Carlos Chancay

Rhubarb Pie is a club where people get together to share their creativity and express their feelings through art. The club has its own website online where it publishes student works. 

Senior Carlos Chancay joined this club because he wanted to expand his art creativity and do art outside of school. “People who really enjoy art and want to express themselves through art should join the club,” Chancay expresses. 

Chancay adds, “I feel that publishing my artwork is really cool as it sends out to the world a piece of me that may share my thoughts, emotions, or how [in general] my mind operates; it is also certainly an enriched and fun way for people to have an insight of who I may be, and I like it!.” 

Krista Yeaton, one of the advisors of the club, shared her experience with the Rhubarb Pie, “The publication is to celebrate the creative arts of the Wachusett community. Ms. Reeser and I took it over as advisers two years ago.”

The Rhubarb Pie started at Wachusett in 1969 and was a printed literary magazine that published personal essays, fiction, and poetry.  In 2018 Karl Hartstorn and Emily Reynolds took it over and were able to shift it to an online publication. Five years later, Mr. Keddy added an opportunity for students to present their art and photography and even short films.  You can read more about the history of the publication on their website.  

Once pieces are submitted, the editors review and edit the creative writing and art pieces and prepare for the website. 

Although small, the club is very passionate and excited about their publications. Yeaton states, “The club has four students with a lot of energy, big ideas, and passion.”

Anyone who appreciates art and wants a way to express their creativity should join Rhubarb Pie. The website and publication process is very user friendly. 

Yeaton explains, “Any student can submit writing, art, or photography via the google form. Students can access this form via their google classroom, the QR code on the flyers hanging around the school, and the Rhubarb Pie website.”

The site itself is very enjoyable to look at as it contains an array of creative images and poems. There’s a great piece from the Spring 2025 issue by Abby Jane called “The Poppy Bed” where the author uses poppies as a metaphor for enjoying one’s youth because it only blooms once. In the same issue, there is a piece of art by an anonymous artist called “Baby Steps” which collages words and images in a visually appealing way. The latest issue contains an eerie poem called “Abandoned Carnival” by Olivia Masiello that ends with the lines,“If you listen, you could just hear,/The joy of those who vanished here.”

Rhubarb Pie is published twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring. The theme for the Fall 2025 issue was “Selcouth: The Strange and Unusual”. If people want to get involved with Rhubarb Pie, they reach out to Ms. Reeser and Mrs. Yeaton, and check out https://wachusettrbp.weebly.com/ to view the current as well as archived publications.