My earliest memories are of trying to get out of my fenced yard to see what was on the other side.  I was always curious about everything, just like my father. The fence was made of wood and...

 By: Matt Topolewski “Introducing next to the stage … ” My heart pounded so fast that I thought I was going to die from a heart attack, even at age ten. The nastiest butterflies forced my...

I skipped swim practice because I was too emotionally drained from fighting with my dad all week. My friend Izzy did not skip swim practice so I picked her up at around 9pm. Since school started we...

The darkness mocked me. It laughed, surrounding me from all sides; yet I couldn’t reach out to grasp it by the throat and silence it. I could not see where its body sulked, lying in hiding, waiting...

Poems based upon the reading of Macbeth Selfishness Some people they are deceiving But some people really see it The truth must come out Guided by evil that say if u listen...

Racial Vision  By: Uma Attreya If only there was never a thing called blindness, Maybe people would be able to see more than the outsides. When I take off my glasses,  I...

A poem about Joan Castleman, Glenn Close’s character in the 2017 film The Wife, based on Meg Wolitzer’s novel of the same name. In 40 years of marriage, Joan has ghostwritten the majority of her husband...

Blackout Poetry is a mixture of poetry and art made by taking any form of printed text and “blacking out” the unwanted or unnecessary words to create a new poem. The redacted text is a new and creative...

The term "palindrome" is derived from two Greek words, palin (meaning again) and dromos (which means way, or direction). It is defined as a number, word, sentence, symbol, or even a sign that can be read...

George Ella Lyon is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She wrote the original poem, “Where I’m From” in 1993 in order to find out just where she did come from.  By...

Each spring at JCHS, a literary magazine is created by the talented student body which displays both pieces of prose and poetry. Unfortunately, The Canvas 2020 was unable to be published in a hard copy...

Do you want to see movies where people speak “Indian?” Well, you’re out of luck, because “Indian” isn’t actually a language, just like how we don’t speak “American!” There are actually...