This summer, we’re bringing you a review of SLOCA High School’s Hanging Lantern Review Issue #9! We posted about their print magazine (created and published by middle and high schoolers!) and Reading + Release Party a few weeks ago, but wanted to bring you more content from the actual magazine in a short summer series.
This week, we’re featuring another poem from one of our SLOCA middle schoolers, Weston Richert. This poem was chosen for its sense of timing and immediacy coupled with its strong visual language. Alongside it, we have a photo from one of the SLOCAHS photography students, Elijah Ecret. Similarly, this piece has a strong sense of movement and time. One of the sweet things about publishing both visual and written pieces is seeing the way different pieces are in conversation with each other, as shown by the two pieces featured here!
Fishing at the Tide Pools
by Weston Richert
Sunset,
High tide,
Time to go fishing.
On the rocks,
Wet seaweed glistens
Treacherously,
Waiting
To slip
Your legs from under you
And hurl you
Onto the rocks.
Carefully, creep up to a pool
And lower your lure in to
Coax
The fish out of their hidden refuges
To
Bite!
You can view more poetry, prose, and visual art from our students by purchasing HLR #9 at this link or in the Den. And stay tuned! Next year is a big year for Hanging Lantern—number 10!—and the students on the HLR team want to make it their biggest and best ever. Look out for their submission period in the fall and the Reading + Release Party at the end of 2023. It’s never too early to get excited!
