I don’t remember when poetry came into my life…
Entering Middle Earth … and Staying There: The J.R.R. Tolkien Exhibit at The Morgan
Going to the Tolkien exhibit at The Morgan Library was for me a bit of time travel. My dad had read me The Hobbit and…
Endnotes on Pale Fire
Azure adj. blue, bright, cloudless; (of love) cloudless: The false azure of cloudless love. And when a noun – heaven, palate, the roof of one’s…
Claiming Holiday Supremacy: A Halloween Blog
October is upon us, and we all know what that means; it’s finally time for Halloween. On the list of the top ten best holidays,…
Water Lilies after Monet
And light— my paint liquid light— the pale flush of rose lustrous daffodil yellow lilac blue and soft electric silver warm blaze colored oil glowing…
Anatomy of Absence
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Photo by Brad Javernick of Home Oomph There was a hole at the table where her son used to be. Once he had sat across…
We Sail These Seas
Long ago, they set fire to their homes. At the end of winter, when the snowdrifts began to deflate and the dead trees began to…
Zora Neale Hurston on Racial Identity, Ninety Years Later
Commencement season at Barnard College this year will mark the ninetieth anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s graduation with a BA in anthropology. As a graduate…
On a Collection of Covers
I. My excitement for Luna’s new album—following their decade-long break—had admittedly waned when I found out it would be a series of covers. I started…
On Twenty One Pilots
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I can plot the course of my maturation in Twenty One Pilots concerts. Twenty One Pilots: a rock band that sounds like it would live…