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I’ve been asked on more than one occasion if poetry is a means of escape or expression. My answer is always the same: why does it have to be one or the other? I’ve used poetry to simultaneously [...]

I’ve learned to attribute many of the good outcomes in my life to luck. Of course, it’s some luck and mostly hard work, but I’ve learned as a working class college student at an elite school, [...]

I grew up too close to the ocean learned that beautiful is a dangerous word — It fills mouths like saliva demanding to be devoured. The first time someone called me beautiful I kissed him [...]

Isn’t it all just a balancing act? A tightrope walker Gripping a dog’s leash with her toes The slightest breeze capable of displacing her Suddenly the dog park is slipping out from [...]

As a senior in college, everyday is a constant game of “who’s going to ask me what I want to be when I grow up today?” The answers I rattle off are routine now, but the answers I want to give are [...]

We might be saving light this time of year, but for many people we become increasingly aware of how we have to go about saving ourselves from the winter chill that sets in when you live in [...]

“Your Body Is A War Zone” My mother always told me I hurt because there are worlds inside of me waging wars with each other. Make sure you’re the leader of your own body, she [...]

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to live more in the now. It seems that I am always looking ahead to the next thing, thinking about what I’m going to do next, what I need to get done, [...]

If you ask any college student what they miss most about home their answer will usually be either food or a pet. For me it’s my dog, Tilda. I Skype her when I’m sad, my mom sends me pictures of [...]

I’m in the throes of the most mundane decision masked as the biggest decision I’ll ever make. The emails in objection tell me they’d never let their daughters make the decision I’m tossing over [...]