Our History and Mission

Harvest International is a student-run poetry journal that has been around since Spring 1970. We began as a small group of students reacting to the barbarity of the Kent State massacre, when the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students protesting the ongoing war in Vietnam, resulting in four student deaths. The founders of what would become Harvest International were students who wanted to speak up and share their thoughts in the only way they knew how: Through community and creativity, Harvest International was born.

This publication has undergone a series of name changes from its inception through the 1990s, from Tuesday at 11 (when the 1970 poets met to discuss their work) to Pulsar to Harvest to Colloquium to Spring Harvest. In 2001, after three years’ hiatus, Dr. Steve Whaley became the faculty adviser, championing a mission to promote multiculturalism on our campus and beyond. Our current name was first used in the 2003 memorial issue dedicated to the late Dr. Whaley after his passing.

Harvest International paused publication 2008 due to lack of funding but returned in 2018, thanks to the joint efforts of Dra. Marta Albalá Pelegrín and Dr. Daan Pan, who assembled a team of student editors to resume publication and launch Harvest International online. Since 2018, Harvest International has regularly published digital major issues and periodic print zines. What has remained constant over these 55 years is that the work we publish “reflects a diversity of attitudes, from social protest to sweetness and light,” as previous faculty advisor Dr. Jack Fulbeck observed.

What has never changed is our mission here at Cal Poly Pomona: Harvest International is dedicated to uplifting the creative voices and vision of our undergraduate community. Any and all work published or submitted to Harvest International is held in the highest esteem.

Past Lives

Harvest International has existed online in many different spaces. Here is a comprehensive compilation of our previous web presences. Though they are not actively being maintained, they serve as archives.

Previous Websites

• Harvest International on Framer (Spring 2025)
• Harvest International on WordPress (Spring 2025)
• Harvest International on Weebly (Fall 2024)
• Harvest International did not run in Spring 2023, Fall 2023, or Spring 2024
• Harvest International on Wix (Fall 2020-Fall 2022)
• Harvest International on WordPress (Fall 18-Spring 2020)

Current and Previous Social Media

• Current Instagram @cppharvest (Spring 2025+)
• Current Linktree @Harvestcpp (Spring 2025+)
• Previous Instagram @harvestcpp (Fall 2018-Fall 2022)
• Previous Linktree @Harvest_CPP (Spring 2022)
• Twitter/X @Harvest_CPP (active Fall 2020-Fall 2022)
• Reddit @HarvestCPP (active 2020-2022)