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Poetry
In an Instant I am
A Chill
Ink
Secrets
De Novo
Anthem
Mahogany
On Religion
First Snowfall
Alley
Monday Morning
The Chapel
At First Glance
Minutes
A Man Is Baptizing Himself
The Silent Storm Inside My Arms
Confession
Spider’s Web
Unity From Disunity
The Tuesday Paper
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Goo
Aut viam ineviam aut faciam
Inside Out
heavensong
Settled
Porcelain
Beginnings
Computerized
Who Am I?
Me
Expectations and Reality: A Pair of Haikus
John Lennon
Changes
Me, you, and someone
Autumn Leaf
I Am This City
Poem
Misunderstood
Cancer To Blame
Why Would We?
Admission
To Be
The Barrier Gap
Beyond The Treely Train Station
His Cross is Gone
The Melancholy of Growth
The Heat
Good-Bye
Afraid
Méjico
[Asterismos.]
A Lost Home
Nightmares
Pack of Stoges
By Day, By Night
My Life
Sweet Home
The Drive We Must Make
True Colors
Profession to Mankind
Love Sonnet: Poem to the World
Sister and Brother: A Spenserian Sonnet
Existential Love
WINGS
Shakespearian Sonnet
The War on Terror
Wilting Submission
Love Thyself – A Petrarchan Sonnet
Light After Darkness
Existential Love
Prose
Maybe
A Dozen Cries Foul
You Had One Eye in the Mirror
The Broken Words
Mending
My Mother’s Roses
What am I to be?
Paradise in Your Hands
Four Walls
Civil Conversation Project
Stop Texting While Driving
The Pernicious Problem With Plastic
Restrictions on Social Media
Regulate Pharmaceutical Drug Prices
Fund Malaria Campaigns in Africa
Climate Change
On the Back of Immigrants
Animal Testing Should Be Banned
A Public Option
The Dreamers of Justice
Gun Control Isn’t the Solution
Literary Criticism
What is Reality?
“Remember Me”
“The Stranger Quote Analysis”
Colonization is not my Friend
Rebellion Against Tyranny
The Animalistic Woman of Chaucer’s England
Exposing Renaissance Discord
Lady Chatterley’s Lover: The Influence of War on Sensualism and Intellectualism
Independence From A Gender-Influenced World
Edward Rochester: The Ironic Hero of Jane Eyre
The Capitalist Metamorphosis
Eve: A Weak Vessel or the Epitome of Strength?
Pseudo-Feminism in The Canterbury Tales
Crime and Punishment
Medieval Contemplation vs. Renaissance Humanism in “King Lear”
Dr. Roderigo Lopez and The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s Outliers
Diversity Among Immigrant Experiences in
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Reflections On
The Handmaid’s Tale
Misogyny in the Canterbury Tales
The Complex Feminist Ideal in
the Wife of Bath’s Prologue
Biocentrism vs. Anthropocentrism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Frankenstein’s Mirror of Truth
The Psyche Behind Frankenstein: Feminism and Queer Theory
Lolita: Pupae or Human
A Malleable Mary
Examining the Social and Cultural Impact of European Colonialism in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Perspective and the Historical Influences in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
A Monster in the Closet
Rumi: In Love and Unity
Frankenstein, and the Backlash to the Anthropocentric View of the World
The Tragic Necessity of Assimilation
“Are you there God? It’s me, Jane”: Struggles with Religious Conformity in Jane Eyre
The Clash Between Romanticism and Moral Elitism In The Picture of Dorian Gray
Servants of God or Servants of Men?
