Today’s poem in celebration of the end of this year’s National Poetry Month in April is a beautiful short poem called “Rain” by the Iranian poet Ali Abdolrezaei…
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In any discussion of writing (particularly writing in order to be published), the conversation comes back to platform. You may not have heard that term for it,…
This week’s installment for National Poetry Month is the ballad “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” by Goethe, a man best known for his contributions to literature as well as…
The Collaborative for Multilingual Writing and Research’s second installment in celebration of National Poetry Month comes from the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. This coming Thursday, April 26th…
Two weeks ago I started a new internship with a literary agency. Writing and editing are my passions, and after working at the Writing Center for the…
Tuesday marks the second day of Earth Week 2012, which leads up to Earth day on the 22nd, and the world is abuzz with talk about the…
We text, we tweet, and we Facebook, but do we lyricize? Plato argued that “Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history,” and Robert Fitzgerald contended that…
In 1997, geographer Erik Swyngedouw challenged the way that scholars viewed globalization with the publication of “Neither Global nor Local: ‘Glocalization’ and the Politics of Scale.” The…
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An Ode to the Lovely List
I have a confession to make: I absolutely love lists. Writing them, reading them, going over them in my head – call it a compulsion, or a…
When I first signed up for my literary editing course, I didn’t really think it would have much in common with my tutoring job. I mean, we’re…