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SLIGHTY WEST
SLIGHTLY WEST LIVES! Missing and presumed dead for the last 10 years, Slightly West is a student-run literary publication, featuring students’ creative literary and visual works easily printed in black and white. We want your poems, stories, pulp, flash fiction, satire, secret magic spells, original chain mail, homemade recipes, manifestos, […]
Artist Feature: Noquisi Christian-Smith
Artist Feature: Noquisi Christian-Smith by Natalie “Lee” Arneson Noquisi (they/them), is a multi-racial third-year student at Evergreen. They have a focus in history and cultural studies. Their favorite art mediums are ceramics, paper cuts, and darkroom photography. Their current project is a series of paper cuts that are based on […]
Evergreen horrors article #2: The Night Walker
Isak Luna Urrego Bailén Simultaneously one of the most frequently seen and least understood cryptids on campus. While many have gazed upon it, few realize this blurry figure wandering the night is anything but human. Those with common sense have nothing to fear, but those who like to chase shadows […]
Shaping our work and Shaping Ourselves
A Program Spotlight: “Studio Projects: Rites of Passage” By Grace Selvig Studio Projects: Rites Of Passage is a 16 credit, 3 quarter program based in ceramics and ritual studies. The program is very structured with two theme projects a quarter as well as weekly readings, essays, lectures and skills assignments. […]
“Quest for the Grail” and Other Bullshit I Bought for $2
A bargain bin cassette review by Hero Winsor Instead of bringing you my usual fare of science articles and well-labeled fake news, I’m breaking from the form and giving a review of tapes I found for 25 cents each at Half Price Books. Most of these I selected solely based […]
Feeding the Diaspora: a Good Cup of Coffee
French press coffee is one of the many things I learned from my dad in the kitchen and one of the things he’s always been a huge stickler about. I’m not sure when he got so specific about his coffee or where he first tried french press coffee—Dad recalls his […]
Speedyfication: The hot new trend that may be changing someone you know into a bivalve
It seems like some students at The Evergreen State College are taking the immortal orders of our school’s fight song to “swivel about,” and “let it all hang,” out all too seriously. Revolutionary new technology is now allowing human geoducks to become actual geoducks. Thorn Foster, who lists their inspirations […]
Artist Feature: Alec Phipps
Hi, I’m Alec and I’m an illustrator and aspiring children’s book author! I work mainly on large-scale gouache paintings and monochrome ink on paper pieces. I’m an advocate for the weird and hope to keep creating till I drop! CPJ: The question that I always like to open up with […]
Feeding the Diaspora: It’s the Simple Things
by Natalie “Lee” Arneson As we creep out of December and settle into the heart of January, it’s simple foods that begin to sound the most appetizing. With the cold keeping a firm grasp on the PNW, our energy declines and cooking can feel especially taxing some days. So, something […]