Copies of Howth Castle, the predecessor to The Watermark, found on campus in the 6th floor of Wheatley Hall. One copy of the 1992-1993 edition was found on the 5th Floor in a stack of free books, while the other two copies were both found in the graduate lounge of the 6th floor in late 2025. These copies exist in my personal collection. A third copy of the 1992-1993 Volume was found for sale online, and promptly bought. 

A picture of a private collection of late-edition physical copies of watermark journals. Picture used with gratitude expressed for the person in question, who will remain anonymous, but must be acknowledged as a major shadow archive of late-stage Watermark, not by virtue of the quantity of copies they hold, but by the fact they hold chronologically sequential copies of some of the rarest, most at risk volumes. 

The cover of Issue #23. Curiously, this specific photo belongs to a copy for sale on eBay in Connecticut and previously was for sale in a used bookstore, indicating that copies did travel. 

Copies of #23 of The Watermark being used as part of a makeshift shelving system for the desk in the graduate lounge of Wheatley Hall. Note another 2 copies are on the other side, as well, meaning 4 copies were used for the construction of this shelf out of the 8 in the room. Of the remaining copies several are in my possession. 

This photo from April of 2003 is a flier of Robert Pinsky’s poetry reading on campus. Note the banner at the top of the flyer: The U.M.B Creative Writing Program, The English Department, & The Watermark indicates that The Watermark was at this time deeply involved with the English department. This would have been around Volumes 10 and 11.  Photo from The UMass Boston Digital Collections (UASC-UAPHO-0002-0566-0001) Note the 6th Floor seminar room is where I have my evening classes as a grad student, and the room where Literally was launched,  and chronologically just barely outside our self-declared ‘Golden Age’. 

I did attempt to track down copies of old websites related to Writ Large and Watermark. While Writ Large has many, Watermark has none. This is all that came up during 2nd round research in late January, suggesting the domain had potentially expired and been potentially reacquired. 

Sales and search results from my period of active acquisition via online sales

This poster was found hanging in the English Department on the MFA "writing opportunities" poster board. It has been hanging there since 2017. 

This poster was found hanging in the English Department on the "on-campus writing writing opportunities" poster board run by the Composition wing of the department. It has been hanging there since 2017., roughly. 

The photo represents perhaps the only remaining physical on campus documentation of the cafe, which was an essential node of space for editors to hang out. I had to sneak into a sealed, structurally unsound (allegedly) parking garage to gain access to it, and it has been hanging there since at least the early 2000s or more. 

Given that the existence of the cafe has been almost totally erased, I can only speculate that this unused, forgotten, and unadvertised open air seating on the 3rd floor of Wheatley Hall was once associated with them.

This fie was provided to me by the staff behind Queeah and I am grateful for it: given their time and funding constraints, it represents the near-extent of their digital infastructure and online presence. But, crucially, it did circulate. 

A photo of the periodicals section taken 04/20/2026

This space exists in an un-owned "3rd space" of the library where magazines are left but not clearly labeled as belonging to the library. Note how a copy of Late Stage Watermark is visible in it, which I reluctantly left. 

This was sent to my UMass student email account in 2017, and sat there forgotten until recently. 

This was sent to my UMass student email account in 2023, and sat there forgotten until recently. 

This copy was found in the Teaching Fellows lounge mixed in with a stack of The Writer's Chronicle Magazines

This copy was found in the grad student lounge mixed in with a bunch of non-umass related magazines

Triptych Issue #1 was my science fiction magazine I launched in November. It had a print run of 20 copies, 9 of which were distributed on campus. Given what I knew / know about small press ecosystems, I secured the use of a small and defunct news stand in the back corner of the English Department.