by Mary Huber | May 20, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2020
To Feel Them Full: Reading Empathy in Keats When you read a lot of poetry, people tend to assume that you have grasped something ineffable. They might remark that you are a sensitive and empathetic person because you have spent so much of your life in the minds of...
by Juliana Roth | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
The Mentor It’s early morning in Los Angeles as I walk a side street to a coffee shop to work on a revision of this essay. I’m listening to the audio version of the article “An Epidemic of Disbelief,” a story unearthing the patterns of institutional negligence by the...
by Cheyenne Peat-Davis | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Time Has Run Out When I first read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, it stirred up feelings of indignation, confusion, and disappointment. However, more than anything, this book made me think. That is the beauty of this book, not that it necessarily made me believe in...
by Kayla Hardy | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
The Case for Rainbows The creative landscape is changing. Some might say not nearly fast enough, but change usually occurs in waves—some high and some low. Right now, I’d argue we are somewhere in the twilight of the high and low as various creative industries—namely...
by Michael Reyes | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Long Surnames and Pride: On Alma and How She Got Her Name Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela thinks her name is too long. When it doesn’t fit on a single sheet of paper, she tapes paper scraps onto the edges to make it fit. Alma then begins to question her place...
by Taylor Held | May 19, 2025 | Essays, Essays 2019
Seeing Minds Through Minds: Determining Whose Perception to Trust in Sense and Sensibility The Dashwood sisters are on the verge of a crisis. They are young, single, fatherless, and fortuneless; marriage is their only method of attaining financial and personal...
