Editor Can't Decide Whether to Accept or Reject a Piece (Humor)
By Sreya Nistala After a week jam-packed with exams, essays, and group projects you had to carry, you finally find the time to settle...
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- Apr 9, 2021
- 8 min
End at the Beginning, Begin at the End (That’s Right, You Heard Me)
By Giancarlo Riccobon Whoa, time out. You can’t just mess around with your story’s timeline. The only way to tell a story is in...
- Dec 5, 2020
- 4 min
Editor Replaces Every Word in their Commentary With Longer Synonym
By Ishita Shah and Nithya Ramcharan It’s Friday evening, and you’re spending the night at home. There are no after-school commitments or...
- Oct 31, 2020
- 4 min
Q&A - What has your greatest struggle with editing been?
By Brooke Nind, Anika Mukker, Eva Zheng and Daniel Boyko Brooke Nind My greatest struggle with editing has been crafting general...
- Sep 1, 2020
- 3 min
Poet Misreads Instructions; Accidentally Submits Piece Containing Only Personally Identifying Inform
By Yong-Yu Huang, Eva Zheng, and Neeraja Kumar WARNING: This piece is a work of fiction. Please do not include identifying information if...
- Jul 29, 2020
- 3 min
Q&A - Have there been any awkward moments in your Polyphony career?
By Pauline Paranikas, Yong-Yu Huang, Nithya Ramcharan, Brooke Nind, and Neeraja Kumar Pauline Paranikas: I don’t know if this necessarily...
- Jul 29, 2020
- 6 min
Daily Struggles of a Nitpicky Editor
By Julia Zacharski, Zoha Arif, Yong-Yu Huang, and Grace Zhang Your grandmother may have told you that perfection is like honey on a...
- Jun 9, 2020
- 5 min
Poet Submits Piece Containing Every Literary Device
By Zoha Arif They say that Einstein birthed the theory of relativity in the mystic dungeon of a Swiss Patent Office. They say that Isaac...
- Apr 28, 2020
- 7 min
What it Takes to Move a Reader to Tears Without Chopping Onions
By Zoha Arif Kids, behold Master Sensei, the CEO and Founder of the Fortune 500 Onion Ninja Industries. Master Sensei has been prosperous...
- Mar 30, 2020
- 2 min
Movie Review: The Kindergarten Teacher (2018, Maggie Gyllenhaal):What to do with a gifted child poet
By Maya Nalawade The Kindergarten Teacher, a 2018 film starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, brings up an essential question for any parent,...
- Mar 26, 2020
- 6 min
Editing a Famous Poem With Polyphony Guidelines
By Zoha Arif I ate a popsicle today -- blue raspberry, thank you for asking -- on the school bus because I felt like it even though, in...
- Jan 4, 2020
- 6 min
Poetry vs Prose: Battle of the Genres
By Daniel Boyko, Jennifer Wang, and Zoha Arif Some people eat paper. Some prefer poetry, others eat prose, and some are on a more diverse...
- Jan 4, 2020
- 4 min
Submission Manager Develops a Mind of its Own 100%
By Zoha Arif ***First and foremost, you must address this piece as “A Manifesto from Lord Bob” as that is its rightful title, but the...
- Dec 1, 2018
- 11 min
World falls apart as new reader pastes notes in wrong field
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." ~W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" Scenario #1: Your internal notes are essentially the same...
- Sep 21, 2018
- 5 min
Welcome to Voices! - Part 1
Meet Voices' co-founder, Riley Grace Borden. My name is Riley Grace Borden. Some call me Riley, and others, Riley Grace (I’m not going to...
- Sep 21, 2018
- 5 min
Welcome to Voices - Part 2
Meet Kelly Farley: At four years old, I loved the color purple—so much so that I skipped down the hall with purple markers in both hands,...
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