Spectrum: Northeastern University's Literary Arts Magazine: 2016-2017 Calendar

CALENDAR 2016-2017

SPECTRUM

Northeastern University’s Literary Arts Magazine

Staff

Editor in Chief....................................................Elke Thoms Layout & Design Editor.....................................Natalya Jean Financial Manager............................................Kaley Bachelder Secretary............................................................Andrew Madanjian Advertising Manager........................................Remenna Xu

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Title page art adapted from “Jungle Jim” by Ben Landsberg.

Cover art adapted from “Coast Rock” by Sam Penney.

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Atalanta’s Song // Alyssa Rubin

September Sunday

Monday

4

11

18

25

Tuesday

5

Labor Day

Wednesday

6

12

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Canoe // Elijah McTigue

It’s raining hard today and I swear to God I’ve never seen someone wear the rain quite like she does.

She makes thunder sound like Olympian gods waltzing on avalanches. (She’s got Atalanta in her blood.) She has blades woven into her heels, and somewhere, far beneath the guns she proudly bares, the water seeps up over her toes and up her fighter’s calves as she lets the flood consume her.

Thursday

Friday

2016 Saturday

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2

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8

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14

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7 First day of fall classes

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Autumnal Equinox

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i wasn’t prepared to be this hand-sewn thing on a woman’s body. i like autumn for the scarecrows, dry leaves, the hollow things, like hay and brick chimneys with no smoke coming out for dying gourds, carved to perfection apple cores and seeds i like fall much better than ripe and rotten heat but women are summer, aren’t they? hollow is a girl’s fantasy like glitter sprinkles on a chocolate cake here we are white, whipped, poised and cooled before we are frosted women, heavy with words walk down the aisles onyx and amethyst here we are lips and lashes and wet and soft, no longer bones, no longer allowed to relish our shriveled skin we must invite them in the men, like visitors, we must be warm enough to drape over them like death

October Sunday

Seeds of Autumn // Connor Tripp

Penitence // Jennifer Kronmiller

and still keep their fingers from going numb because we are spring, golden slumbers, rain and they tart and cool and metallic like snakeskin, like bent nails like menstrual blood.

2016 Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday 1

2 Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown

9

16

4

5

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7

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Spectrum fall issue submission deadline/ Columbus Day/ No classes

17

30 23

3

31 24 Halloween

Yom Kippur begins at sundown

Frustrated You // Melissa Fitzgerald

Good Luck Trunk // Kelly Burgess of course I cannot cram you into a poem those cheekbones you chameleon-eyed bastard i hate that look on your face when you were amused but not enough to laugh I can only give a stanza, an ellipsis half a semi-colon every sentence i said ended in a comma you were all periods this was not prescriptive grammar i wrote your name on a scrap of paper and ripped it in two rough edges slightly crumpled frustrated and out of use yes yes that is close to the truth

2016

November Sunday

Monday

6 Daylight Saving Time ends

13

Tuesday

7

14

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1

2

3

4

5

8

9

10

11

12

Election Day

Veterans’ Day/ No classes

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17

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26

Thanksgiving break begins

Thanksgiving Day

Spring registration begins

20

27

21

28 Classes resume

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30

xt // Elke Thom e N s

Memories Stubbornly remind me The sequel is never better.

Nevertheless, I wait eagerly at the ticket booth For the release Of my next chapter.

Peet’s Coffee // Justine Newman

2016

December Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday 1

Saturday 2

3

10

Spectrum fall issue release party

4

11

18

5

12

19

6

13

20

Winter break begins

7

8

9

Last day of fall classes

Reading day

Fall final exams begin

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21

15

22

16

17

Fall final exams end

Fall final exams makeup day

23

Hannukah begins at sundown/ Christmas Eve

Winter Solstice

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26

Christmas Day

Kwanzaa begins

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28

24

29

30

31 New Year’s Eve

Urban Dusk // Justine Newman

january like spring crossing the street, last train’s past quiet in the lamplight body is quite warm, content the water, thin sheets of ice

Tanka // Aidan Meyer-Golden

2017

January Sunday

Monday 1

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

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New Year’s Day

8

15

22

29

First day of spring classes

16

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day/ No classes

23

30

Inauguration Day

24

31

25

26

27

28 Chinese New Year

¿Qué pasó, dead possum? // Anika Krause

District // Liza Ashley

Roadkill. I didn’t see you slinking round the corner.

Slam the breaks, race the pulse.

A memorable crisis.

Are you washing me out of your fender while I bleed out on your neighbor’s lawn?

Yawning, you turn to your bed.

Roll me over, run me over…

2017

February Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday 1

Thursday

Friday 2

Saturday 3

4

Groundhog Day

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

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25

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20

Spectrum spring issue submission deadline/ Presidents’ Day/ No classes

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Valentine’s Day

21

Summer registration begins

28

second to none // Alyssa Rubin

Where I Am // Remenna Xu

behind your ears a clock ticks, metronome promises that can’t be broken by anything less unsteady than hands torn apart, lost beneath a blanket of smoke, blackened by slivered wind exploding hearts keeping beat, breathing shaken, but steady, unfettered but the defeat is in the details, missiles in the milliseconds between trigger and release each eternal second wound against your wrist wishing that you could change gears pendulum platitudes: time heals all wounds even the ones it inflicts?

