As an English major, obviously most of my assignments involve reading or writing. For my advanced study in Digital Rhetoric class, we are currently reading a novel called The Circle written by Dave Eggers. This novel is essential for everyone in our generation to read, as it details the truly…
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If You Don’t Have Time to Read…
“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”—Stephen King The library has always been my own sort of haven: a cool, air-conditioned resort, an oasis, the best way to escape the stifling summertime heat. Shelves and shelves and…
The Next Great Poet…Google?
As a student of English, anthropology and digital art at UConn, a writer, a millennial, and a human being, I have always been intrigued by the emergence of digital culture, and how we write about our culture, and how it in turn influences our writing. Last semester, I took a…
5 Tips for Being a Good Editor
A good writer is nothing without a good editor. However, a good editor is not always easy to come by. Just as there is an art to writing, there is an art to editing. Here are five tips for being a good editor. Proofreading is not editing. Proofreading (or copyediting)…
Rebel Against Yourself
Often when we settle down to read for pleasure, we instinctively reach for an easy read, a book we can flip through and digest in a single sitting without coming up for air. These are books to be briefly enjoyed, then dismissed from our minds. We should keep reading them….
On Being “Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing:” Black Women Poets You Should Know
Audre Lorde, a famous black lesbian feminist poet, ends her poem “A Woman Speaks” with the lines, “I am/woman/and not white.” What may come off as obvious or overly simplistic in this statement actually speaks to larger structures of power that operate within feminist and anti-racist movement discourses. By claiming…
“The Power of Words”
“I wrote down ‘The Power of Words’ in my sketchbook and I don’t know why.” Mika Caldera, an art student at the University of Connecticut, presented this piece, “Empathy,” (pictured above) to me during a one minute artist-writer speed dating event that was held. She expressed her love for…
“I don’t want to miss out on living because I’m too busy writing” – Hanging Out With Kate Monica (2015)
The most surprising thing I learned about Kate Monica, UConn’s 2015 representative of the Connecticut Poetry Circuit, was that poetry was not a life-long pursuit for her. Rather, she used to hate it. Her work is so fluid and natural, informal but still balanced and graceful that I assumed she…
Writing Advice From the King
Last year I was assigned to read a book on creative writing. I wound up choosing Stephen King’s On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft; a cheeky, bright, and inspiration text by one of the most successful authors in the business. In between snippets of Stephen King’s life and his personal…
Can Grammar Be Fun?
All is (almost) quiet on the LRR front after a barrage of colorful pens took to the rough draft of the journal in class last night. As students and as aspiring writers, we are used to the concept of editing and proofreading. We know the basic rules, we have learned…
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