Tag: writing

  • How to Re-Energize Back into a Routine

    Part of me doesn’t feel qualified to write this because I’ve lost touch with healthy routines so many times in the last few years. But actually, I feel like this makes me someone who can bring a lot of insight to the table when it comes to what is needed to truly create a sustainable…

  • Birds in OF GODS & STRANGERS and CORRIDOR: Duality and Cycles

    Birds of unknown origin; black and white birds amid lightning strikes; birds as artificial as jewelry but as close as lovers—these are just some of the birds that make an appearance in the poetry of Tina Chang and Saskia Hamilton. But what could they mean? Chang and Hamilton are both women poets who rely heavily…

  • Ars Poetica: On the Art of My Poetry

    Where does my poetry fit into the world? Where does my poetry fit into myself? My responses to these questions flow like the blood in my own veins. Inspired by the format of René Char’s essay “The Formal Share,” my own writing is broken up in sections using roman numerals. This essay will include my…

  • What even is a body?

    This post is inspired by a thought I had today: what even is a body? So, I tested positive for COVID-19. Reading this, you may think that to be largely unremarkable, given that we are over two years strong into this pandemic, but to me, well, it took every bit of strength I have not…

  • My therapist says I’m brave: am I really?

    Short answer: yes. Long answer: I really fucking am. It takes a brave person to sit with their feelings and then do the thing their gut is telling them to do even though it’s the scariest option. This idea, although expressed in simple terms, is deeper and more complex than you would think. In a…