Welcome to The Blackbird Review

The Blackbird Review is the literary magazine for students of the Clayton A. Bouton High School in Voorheesville, New York. Three times a year we strive to publish a magazine that highlights the best writing and visual art our students produce. Filled with academic and literary writing, photography and fine art, we hope you enjoy this edition of The Blackbird Review!

In Our Current Issue...

In the Fall/Winter 2006 issue our contributors cover a variety of topics! In our essay section, Garrett Simpson discusses beauty in the current works of Greg Maguire, Taryn Smith writes of Salem Massachussett's seafaring past, Sarah Miller looks at love and loss in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily," RJ Curreri analyzes Oedipus Rex, and Andrew DuBay deconstructs Satan as seen in popular movies and literature. In fiction, we have three stories that swing from fantasy clashes in Pennsylvania, to loss and mourning on Cape Cod, to family upheaval in England. We even have a short play by Katrina Nakao, and the Blackbird Interview this month is with our own Dick Freyer!

Hit the Blog!

Check out The Blackbird Blog, our blog written by our very own student editors. Follow the link above on the menu bar to get to the blog, and see what our editors are reading, thinking about, and sounding off about. We wil also have material that we didn't include in the final edition of the magazine, and other extra freebies!

Publication Stuff

“The Blackbird Review “is a production of the Cole Summer Writers Institute and the Clayton A. Bouton High School/Voorheesville Middle School English Department. It is produced three times a year, once in the summer for participants in the Cole Summer Writers Institute, and twice during the school year, in February and April.