I keep seeing these reels on Instagram known as “kindness content,” and if you’ve been on any social media in the past few years, I’m sure you’ve seen it too. In case you don’t know, they are produced by people filming themselves helping out random strangers by giving them wads of cash or surprising them…
Natalie: Hi Izzy, let’s talk about Elaine Equi’s “Avoidance.” Izzy: I’m so excited. [The editors giggle. Giggle giggle giggle.] Natalie: So, what did you initially think of the poem? Izzy: I was really confused. I understood where the poem was coming from with the idea of avoidance and procrastination, but I feel like I got…
On June 27, 2025, I was at British Summer Time Hyde Park, a festival in London, with my friends Emma and Ally. When I tell you I had an absolutely dynamite time, I am not exaggerating in the least– it was so fun walking around the festival grounds, seeing the sea of people full of…
Here in Connecticut, I breathe in cold air; I breathe in the dying leaves that fill the sidewalk; I breathe in the freezing Long Island Sound. In Ormond Beach, Florida, I exhale. I love Ormond Beach so much…like so much. I love the way the sun turns my skin golden as I sit in the…
Cecily Parks was born in 1976 and she currently lives in Austin, Texas. There, she works at the University of Texas where she is an associate professor in the MFA program for creative writing. She has written three collections of poetry, including Field Folly Snow (2008), O’Nights (2015), and The Seeds, which is coming out…