Wendell Berry
Thich Nhat Hanh: Peace and Prosperity
Robert Bly – Challenging the World
Kurt Cobain: As An Outcast
Leonard Cohen
Sylvia Plath: Death, Depression, and Despair
Poetic Analysis of Tupac Shakur
Mary Oliver: The Natural World
A Persistent Refusal of Submission
Pablo Neruda: Embrace your Roots
The Exploration of Universal Concepts in Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet
Seamus Heaney: A Farmer’s Boy
Cruelty Upon the Ordinary
Claudia Rankine and Racism in America
Jane Hirshfield: Different than Your Average Western Poet
The Fight for Civil Rights in the Poems of Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
The Boss of the Working Class
Audre Lorde: Parent-Child Relationships
Bob Marley: Fight the System
Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
A Twentieth Century Class Struggle
The Elusive Existence of the Elite
The Fascinating Time Chronicles
Contemporary Literature: The Girl Before by JP Delaney
Deconstructing the Gender Binary in Contemporary Music
Overdetermination in The Association of Small Bombs
A Boy Finds Himself on a Beach, the Tide Turning from Low to High, from Boy to Man
Eurocentrism seen in the News of the World
Private Citizens
William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Poetic Analysis: Ogden Nash
Exploring The Unconventional
Rilke: Dichotomy Daughter
Brodsky on Time and Gender
Hidden Sexuality in Langston Hughes Poetry
The Honorable Langston Hughes
Media Buzz
Young Adult Literature Recommendations
Life of Pi Book Review: Exerting Control in Uncontrollable Situations
Review of Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres
Rogue Lawyer Book Review
Book Review of The Old Man and the Sea
Literary Review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Middlesex Reviewed
The Shipping News Review
Celie’s Companionship – A Review of The Color Purple
An Honorable Knight – A Review of The Hedge Knight
A Review of Olive Kitteridge
I Am Malala – Book Review
The Glass Castle – Book Review
All the Light We Cannot See Book Reviews
Alex Liu Reviews All the Light We Cannot See
Hannah Akahosh Reviews All the Light We Cannot See
The Ballad of Mulan
Double Standards in “Short Skirt/Long Jacket”
Analysis of “Love Me” by Lil Wayne From a Feminist Standpoint
Just a Southern Boy: The Breathing Poetry of Tom Petty
Marshall Mathers, Eminem and Slim Shady
Bob Dylan: The Nobel Poet
Photography
Anna Lewis
Photos by Claudia Grebner
Photos by Gene Tanaka
Photos by Hank Koran
Photos by Morgan Schwartz
Photos by Taylor Slutzker
Ashley Levi
Chris King
Clara Saab
Dylan Schonbuch
Kathryn Margiotta
Suzie Rosenberg
Avalon Cole
Videocasts
Existential Angst
Torture Garden
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Ashes
Inspiration
The Sun Rising
A Hymn to God the Father
Dover Beach
The Hit
The Dead Road
Kubla Khan
The Influence of Change
To Autumn
The Flower Girl
WALLS
The Definition of Love
The Descent
Beat Degenerate
Nature vs Man
Dystopian Anarchy The Nuance Of The Oppressive Language
5 Step Guide to a Happy Childhood
Achebe’s Story
Frankenstein’s Oak Tree
Creation
The Victims by Sharon Olds
Messy Accountability
“Remember”
“A Journey Forward”
The Journey Beyond
Daisies
Suicide
The Affects of Child Abuse and Domestic Violence
Unwind
Body Love
Ocean Floor
Langston Hughes – American Dream
The Road Not Taken
A State of Desolation
I Have Worth
Nothing Matters
Falling Leaves
Submit
About Us
Existential Angst
Published on February 27th, 2016 at 04:24 am
By Roya Visconti
Poetry
In an Instant I am
A Chill
Ink
Secrets
De Novo
Anthem
Mahogany
On Religion
First Snowfall
Alley
Monday Morning
The Chapel
At First Glance
Minutes
A Man Is Baptizing Himself
The Silent Storm Inside My Arms
Confession
Spider’s Web
Unity From Disunity
The Tuesday Paper
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Goo
Aut viam ineviam aut faciam
Inside Out
heavensong
Settled
Porcelain
Beginnings
Computerized
Who Am I?
Me
Expectations and Reality: A Pair of Haikus
John Lennon
Changes
Me, you, and someone
Autumn Leaf
I Am This City
Poem
Misunderstood
Cancer To Blame
Why Would We?
Admission
To Be
The Barrier Gap
Beyond The Treely Train Station
His Cross is Gone
The Melancholy of Growth
The Heat
Good-Bye
Afraid
Méjico
[Asterismos.]
A Lost Home
Nightmares
Pack of Stoges
By Day, By Night
My Life
Sweet Home
The Drive We Must Make
True Colors
Profession to Mankind
Love Sonnet: Poem to the World
Sister and Brother: A Spenserian Sonnet
Existential Love
WINGS
Shakespearian Sonnet
The War on Terror
Wilting Submission
Love Thyself – A Petrarchan Sonnet
Light After Darkness
Existential Love
Prose
Maybe
A Dozen Cries Foul
You Had One Eye in the Mirror
The Broken Words
Mending
My Mother’s Roses
What am I to be?
Paradise in Your Hands
Four Walls
Civil Conversation Project
Stop Texting While Driving
The Pernicious Problem With Plastic
Restrictions on Social Media
Regulate Pharmaceutical Drug Prices
Fund Malaria Campaigns in Africa
Climate Change
On the Back of Immigrants
Animal Testing Should Be Banned
A Public Option
The Dreamers of Justice
Gun Control Isn’t the Solution
Literary Criticism
What is Reality?
“Remember Me”
“The Stranger Quote Analysis”
Colonization is not my Friend
Rebellion Against Tyranny
The Animalistic Woman of Chaucer’s England
Exposing Renaissance Discord
Lady Chatterley’s Lover: The Influence of War on Sensualism and Intellectualism
Independence From A Gender-Influenced World
Edward Rochester: The Ironic Hero of Jane Eyre
The Capitalist Metamorphosis
Eve: A Weak Vessel or the Epitome of Strength?
