Genres

This blog showcases the writing and artwork of the students at Hollis Brookline High School and is maintained by Hannah St. George and Nicole J. Kubishta. To search for a specific contributor, please search his or her first and last name in the search bar.

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Attention Hollis-Brookline Students: Genres will be coming to you in print!

The time has finally come for the first annual end-of-the-year edition of Genres. Although we could not include every piece submitted this year, we are happy to be able to put the pages of our magazine into the hands of our readers.

Copies of the magazine will go for $5.00 each; however, if you pre-order here , you will have any copies you desire reserved and you will get $1.00 off each copy you order.

Copies will be distributed in the cafeteria during all lunches starting during the first week of June. Thank you to all who have contributed and shown your continual support. This publication would not be able to run if it weren’t for you.

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--Wendy Courtemache, Class of 2015

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--Veronica Abt, Class of 2014

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I wrote this around the last general election, uninspired (ironically) by the finger-pointing and name-calling of the politicians that had somehow infiltrated the minds of our community. And no matter what, I couldn't find anything in what they were saying that actually sounded like a promise they could keep, and it seemed like no matter what they did, they would become subject to the wrath of our ever-dumbing and ever-increasing more-or-less social culture. Hence the line "promises that break before they're made are almost as common as a sword or a spade." That's mostly what the first verse deals with. After that, the second verse goes on to describe some of the feelings I had at the time toward music, and a girl who will remain nameless. After I'd written the two, I tied it all together with a chorus that questioned the integrity of the social constructs that command our every motion ("the laws that bind us... the myths that blind us"). I wrote the bridge (a 6-bar form, I'd like to point out) from the point of view of someone questioning this integrity, asking "what can you lose?" from taking a chance on something that's outside the norm, or maybe just doing something that you're not supposed to, there is a pretty half-hearted reference to a particular singer/songwriter and his convictions in it, but I'll leave that to remain a mystery.

-- Chazz Rogers, Class of 2014

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Zentangle

--Kate Cherian, Class of 2014

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-- Katie Van Veen, Class of 2014

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"Fireside Broom"

-- Liam Tanner, Class of 2014

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-- Carly Howard, Class of 2014

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-- Abby Ouellette, Class of 2015

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-- Georgia Giles, Class of 2015

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-- Abby Ouellette, Class of 2015

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-- Georgia Giles, Class of 2015

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Woodshed

Here are the walls that we made to take apart:

knotted beech and pale birch

wild wood, and taméd too

to safeguard it from what only it can dispel.

Some outside:

grey and lifeless, crumbling like stone

left to the rain and the snow and time. 

Some lying between the cracks:

rough tree-skins, hollowed of their bones. 

The touch is safe and muted, but

dead leaves and splinters

fill the air with their dry smell --

settle in the lungs

sharp and rasping

piercing, remaining.

-- Nicole J. Kubishta, Class of 2015

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-- Abby Ouellette, Class of 2015

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-- Georgia Giles, Class of 2015

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-- Liam Tanner, Class of 2014

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-- Georgia Giles, Class of 2015