The Philomathean is a student-run journal celebrating the creative works of the Bridgewater College community: students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.
Current Volume: Volume 5 (2025) MMXXVI: Uprooted
Front Matter
Philomathean Cover
Lauren Henderson and Caroline Green
Front Matter
Meredith Scheiner
Note from the Managing Editor
Meredith Scheiner
2025 Editorial Board
Meredith Scheiner
Academic Essays
Importance of Nature in a Technological World
Cameron Cooley
Poetry
The Spot on the Highway Where the Fog Is the Thickest
Mason Lawhorne
Stork Lament Outside Mariupol
Stan Galloway
Retreat from Severodonetsk
Stan Galloway
Cherophobia
Elizabeth D’Aurora
Yellow Pajamas
Stan Galloway
Return of the Sapiens
Kiya Whitaker
In Memory’s Arms
Kiya Whitaker
The Teammate, Not the Player
Mackenzie Buckley
The Not So Easy Road
Samuel Oduro
Where Our Roots Remain
Sydney Collins
Weeping Willow’s Rose
Emelyn Buttercup Koene
What the Window Would Have Said
Emelyn Buttercup Koene
Too Much Edgar Allan Poe
Stephanie S. Gardner
Art
Broken Angel
Andrii Simonov
Hollowed Faith
Brand Hagerman
Audio/Visuals
Resistance of the Sonderkommandos
Josh Payne
Arrangement No.5, Shape of Glass
Cody Harding
Mixed Media Projects
AKUR – A Ballad in Four Voices
Vanessa Rouillon
September 26, 2025
Marra L. Piazza Brass
Dementia Unearthed
Kathy Fuller Guisewite
Whence I Came
Karl Mel Korn
Grandad’s Toolshop
Kayla Stanley
In Life One Is Always Balancing
Maria Paz G. Esguerra
Photography
Overgrowth
Catelyn York
Till the Cows Come Home
Caroline Green
Roots Uncovered
Grace Warren
The Quiet Evidence
McKenna Doran
Together, Nowhere
Wyatt Jervis
Plays
If Fate Could Hold Her Own
Samantha Katlyn Herbst
Short Stories
Life of a Military Child
Hannah Barnes
The American Pantheon
Jadon Goldsmith
Back Matter
Back Matter
Meredith Scheiner
