I’ve always loved movies, but I must confess, the recent plagues of Netflix lighting, same face syndrome, generative AI and over-reliance on VFX have made many of our newest, most profitable movies a...
From driving dune buggies on the beach to trying drinks made from hibiscus flowers, eight Schenectady High School Students had an experience of a lifetime on a recent school trip to Dakar, Senegal this...
if I am me i’m too loud
if i let my curls flow i’m untamed
if i am happy i’m being over confident
if i’m too opinionated then i need to calm down
if i speak too loud then i’m...
Elliot Rivera and Paola Rivera joined two second-week winners in the Schenectady High Literary Magazine’s poetry month contest. Elliot and Paola join Athena Rhodius and Freshman Academy nurse Arthur...
I loved you—
like lungs love air.
Desperate,
Automatic,
blind.
But you were the sea.
Still
beautiful.
cold.
And i dove in
thinking love could warm
what...
A hero doesn’t need a cape
A hero doesn’t need to be recognized.
A hero doesn’t have to be a famous person
A hero can be a teacher
A hero can be your parent
Some heroes wish to be...
At what point did you become the sock from the wash?
The mitten after winter?
The scarf after the chilly season?
When did you go missing?
It's like you posted signs of yourself on a light post...
One day your name didn't make me happy, Nor angry.
It was like I didn't know you.
Like all those things we said to each other.
"We'll always be friends," "I'd never let you go, you know too much...
I brought roses for a friend,
and hoped not to make amends.
Sunken in the Earth,
he lies on thorns we once grew.
Left without our mirth,
returned to grounds we once knew.
Organic...
And just like that you're gone and I'm okay with it.
Soon your face will be taken by the sea of time.
Soon I'll forget our times together, our laughter, all of it.
Soon I wont even remember your...
"Let’s live how we dance"
Carefree as if eyes are not fixed on me.
Let's dance with no fears of judgment.
Let's live like everyone is entrusting.
Let's dance in the face of pain and let it...
An Schenectady High School staffer joined two students as this week’s winners in the Schenectady High Lit Mag’s poetry month contest.
Arthur Taylor, the nurse at the Freshmen Academy, became the...