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Volume 1, Issue 1 Fall 2018 The Lemurian Revival Published by the COS Writers Club Club Advisor..........................................................................................Beckie Hobbs Club President......................................................................................Cory Short Club Vice President.............................................................................Jasmine Permenter Club Treasurer......................................................................................Lila Knutila Editor in Chief/Club Secretary......................................................Brenden Short THE LEMURIAN REVIVAL The Legend Returns Once upon a time, in 1957, College of the Siskiyous was born. When our beloved institution was a mere six years old, the very first COS student publication came to enlighten us. Student writers and artists combined forces to produce The Lemurian, published during the spring semester of 1963. We were inspired by this modest journal typed using an actual typewriter (a Remington or Underwood, we’d like to imagine), with a spine held steadfast for fifty-five years by a mere two staples. We were moved by this humble, yet passionate, collection; so much so, we’ve awakened a revival. The COS Writers Club presents to you, dear reader, The Lemurian Revival. A new collection of works by COS students, faculty, and staff. We invite you to join us now on a journey deep into the tunnels of creative expression and emerge with us to revitalize a new legend as epic as Lemurians finding a home inside our very own mystical Mt. Shasta. We hope to inspire more of our COS community to join us in future editions and submit their own artistic and literary works. Excerpt from The Lemurian’s (1963) opening article titled “The Lemurian Legend”: – The Lemurian, Spring 1963 (Courtesy of the COS Library) 2 15 RANDOM QUESTIONS FOR SARAH KIRBY INTERVIEWED BY: BECKIE HOBBS, OCTOBER 12, 2018 SARAH KIRBY IS AN ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR AT 3. If you could eat only one food item for two COS, FREELANCE WRITER, AND JOURNALIST. weeks straight, what would it be? Pizza. Veggie pizza. With mushrooms, olives… and honestly any and all vegetables. As long as there is plenty of cheese. Oh, and fresh basil and rosemary, and garden tomatoes if they’re available. 4. If you could have a dinner party with five authors, who would they be? Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), Zora Neale Hurston, Raymond Carver, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Gilbert. I’m sure Elizabeth would love to be there too if the others could attend. 5. Where is the weirdest place you have ever Sarah Kirby with the San Gimignano, Italian countryside been? extended behind her. “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” museum. Also this BBQ joint in Wyoming. They had board games Sarah Kirby was born and raised in Kansas. She from the 1920s and only served three types of found herself in California after following her food, one being a pulled pork sandwich with heart which is a wild and crazy ride that she is pineapple. But in order to get served, you had to still enjoying. One of her favorite qualities about order by saying the exact name of the sandwich Siskiyou County is its natural beauty mixed with they had created, like the Hawaiian Pig or good-natured folk. Currently, she is learning to something. play the ukulele, and she is writing a young adult 6. Where is the coolest place you have ever fiction novel. She feels honored to teach English been? at College of the Siskiyous, and she is constantly Dante’s House Museum in Florence, Italy. All inspired by those who she teaches and works three parts of The Divine Comedy [the Inferno, with. Purgatorio, and Paradiso] were represented through the tiniest writing of the text on the walls 1. If you could be a magical creature for one of three rooms. I have also been to Dorothy’s day, what would you be? house at the Wizard of Oz Museum in Liberal, A forest nymph. KS. My dad helped with building it when I was a 2. What is something about you most people kid. don’t know? 7. If you could lucid dream, would you and I studied classical flute for 15 years. I started in why? 6th grade and played all the way up to my Yes, and I do. It’s usually around 5am when it undergrad university where I was in a flute choir. happens and I try to make the dream more And oddly enough they had a Master’s Degree in exciting, like a tropical island with a buffet of Flute Studies because our music professor delicious desserts, or a massive rock climbing actually had her PhD in Flute Studies. adventure, which I would never do in real life. 15 Random Questions Cont.: 3 8. What is the worst job you have ever had? Cleaning CPR mannequins for the American Red Cross with bleach. I still remember when I got my 10 cent raise from $5.35 to $5.45 an hour. I guess I did a stellar job and my boss felt I deserved a raise. 