Summer 2024: Dog Days
During hot weekends in summer we find ourselves driving around stuffy cars full of friends, lulled to lethargy, content to crawl and cruise through a college town that has lost its stamina to the dead beat of eighty-degree weather which inaugurates the beginning of our Dog Days.
On the first sunny day of spring, which signaled the following of summer, our team gathered together to choose the theme for our Summer 2024 issue. We thought back to the summers of our lives—spent out of school, in varying degrees of warmth—and put our proverbial finger on the old nostalgic tune of the summer: Dog Days. We found ourselves dreaming of Dog Days of the past, long summers clouded in a lethargic dreamy haze as we waited for the season to be over.
As the hottest days of the season, Dog Days, are when our spirit is most tested, we find solace in the expansive landscapes of our memories as catalysts for creative production. Succumb to the heat, or fight it off with your art, but remember to leave it all behind when the heat recedes. With our previous issue, Dress Rehearsal we practiced and prepared like actors honing their craft in rehearsals. In this issue, we are challenged to continue those same artistic endeavors through the slowest parts of the year.
With this issue of Open Ceilings we endeavored to accept pieces that reflected ties to the kinds of longings hot summer days, depicted and explored through verse, prose, and visual arts. In Dog Days we traverse grand summer canyons through “Aravaipa,” then take a trip with some undergrads to bleak New England full of morbid academic possibilities in “Home Run Derby.” We find ourselves yearning in fields of yarrow flowers as easily as we are transported to the museums and botanical gardens of New York.
In Dog Days, we present our creative community with a collection of works tied explicitly and implicitly to the hot sticky nostalgic power of summer. Like cicadas waiting underground for their summer stage to be set, we too emerge out of our period of stagnation to present you with this issue.
During hot weekends in summer we find ourselves driving around stuffy cars full of friends, lulled to lethargy, content to crawl and cruise through a college town that has lost its stamina to the dead beat of eighty-degree weather which inaugurates the beginning of our Dog Days.
On the first sunny day of spring, which signaled the following of summer, our team gathered together to choose the theme for our Summer 2024 issue. We thought back to the summers of our lives—spent out of school, in varying degrees of warmth—and put our proverbial finger on the old nostalgic tune of the summer: Dog Days. We found ourselves dreaming of Dog Days of the past, long summers clouded in a lethargic dreamy haze as we waited for the season to be over.
As the hottest days of the season, Dog Days, are when our spirit is most tested, we find solace in the expansive landscapes of our memories as catalysts for creative production. Succumb to the heat, or fight it off with your art, but remember to leave it all behind when the heat recedes. With our previous issue, Dress Rehearsal we practiced and prepared like actors honing their craft in rehearsals. In this issue, we are challenged to continue those same artistic endeavors through the slowest parts of the year.
With this issue of Open Ceilings we endeavored to accept pieces that reflected ties to the kinds of longings hot summer days, depicted and explored through verse, prose, and visual arts. In Dog Days we traverse grand summer canyons through “Aravaipa,” then take a trip with some undergrads to bleak New England full of morbid academic possibilities in “Home Run Derby.” We find ourselves yearning in fields of yarrow flowers as easily as we are transported to the museums and botanical gardens of New York.
In Dog Days, we present our creative community with a collection of works tied explicitly and implicitly to the hot sticky nostalgic power of summer. Like cicadas waiting underground for their summer stage to be set, we too emerge out of our period of stagnation to present you with this issue.
During hot weekends in summer we find ourselves driving around stuffy cars full of friends, lulled to lethargy, content to crawl and cruise through a college town that has lost its stamina to the dead beat of eighty-degree weather which inaugurates the beginning of our Dog Days.
On the first sunny day of spring, which signaled the following of summer, our team gathered together to choose the theme for our Summer 2024 issue. We thought back to the summers of our lives—spent out of school, in varying degrees of warmth—and put our proverbial finger on the old nostalgic tune of the summer: Dog Days. We found ourselves dreaming of Dog Days of the past, long summers clouded in a lethargic dreamy haze as we waited for the season to be over.
As the hottest days of the season, Dog Days, are when our spirit is most tested, we find solace in the expansive landscapes of our memories as catalysts for creative production. Succumb to the heat, or fight it off with your art, but remember to leave it all behind when the heat recedes. With our previous issue, Dress Rehearsal we practiced and prepared like actors honing their craft in rehearsals. In this issue, we are challenged to continue those same artistic endeavors through the slowest parts of the year.
With this issue of Open Ceilings we endeavored to accept pieces that reflected ties to the kinds of longings hot summer days, depicted and explored through verse, prose, and visual arts. In Dog Days we traverse grand summer canyons through “Aravaipa,” then take a trip with some undergrads to bleak New England full of morbid academic possibilities in “Home Run Derby.” We find ourselves yearning in fields of yarrow flowers as easily as we are transported to the museums and botanical gardens of New York.
In Dog Days, we present our creative community with a collection of works tied explicitly and implicitly to the hot sticky nostalgic power of summer. Like cicadas waiting underground for their summer stage to be set, we too emerge out of our period of stagnation to present you with this issue.
Paperback: 139 pages
ISBN: 979-8324825676
Dimensions: 6.5 x 0.33 x 9 inches, 10.1 ounces
Language: English