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…
Optimists are some of the scariest people out there. Not the kind that see the glass half full or see the greener grass on their side of life. I’d go as far as identifying myself with that kind of optimist (occasionally). No, I’m referring to those who see the glass half overflowing, those who seem…
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…
Jeffrey Harrison’s poem “Amnesia,” describes a scene that most people reading the poem can easily immerse themselves in. A moment of remembering something, but it being on the tip of your tongue— a memory you can almost reach, yet one that becomes murky once specific details are required. Harrison was born in Cincinnati in 1957…
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…
Since I was a child my head was filled with stories of princes and princesses, knights and vast castles, kings and queens ruling over their lands. Five year old me was truly happiest, thinking that happy endings always existed in the world. I will say television and books really fed my impressionable little mind, but…
Brad Leithauser’s “A Good List” describes many things he has never done. He wrote the poem while living in Iceland during a snowstorm, and the end result is a piece that he still laughs about. Born on April 3, 1943, in Traverse City, Michigan, Leithauser, a Harvard-educated poet, has produced many poems, essays, and novels.…
“[T]his is the magic of fragments—the way that poem breaks off leads into a thought that can’t ever be apprehended. There is the space where a thought would be, but which you can’t get hold of. I love that space. It’s the reason I like to deal with fragments. Because no matter what the thought…
Louise Glück was a poet who created art out of words. She wrote many books which won many awards, most famously the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many of her pieces were written based on her life. She lost her father, went through two divorces, and often struggled with her self-identity. In her early teenage years,…
For as long as I can remember, I have had a great interest in mystery and hidden meanings; they have always been a subject that intrigues me and makes me want to know more or even solve it. When I read the title of the poem “Morning on the Island” by Carolyn Forché, I found…