Small Town Crime
This poem is based on an article I read in a small town newspaper back in 2008. While this isn’t one of my best poems, I do enjoy the movement […]
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Blackout Poetry in the Stars
The summer of 2011 I stumbled upon Austin Kleon‘s work sitting on a shelf in a bookstore. Not heeding the title of one of his books, Steal Like an Artist,
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Half a bottle of vodka & half a loaf of bread
This is a poem pieced together from notes and lines in a notebook I used while serving as the teaching assistant for the Holocaust course offered at the University of
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Dancing Trees
This is a poem I found in one of my old notebooks. Near as I can tell, I wrote it sometime in college. There isn’t too terribly much for me
The Mall Watcher
This is an odd sort of story with a small kernel of truth in it. Growing up, there was a man who used to sit in the middle of the
Cowboy/Dancer/Whatever
This week I thought I would share another personal essay from Hollins. We were prompted to write about technology and had to choose between television, computers, and a third option
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A Sensible Ant
This is an odd short story I wrote while studying abroad in London. Later, I recorded myself reading it out loud for an audio-zine one of my friends put together.
Promises
An odd poem written between high school and college, blending together experiences and advice doled out to my sister and me.
Women of Grass
Today is my mother’s birthday! In honor of her birthday, I am sharing an essay I wrote while in Hollins that touched on our relationship. I do wish that I
Reflecting on Of Marbles to Bears
Last week I posted my personal essay, Of Marbles to Bears, which I wrote for a creative non-fiction class the fall of 2010 my Junior year at Hollins. The assignment
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