Joshua Weinzweig Review of Writing 2020-2021

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THE JOSHUA WEINZWEIG REVIEW OF WRITING 2020-2021

FILM ____________________________________________________________ by Ella MacAlpine, Grade 10 Alone. I stand alone in a room, a projector rolling film before me. It’s so cold in this room. All I hear is the projector mumbling as the film plays, a quiet ringing noise humming along. Where am I? What am I doing here? Who am I? Why do I feel such fear? I’m tired. I remember sleeping well, but that hasn’t prevented lethargy from swallowing me whole. My heart feels slow, no, it’s not beating at all. Everything is quiet. I am paralyzed, and I can’t break free. Where am I? What am I doing here? There’s nothing I can do. “Nobody would notice if you were to disappear.” ... What am I to say..? Everything falls into silence; A song I know well, yet it suffocates me so, wrapping and winding around my neck like thorned vines that just won’t go. It’s so cold in this room. Maybe it would be warmer if I were gone. The ringing continues. The film rolls on. A Note from the Author… My poem was written in response to Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. In Wild Geese, Oliver touches on the beauty of the world and letting your mind run free. My poem was written about detaching from reality when you let the small details of your thoughts consume you. It also talks about depression and feelings of hopelessness that some people encounter. These feelings can overwhelm you, causing you to disassociate and spiral into depression. It is a vicious cycle than can feel impossible to get out of. The feelings one experiences when this occurs is what I try to capture in the poem.

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Beverly Zeng “Opportunities Given”

1min
page 74

Monica Zhu “Introduction to Immorality”

1min
pages 75-78

Victoria Zalewski “The Day We Visited Father”

4min
pages 72-73

Emily Zalewski “Punishment with No End”

3min
pages 70-71

Jake Wu “Unsteadiest”

1min
page 69

Tessa Veerbeek “Hey, Little Man”

3min
pages 67-68

Isabella Tan “Mirror”

2min
page 65

Sophie Trussell “Protection from the Hands of Time”

1min
page 66

Shyam Subramanyam “The Fortress”

1min
page 61

Thera Sze “I Am (What I Eat)”

7min
pages 62-64

Grace Still “A Spoonful of Sugar with a Hint of Spice”

6min
pages 58-60

Anh Huy Nguyen “My Odd Issue with English”

7min
pages 52-54

Ella MacAlpine “Film”

1min
page 51

Omar Ozturk “Golden Gate Summer”

1min
page 55

Cora Pataran “Death By Blue Silk”

1min
page 56

Aaliyah Salyani “The Bird’s Eye View ”

1min
page 57

Alyssa Lucchese “Captivity to Freedom”

3min
pages 48-49

Deanna MacAlpine “Repair Your Bridges”

1min
page 50

Shianne Liang “Four Blank Walls”

3min
pages 46-47

Louis Li “Just Do It Later”

5min
pages 43-45

Krish Gupta “A Mother’s Worst Fear”

2min
page 34

Sophia Jeffery “Scars of the Ice”

2min
page 37

Justin Jeong “Tear-Ridden Mask of Tithonus”

1min
page 38

Kyu Hun Lee “26th of September”

7min
pages 39-41

Amy Graham “Recovery”

3min
page 33

Kyu Hun Lee “Hope”

1min
page 42

Kailey Houle “Les Yeux De L’Amour”

4min
pages 35-36

Sarah Golding “Playing on the Snowy Hills”

4min
pages 31-32

Moira Boland “Little House of Glass”

1min
page 23

Tyler Da Ponte “Broken Silence”

3min
pages 26-27

Sarah Asgari “Grade 12: Just Keep Going”

6min
pages 20-22

Doga Erdemisik “Good Days of Ramadan”

1min
page 28

Harrison Frank “There Is Warmth Under Frost”

1min
page 30

Sarah Asgari “Circle of Life”

9min
pages 16-19

Weston Foulds “The Forest”

1min
page 29

Ethan Bonerath “Lost Hope”

5min
pages 24-25
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