9. If you could take Sasquatch out to lunch, where would you go? I don’t know if he’s a beer & nachos kind of guy or if I’d throw him into a fine dining scene. But I’d probably take him to some kind of burger joint, although I’d love to see how he responds to the fine dining experience. Even though I’m vegetarian I’d still 15. Finally, and most importantly, what do take him to a BBQ or burger joint. But who you think about garden gnomes? knows, maybe he’s a vegetarian too? I have lots of garden gnomes around my house 10. What would your autobiography be and sitting in my house plants. I love them! called? Join Sarah and a group of other friendly writers “Fabulously Uncertain” or “A Beautiful Paradox”. at our club meetings--Tuesdays at 3PM in the 11. Spotify or Pandora? And what are your ASC Fishbowl! top 3 playlists? Spotify: I’m a recent convert from Pandora. Morning Jazz, Feeling Happy, Funk. And I love And now, A Poetry Break: classic Hindu music, like sitar, and also Spanish guitar. I like music without words mostly, oddly watch me drain and spill, enough. And funk, too. feel the release as silent noise escapes, 12. If you didn’t have to work ever again, what sometimes a whisper, sometimes a shout, would you do? left to confess the deepest ponderings, each stretch and tangle unique to a person. I would just write and travel and volunteer. 13. Where is the highest elevation you have we try our best to paint a thought, hiked up to? it doesn't matter if no one is looking, I think I just did that this summer at St. Mary’s this is an art only for present appreciation. Glacier in Colorado. I think I was at around 12,000 ft. And I want to summit Mt. Shasta one my only wish is for an eager hand to put my day. ink to use. 14. Describe the color lavender to someone —handwritten fairytales: the biography of a who is blind. pen Natural, relaxation, couched in waterfalls, light rain, and stillness. - jzi Dill Our Siskiyou Grand 4 She turned the green cylinder in her Our secret here our sacred spot hands. The seasons change from day to day. Little bumps flowed under her Stars at night explode with life fingertips, Coyotes call to hunt about Blooming color delights our senses like the reading of braille. Frosty chill to summer swelter. She scrubbed it harder, Smoke filled air with burning eyes trying to Water wheels spray thy mist with cattle grazing day create a new, smooth, skin. by day. Town folk smile and say hello and wave a passer by. The wrinkled hands covered hers, Volcanic lava crystal snow capped Mountain soaring helping, Big blue sky eagles soar. pushing the brush up and down- Logging timbers arome the air just so. Hot springs minerals healing heat. Clear crisp rivers flow with fishers frenzy The boil, simmer, With water rich and land around she didn’t know until she was told Shhhhhhhh don’t tell about our sacred ground that too much time in the pot Our Siskiyou Grand would cause them to spoil. -Erin Newlin She placed the cylinders in the vinegar jars, plucking at the dill just the way the wrinkled hands did. The official close of the lid, time would transform the consistency. A few years later, the forgotten jar- opened. Would not only embrace the palate with pickle but emerge her memory with dill. Reminding her of the wrinkled hands that helped, focusing her on hers that still hadn’t but wanted – Artwork from The Lemurian, Spring 1963 (Courtesy of the COS Library) to teach the process, to cover someone’s hands, mitochondria so they wouldn’t forget hers. the powerhouse of the cell -Sarah Kirby my true energy —haikyou - jzi Short Story Submissions (And More Poetry...) 5 Zinc by Mary Allen Relax, a calming voice said in the back of his head against the soon to be chaos. He loved this moment. Nothing here was final. He opened his eyes and saw the vast space before him, which would soon be filled with gasoline, people, and mechanical bikes. Those beside him revved their engines, trying to intimidate him. He didn’t care. The somewhat official flag-bearer brought the flag down and moved out of the way as almost all racers started toward him. Neither the racers, nor the gambling observers, had specified a specific route before this. Suckers, Zinc thought to himself in the back of his mind. He had thrown his motorcycle into reverse, to the amusement and annoyance of the crowd, which is why almost everyone bet against him.