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  • Art Gallery: May ’25

    Art Gallery: May ’25

    Behold! The incredible artists of Chivomengro, everyone. Julia Cote Your Lady of Contemporary Neurosis, April 2025 Analog Collage Greta Scheff Bed Unmade, February 2025 Digital Photography Greta Scheff Reaching, March 2025 Digital Photography Greta Scheff The Numbers, December 2024 Ink painting and digital collage Lute Campbell Far Away, April 2025 Screen print on cardboard Lute… Read more

  • A Sad Girl’s Guide to Spring

    A Sad Girl’s Guide to Spring

    Written by Abigail Marble  Art by Lute Campbell  Picture this: It’s a warm and wet day out. It’s cloudy; you can hear the drips of the melting snow and ice, and there are puddles everywhere. You think that spring has finally arrived until you realize that it’s only the end of February and that stupid… Read more

  • How to Pretend to be European

    How to Pretend to be European

    Written by Jordan Coolbeth  Art by Hadley-Rae Balmes Are you an American who’s traveling to Europe soon? Have you finally decided to flee the country? Do you want the locals not to know you’re an American? Fear not, we know exactly how you can blend in! I present to you: 10 ways to pretend to… Read more

  • The Old Colossus

    The Old Colossus

    Written by Audrey Orenstein Art by Christopher Chapman With apologies to Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus” Adorned in a becoming shade of greenAs silently on Bedlow’s does she standThat gentle girl of Jersey fame is grandBut nowadays, her liberty’s unseen“More than a statue of copper and steel”To quote the Frenchman who demands her backHe posits… Read more

  • Reflect Me Bronze

    Reflect Me Bronze

    Written by Leah Baker Art by Lillian Anderson “We weren’t supposed to be able to see ourselves,” say the believers.Animals and humans weren’t meant to know their own visages,and humans may have lost something whenwe began to polish bronze flat and reflective,setting the stage for future collections of hand mirrorsand easy-access front-facing cameras.We hope for… Read more

  • April ’25 Horoscopes

    April ’25 Horoscopes

    Written by Julia Cote Art by Greta Scheff Ladies, gents, merpeople, and wizards (that is an all-encompassing term by the way; we don’t say witches unless someone is really hot and spooky like Nicole Kidman in Practical Magic), it is rumored to be Spring. Kiss a bunny and read these horoscopes while flailing your bare… Read more