Blog Writing With Sound: Making playlists for your stories LRR, February 18, 2020February 8, 2025 Sometimes to see, you need to listen first. For almost all of the projects I would create before 2016, I ran into a wall over and over again: For some reason, I couldn’t visualize anything about my stories the way I needed to. It wasn’t because I didn’t have a… Continue Reading
Cracking a Cold One with the Books By: Parker Gregory Shpak LRR, May 26, 2017February 8, 2025 Two of my most frequented hobbies are reading books and drinking beer. My favorite hobby, however, is reading books while drinking beer. Herein lies a primer for those of you who have perhaps dabbled in these pastimes, but have not yet mastered them in combination. Beer has as rich a… Continue Reading
Where I Am Going And Where I Have Been By: Maggie Parker LRR, May 19, 2017February 8, 2025 I live in extremes. People laugh when I say that, they smile at me as if they know what I mean. “You go from zero to 60. But you got that from me.” My mother has said to me. But she’s wrong, I’m not like her. My intensity is drug… Continue Reading
My Voice is like Bomba Gabriela García Sánchez LRR, April 11, 2017February 8, 2025 Writing, music, art, and dance all have one thing in common–voice. No matter the art form, the creator laces his or her own voice into the work. In Eleanor Parker Sapa’s blog, Finding Your Unique Writing Voice, Sapa defines voice as “the unique way by which we see, experience, and… Continue Reading
Ginsberg Would Have Wanted You to Get this Tattoo By: Betty Noe LRR, April 10, 2017February 8, 2025 Browsing through the blog of the literary journal Paper Darts (a fine publication that I would recommend to anyone—even if only for the top notch staff bios) my eyes hit on a headline that I couldn’t pass-up: Five Roxane Gay quotes we just might tattoo on our biceps. Talk about… Continue Reading
Punctuation Party Stereotypes By: Mairead Loschi LRR, April 8, 2017February 8, 2025 If you’re living the life of a typical college student, you’ve probably made it to a party or two (no word back on if you remember them…). And, if you’re at all like me (a writer and a deeply introverted person), you’ve probably also cringed at the memory of going… Continue Reading
Books and Videogames: A Marriage of Two Mediums By: Autumn Magro LRR, April 7, 2017February 8, 2025 I love videogames more than books – sometimes. It’s not easy to admit that books are not my one bountiful passion in life (because how romantic is that?), and it’s taken me even longer to rationalize the two together. Unlike books, there is a negative connotation with video games. There… Continue Reading
Does My Voice Need a Color? Platforms and Safe Spaces LRR, April 6, 2017February 8, 2025 Times have changed for those who voice their opinion to the public. The internet is readily available to everyone and it is waiting for us to post our thoughts—in one hundred and forty characters or less. It’s a privilege to have access to a platform through which we can assert… Continue Reading
PATERSON: The Blue-Collar Poet and Writing with a ‘Day Job’ By: Nicholas DiBenedetto LRR, April 5, 2017February 8, 2025 Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson is Paterson in ways that I never realized something could be Paterson. The film’s star, Adam Driver, plays a bus driver and poet named Paterson, who lives in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, and whose favorite poet is William Carlos Williams (whose epic poem Paterson, is… Continue Reading
Nostalgia’s Curse By: Jameson Croteau LRR, April 4, 2017February 8, 2025 My grandparents’ living room reeked of encroaching death. Nature, for years, had been welcomed into the cracks of the handpicked brick walls that had been layered and mortared as an act of love from my strong armed Papa. But every one of those flowers, vines, and blooms were dying, curling… Continue Reading