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  • December 2024
    • Poetry
      • Biking is for Lovers
      • Crossroads
      • Ear tags or nose rings on bovines
      • Everlasting Drought on the River Bank
      • Google calendar block out in August
      • Heredity
      • How to Exist
      • I’m the Fool
      • my dog led me to an elk carcass once
      • my grandmother lives by the ocean
      • Miner’s Tale
      • Mother of Lemminkäinen
      • My Mother’s Tongue
      • My Sister Far Away
      • someone I sat with at lunch
      • Steak Tartare
      • Sutures
      • thank you
      • The Fruit Fly
      • The Ingrate
      • The Octopus
    • Fiction
      • Anguish
      • Hank’s House
      • How to kill a man with help from your pet spider
      • Minion Rush
      • My Angel, Ophelia
      • Saints of Greed
      • The Girl and the Alchemist
    • Nonfiction
      • Hospice Bed
      • Temporary People
    • Screenplays
    • Academic Writing
      • Bar and Bat Mitzvahs as Religious Rituals for Queer Affirmation and Marginalization
      • Does Procedural Legitimacy in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes Produce Durability?
      • Individualization & Invisiblization: Decolonizing Iconography at the University of Illinois
  • May 2024
    • Poetry
      • Mother and Daughter
      • Red Habits
      • Give Me A Love
      • Sitting in a Class on Modern Poetry
      • Making Applesauce (it didn’t taste as good as the kind from the jar)
      • End of Summer
      • Sonnet 753
      • cupid’s rebel daughter
      • Red!
      • Prayer for Lent
      • Mother’s Day
      • Saying Goodbye to Charlestown Beach
      • Weight of the Feminine
      • River-Wishing
      • In the Winter Months We Were Always Thankful
      • General Store
      • My Grandfather, A Boy
      • To a Hat Miser
      • An Ode to Shrivel the Mink
    • Fiction
      • Decent Young Men
      • There Was Still The Light
      • How To Be Sincere
      • An Elegy For Our Brothers
      • Coolest Place in the World
    • Nonfiction
      • The was, is, and will be of Hartford
      • LITANY FROM A DAUGHTER
      • On the day
    • Screenplays
      • Son of Man Coming on Clouds
    • Academic Writing
      • Hadrian’s Pantheon – A Symbol of Power and a Vessel for Change
      • A Manifesto to Add to Your Required Reading List
  • December 2023
    • Poetry
      • Air Balloon
      • Blush
      • Champagne
      • Existential Seafood
      • How it feels to eat a lobster
      • If I’m Quiet
      • La Cieneguilla
      • The Mailman from Westbrook
      • middle of somewhere
      • Modern Orpheus
      • A Modest Proposal
      • Mr. October
      • Nectar of the Gods
      • No Pants
      • Not Too. Just You
      • Passing Through
      • The Sixth-Month Poem
      • Talking to the leftovers in my sink
      • Thinking About Desire in Greece: A Collection
      • Traffic Lights/Carpet
      • Timestamps
      • Unfurl
      • what hangs over the kitchen table
    • Fiction
      • A Business Proposal
      • Departure
      • The Egg and the Champion
      • Mocha Milkshake
      • Only the Stars
      • The Neighbor Story
      • Proverbs 26:11
      • Pumpkin Pie
      • Real Eyes
    • Nonfiction
      • An Open Letter In Case I Go Missing —In Case I Become A Victim of Feminicidio
      • An Open Letter to the Girls Who Call Me Their GBF
      • Being Dead Like That
      • Little Death
    • Screenplays
      • Pharmacist
    • Academic Writing
      • Filipina Nurses and Caregivers: Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Migrant Employment
      • Numa’s Religion: The Catalyst for a Great Civilization
      • Where My Walden Might Be
  • May 2023
    • Poetry
      • He Used To 
      • On Being 20 and Being Friends  
      • something very gentle 
      • an odd number of postcards 
      • scraps
      • eagerness as medicine 
      • Emmanuel Gezahegne Mitikie. PLC. 
      • The Dance of the Moths and Roses 
      • Thor Heyerdahl
      • Ceraunophilia— love of lightning 
      • Human Fallacy 
    • Fiction
      • Lady Delphi
      • Settled Affairs
      • Geraldine
      • Burro Baby
    • Nonfiction
      • Dear Mom, I love you 
      • The Freedom and Felicity of Rivers 
    • Screenplays
      • “Poster Child”
      • Ikumi 
    • Academic Writing
      • A Buddhist Critique of the Role of Suffering in Kant and Hegel’s Philosophies of History
      • Eyeglasses as a Social Status Symbol 
      • Fleabag: Displacement, Release, and the First-Person Narrative
      • A Need for Women’s Human Rights: The Unspoken Genocide  
      • Understanding Suicide Through the Lens of Libertarianism
  • December 2021
    • Poetry
      • Sweet Bread
      • The Reaper as a Worm
      • Confederate Flag Riding A Pickup
      • Synchronous Souls
      • Storytellers
      • A Forest Phoenix Beyond Reach
      • Laughing Sideways
      • Persephone in August
      • You & The Garden
    • Fiction
      • How to Get Closer to Her
      • Dead Dog
    • Academic Writing
      • Sybil Vane’s Death in the Destruction of Dorian Gray
      • A Young Writer’s Reflection on Mary Oliver’s Upstream
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A Young Writer’s Reflection on Mary Oliver’s Upstream

【Written by Caroline Brink】 In the endeavor of reflecting on Mary Oliver’s work, I find language to be quite insufficient. Her craft and her language …

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