30 North
North Central College
Literary Magazine
Volume 17 – 2021
Editors:
Merrick Ramza
Rana Hussain
Arden Kurhayez
STEM Majors and Following Your Dreams
Art
Kelly Gilbert
Censored Confessions
Marmalade
Edward Supranowicz
Consternation
Dancing Across the Sky 2
Creative Non-Fiction
Anna Bankston
Cowboys & Indians
Jared Burkhardt
Mirrors, Mirrors Are My Walls
Allison Cummins
In the Peripheral
Nicholas Danlag
spin spin spin
Brennan Drake
The Stubborn Perfectionist
Rana Hussain
Time Capsule for A Gloomy Day: An Open Letter
Alejandro Lucero
“Are You Part of a Program?”
Gwendolyn Nurkiewicz
HOW STRANGERS BECOME YOURS
John Phillips
Syllables
Phoebe Rodriguez
Je ne sais pas/No lo sé
Anna Wright
Wild Wom(e)n
Fiction
Christian Barragan
Recipe of a Dream
Robin Buchanan
Nighthawks
Stephanie DeGnore
Blue
Megan Fleeharty
The Bus Stop
Carly Taylor
Unsalvageable
Heather Thaler
The Sirens
Gelaine Vestal
The Same
Poetry
Ryan Bausch
Another Night in the Motel on the Corner of Alessandro Boulevard
Allison Blythe
Corey J. Boren
Happy Valley
Inquiry #1998
señor corona
Jack Carini
next song on is venus in furs
JC Choi
City Color Palette
Adele Bea Cipste
The Sea is a Place
Lucy Dearden
HYDROPLANE/PANIC ATTACK
Anna DeJonge
Meeting Alice
When Teapots Scream
Heather Drouse
duality of mother
yates
Kiel Gregory
This Is All I Know—
Graham Hammond
Texas
Zander Harpel
tears in rain
Didi Hoyt
Emily Jay
Reservoir
Olivia Kretchman
Remembering Trevor
Reminders of Pap
Patrick Lee
Poetry at 1:47
Diamond Mark
Today I Took Some Pictures of Myself
Sammy Massimino
I’m tired of explaining myself
When They Leave You
Fatoumata Ouedrago
Firm Roots
Our Nursery Rhyme
Kristian Perez
Wilderness
Annie Przypyszny
Contextualizing La Traviata
Phoebe Rodriguez
Prometheus’ Plight
What the Ducks Know
Jonny Samuels
Cheers to Melancholy, Celebration, and Nothing at All
Liam Strong
indoors, we are never naked
Debadrita Sur
BATTERED WIFE
Chocolate
Madina Tuhbatullina
Many Things
The Movement Phenomenon
Emma Yahr
For the Man with the Face Mask on Incorrectly or Simply Not at All
POW!
The blank page stare back at me/white poet/ and asks neither protest nor pandemic of my pen
Anneke Zegers
To Classic Old Men