Hello From The Crucible!
The Crucible has been a space for creative voices and visions in the Earlham community since the 1950s. Though the publication has transformed over the years and changed direction many times, The Crucible has always been put together by student editors and is deeply rooted in the Earlham community.
Today, The Crucible strives to reflect the diversity of voices in the Earlham student body and to publish work that speaks to the current moment as it is experienced from the individual level to the global.
Tangibility is at the core of our mission at The Crucible. Our magazine persists as a physical artifact of voices and visions in our community because we believe that holding a book in your hands, printed and bound, gives a unique kind of value to the work inside. In this era of uncertainty and erasure, we believe in the power of physical presence to uplift ideas and the people who create them.
Latest Issue
2024-25
Welcome to our 2024 Issue featuring the best of Fiction, Poetry and Visual Art from Earlham students.
Featured Poem
I Promise I Won’t Call
Maliyah Buford
I started spending time alone, learning who I am
As days stretch on, I make up for what you can’t
I don’t mean to be rude, not trying to cause a fight
But you were here for me once, then all gone in a night
Promise me like you promised me, all those times before
That things would change, yet stay the same I miss the way you held me close, you were a safe space
Now you’re something out of reach, a ghost I cannot trace
I know you’re doing better now, at least it’s how it seems
Do you think of me, when you’re alone at night?
I go along day by day trying to forget about you more
But the only thing that is getting me is that you aren’t you anymore
Won’t you come back to me?
Knowing you won’t hear my call
But no matter how hard I try
It just won’t matter at all
Call you when it matters most, I can’t anymore I won’t bother, I won’t holler, not like before T hings aren’t how they used to be, I wish they were the same But still, my love remains untouched, forever in your name
