Contrapuntal poems beautifully marry music with poetry in a way that entwines two separate poems into a harmonious third. Its invention is credited to Russian novelist and poet Andrei Bely in 1921. Since...
Ava Cole '25, Founder of Marketing Team
• May 5, 2024
Breaking news: Abington Friends Upper School Theatre has an intimacy director. That’s right, it’s not just for Bridgerton. Carly Bodnar served as the intimacy director for this year’s Upper School...
The Record, a Boygenius album released in March of 2023, is both unique and generic. The lyrics on this album are creative and beautiful. They are clearly a product of passion for poetry. Each of the songs...
Horror movies have long been a staple of the film industry, captivating audiences with suspense and fear. However, as of recently, the genre has fallen short of its purpose to write a compelling, scary...
At the end of last school year, AFS theater director Kittson O’Neill announced that the spring play for the 2023-2024 theater season would be Three Sisters by Anton Chekov. Many students may have wondered...
Flamenca poems perfectly encapsulate the fast-paced passion of dance. Originating from 18th century Southern Spain, flamenco dancing mainly inspired the Flamenca. Syllable count and assonance combine within...
Unlike the more modern Blitz and Cascade styles, Rimas Dissolutas poems have enchanted hundreds of generations of poets. Its name, which translates to “dissolved rhyme”, provides a clue into the mysteries...
In 2022, 51,670 people each wrote tens of thousands of words for a novel in exactly a month. How? National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo for short, which started in 1999 as a challenge for writers to...
Where else can you find struggling street urchins, a blooming romance, and a strange and unusual plant that costs $1.95 but Penn Wood High School’s production of Little Shop of Horrors!
With the ’60s...
For a Play That Goes Wrong, Academy of the New Church got a whole lot right. The farcical production, with its misplaced props, missed and mispronounced lines, and unplanned on-stage brawls, was a delightful...
This past fall, the AFS community was transported into a world where scarecrows could talk and lions could show fear in the magically weird world of The Wiz. The Wiz was a large success, especially amongst...
Abounding with joy, passion, and despair, The Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School’s (PALCS) jazzed-up take on Shakespeare’s classic Romeo and Juliet was absolutely captivating.
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