What poetry would the Disney princesses be into? This one is going first because it was the most straightforward. For me, The Princess and the Frog is, yes, a love story, but it’s also a love letter to New Orleans. Tiana wants to open her restaurant because of her father, but also because she genuinely… Continue reading What poetry collections would the Disney Princesses be reading?
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A Ghost in the Coffee Shop: A Method for Peer Review
“Are you too deeply Occupied to say if my Verse is alive?” Emily Dickinson wrote with some fervor to the editor of a daily publication. “The Mind is so near itself—it cannot see, distinctly—and I have none to ask—” Writing is best understood as a static text coming into contact with a dynamic mind. When… Continue reading A Ghost in the Coffee Shop: A Method for Peer Review
Whimsy
Due to a general aversion to emotion other than joy in my upbringing, I have a tendency to want to keep things light and funny. Poetry has given me a space to explore my feelings on a broader and more nuanced field, but this tendency for lightness is something that crops up very frequently in… Continue reading Whimsy
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