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The Lafayette

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The Lafayette

The Oldest College Newspaper in Pennsylvania

The Lafayette

Poet's Corner

Poet's Corner: grey

Poet’s Corner: grey

By Del Lyczak February 28, 2025

today, i am scraping my face on the sky. these grey / blue streaks of mine own, strike and sand-down my will and spirit. i am alone in the windy grey my bones are whetted with weak / cold spite...

Poet’s Corner: Dear America

By Lonan Shaye Jennings February 14, 2025

Dear America, I used to hate you. I only knew you as the home you built for me. I knew you as gunshots and brutality; as corpses and discrimination. I only heard Trayvon Martin and Breonna Taylor’s...

Poet’s Corner: ‘I used to live in a glass castle’

By McKenna Graf October 6, 2023

I was conditioned to believe that  all conflict is my fault, fueling the desire to end my own happiness as I’m always anxiously anticipating the end,  how could I be content?   But...

Poet’s Corner: ‘Clouds on the Breeze’ by Duncan White ’26

By Duncan White, Contributing Writer February 10, 2023

Clouds flow by like loose leaves in a commanding current They seem to dance to the enchanting tune of the breeze Presented by McKenna Graf ’26 and Literary Magazine

Poet’s Corner: ‘to eterminalinity’ by Benry Juno ’25

By Benry Juno, Contributing Writer December 2, 2022

he cried when the doctor spoke of owls in the morning and curdled milk, moth balls and polyester in a thrift store. did you cry at your diagnosis? no, this elevator goes up once and never comes...

Poet’s Corner: ‘BLUE’ by Miles Asher Dorai-Raj ‘25

By Miles Asher Dorai-Raj, Contributing Writer November 18, 2022

i lie still in a dark room comforter pulled over me a quiet wind whispering outside my leg is folded under me ankle behind my knee and the dog has her head on my thigh her butt tucked under my armpit and...

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