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    Autumn

    Autumn is an afterthought, Everyone loves Autumn but no one knows AutumnNo sees how Autumn sits in silence listening to music in a corner, how […]

  • Salem

    “When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman […]

  • Here in the Meadow

    I run to the meadow where the grass is softWhere the trees are tallAnd songbirds aloftThey singThey tweetAnd dreams are sweetRight here in the meadow […]

  • The Winter Turning

    They constantly tell me to be more like youBut they can’t tell from the surfaceI don’t believe my dreams will come trueThey sacrificed me for […]

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Welcome to the online edition of The Blackbird Review, Voorheesville’s magazine of literature and the arts. Founded in 2005, the Review strives to showcase the best writing, photography, digital art, and music from Clayton A. Bouton High School students. On these pages, we hope to bring you the best creative work that Voorheesville students produce. We are a school club, staffed by high school students from the Clayton A. Bouton High School, and the work you see here is created and edited only by students.

"I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know." ~Wallace Stevens “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”

Enjoy the work that you see here, and enjoy this snippet from Wallace Stevens. We like it. It sums it all up for us.

We publish the online edition of the magazine year-round, but also publish two print editions, one in the winter and one in the spring.

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