March Sunday

2017 Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday 1

5

6

7

8

Thursday

Friday 2

Saturday 3

9

10

16

17

4 Spring break begins

11

International Women’s Day

12

13

Daylight Saving Time begins

Classes resume

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20

14

15

21

22

23

28

29

30

St. Patrick’s Day

24

Vernal Equinox

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27

31

18

25

Hillside // Kelly Burgess

it’s been occurring to me, since I left, that the place where I come from is a catalog of disasters, most of them still waiting to happen. the next California quake, the geologists say, is overdue, the whole coast ready to slip when the Juan de Fuca plate does. at some point I learned that Los Angeles was built with fire in mind, that real tsunamis crush the Oregon coast. the first sign I read out loud wasn’t slow or stop, words I skip over even now. it was Caution: Sneaker Waves, another warning I’m still learning; eight years later I was five miles from that sign when I almost drowned because the waves hit harder on the Pacific, because the waves hit like they know that one day, you’ll try to forget them. I remember climbing Mt. St. Helens thirty years after the blast, the trees all still blown sideways like a house of cards. ten years later I met a professor who wrote his thesis on that eruption: a life built on that half-scalped mountain traced against the skyline, lit blue every morning through the window of my childhood bedroom. I’ve written my flaws in fault lines and sediment, but disloyalty has never been one: I chase down new dangers like I’m making a hazards map, but I remember where old wildfires left burn scars and I come running back to the ones I left behind.

st. helens // Julia Renner

April Sunday

2017 Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday 1 April Fool’s Day

2

9

16

Easter

30 23

3

4

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15

Spectrum spring issue release party

Good Friday

21

22

Reading day

Spring final exams begin

Earth Day

Fall registration begins/ Passover begins at sundown

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Patriots’ Day/ No classes

24

18

25

19 Last day of spring classes

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20

27

28

Spring final exams end

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through the bars // Natalya Jean

ten thousand stringy lines shiver a vital trance around some center set by math or god. wiggling along rounded borders, out, then in, reworked, and out again. numerals bud from coiling grooves and churn the fractal’s geometric dance, each shaky symbol bathed in iridescent drops that wash the wall in pigment splots anew. a pioneer reaches toward the billows. the waves spin counter to the clock, contract and shift their frame, until I hesitantly tap, unfurling dimensions on some other plane. one touch enough to shrivel up the sea, one single ripple pulses to eternity.

the yellow wall on the 5th floor // Raquel Massoud

2017

May Sunday

Monday

Tuesday 1

Wednesday 2

3

Thursday

Friday 4

8

5

6

Cinco de Mayo/ Commencement

May Day

7

Saturday

9

10

11

12

13

15

16

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19

20

22

23

24

25

26

27

Full Summer and Summer I classes begin

14

Mother’s Day

21

28

29 Memorial Day/ No classes

30

31

Ramadan begins at sundown

Jungle Jim // Ben Landsberg

Nightstand Notebook // Stephanie Eisemann I thought though it’s been months I might feel better if I stayed up writing And like the unwanted thoughts these scribbles just keep coming But unless sleep deprived, squinting, and hand cramped count as better (I mostly don’t.)

2017

June Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1

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4

5

6

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8

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10

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12

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24

Summer Solstice

Last day of Summer I classes

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Father’s Day

25

19

26

20

27

Summer I final Summer I final exams end exams begin

Flag Day

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29

30

Standard Operating Procedure // Anika Krause

Sell Me Things // Ashlyn Wiebalck

“I’m so glad you turned out pretty” He wipes a tear from his eye as if he didn’t open fire, shrapnel of attaboys lodging in the couch cushions.

Head cocked, the sharpshooter spills misty comments about headshots and spotlights and I’m afraid someday I’ll know exactly what he’s talking about.

2017

July Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday 1

2

3

4

Summer II classes begin

Independence Day/ No classes

16

17

30

31

9

23

10

24

5

6

7

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Coast Rock // Sam Penney

so it is swelled and grand in its stillness that is yet becoming more violet, more velvet each time I glance up at my softly lit rectangle of window in this motionless yet somehow darkening room.

2017

August Sunday

Monday

6

13

20

27

Still in Transition // Ivy Pepin

One of those late afternoons when the sky can only be described as rosy, flushed and desperate because suddenly it only has a short while in this blurry petal softness

Tuesday

7

14

Wednesday

3

4

5

8

9

10

11

12

17

18

19

24

25

26

22

23

Summer II final Summer II final exams begin exams end

Vacation begins

28

Saturday

2

16

21

Friday

1

15

Full summer final exams begin

Thursday

29

30

Last day of full summer classes Last day of Summer II classes/full summer final exams end

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