Throwback Thursday: the Mary Washington College Aubade (1991-1994).

This Throwback Thursday is really just for my fellow Mary Washington College grads — what you see below are issues of Aubade, the school’s annual literary magazine, for years 1991 through 1994.  (They appear chronologically.)  For some reason I thought I remembered that the magazine was published more than once a year, but apparently I was mistaken.  (College was a very long time ago.)

I submitted a poem here only once when I was an undergraduate, and it was rejected (probably with good reason).  It didn’t bother me for long.  I’d like to think that I was a don’t-sweat-the-small-stuff kind of guy even back then.

Aubade was really a terrific lit mag.  You can judge for yourself by leafing through these right here over at the Internet Archive.  The site’s layout and format makes it quick and easy — and they’ve got issues of the magazine from as early as 1971.  Wow.

 

aubade199121univ_0001

aubade199222univ_0001

aubade199323univ_0001

aubade199424univ_0001

“Another Place” Sculpture at Crosby Beach, Antony Gormley, 2007

Photo by Ian Mcallister, 2008.  England.

Crosby_Beach_

“Portrait of a Pandemic Bedhead.”

(c) Eric Robert Nolan.

Medium: Color photography. Genres: Dystopian horror, tragedy.

Bidding opens at Sotheby’s New York @ 7 PM EST — suggested opening bid is $.35.

 

20200708_132605B

107601222_3443025295728505_1430393063766448962_n

Bust of James Leonard Farmer, Jr. at Mary Washington College

Fredericksburg, VA.  Photo by Eduardo Montes-Bradley, 2015.

James_Farmer

Eduardo Montes-Bradley / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

106454540_10159294819304305_5333695032592258664_n

Cover art for U2’s “Achtung Baby” (1991)

Island Records.

434965036_640

“Never morning wore/ To evening, but some heart did break.”

One writes, that “Other friends remain,”
That “Loss is common to the race” —
And common is the commonplace,
And vacant chaff well meant for grain.

That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.

—  from ‘Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “In Memoriam”.

The original poem is a bit long in its entirety.  The last two last lines above comprise the title of Walter Langley’s eponymous 1894 painting.

 

7196527-L

Cover to the “Saturday Evening Post,” J.C. Leyendecker, July 5, 1924

64 - Copy

Happy Fourth of July, America!

We always called it “the Fourth of July” growing up.  It was rarely “Independence Day.”

Have fun.  Stay safe.  Wear a mask.  Practice social distancing.  Don’t celebrate America’s birthday by making your own last birthday your final one.

2018_-_Fireworks_over_Vegas

Photo credit: Tydence Davis / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)

Nurse Your Favorite Heresies in Whispers