Pseudo-Feminism in The Canterbury Tales
Crime and Punishment
Medieval Contemplation vs. Renaissance Humanism in “King Lear”
Dr. Roderigo Lopez and The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare’s Outliers
Diversity Among Immigrant Experiences in
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Reflections On
The Handmaid’s Tale
Misogyny in the Canterbury Tales
The Complex Feminist Ideal in
the Wife of Bath’s Prologue
Biocentrism vs. Anthropocentrism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Frankenstein’s Mirror of Truth
The Psyche Behind Frankenstein: Feminism and Queer Theory
Lolita: Pupae or Human
A Malleable Mary
Examining the Social and Cultural Impact of European Colonialism in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
Perspective and the Historical Influences in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
A Monster in the Closet
Rumi: In Love and Unity
Frankenstein, and the Backlash to the Anthropocentric View of the World
The Tragic Necessity of Assimilation
“Are you there God? It’s me, Jane”: Struggles with Religious Conformity in Jane Eyre
The Clash Between Romanticism and Moral Elitism In The Picture of Dorian Gray
Servants of God or Servants of Men?
Wendell Berry
Thich Nhat Hanh: Peace and Prosperity
Robert Bly – Challenging the World
Kurt Cobain: As An Outcast
Leonard Cohen
Sylvia Plath: Death, Depression, and Despair
Poetic Analysis of Tupac Shakur
Mary Oliver: The Natural World
A Persistent Refusal of Submission
Pablo Neruda: Embrace your Roots
The Exploration of Universal Concepts in Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet
Seamus Heaney: A Farmer’s Boy
Cruelty Upon the Ordinary
Claudia Rankine and Racism in America
Jane Hirshfield: Different than Your Average Western Poet
The Fight for Civil Rights in the Poems of Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
The Boss of the Working Class
Audre Lorde: Parent-Child Relationships
Bob Marley: Fight the System
Allen Ginsberg and the Beat Generation
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
A Twentieth Century Class Struggle
The Elusive Existence of the Elite
The Fascinating Time Chronicles
Contemporary Literature: The Girl Before by JP Delaney
Deconstructing the Gender Binary in Contemporary Music
Overdetermination in The Association of Small Bombs
A Boy Finds Himself on a Beach, the Tide Turning from Low to High, from Boy to Man
Eurocentrism seen in the News of the World
Private Citizens
William Finnegan’s Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Poetic Analysis: Ogden Nash
Exploring The Unconventional
Rilke: Dichotomy Daughter
Brodsky on Time and Gender
Hidden Sexuality in Langston Hughes Poetry
The Honorable Langston Hughes
Media Buzz
Young Adult Literature Recommendations
Life of Pi Book Review: Exerting Control in Uncontrollable Situations
Review of Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres
Rogue Lawyer Book Review
Book Review of The Old Man and the Sea
Literary Review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Middlesex Reviewed
The Shipping News Review
Celie’s Companionship – A Review of The Color Purple
An Honorable Knight – A Review of The Hedge Knight
A Review of Olive Kitteridge
I Am Malala – Book Review
The Glass Castle – Book Review
All the Light We Cannot See Book Reviews
Alex Liu Reviews All the Light We Cannot See
Hannah Akahosh Reviews All the Light We Cannot See
The Ballad of Mulan
Double Standards in “Short Skirt/Long Jacket”
Analysis of “Love Me” by Lil Wayne From a Feminist Standpoint
Just a Southern Boy: The Breathing Poetry of Tom Petty
Marshall Mathers, Eminem and Slim Shady
Bob Dylan: The Nobel Poet
Photography
Anna Lewis
Photos by Claudia Grebner
Photos by Gene Tanaka
Photos by Hank Koran
Photos by Morgan Schwartz
Photos by Taylor Slutzker
Ashley Levi
Chris King
Clara Saab
Dylan Schonbuch
Kathryn Margiotta
Suzie Rosenberg
Avalon Cole
Videocasts
Existential Angst
Torture Garden
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Ashes
Inspiration
The Sun Rising
A Hymn to God the Father
Dover Beach
The Hit
The Dead Road
Kubla Khan
The Influence of Change
To Autumn
The Flower Girl
WALLS
The Definition of Love
The Descent
Beat Degenerate
Nature vs Man
Dystopian Anarchy The Nuance Of The Oppressive Language
5 Step Guide to a Happy Childhood
Achebe’s Story
Frankenstein’s Oak Tree
Creation
The Victims by Sharon Olds
Messy Accountability
“Remember”
“A Journey Forward”
The Journey Beyond
Daisies
Suicide
The Affects of Child Abuse and Domestic Violence
Unwind
Body Love
Ocean Floor
Langston Hughes – American Dream
The Road Not Taken
A State of Desolation
I Have Worth
Nothing Matters
Falling Leaves
Submit
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