I had, like, four essays due this week so I’m sorry this wasn’t done in time. I had the idea but no idea where to take it. (Honestly, I’m not sure if it makes any sense whatsoever.) I was really inspired by the interjection of narrative-esque pieces into essays in both Harryman’s and Dahlen’s pieces. […]

In Hejinian’s “Rejection of Closure,” we are once again introduced to Stein, who declares, “Expressing any thing there can be no repetition because the essence of that expression is in insistence, and if you insist you must each time use emphasis and if you use emphasis it is not possible while anybody is alive that […]

What was the prompt (summarize or copy/paste)? What is the result (post your written piece)? And what kinds of things did you talk about in your group meeting (in regard to the prompts, the results of the prompts, or etc.)? The prompt that we used was the one I came up with. In addition to […]

Okay, so I started the Creative Writing program at Eastern in the Winter of 2012 after I realized I really, really hated being a Lit major. And I’d only taken one semester of Lit courses. So I switched my major. My first semester in the CRTW program was painful. I had no idea, absolutely no […]

I found the video essays extremely interesting. My favorite (I use this term loosely) was The Seinfeld Analog, or the one about Rwanda and the Tutsi genocide in contrast with the climb of Seinfeld as the United States’ most watched show. The footage itself made me sick to my stomach, just knowing that genocide even […]

No matter how much I read Stein, I never seem to get used to her style of writing. Every time I wade into the depths of her books, I feel unsteady and uncertain. There may be no right way to read A Geographical History of America, or any other Stein novel, but I constantly feel […]

In Judith Butler’s Against Ethical Violence, there is a lot of discussion about the “self” in relation to the “other.” According to Butler, the “I” stands as a part of, and because of, social conditions…which implicate it in “a set of moral norms” which “have a social character that exceeds a purely personal and idiosyncratic […]

So far, I’ve enjoyed this semester’s Bathhouse speakers/readers much more than any of the Bathhouse events I’ve ever been to. (But I’ve only been to three so that’s not really saying much.) Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to stay for Douglas Kearney’s presentation yesterday because I had class, but I stayed until the end of Tisa […]

For my second project, I’m going to do something I’ve never tried. This piece will follow a body named Adi (short for Adipose) in their journey from non-entity to human being (or at least, their journey to humanity) after their planet, Cy (short for adipocyte), is invaded by a pointy-chinned troll named Dok who is […]