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Memoir & Personal Essay, Nature & Travel Writing, Video & Visual Arts
Critique & Review, Memoir & Personal Essay, Photography & Photo Essays
On the Intersection Between Teenage Sexuality and the Objectivity of Women Across Races
Illustration, Poetry, Spoken Word Poetry, Video & Visual Arts
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It Wasn’t Your Fault
Selected Poems
Writing poetry has served as an outlet to relieve stress during this anxiety-filled year. I’ve poured many of my feelings into these poems, some of which are selected here.
tears of the past
Sometimes, we surprise ourselves in the ways we act in certain situations that life throws at us. This piece tells of my first encounter with this lesson.
Versions of our selves
These are poems we wrote, together and separately, while reflecting on the theme of transformation—these poems are about all the different versions of ourselves we hold at once.
of remembrance and regret
This essay is a tribute to my grandmother and an immortalization of my biggest regret.
Siempre Boricua
This poem focuses on my experience growing up in Brooklyn, New York. It addresses the challenges and stereotypes that Puerto Ricans face in the neighborhood.
[Entries From A Not-So-Muggle-Muggle]
Finding yourself waiting for your Hogwarts letter to arrive? Poppy is here to tell you all about her muggle problems!
The Crows
Broken family ties and ominous crows haunt Jo as she faces the dangers of the forest.
Pandemic Letters: The Wind or a Leaf Stuck to the Sidewalk
After reading the poetic correspondence between Natalie Diaz and Ada Limón entitled “Envelopes of Air,” we decided to write poetic letters to one another, which naturally interrogated our feelings and thoughts during a pandemic.
I did raise my boy to die…
My poem explores a mother’s emotions about sending her boy to war.
A Flighty Peace
The leader of an ancient tribe, tired of her war-ridden world, ignores the battle that looms behind her. But the death of her lover forces her to commit one final flight for peace.
These Days
This is a piece about how it feels to deal with the struggles that grief may bring. And about trying to move forward by taking one day at a time.
shadows of the sea
Separated by a century, two paths intersect in a journey of identity, legacy, womanhood, and coming of age in a painful world.
A Certainty
This poem focuses on the philosophy of interpreting life objectively; there is a certain calm in accepting reality as is, and taking pleasure in the mere fact of our existence.
COVID Rewind: Thoughts & Reflections
A look into 2020 through the diverse eyes of interviewees from New York City. These interviewees describe their thoughts and experiences living through the pandemic.