Our next featured poem is entitled "Faded." Junior Abigail Reeth wrote this beautiful and haunting poem, which is written in a poetry form known as the villanelle. Extremely difficult to write, villanelles repeat the same rhymes over and over, evoking new meanings and images each time the rhyme is reintroduced. This creates a poem with … Continue reading Abandoning Roots

As we edit and publish the poems from our contributors, we always love to get a variety or perspectives and viewpoints in the works we exhibit. Seeing the ways in which our fellow students, and fellow humans, interact with the world is one of our favorite parts of working on the Lanthorn staff. We get … Continue reading Growth from the Earth

The next piece that we are sharing is called "Common Phrases" by Emily Allen, a junior at Houghton. Here's a bit more from Emily about her poem: I have been writing poetry since elementary school, though I specifically remember learning to love doing so in study hall in middle school, when I would fill every … Continue reading One Foot In, One Foot Out