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Snow Bones Edge of Reality Clear Black Nights 2:30 AM. Weekly on Saturday Girls The Jockey meditations RUN Film Noir in Cat City visiting hours Leith Water Walks cleanse Waters Swelled on the Earth the end of not-quite-love in the black car you share with your brother Confetti Takarabune (Fish Market) Last Day of Class… Read More Table of Contents
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Golden Hour Casey He Dried Blood Emerson Steady Bible Booster Seat Elijah Elvin Irupé: Stories of Yearning from the Heart of South America Kathrin Salame Waiting for Sunrise Casey He In der Fremde Emerson Steady Cuban Pancakes Alyson Font Echoes in the Glow 1 Joss Broward Jeremi Elijah Elvin By the bank of the Green… Read More Table of Contents
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Helicon Staff 2024-2025 Mika Ellison, Editor-in-Chief Yong-Yu Huang, Managing Editor Dayeon Son, Programming Editor Aarya Mehta, Publicity Editor Brian Bouldrey, Faculty Sponsor Prose Staff Hye-won Yoo, Editor Justin Dynes Sydney Gaw* Dylan Lanier Patrick Leu* Elizabeth Lowry Anna Maffetone Clara Martinez Sofia Migaly Sydney Rodriguez Maggie Schneider* Beatrice Selch Katherine Yun Poetry Staff Lakshmi Sunder,… Read More Masthead
Editor’s Note
Welcome to Helicon’s Spring Quarter Issue 2025! If you’re reading this, it means that somehow, against all the odds, the magazine is published! And also, it probably means that I am graduated and no longer a student here. So for this letter, I wanted to look back at Helicon, what it means to me, and… Read More Editor’s Note
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EEEE Anna Tkebuchava The Warm Sun Milo Fernandez Warm Summer Evening Kaavya Butaney Let’s Watch Anna Tkebuchava god Fatima Jalloh Antlers Megumi Oishi Baby! Baby! Baby! Alijah Hill Knifepoint James Frazier-Wilson Staying Up Greta R. Cunningham OACR Abstraction Angelina Randazzo Recognition Riley Harrison A Week in My Mind in Preparation For an Afternoon in Exotic… Read More Table of Contents
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Helicon Staff 2024-2025 Mika Ellison, Editor-in-Chief Yong-Yu Huang, Managing Editor Dayeon Son, Programming Editor Aarya Mehta, Publicity Editor Brian Bouldrey, Faculty Sponsor Prose Staff Hye-won Yoo, Editor Justin Dynes Sydney Gaw* Dylan Lanier Patrick Leu* Elizabeth Lowry Anna Maffetone Clara Martinez Sofia Migaly Sydney Rodriguez Maggie Schneider* Beatrice Selch Katherine Yun Poetry Staff Lakshmi Sunder,… Read More Masthead
Editor’s Note
Welcome to Helicon’s Winter Quarter Issue 2025! Winter in Evanston (and some of Fall, and let’s face it, most of Spring) can be a challenge; I hope that this issue, while arriving at the tail end of the season, provides a bright spot amid the dreary days. As usual, we have a selection of poetry,… Read More Editor’s Note
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Under the Stars Leila Chavez kathaa / कथा / the saga Kaavya Butaney Girl with Guidance Ava Moore I Like Everything Under the Sun Khyla Bussey Filling the Chalice Anna Tkebuchava Nothing more than rolling skies Vrinda Anurag Gupta Black-crowned Night-heron, Reflecting Collin Porter American Interstate Roy Zhu Centerline Sydney MacGilvray Dream Matthias Neumann Burial… Read More Table of Contents
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Helicon Staff 2023-2024 Lily Glaubinger, Editor-in-Chief Mika Ellison, Managing Editor Skye Tarshis, Programming Editor Aarya Mehta, Publicity Editor Brian Bouldrey, Faculty Sponsor Prose Staff Sophie Konde, Editor Adele Bois Jordan Carr* Levy Deckard Justin Dynes Emily Hancock Juliana Hung* Georgia Kerrigan Ashwin Krishnaswamy Patrick Leu* April Li Linsey Liao* Elizabeth Lowry Claire Lu Asha Mehta*… Read More Masthead
Editor’s Note
When I first joined Helicon Literary & Arts Magazine, it was the fall of 2020. On-campus housing had been canceled, classes were entirely online, and as a freshman, it was nearly impossible to meet anyone. This magazine was one of the first places I found community at Northwestern, and throughout my four years on its… Read More Editor’s Note
