Listening to Stories In 2012, John Colapinto wrote an article for the New Yorker entitled, “The Pleasures of Being Read To,” in which he countered…
On Hanging Poetry In Your Dorm Room
My freshman year dorm wall was, as most tend to be, a collage of magazine clippings and postcards and poems. The effort that went into…
Finding a Room of One’s Own in the Modern Day
As both an English major and a woman, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is considered in my respective circles to be something of…
Discovering Richard Feynman
I spent three of my four high school summers, in between pre-college programs and summer swim team, shelving books at my local library. I envisioned…
Confession and Silence: Father Logan’s Dilemma in Hitchcock’s I Confess
More than fifty years after its opening night, I Confess remains one of Hitchcock’s least popular films. Even upon its release, many believed the film…
Poetic Traditions on Twitter
I don’t think it would be wrong to say that most people, old and young, aren’t particularly enthralled by old poetry. Metric and stylistic traditions…
Poetry, Prose, and Rock ’n Roll
Poets don’t usually open for rock shows. But Shea Stadium – no, not the real one, but a DIY venue in a warehouse in Brooklyn…
Prophet of Profit: Drake as a Popularizer of Capitalism
Recently, a BuzzFeed article entitled “47 Drake Lyrics For When You Need an Instagram Caption” has been surfacing frequently on my Facebook News Feed along…
Recommended For You: Radio in the Age of Personalized Media
There are few things I miss about suburbia. However, some rituals work best in certain settings, and for me, one of those rituals was the…
Poetry: “Fall (SpaceShipTwo)”
I am nine miles above you and falling fast once iron groans and peels away from me and strapped to this rock I am…