To our readers,
Welcome back everyone to spring semester, we made it! The Grail is coming back in full force this semester, now giving you your biweekly dose of arts and writing! We have heart eye-emojis for this week’s issue, which features the work of new and old contributors alike on the topic of love and romance. So whether you’re into roses and boxes of chocolate, or think Valentine’s Day is capitalist conspiracy, we promise that we’ll have something for you. The Grail gets sexy as two lovers reunite in Marvin C.’s sweet story (1), and editor Lauren takes us on a tour of locales on campus brimming with romance (3). Owen H. shares adoration for public transportation, and Max N. expresses loneliness in waiting for love ones (4). Genna G. expresses dangerous love in an action-packed love story (5), and Flora G. draws a new snakeless medusa (7). Imani G. rebuts an iconic ee cummings love poem (8), and Aislin L. S. reflects on the best type of love, obviously the canine kind (9). Sophie H. shares some lovely photos in a heart-shaped bath (10).
P.S. If you’re interested in writing with us, our meetings are Tuesdays at 8pm in the Student Publications Office (GCC-047). Or send questions and submissions directly to our brand new email address thegrail@reed.edu!
Love,
Dan, Sophie, and Lauren
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Released on August 25, 2020, Haley Blais’ Below the Salt is an album I wish I had during my first year of college. Coincidentally, that’s when I first started listening to Blais, a Vancouver-based singer-songwriter and vlogger whose wacky sense of humor and DIY bedroom-pop bangers resonated with me, a freshman living on her own for the very first time and trying to make sense of the world and herself. That unsure first-year is a senior now, but no less unsure, and I think that’s the point of Blais’ debut album: her label writes, “Below the Salt is a coming of age story that recognizes that there is no real ‘coming of age.’”