was published by an undergraduate student group named the Boston University Literary Society.

In the beginning Clarion only published the writing of Boston University students.

In 2011, The Pen & Anvil Press, a Boston-based imprint operated by the nonprofit Boston Poetry Union, took over responsibility for publishing Clarion, in agreement with BULS and the BU Literary Organizations liaison.

[1] Through its cooperation with the BULS, the Creative Writing department, and the BU Creative Writing Club, Clarion continues to employ undergraduate editors on its staff, alongside graduate editors and persons independent of the university.

The original members intended to publish a magazine titled The View from a Window, though it was then renamed, becoming ?