— meet the editors — meet the editors
I think everyone should watch Monday Night Football, for the world would be a much happier place. Footballtown, USA. Can’t you just see it? In reality, I am Buttercup the Powerpuff Girl (shhh!), made from the chemical X. “They” have yet to decide whether I am an overall beneficial thing for society. Perhaps you’ve seen me—I cha-cha, I sashay, I got jiggy with it before there was an it! With sugar and spice (and of course all things nice), I’m quite capable of getting a tad bit spicy if I don’t get what I want on my birthday. And you all know what I want, because all I ever asked for was co-domination (along with my Prince of Procrastination) over a small private island off the coast of Australia… and maybe a few helper monkeys… I’m a Life Is Beautiful kind of girl with an intense passion for all the lovely music that never stops playing in my head. When I randomly burst into some little song and dance routine, perhaps now you’ll understand why. Always remember that my evil twin possesses exactly half of my brain. Feel free to chuckle silently to yourself or to laugh aloud (you schizo!) at all of Footballtown, because (can’t you just smell the bad cliché coming?) the time you spend wasting is certainly not wasted time. Because it passes far too fast, I raise my head and nod my glass (umm, what?) to those like myself who dream in color. Tell me, are you a badfish too?
My name is Katherine and I am a senior at the School for Creative and Performing Arts. This is my first year working for the Seven Hills Review. Writing is a big part of my life. At school I major in creative writing and I work for the school paper and two literary magazines. I interned at Citybeat for a year and I’ve recently gotten involved in playwriting. I love writing for school and in my free time. I also volunteer twice a week downtown for kids Cafe. In general, I really enjoy life and my place in it and I can’t wait to see where the coming years will take me.
My name is Lindsay and I’m, 18 years old. I was born in New York but at only 6 weeks was torn away and placed in Nutville, KY. Luckily at age 5 I was able to get away and we moved to Cincinnati. I am the baby of my family with one older brother. My parents tried to control me and put me in Private school, but when they realized I was to good for that my wishes came true and I enrolled at S.C.P.A. where all my dreams have come true! Over the years, I have finally been able to do what I want, write. I have also been able to learn that my lifetime goal is to direct. My Life!
These things in which I will soon say are as much part of me as this city, moreover, it is the winds push against the water, the wake flows in reciprocal tides, my thoughts only a ripple of Cincinnati’s. Nonetheless, we are all quick to move the tongue before the mind finalizes a thought; those accusations reside in defense and defense in accusations. In the words of the Origins of All Things, God, “Whoever has ears ought to hear.” Cincinnati has closed their eyes and opened their mouths, while just the opposite may bring understanding and respect. I challenge us not to be color-blind, but to become enlightened of our many cultures and heritage, may minds bring many changes. My thought, my feelings, my bio—our city. “United we stand, divided we fall.”
My name is Lauren and I’m a junior at Turpin this year. Life gets crazy there just like every other place. Being involved with the Seven Hills Review is a great way to escape. You don’t have to know what you’re doing or be the best poet, you just have to want to be involved. That’s why poetry and literature are such an influential part of my life. I don’t always have to make time for either, but whenever I need they’re there. Besides poetry and reading I partake in a few other activities. I play basketball and softball for neighborhood type leagues and I love shopping. (Don’t be surprised if you see a poem from me that has to do with shopping, I haven’t done it yet, but hey it could happen!) Simply put, I just like being me and hanging out with my friends. Words to live by:
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.” —Albert Einstein
Jordan has been a fisherman, construction worker, graphic design engineer, and Epistemologist. He currently studies Latin, Italian and Sanskrit, and translates poetry.
I am Juliette, junior princess of the French club, worker bee of the musical. Beechwood High School is my realm, though I check my watch hourly to see if I have graduated yet. I play the clarinet on Friday’s at the football and basketball games. This is a sad life for a clarinet to live. I have no excuse for myself except that band girls simply have more fun, so my brain functions with B flats instead of with reason of any sort. I tend to love my friends, even if they play brass. The West Wing (the show, not the real one cowboys!) I’ve got a challenge for the world—write what tingles in your bones. Poetry is in your marrow, too. Souvenez que savoir c’est pouvoir! (Remember that to know is power for those who speak American…)
Oh swell, it’s time to write the bio… Well, I suppose I’ll start with the basics: My name is Lyndsey and I’m a junior and McNicholas High School where I’m involved in band (yes, I’m a band dork) and the dance team. Not a whole lot has changed from last year. I still can’t drive and seeing as one’s birthday doesn’t change, my star sign remains a Libra. I’m becoming rather good at this whole procrastinating deal (assuming there’s skill involved in it…) although this time I have a semi-legitimate excuse as to why I’m turning this in late. I overuse a few select phrases such as “whatever works” and “dude, that’s crazy talk”. But that’s okay. Anyway, moving right along…
Hi, my name is Julie and I’m a sophomore at Ursuline Academy. In a world where large means small, grade means medium, and tall means large, I seek that perfect balance between cinnamon crunch bagels and smoothies. I love lacrosse, field hockey, crazy concerts and being creative with the right side of the brain. The best advice in life is to smile. After all, it won’t kill you, and it makes other people feel happy too! Dislikes include drinking orange juice in the morning, eating lima beans or mushrooms (does anyone really?) or people who snub you or are just annoying in general. So, to leave you off with some words to the wise and the not so wise…
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.” —Oscar Wilde
“I’ve had a wonderful time, but this wasn’t it.” —Groucho Marx
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when adults are afraid of the light.” —Plato
My outlook in life can be described in a single quote by Dave Matthews: “The future is no place to place your better days.” If this were not true, then all literature, art, poetry, all emotion would be of no importance, of no real value. When all is broken down, we are here on earth for a single purpose; to live. Simple, isn’t it? We don’t live in multiple time dimensions, or at least we don’t have proof that we do. Now is all that we’ve got. Now is what makes the past worthwhile and what gives the future its purpose. We are eternally ephemeral.
“Are you twins?” says an ignorant bystander as my brother and I saunter down the street.
“Nope we just look alike,” I say as I laugh at their stupidity.—Malcom T.
The thespian is in! This is my first issue for the Seven Hills Review. Reading poems, eating pizza and drinking Vanilla Coke—could life get any better? Majorly influenced by late night comedy, sleep is unimportant to me. Conan and Leno are what keeps me conscious as I do my work. Bic runs through my veins. Skin is my canvas. I am a complete writing factory.
April Yee is a senior at Cincinnati Country Day School. She loves to study languages, read useless pieces of literature, write equally useless prose pieces, and laugh (kindly) at the submissions to the Seven Hills Review. In short, she loves words. She also works at her school’s literary magazine and newspaper, and she enjoys writing reviews for Cappies, a theatre review program for high schoolers. She also loves dark chocolate, cinnamon gum, and her dogs, in that order.
