memory – Confluence

Freeing Algerian Women’s Histories

by Erin SchmitzPosted on May 4, 2021May 5, 2021CriticismFirst-Year Writing Seminar

How can you reconcile your identity as a liberating force while using the language of your oppressor and benefiting from physical freedom that many of those in your homeland do not possess? Assia Djebar wrestles with these questions in "Fantasia."

Seasons and Such

by AnonymousPosted on April 22, 2021April 15, 2021Creative NonfictionFirst-Year Writing Seminar

One day, I phoned my grandparents’ house just to have a talk. My grandmother picked up the phone and told me that my grandfather was taking a nap upstairs. Soon enough, we were talking as relaxed as ever. At some …

B. Horseman

by Aliya JonesPosted on March 26, 2021March 23, 2021Advanced Writing CourseCriticism

It’s the quality of so much sorrow held at the brink that attracted me to "BoJack Horseman." It’s brilliant, at once both witty and belly-laugh silly, and often capable of being shockingly real.

I Remember

by Lizzie MathaisPosted on March 16, 2021March 11, 2021Creative NonfictionFirst-Year Writing Seminar

I remember burying the seeds every time I ate an apple. They never grew into apple trees. I remember going to the airport for fun. I remember, on Thompson Street, the moment they called the 2020 presidential race. I remember the way my childhood home smelled when it was completely empty.

On Your Marks, Get Set, Go

by Emily CarpenterPosted on November 5, 2020Creative NonfictionIndependent Project

Silence again. The air feels blue but in different shades.

What We Will Remember

by Adele Liu KramberPosted on September 18, 2020Interdisciplinary SeminarPortfolio

A VR Exhibit for "The Man with the Compound Eyes"

The No Photo Collection

by Sarah Hee Joo HahnPosted on September 3, 2020October 7, 2020Arts WorkshopPortfolio

Since the very first daguerreotype, photographs have been a way to capture a moment in time. What other media are able to encapsulate our memories?

Misery Swamp

by Natalie SharpePosted on May 13, 2020May 13, 2020FictionIndependent Project

Phone said 2:45pm. This means school is out, scream and shout. In case future daughter/granddaughter is reading this, a few things to note: all students wear tiny gray uniform skirt, boxers poke underneath.

On Blackness

by Aliya JonesPosted on May 8, 2020December 10, 2020Creative NonfictionIndependent ProjectPoetry

I have, for as long as I can remember, been embarrassed to be Black.

Perfect Earlobes

by Natalie SharpePosted on March 18, 2020March 18, 2020FictionIndependent Project

She puts on long, droopy earrings and stares back at me in the mirror. Try these, she says, and hands me a pair of danglies. You have perfect ears, she says. Look, she says. Perfect. Look at your earlobe.

Notes for a Hypothetical Tragedy

by Sage Livingstone MolaskyPosted on March 5, 2020September 3, 2020Advanced Writing CourseCreative Nonfiction

The truth of any good tale is the thing that makes it art. Without truth, art’s power to change the way we see things fails in the hands of the artists and remains, then, merely words on a page.

Think on It

by Wentworth CamborPosted on February 10, 2020Creative NonfictionFirst-Year Writing Seminar

Just outside of Grey’s Papaya, there was an odd, frozen cluster of people. Neither my babysitter nor I could see through or over the group from afar, so we kept on walking toward it. Valerie squeezed my little hand.

Don’t Be an Art Historian

by Armaan AhmedPosted on February 6, 2020April 29, 2021CriticismFirst-Year Writing Seminar

"Bolero reminds me of something—not something I have forgotten but rather something I have never thought." Why knowing nothing about a work of art can aid appreciation.

Three Poems

by Emma HattemerPosted on November 6, 2019Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

"People have never seemed so precious. / Like the earth from outer space, / beautiful and beyond me."

Three Poems

by Jack HelfrichPosted on October 15, 2019April 20, 2021Advanced Writing CoursePoetry

"French Fries," "Teleport," and "The kid I’ve watched the 1989 'Batman' film with four times this year."