• I attended
  • A New Approach To Chapel Attendance
• The Swinging Bridge Devotional
  • Written By Students, For Students
• Words Without Faces
  • Anonymous Social Media On Campus
• The Road Back Home
  • Returning From Study Abroad
• Honors Program Pivots
  • The Future Of Gpa Requirements
• Chris Nyachiwowa
  • A First-Generation Student Athlete
• Reinforcing Dining Dollar Policy
  • Lottie’s Student Discount
• Intramural Sports
  • Students As Players And Referees
• Movie Reviews
• Satire

Untitled, Benjamin Gates

The Peregrine Review

Photo of sunset

He Has Brushed Away The Stone, Myles Lynn

The Peregrine Review

Oh, creatures, hear the trumpet sounds, He has brushed away the stone!...

Metallopoesis, Nik Lego

The Peregrine Review

Pray, do not fear The baleful kiss of fire And say no elegies For the half-melted stone For as I watch you bleed You bleed…

Prayer, Ana Sakore

The Peregrine Review

Sometimes I push my piano down the wishing well ivory tinkles slicing its Adam’s apple which convulses so three-year-old sweets are swallowed…

They Say / I Say, Abby Smoker

The Peregrine Review

a sparrow chirps there are memories in the riverbed they used to be silver treasures now i scoop them to the surface to see them clearly and they don’t even gleam—…

The Great Literary Marriage: Why All Good Readers Are Also Writers, Olivia Reardon

The Peregrine Review

I once heard a fellow English major say, “I read because I want to; I write because I have to.” In this particular instance, the student was lamenting all the papers she had to write and explaining that writing is simply the chore she must do in order to study literature, her true passion, in college...

Untitled, Becca Nicolson

The Peregrine Review

Photo of tourists on a stone walkway

...Nicked Myself Shaving Last Night, Eleanor Mund

The Peregrine Review

a flickering light blinks above my phone screams midnight as I prop my leg up on a plastic white shelf I didn’t want to do this tonight because I’m lazy— or defiant— or something else— who knows…

Frog, Connor Duncan

The Peregrine Review

Up close photo of a frog

Regrets, Tiffany Oponski

The Peregrine Review

I stand in a green pasture filled with wildflowers. I am surrounded by my regrets, reminding me every hour. They lurk in the form of shadows…

Cherry Blossoms, Joseph Fan

The Peregrine Review

Look at the beautiful cherry blossoms…

Winter’S Harvest, Benjamin Gates

The Peregrine Review

Photo of crisp, snowcovered field at sunrise or sunset

Brownstown, Usa, Timothy Shea

The Peregrine Review

A mild October evening. Streaks of orange and blue accent the night sky and the distant rhythmic tapping of high school drums echo on the other side of town another iteration of a great American tradition— the local community parade!...

Lakeside Reflection, Benjamin Gates

The Peregrine Review

Photo of a lake and dock

Decolonize, Montika Smith

The Peregrine Review

I wrap my fingers around my locs Favorite strands adorned with gold I tuck my masterpiece into a bonnet For the night…

The End, Lauren Mock

The Peregrine Review

When they told us the news—through CNN, phone alerts, front pages of magazines, and televised messages from celebrities like Chris Evans and Emma Watson—we didn’t believe a word they said...

Solitude, Evelyn Kelly

The Peregrine Review

It is time to stop living like this is an interlude in some masterpiece—just a few pages to skim— momentary instrumental bars to endure before the harmonizing begins…

Soft Hands, Alessandra Lageorge

The Peregrine Review

I want my daughter to have soft hands. Hands that don’t know the labor that mine are so familiar with. Hands that don’t know the repeated action that my body responded to by giving me these calluses…

Haarlem Church, Micaiah Saldaña

The Peregrine Review

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Lambs, Courtney Kehler

The Peregrine Review

If you haven’t seen a lamb pitching forward on ten-minute-old legs using all its strength to wobble in the hay, making the heroic effort to live as its mother licks placenta off its jet-black wool…

Lamentations, Anna Cheng

The Peregrine Review

Art by Anna Cheng

Lamb’S Ear, Micaiah Saldaña

The Peregrine Review

Last summer, my boyfriend (now fiancé) took me to Hershey Gardens to see the roses. I’ve loved roses ever since I lived in a brick farmhouse with a rose garden, and upon seeing the many varieties of my favorite flower spread before me, I smiled as if meeting with old friends....

A Resolution, J.T. Crocenzi

The Peregrine Review

I will not let the feeling go, a tether tied between two worlds, one of longing and one of gain….

Penelope’S Deception, Jolie Lloyd

The Peregrine Review

As she weaves—still unweaves— they wait with bated breath Has she reached the end—resigned? Shall we seek justice—yet?...