April, 2015
Untitled love poem attempt (with a Letter from the Creative Section Editors)
Trigger Warning: This poem contains information about sexual assault and/or violence which may be triggering for survivors of sexual assault. A…
Read MoreClothing Required: Graduating Unexperienced
“Hey dude, I heard you’re going out with [name redacted]! Did she take your meat??” I was asked this sincere question when I was…
Read MoreThe Sciences and Humanities at Vassar: Are We Building a Better Bridge?
In 1961, Norton Juster published The Phantom Tollbooth, a modern children’s fairytale adventure full of puns and allegories. The history of the land of…
Read MoreAppropriating and Being Appropriated: Art and Artists at the Margins
While the internet has created vast opportunity for marginalized artists as an alternate space, it has created particular difficulties for artists as well. With…
Read MoreInvisible Oppression: The Whitewashed Middle Eastern Identity
It was during the college application process that I discovered that I was White. Or, at least, that’s how the United States government classifies…
Read MoreTwo Poems
Secondary Erotic We all have our tasks and they consume us. But that is fine because we are objects that talk. And…
Read More“Modern Love”, or “A Tinder Tale Gone Sour”
Description: The following is a poem inspired by the dating service Tinder. Each line of an unitalicized stanza was ripped from a random Poughkeepsie…
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