From the Archives

From Volume 12 (2006):

Astronomer's Dessert

A tiny, ripe orange

Laid upon

A great navy napkin

- Bess Winter

Tournament Night at Peacock's

rich elderly men

wielding fancy two-piece cues

missing all their shots

- Bess Winter

7 Reasons to Support 7 Mondays

1. 7 Mondays is a student-edited outlet for student work. It should stay student-funded.

2. 7 Mondays offers an opportunity for student poets, authors, and photographers to have their work peer-reviewed; giving young artists and editors alike a start. Those involved in 7 Mondays have gone on to edit other journals and write Governor-General award nominated books.

3. 7 Mondays is inclusive. Every student on campus may submit work and may apply for a position on the editorial board. Also, any events sponsored by 7 Mondays (such as visiting authors and writing workshops) are hosted free of charge and made available to all students.

4. 7 Mondays is part of a Mount Allison tradition. In its current incarnation it has been going for 15 years. When the University Administration cut funding for the writer-in-residence program the students in conjunction with the would-be-writer-in-residence responded by creating this journal. Mount Allison University has had literary journals off and on since 1952, several of which have benefited from SAC funding.

5. 7 Mondays is distributed to every student. Exposure to the work of our peers is important for the cultural fabric of our community. Even those books that are returned are put to use at recruitment fairs, and other Mount Allison events adding to the profile of the institution beyond the campus boundaries benefiting all students.

6. 7 Mondays is one of the few public outlets for undergraduate work.

7. All of this 7 Mondays-wonderfulness is made available to you for 3.00$ a year (or 1.50$ a semester).

Out of the Archives

From 7 Mondays, Volume Ten (2004).

Funny-
There is a shocking

similarity
Between the hollow
echo of a train whistle
Across piled snow
And
the flat wail of a dialtone
Reborn after the other phone has been hung up

-Steph Berntson

From the First Issue (1995)

Sonnet MCMXCIV

Tonight our groceries cannot defy
Our battle: we are what we eat. And how
We choose a cantalope by touch will show
Each other how we can be satisfied.
We can't decide whose turn it is to buy
The eggs this week, or if we're getting low
On milk, or if I will this once allow
Unsliced bread to complicate this lie.
Inside the kitchen, later, I cannot
Equate the mustard with the honey in
The sauce I make. And while I stand and skin
Garbanzo beans, one hand still stirs the pot -
Rising, covering chicken breasts in tight
Saran - I know where I will sleep tonight

- trini finlay

Pieces of 7 Mondays

From Volume Twelve (2006)

How To Furnish an Entire House

Inherit a bright orange recliner
From your uncle-by-marriage's mother, after her husband dies.
The family joke, with an orange plaid blanket to match.
Travel to Ottawa to visit your cousins.
While you're there, buy a modern metal chair.
Don't think about how you need to take it home on an airplane.
Go to the thrift store and find a wooden lamp base which cost ten dollars.
Attach a cream-coloured lampshade which doesn't have a price of its own.
Buy them as a single unit.
When your grandfather dies, lay claim in his striped telephone table
That was moved into your aunt's basement.
Take your youngest brother's bed with the drawers underneith,
So that he can have the double bad your grandfather used to sleep on.
Let your former housemate leave her kitchen table behind
When she doesn't need one in her new house.
Cover it in a yellow tablecloth so that if you spill anything it can be
cleaned easily.
Purchase a black butterfly chair at the grocery store for twelve dollars.
On it, drape the blanket your parents brought home for you from their trip to Mexico.
Carry home a desk from the thrift store across the street with your roommate.
Refuse offers of help from passersby.
Offer to store a family friend's dressers while she goes overseas for a year;
Use them.
Store her blue pull-out couch, also.
Clean out your parents' kitchen cupboards.
After they are done remarking on all the dishes they have not seen in twenty years,
Let them offer the dishes to you.
Accept.

- Lindsay Zwicker

Poetry Reading and Concert

Good day, readers!

We are pleased to announce that at 9:30 on Wednesday evening, March 18, 7 Mondays will present a poetry reading and music show in conjunction with SAC Entertainment. Readers will include those having work published in the 2009 upcoming edition, as well as some who have had work published in the past. Musical guests include Urban Preacher, Sean Ashby, and Field Museum.

Entrance is $3 for pub members, and $5 for non-pub members. For more information, see the Facebook event.

Come on out to show your support for 7 Mondays!

Referendum Information

The referendum will be on Thurs. March 26th and Fri. March 27th.
The polling stations will be at the Library, the Student Centre, and Jennings Hall.
The question will read as follows:
Would you like to continue to contribute $3 of your SAC fees towards 7 Mondays?

Please take a few minutes to come out and vote "Yes" on this question.
Save 7 Mondays!