Terpsichorean Powers

My first word was “tlo.” You know, “tlo.” It meant “cat,” my Mum would tell me, proudly. “How did...

Flirting with Foucault

In the spring of 1975, Simeon Wade, a struggling junior faculty member at Claremont Graduate University, wrote a letter...

Four years ago, I moved from the southern United States to northern England. I thought the main adjustment would...

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~ Rilke March 6th...

The projector kicks on. Saint Valentine smears the cosmos across the dome as lovers lean into one another. You...

Crystal B. Lake, Love, Labor, Loss J. Brendan Shaw, Drinking Tea Alone with Friends Kathleen Tamayo Alves, Psycho (But...

When I was sixteen years old and on vacation at my uncle’s home in western India, my summer friend...

An Ode to Broken Hammers Two Decades Before His Arrest, Ezra Pound...

I used to have this image in my head of the perfect English major. This person had somehow managed...

About a year ago, my twin sister moved to Pennsylvania to pursue her PhD in Physics. For twenty-two years,...

On April 11, 2019, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed Bill No. 23, The Human Rights and Heartbeat Protection Act...

One of the many items of contention in my parents’ long custody battle was my overdue library books. It’s...

Ever since I was a child, I knew I wanted to spend my life helping others. When I was...

At the end of my undergraduate degree, I faced a lot of choices as to which graduate programs I...

It’s startling to run into a celebrity. My wife and I were walking around Central Park one afternoon when...