Magazine
Fall 2025
everywhere i seek totalizing blues
everywhere i seek totalizing blues
in cerulean canvases stretched atmospheric
rifting at their seams, sky being more
patchwork than the eye wants to imagine
mesmerized by the expanse. like the sky
i too see myself in the river. a memory…
Fall 2025
What is a ghost?
“¿Qué es un fantasma? Un evento terrible condenado a repetirse una y otra vez, un instante de dolor, quizás algo muerte que parece por momentos vivo aún, un sentimiento suspendido en el tiempo, como una fotografía borrosa, como un insecto …
Fall 2025
Fear is ghost
A lot of people see fear as something adversarial. We’ve all heard the phrase “face your fears”; we also constantly talk about running from our fears, being haunted by our fears, fighting our fears and trying to be without any …
Fall 2025
The gift of the gab
I have always been awed by the vibrancy with which my mom tells stories, but when I tell her so, she just shrugs. She always says that her uncle Joe was the best storyteller.
Joseph O’Shea grew up in the …
Fall 2025
Frankenstein
I have a fear of dissection,
squeamish at the thought
of peeling Fruit (its fleshed perfection.)
To pry into the secrets of the apple,
to muse upon her taste–(ascribe me as Even.)
Is it so wrong to wear my own …
Fall 2025
Ghosts of Bowdoin’s literary past
Bowdoin’s literary past holds an abundance of hauntings. Some of these ghosts are simply due to Bowdoin’s location—an old, remote college where the sun sets early and the woods cover most of the state. The College also has a collection …
Fall 2025
Students speak on superstitions
Though often laughed off or dismissed as quirks, superstitions have the power to connect people across cultures and generations. These traditions are carried through stories and often unnoticed daily practices. Many Bowdoin students bring their superstitions with them to campus, …
Fall 2025
Portal to the past: A history of superstition at Bowdoin
On Friday the 13th, 1953, Bowdoin sociology professor Dr. Isa Reiss gathered students and faculty in the Chapel to deliver a talk entitled “Superstitions.” According to the Orient coverage of the speech from November 18, 1953, Reiss explained common superstitions, …
Fall 2025
Myths of La Mancha
Students in the first-year writing seminar “Don Quixote Now,” have compiled the following texts engaging with the work of Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes. These texts have emerged from a shared curiosity about Cervantes’ worldview and from the joys, challenges …