Groundswell celebrates the voices of UB students

Abstract

UB has published a literary magazine since at least 1948, when it was called The Helicon. In the 1960s, the magazine was reinvented as The Laurel Review, then its name was changed to Anagnorisis in 1974, and it finally became Groundswell in 1977 under the supervision of Dick Allen, a UB English professor who would become Connecticut’s poet laureate. A number of successful writers and poets published some of their earliest work in UB’s literary magazine, including Jeffrey Skinner, David Leff, Doug Swift, Norah Pollard, and Arlene Swift Jones. The COVID pandemic disrupted the production of Groundswell, and it had been inactive since 2020. The 2024 issue inaugurates the return of Groundswell as an annual online publication. This poster displays passages from the students’ writing, along with quotations from the student writers about their work.