Christian Buckley In the spirit of spring cleaning, sometimes it’s good to look at your writing for any excess clutter. In these cases, you can indulge the urge to abuse the delete key because our goal is to make our writing concise. A few little changes during the line editing…
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5 Reasons to Stop Online Book Shopping and Head to the Bookstore
Rachel Conte Okay, that may sound a little harsh. Online book shopping is extremely handy when there are books you’re looking to buy on a rainy, indoors kind of day. It also allows you to preorder books to be delivered straight to your door on publication day, and in special…
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Ten Recent Must-See Adaptations from Literature to Film
Siobhan Dale Film adaptations open up all sorts of exciting possibilities for literature. Film has the power to transform literature, and re-invigorate it with new meaning. Film adaptations allow us to bring back works of literature that we feel have been lost over time, or to re-imagine works that have…
The March Towards Summertime
Jake Santo Photo by Jake Santo, intellectual property reserved to Santo Consulting LLC I have always found March to be an incredibly fickle month on the Gregorian Calendar. Below this brief introduction is a sonnet to get you warmed up for springtime and through this odd time of thawing. I’ve…
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Haiku for Nature Lovers
Elizabeth Sankey I love nature writing and have always been intrigued by the thoughts of poets such as Robert Hass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louise Gluck, and Henry David Thoreau. To explore deeper into the world of nature writing, I have been reading haiku, which hold their roots in nature contemplation…
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5 Fabulous Ways to Make Writer’s Block Your Bitch
Lili Fishman We’ve all been there. Staring blankly at an empty notebook page or Word document, the blue lines or pixels taunting us, jeering at us, mocking us. Whether it’s for an expository essay or creative writing, sometimes the inspiration just isn’t there. Don’t worry! Here are five tried and…
What your Reading Position Says about You
Daniela Doncel When reading a book too good to put down, avid readers know there isn’t just one reading position. However, readers all have their go-to reading position when it’s finally time to open the book. Your favorite way to read can say a lot about you and your personality….
Nine Poem Excerpts by Frank O’Hara to Start Your Morning
Sammi Bassman “oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much” –Frank O’Hara If you’re anything like me, sometimes it takes more than a cold brew to get the day going. There is something…
What Can Economics Do For Literature?
Rebecca Hill Whenever I tell people that I’m an English and Economics major I tend to get surprised glances. “That’s an unusual combination,” I’ve been told more than once. “It’s good to be a writer in economics because a lot of economists are better at math than writing,” I’ll say. …
Five Government Control Books Turned Found Poetry
Amanda McCarthy Found poetry has been saturating the poetry world, from blackout poems to republishing snippets of sex offender law cases. Found poetry is crafted out of any work by rearranging, omitting, or just spacing out a text. In honor of the film adaptation of Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer’s release…
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