Advanced Writing Course – Page 3

Humanoid Form Emerges from Void

by Sophia Maria TakvorianPosted on September 28, 2021September 28, 2021Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

Or, I Dreamt of You Last Night

Taylor Swift and the Too-Big Teenaged Girl

by Katherine LeisterPosted on September 21, 2021September 21, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

Taylor Swift made being an adolescent girl a romantic, beautiful existence, something to be cherished, not run away from.

Variations on the Pleasures of the Temporal Perhaps

by Lewis FenderPosted on September 17, 2021September 17, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

Time has a way of vanishing much as desire has a way of changing: almost never in the way expected.

To a Meadowlark

by Noé BoonPosted on August 31, 2021Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

I ask my soul, “Take care of this, right now!” / But it’s silent. / It acts of its own accord: / An echo gasp, / From stupid-little-mundane things / That cry you out.

A Strangely Unnatural Relationship

by Kaitlyn ChenPosted on July 7, 2021July 7, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

Nudity as Art and Nakedness as Sin

Poets and Composers

by Vera KurnevPosted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

There are poets and there are composers. In a way, it’s simply about their strategies for producing art and relationship to art making. In another way, it’s an inherent, spiritual quality—housed somewhere between the body and the note.

The Metronome

by Jack HelfrichPosted on June 3, 2021February 10, 2022Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

I do not practice with a metronome because I want to become a better drummer. I practice with a metronome to practice focusing. To practice pretending that the world is objective. To meditate.

In Defense of the Non-Place

by Caroline ReaganPosted on June 1, 2021May 28, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

I seek the sublime enclosed within banality; I seek a hidden form of secular revelation.

Imagining Berlin

by Olivia KassaeiPosted on May 24, 2021September 2, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

I want to imagine Berlin. It yearns to be x-rayed. We must examine its broken bones.

Together at the Movies

by Vincent AgnelloPosted on May 18, 2021May 18, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCreative Nonfiction

My nickname is, in many ways, a stowaway from another life. The simple, happy life that my mom and dad had built in the Rockaways of Queens.

Home Is Where the . . .

by Kayla PerezPosted on May 10, 2021May 10, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCreative Nonfiction

Where I come from, there is graffiti everywhere. This place is their museum, an outlet for their frustration, inspirations, and pride.

To Texas and Back

by Sabrina ChoudharyPosted on April 26, 2021April 26, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCreative Nonfiction

The summer before college, Sarwat moved to Texas. It was a small miracle that she was able to convince them to stay put through the end of high school. Her parents wasted no time packing up after graduation.