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ALT The cover of Michelle Rochniak’s debut chapbook, Violets for Sappho!! The cover is on a yellow background and has a little asterisk on either side of it. The actual cover has a violet background and a drawing of a Greek sculpture layered over a bouquet of violets. “Violets for Sappho” is written at the top, and “Michelle Rochniak” is written at the bottom (both in uppercase black fancy font). Super exciting!!

ALT A poster with a blue and yellow color scheme. It reads as follows: NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS The Howl is seeking work from fresh new voices in grades 9-12 to be published and featured as part of the launch of our new online magazine. As your "shelter from the storm," we emphasize stories that explore identity, social issues, and what it feels like to navigate our modern world as a young person but are open to ALL work. SUBMISSION TYPES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: • Fiction • Flash Fiction • Short Fiction • Journalism/Op-Eds • Non-Fiction • Art (Digital and Traditional) Videos The Howl: The Best Minds of Your Generation [end poster text] Find out more info at thehowlmag.org!!

ALT Michelle is wearing a long sleeve grey shirt with the logo of the first issue of Aôthen Magazine in the center of it. The logo reads “Aôthen Magazine: A Classics Publication” as well as “Aôthen” in the original Greek with a statue next to it. Michelle is holding their arms out at their sides on an angle, and their curly light brown hair is down. They are wearing very cute and aesthetically academic glasses!

ALT Gifts on a light blue comforter. A blue box with the word “Brilliance” on top contains earrings. A card resting inside an envelope says “Thank you for all the kindness you bring to the world” with a sunset on it. Sofía Aguilar’s first season of Streaming Service, with a cover meant to emulate TV static rests on top of a bookmark of Streaming Service Season 2 and a copy of Streaming Service Season 2 itself :)

ALT shell’s dnd character, mel. they have purple skin and eyes and elf-like ears. they have pinkish-orange hair braided to their right, and they are wearing a white blouse. they have very dangly earrings, one with the moon and the other with a star. they are wearing a crown of warm-tone flowers, and they have sparkles around their face. the background is dark except for branches of pink flowers that look like cherry blossoms.

ALT shell’s picture. they have white skin, wavy brown hair, and hazel eyes. they have dangly golden earrings that look like laurel wreaths with a pearl underneath either earring. they are wearing a red shirt under a black and grey coat, and there is a speech bubble next to their head with a little sparkle in it. the background is a pastel pink.

ALT The Quote of the Day whiteboard at the Ruth A. Haas library. The quote is from the Kate Warne/Abe Lincoln episode of Puppet History and reads as follows: “The details of those cases are forever lost to that callous lover I do so adore, history.” with “history” written in cursive and everything else in plain writing. There is an MLA citation for the show at the bottom. The Professor’s name is written in blue :)

ALT The whiteboard of Haas Library’s Quote of the Day, which is from Andy VanDoren’s “you look so cool.” The poem reads as follows: […]the fountain of youth runs still before my eyes- you thank god for your mortgage, I thank Hozier for waving that flag at the concert and showing me a pathway home. this town reeks of desperation happily so, it's so much easier to close your eyes and surrender your breath than it is to grab your reflection […]

ALT In various colors, the whiteboard reads “Welcome to Ruth A. Haas Library. Quote of the Day. September 15th to October 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month.” Beneath that is the beginning of Sofía Aguilar’s “confession” with an MLA citation and tiny blue and pink flowers drawn underneath. The excerpt reads: “Mamá, my mouth cannot love in straight lines and until now I never told you. The way a windowsill is measured or salt is scooped and smoothed out by a finger, these have never been my habits. I who fall in love with hands before I fall in love with eyes, I who trace the life lines next to thumbs as though they will whisper a secret, I who dream of kissing collarbones at night as tender as my own, as hard as a mango pit enveloped in its flesh.”

ALT A whiteboard containing a quote from Rosario Santiago’s “something red.” In blue font at the top: Welcome to the Ruth A. Haas Library [and in orange font underneath] Quote of the Day The excerpt of Rosario’s piece reads as follows: “i'm looking for permission to call red by any other name, but you've already gone ahead changed the word for love. scarlet vermillion carmine terra cotta. you cannot mix ruby-port blood until it turns to ochre. i wish you called me lovely, canary, daffodil, butterscotch, bumblebee, beautiful. there is no yellow in loving someone. still, i call you red, instead of saying the other three words.” There is an MLA citation underneath.

ALT A whiteboard that says “Welcome to Ruth A. Haas Library, Quote of the Day” in blue and orange marker. The poet’s Twitter handle and an MLA citation for the poem are on the side and bottom of the board respectively. The poem excerpt reads as follows: It is 8:10 here and I miss them. our beautiful togetherness, the way the dog always stood with her front legs up on my chair. Is she standing like that now? My sunset was two hours ago and life carries on, with me further away than I've ever been from my people or maybe the other way around.