Founded in the fall of 1991, Laurel Moon is Brandeis' oldest, national literary publication. Each issue we publish features original work from undergraduate students.
When crepuscular self
creeps
the moth beats itself senseless
out here
what beautiful torture
June has never felt so personal.
Gavia Boyden is a poet who focuses on themes of uneasy quiet, suddenness, and longing. She grew up in Oregon’s Blue Mountains, where she fell in love with the poetry of her backyard forest (and Pablo Neruda’s work). Many years later, she is now majoring in English.