Elijah: Hello everyone, Elijah here with another episode of Long River Rewind, where we will be focusing on African American literature in today’s episode. I have the pleasure of speaking with Professor Salvant. Professor Salvant, could you introduce yourself for us please? Shawn Salvant: Good afternoon everyone. I am…
LRRewind: Analyzing The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer with Professor Pheobe Godfrey
00:00:13 Kiara Today we are here with Professor Godfrey. Thank you so much for coming on today. And could you introduce yourself to us? 00:00:18 Pheobe Godfrey Us. Yes, thank you so much, Kiara, for having me. My name is Phoebe Godfrey. I’m an environmental sociologist here at UCONN in…
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Mary Oliver: Animal Symbolism and Lessons in Belonging
Written by: Ryan Krishna Mary Oliver spent many years of her life exploring the forests, lakes, and salt marshes of New England. For Oliver, animals were never simply background decoration; they were moral companions that guided the lives of the individuals they came into contact with. These animals often represent…
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Layers of the Punisher
Written by: Ronnie Prado On September 16, 1979, a group of small-time New Jersey musicians released a song that would usher a whole new era of music into mainstream American culture. The group was called The Sugar Hill Gang, and the song “Rappers Delight” was the first of its kind…
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The Dread of Being Read at Writing Workshops
Written by: Fernanda Ieffet I think I speak for everyone in the world when I say that each one of us has experienced the most terrifying of nightmares when we were younger: going to school naked. I can still remember vividly (and trust me I have tried hard to forget…
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Emotional Maximalism and the Art of Deftness in Hera Lindsay Bird’s Love Poems
Written by: Charlotte Ungar In a poetry landscape often dominated by academic opacity or over-wrought lyricism, Hera Lindsay Bird’s work arrives with an emotional immediacy that will make you rethink the requirements to make a poem matter—not through formal precision or metaphorical restraint, but through the sheer force of unfiltered…
The Untitled Body Project
Written by: Sophie Wallis Buckner Winner of the 2025 Edwin Way Teale Award for Nature Writing The experience of the body as part of the self is a fundamental aspect of self-consciousness. Neuroscientists have recently begun to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying this sense of body ownership. This research…raises fundamental…
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Valuable Lessons About Writing Poetry I Wish I Knew Sooner
Written by: Liam Smith For someone who’s studied poetry for 3 years, it seems I can only talk about it through drawn-out idiosyncrasies. Jack Dayton, one of my co-editors at Queer Reviewed (a magazine for UConn’s queer students) recently asked me how to improve as a poet. My mind instantly…
The Days of Saveli: of cats and people, and those who play with the lives of others
Translated by: Catherine Keough A translation of an excerpt from The Days of Saveli: of cats and people, and those who play with the lives of others by Grigory Sluzhitel Winner of the 2025 Aetna Prize for Translation Mama gave birth to me, my brother, and my two sisters in…
Eleven Things You Don’t Do
Written by: Jenna Ulizio Winner of The Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Prize When you leave, don’t make a sound. Getting out of the Painted Lady is the test. How do you want to be seen in the city tonight? Or, how do you not want to be…