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The Fate of Form and the Form of Fate: An Essayist’s Argument for the Sestina

The Fate of Form and the Form of Fate: An Essayist’s Argument for the Sestina

Tate Kraetzer, Assistant Editor October 29, 2025
What has drawn poets to the sestina all these years? In this essay, I aim to answer that question... at length.
Me, me shelf and I: Introducing me with my summer reads

Me, me shelf and I: Introducing me with my summer reads

Sam Szekely, Editor-in-Chief October 18, 2025

Welcome to a new(ish) year, Beavs! Thank you to my assistant editor Tate for the introduction in Week 1. I'm so excited to brave this year together and highlight the beautiful arts culture on campus. For...

Sam Szekely (left) and Tate Kraetzer (right) pose in the bullpen of the Orange Media Network.

The Vision Is There: Meet the PRISM 2025-26 Editors!

Tate Kraetzer, Assistant Editor October 1, 2025
It’s the beginning of the 2025-26 school year, which means new editors and new visions for the magazine ahead!
Volume 146: Do you see the vision?

Volume 146: Do you see the vision?

Sam Szekely, editor-in-chief September 24, 2025

It’s that time of year again folks! And by “that time of year,” I mean PRISM’s submission season. As of right now, submissions are officially open for Volume 146 of Oregon State University’s...

How to Start a Library in 47 Simple Steps (Just Kidding: It’s Another Mass Book Review)

How to Start a Library in 47 Simple Steps (Just Kidding: It’s Another Mass Book Review)

Brynne Boehlecke, Editor-in-Chief June 5, 2025

It’s come to my attention that when one is a senior in college and also the editor of a very cool student lit mag, one probably does not have that much time to read for pleasure. It’s also come to...

The sex dungeon beneath the white picket fence: Superman, "Nights of Horror", and porn under censorship

The sex dungeon beneath the white picket fence: Superman, “Nights of Horror”, and porn under censorship

Shoshana Groom, Assistant Editor May 29, 2025

CONTENT WARNING: this essay includes sexual images, including images of partial nudity, BDSM and torture, as well as discussions of torture, murder and rape. As the practice of book banning grows at...

Queer Love Isn't Violence

Queer Love Isn’t Violence

Austin Thornton, Volunteer May 20, 2025

Content warning: violence, references to explicit material   “I lie back against the sheets & Charybdis both this body’s hungry mouths, let my finger feel what wet wreckage, what good and...

The Real Monster in Horror Media: Stereotype

The Real Monster in Horror Media: Stereotype

Chloe Vilevac, Volunteer May 16, 2025

Horror entertainment, a genre that heavily relies on the use of stereotypes to generate fear and suspense, perpetuates negative beliefs about marginalized groups, leading to further marginalization...

Stories-Within-Stories: A Structural Love Letter to Art

Stories-Within-Stories: A Structural Love Letter to Art

Rhys Hodson, Volunteer May 13, 2025

The first time I watched Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” I didn’t get it. This does not seem to be an uncommon experience with the film — its reviews are shockingly divisive, with many of the...

Stories that Change the World

Stories that Change the World

Shoshana Groom, Assistant Editor April 29, 2025

Content warning: gun violence, coarse language   In times of political upheaval, I notice a lot of my fellow writers gearing themselves up as though they’re about to step into war. They post...

Actually Netflix, We Are Still Watching: The Wrongful Cancellations of Netflix Original Shows

Actually Netflix, We Are Still Watching: The Wrongful Cancellations of Netflix Original Shows

Josie Hartung, Volunteer April 22, 2025

Netflix — streaming giant, slayer of BlockBuster Video and host platform to such original classics as “Squid Game,” “Love is Blind,” “Stranger Things,” “Love Island,” “You,” “Temptation...

"Conclave" (2024) & Ghost: A little bit more alike than meets the eye

“Conclave” (2024) & Ghost: A little bit more alike than meets the eye

Chloe Vilevac and Maria Tejeda Solorzano April 16, 2025

What do the pope of the Catholic Church and a pope of a satanic clergy have in common? Well, gender nonconformity, for one! Before any pitchforks are raised, this is about two entirely fictional representations...

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