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Moving to Brooklyn
While moving into my apartment in Brooklyn today, a wedding was happening outside. What a coincidence—two monumental events, two new beginnings. As I unpacked my things, the groom and the bride (Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle Clark) danced to Chris de Burgh’s “Lady in Red.” Now, as night takes over, wedding goers are dancing to salsa music, which,…
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What I learned after working at a literary agency
I worked at Folio Literary Management in Manhattan for about four months. It’s an agency that represents fiction and non-fiction authors. I’ve already experienced the publisher side when I was at Simon & Schuster (where I will soon return), so I wanted to get a sense of where a book really begins: at an agency.…
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Someday, what we did will matter.
Someday, what we did will matter. During one of Fairfield University’s Senior Week events, I was asked to write a six-word story to summarize my experience at Fairfield University. So I harnessed my budding poetic powers, which I acquired after taking a class with Professor Carol Ann Davis, and this was the result. I wonder what Hemingway would think of…
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Am I a poet now?
I just handed in a short poetry collection that I worked on for a semester. That’s right: poetry. This class was certainly a transformative experience. I’ve learned to appreciate the emotional stake, the inspired language, and the truth in works of several poets (Sylvia Plath, James Tate, James Wright, to name a few). I’ve also…
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Blog 11: Usability Testing
It’s crunch time! I’m revamping my portfolio site for my Multimedia Writing Course. Here’s the first draft, which was done in the beginning of the semester: writerloanle.comoj.com Here’s what it looks like now: writerloanle.comli.com Today, I asked my classmates to test out my website. They’ve given me some great feedback, but here’s basically what they’ve said. How…
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Watch Shane Koyczan’s “To This Day”
A year ago I heard Shane Koyczan’s “To This Day” poem about bullying, and it blew my mind. I didn’t realize until today that the poem was adapted into a video, which I just saw on Upworthy. Shane’s heartfelt spoken word poem shines light on bullying’s long-term effects. Unfortunately everyone has encountered or has seen…
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Learning to be a poet
We learned how to write tanka poetry a few weeks back. A tanka poem is a traditional Japanese form of poetry. It follows a 5-7-5-7-7 syllabic pattern and can go on for a long time. We only stop once we reach infinity – that is, until we feel like we can’t get anything else out of…
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The power to overcome
His pain level was nine out of 10. Confined to his hospital bed, sweating and aching all over, he could hear his skin crackling, the result of gas gangrene inside his legs, caused by bacteria eating away at his muscle tissues. Seventeen-year-old John Tartaglio was dying. His diagnoses couldn’t keep up with his rapid decline.…
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i hate bullies.
I’ve talked a little about bullying in past posts. It sounds odd, right, for a college student to still think about bullying. You would think in adulthood you wouldn’t see any bullying – except that’s wrong. Bullying – verbal or physical – occurs all the time no matter the age of the victim or the…
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