I still don’t get how to use tumblr. Maybe it’s for the best. Not because social media is a mindless time-suck that’s likely terrible for our brains and self-esteem, but because its core functionality was not designed with… Read More
Warsan Shire’s Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, is a compilation of poems that not only engage your thoughts, but they draw you into the stories through the intense detail that she provides in each one. I… Read More
Introduction: With the end of my 8th and last semester at Davidson, I have learned a thing or two about the mood of students at this college. We start every semester with loads of enthusiasm and energy. However,… Read More
Memes have in so many ways become a product of our generation. Millennials have had the accusation thrown at us that we crave things instantly, and demand immediate gratification. The statement is reasonable because millennials have developed an… Read More
Ever since we began studying memes I have been curious about why memes always are in the medium of an image; why they are not simply words. Our class defined a meme as, “A meme is a word/image… Read More
One of the most memorable characters to emerge from [Isherwood’s] diary is Sally Bowles. Isherwood’s Sally is a young English would-be actress and demimondaine who sings (none too expertly) at The Lady Windermere, a Tauentzienstrasse cabaret. A social dropout… Read More
The website, Poetry Beyond Text, define digital poetry as “…a literary work which depends integrally for its form on the operation of digital processes on an electronic device, and which has poetic qualities of semantic richness and meaningful… Read More
If you’re a big fan of the NBA, then there’s no doubt you are familiar with the young basketball star, Russell Westbrook. Even if you aren’t a fan of the NBA, there’s still a high probability that… Read More
I Celebrate Myself I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. My tongue, every atom of my blood Form’d from this… Read More
Twitter, a medium that only functions with the participation and buy in of users, stands in stark contrast to mediums, such as advertisements, that are used to disseminate information in mass to serve capitalistic purposes. The battle of… Read More
