Our current issue, "Blossoming Hope: Making Sense of the Nonsensical," was selected by our 2023-2024 Image Tree Team to represent the ways that we create meaning in order to keep ourselves going. Contemporary issues provide a number of anxieties, fears, and uncertainty about the future. It is important that through those times we maintain our understanding of self and create meaning that we wish to see.
"Human" is about the nonsense that is sentience and consciousness. Humans have spent hundreds of thousands of years trying to comprehend how sapience and sentience make us different from things we consider animal and "other". However, there's no fitting and permanent solution that has ever made sense when it comes to what makes us human. I wanted...
My poem fits the theme "Blossoming Hope: Making Sense of the Nonsensical," because it represents self-rediscovery, and blossoming again after heartbreak. My poem is a response to Taylor Swifts, "Back To December," where Swift admits to being wrong and regretful. I wanted to write a poem in response to this song that is filled with anger at the fact...
This piece was written written when my mental health was in a precarious position. I was in between mental breakdowns and wanted to explore the means by which I managed –and still manage– to balance myself on the edge of stability. The result of this exploration was The Spool which takes a very metaphorical and symbolic approach to the...
This poem was done for ENG 220: American Women Writers. It is based on eight different texts we read in the class: Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street, Mary MacLane's I Await the Devil's Coming, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Susan Glaspell's Trifles, Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, Dorothy Allison's Two or Three Things I Know for Sure,...