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The Poem “Many Red Devils” by Stephen Crane has fascinated me since I first started engaging with poetry. This poem was featured in one of the first collections of poetry … Continue Reading Many Red Devils: Crane is Simple Yet Elegant
For my final blog I thought I would compile a list of things that the Gilmore girls have taught me over the years. However when I sat down to reflect … Continue Reading The Things I’ve Learned from Gilmore Girls
As my time writing these blogs comes to a near end, I think it’s only right that I discuss my very big thoughts on the men who have ventured into … Continue Reading Rory Gilmore Boyfriend Battle
The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen is one of my favorite poems for a number of reasons. One is that I love the post WWI era poets … Continue Reading Dulce et Decorum Est: Sweet and Proper Indeed
“Don’t worry. She was gone by the time she got to the third step,” he says, describing the fall that resulted in your mother’s ill-timed death. You’ve just parked in … Continue Reading The Good Son
By Val Vanderburgh I knew to listen for you at the not-quite-hill slumbering at trail’s end It was there where we first smelled the soccer fields ringed by a thousand-thousand … Continue Reading Mine Falls Park, Nashua, NH
The bike race comeseach year to San Sebastianattacks the famous peakat Jaizkibeldowntown the old manpulls his robe aroundhis ageing bodyshivering beneaththe northerly windeyes squinting overa cup of instant coffee remembering … Continue Reading Donostia
Another one of my favorite episodes of Gilmore Girls takes place in the final season of the show. Rory is entering her last few months of undergrad at Yale and … Continue Reading Semester Blues
The poem “Digging” by Seamus Heaney is a beautiful piece that grapples with societal and self expectations. I admire this poem because it feels like Heaney is navigating what it … Continue Reading Digging: What of my Father and his Father?
The Poem “In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound is the epitome of brevity when it comes to poetry. I would link you to the poem like I … Continue Reading In a Station of the Metro: Is Two Sentences a Poem?
In season four of Gilmore Girls when Rory is nearing finals week during her first semester of college, she finds herself running out of study spots. She goes to spots … Continue Reading Rory Gilmore Study Tree
By Madison Brown I stare at golden treetops as the sun sinks slowly. Trees are strengthened by the decades they’ve lived. It makes me feel so young, so small. Like … Continue Reading Gold
By Anabelle Taff the cherry-blossom ocean backwash laps the hump of my chin,splatters over my rose lips. saltwater has never tasted so delicious.i smile at the authoritative sun and tiny, … Continue Reading ode to (pleasantly) drowning in a pink tidepool on world poetry day
Poetry is our salvation. By Austin Allen James Are we the jazz worthy of the Harlem River?Is the riff kind? We do not understand forever—onlynow. Human gospel lives in black … Continue Reading Frozen Boots and Boiling Lakes
The poem “Poetry” by Marianne Moore is a great and fascinating poem for a number of reasons. Just generally this is an excellent poem in regard to the discord it … Continue Reading Poetry: The Gold Standard of Revision
I write the majority of these blogs on Sunday evenings or midday Mondays when I am at work. A couple of days a week I work on campus at my … Continue Reading Library Distractions