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Poetry
“Sunlight” by Lili Gorley
Author bio: Lili Gourley is a creative writing major at Geneseo with a concentration in poetry. She often finds her muse in music and nature. She hopes to work in the publishing industry someday.
Trigger warning: non-violent death
“Craft” by Lidabel Avila
Author bio: Lidabel Avila (she/her)
Trigger warning: N/A
“The Finale” by Liz Louie
Author bio: Liz Louie is an author of all things you don’t want to find in your closet. She is currently working towards a BA from SUNY Geneseo in Creative Writing. She has been published in Catharsis Magazine, and enjoys spending time watching scary movies and riding horses.
Trigger warning: abuse, minor gore, violence
“Imago Therapy” by Isaac Schiller
Author bio: Isaac Schiller (he/him)
Description: Imago Therapy: Untangle those attachment wounds you developed in childhood! Look in the mirror. Do you see your parents hiding inside your face? Take a pen and draw over it until your face no longer belongs to anyone.
Trigger warning: N/A
“Every Eve” by Tess Woitaszek
Author bio: Tess Woitaszek is a senior at Geneseo and part of a creative writing program, in which she focuses on poetry and creative short fiction.
Trigger warning: N/A
“Holy” by Tess Woitaszek
Author bio: Tess Woitaszek is a senior at Geneseo and part of a creative writing program, in which she focuses on poetry and creative short fiction.
Trigger warning: N/A
Visual art
“Worship” by Noel Guidry
Author bio: Noel Guidry (he/him)
Description: This piece depicts three figures praying to an ethereal figure of light.
Trigger warning: N/A
“The Adoration of the Magi” by Noel Guidry
Author bio: Noel Guidry (he/him)
Description: Depicts a nativity scene where the three kings, depicted in black, are seeing the baby jesus for the first time.
Trigger warning: N/A
“The Journey of the Magi” by Noel Guidry
Author bio: Noel Guidry (he/him)
Description: Depicts the three wise men riding across the Arabian Desert on camelback.
Trigger warning: N/A
“The Witches Tree” by Kaitlin Anzalone
Author bio: Kaitlin Anzalone (she/her)
Description: It was once believed that a spirit could be trapped in a wine bottle. People began hanging glass bottles on dead tree branches in hopes that a spirit would become trapped and the morning sun would neutralize the spirit.
Trigger warning: N/A
Untitled by Kaitlin Anzalone
Author bio: Kaitlin Anzalone (she/her)
Description: Children tend to worship the ground older individuals walk on. We should slow down and do the reverse.
Trigger warning: N/A
Untitled by Jillian Orr
Author bio: Jillian is a junior sociomedical sciences major who loves drawing, watching the leaves change color, and cookie dough ice cream.
Trigger warning: N/A
Creative writing
“Gender Nonconformity in Northanger Abbey and a Partisan Narrator’s Sympathy” by Matt Keller
Author bio: Matt Keller is a senior English major concentrating in Creative Writing. He has previously been published in MiNT magazine and is President of the Creative Writing Club at Geneseo. The piece is a type of creative nonfiction lyric essay known as a “hermit crab essay.” It takes the disguise, or shell, of a literary analysis, hiding the narrator’s perspective within. As the narrator discovers more about himself as he discovers more about the characters of Northanger Abbey.
Trigger warning: N/A
“Ostinato; Prometheus’ Refrain” by Jackson Faulkner
Author bio: Jackson Faulkner (he/they)
Description: A conversation on love, worship, myth, and revival.
Trigger warning: death
Genre(s)
Poetry; Fiction; Essay; Prose; Art
Keywords
Art; Poetry; Collage; Photography; Essay; LGBTQ+
Advisor(s)
Amanda Roth
Page Count
19
Issue
5
Original Publication Date
10-1-2022
Original Format
Online
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File Size
11.8 MB
Identifier
GLM0077_Iris_Worship_2022
Recommended Citation
Iris Magazine Staff, "Iris Magazine: Worship" (2022). Iris Magazine. 7.
https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/glm-iris/7