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On Alchemy by Any Medium Necessary

On Alchemy by Any Medium Necessary

nat raum on Photography and Interdisciplinary Transformation of the Self / Nan Goldin is familiar with photographing the things you want to keep. An influence of mine in many ways, she once talked about how one must only look at what a person photographs to see what they fear losing.
Cycles

Cycles

Christyn Refuerzo on Workshops and First Publications / 'For me, I thought writing could just be a hobby, even though deep down, I knew that it was something I wanted to do for the rest of my little life. But how could I? I barely even thought of myself as a writer—never gave myself the title.'
Mary Oliver: Letting Nature Speak For Itself

Mary Oliver: Letting Nature Speak For Itself

Grace Safford / Instead of holding her tongue, Mary Oliver allows herself to just open her mouth and say what we are all thinking: “That is beautiful.” She captures awe by being awed.
Grounded in the Abstract: Ocean Vuong's Lesson About Ourselves

Grounded in the Abstract: Ocean Vuong's Lesson About Ourselves

Angelina Yeung / To truly capture identity, which is so complex and different to every person, the abstract is a necessity to allow language to shift and evolve.
Notes on Homeland

Notes on Homeland

Daniel Liu / It's dangerous for everyone, when people become only the exotic food they eat... Something distinct for the point of being distinct
How to Build Pyramids Using Letters as Bricks

How to Build Pyramids Using Letters as Bricks

Flora Soper / Poetry fits into this realm of inhabitable spaces without providing solid evidence that such a space exists. It uses language to build pyramids, to pry bricks out of letters and redefine them, shifting words to reconfigure a unique shape
The Enduring Cinderella

The Enduring Cinderella

Kai Van Ginkel / A deep-dive into the various historical Cinderellas, her transformation, and why she's withstood the test of time
Clout Based Currency

Clout Based Currency

Angelina Yeung / In the same way I find myself overjoyed to know so many excellent writers, I still struggle to call myself one.
Virginia Woolf's Lessons on Craft: Punctuation as Language

Virginia Woolf's Lessons on Craft: Punctuation as Language

Grace Safford — In her narratives, Woolf not only breathes life into semicolons and colons and em dashes—she speaks punctuation into a creative language. 

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