The Prairie Light Review
Volume 47, Number 1 (2025) Spring 2025
Prefatory Notes
A Note from the Editor
Ciara Houzell
Binary Code
Zofia Oles
Artwork
Front Cover Affirmation
Kendalla Puckett
Deck Of Cards
Steven Anderson
Wilting Lily
Karen Janas
Express Yourself
Gabriella Jurinek
Happy Death Day
Ivan Hayes
Between Life And Death
Gabriella Jurinek
Tender Lumplings
Mikayla Ryan-Hicks
Bodies in Privacy Contort for Voyeuristic Hedonistic Oddities
Kendalla Puckett
Rhythmic Essence of Spring
Devona Barnes
Distorted Faith
Sebastian Krzeczkowski
Illuminated Hope
Sebastian Krzeczkowski
Tears Within the Apple
Leslie Valdes
Morninghawk
John L. Schrage
In Search Of
John L. Schrage
Michigan Avenue Musicians
Samantha Clanton
Into the Mist
DJ Janas
To Chicago
Karen Janas
Selections
I Have Nothing to Do and Some Time to Kill
Juno Nightingale
Put My Head on a Pike, Why Don't You!
Alyssa Marie Cordero
Let's Blow Up Spider-Man!
DJ Janas
Freckles and Cheese
Lidia Rogers
Raven and the Wolves
Bee Bishop
Glorious Memorious
John Santaga
Would You Care to Know Me?
Kathryn Bell
Bebelplatz
Glynis Benbow-Niemier
Nine Candles
Jeanne Mardegan
That Ghost There On That Bench
Hunter Schultz
What Lies Below
Breane Barrios
A Silence Kept
Lidia Rogers
Crestfallen Stars
Kassandra Lane
Dear boys and dear girls I have yet to find and love
Valeria Garay
That One Uncle...This fool met Kendrick.
Ciara Houzell
Crimson Cowl and Red Hoodie
John Santaga
Love Me as If Violence Doesn't Exist
Maya Washington
Untitled: Unseen: Unknown
Bell Kathryn
Biking to the French Quarter
Mardelle Fortier
Wooing at the Writers' Gathering
Jim Swinehart
On the Beat: A Cop Tells His Tale
Mardelle Fortier
For 3 Months, 5 Years Ago
Bee Bishop
Twin-Sized Bed
Jeanne Mardegan
On Pluto's Dark Shore
Alyssa Marie Cordero
Meditations
Laura Pineda
Back Matter
Editorial Team
- Editor-in-Chief
- Ciara Houzell
- Production Editor
- Brooklyn Ross
- Marketing Editor
- Maya Washington
- Editors
- Jorie Alexander
- Ivan Hayes
- David Janas
- Regina Mayer
- Kendalla Puckett
- John Santaga
- Faculty Advisor
- Dr. Trina Sotirakopulos
Contact the Prairie Light Review staff at: https://www.cod.edu/student_life/publications/prairie_light_review/