“By preventing myself from thinking about how to do more with my day or why I hadn’t accomplished as much as so-and-so—by ‘doing nothing’—I constructed a new framework of what mattered to me.”

I want to convey to my students that what poetry does above all, and Roethke above others, is help us see the world, not outside of ourselves as much as in our hearts, and in our own thoughts and words and expressions.

The three deaths of Susan Taubes occurred in one week.

In Hong’s essay on her fraught relationships with female friends during college, the topic of mental illness goes largely unaddressed—as it often is in Asian American culture.

The City We Became isn’t simply a jarring attack on white privilege, it’s a necessary nudge towards reality…By inverting white savior tropes, Jemisin shows how systemic advantages have weakened cities while diversity remains their strengths.