Kelly Stoldt Every year, I feel obligated as a poet to participate in the 30 for 30 challenge when April rolls around.  In order to celebrate National Poetry Month, the challenge consists of writing a poem a day, for 30 days straight. And, every year, the same thing happens. Writer’s…

Photo by Matthew Henry from Burst Jack Sullivan It’s the end of March, and spring fever is starting to loom throughout campus. While the spring weather permits more outdoor activities, the term papers are multiplying.  If caffeinated beverages make you overly jittery and too anxious to actually focus, like me,…

Lilia Shen All photos by Lilia Shen. If you’ve got messy stacks of books sitting around your house or if you just want to make your bookshelves more #Aesthetic, then this is the perfect post for you. I’ve got ten different ways that you can style your bookshelf to get…

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…

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…

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…

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…