La llorona
By Jelisa Gonzalez | May 6, 2024 Photo Credit: Pixabay Soy una llorona, I am the crier. For reasons I want to believe are out of my...
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WELCOME BACK STUDENTS, AND WELCOME CLASS OF 2028!
CREATIVE WRITING
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Atenuación
By Jelisa Gonzalez | May 6, 2024 Photo Credit: Pixabay I have to learn to accept That I will never one hundred percent Understand my...
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Checkmate
By Kehinde Adejumo | April 29, 2024 Photo Credit: Flickr What if I told you I had it planned from the very beginning? Flashing lights and...
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Museum of Her
By Kay McCray | April 22, 2024 Photo Credit: Kay McCray / The ASP She took me to the museum everyday I’d look at all the priceless works...
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This is What I Imagine Chicago is Like (I’ve Never Been to Chicago)
By Mena Brazinski | February 26, 2024 Photo Credit: J. Crocker on Wikimedia Commons There’s a moment when you cross the bridge heading...
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The World
By Sri Nath Kurup | February 14, 2024 Photo Credit: Mehdi_meghari on Pixabay What do I have to give? I want to give you the world. I want...
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The Hopeless Romantic
By Dominique Platt | February 14, 2024 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons Dear Soulmate, I am a hopeless romantic, That means, in simple...
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each other, together
By Saraí Knox | February 14, 2024 Photo Credit: hoangdong7689 on Pixabay they hold each other in a tight embrace fingers intertwined,...
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Did I Miss You?
By Sri Nath Kurup | February 14, 2024 Photo Credit: 51581 on Pixabay I keep missing you. I miss you every time I wake up alone, just a...
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I’m Fine
By Sri Nath Kurup | February 14, 2024 Photo Credit: mariya_m on Pixabay I’m fine. No, I wake up fine. I’m not hidden away from the...
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on the wednesdays that feel like fridays
By Jelisa Gonzalez | February 12, 2024 Photo Credit: Jelisa Gonzalez / The ASP I woke up and assumed I’d remain in the neutral stance I’d...
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Briarwood
By Jelisa Gonzalez | November 6, 2023 Photo Credit: Adobe Stock Images I look up at the trees lining the hills, As pillars to my greater...
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Edge of Emotion
By Jelisa Gonzalez | October 16, 2023 Peeling Crumbling Blistering Red And almost blue I’m Closer to my veins Than I am to you Peeling…...
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Mountain Air’s Lost Daughter
By Mattie Fitzpatrick | October 2, 2023 Photo Credit: Romolo Tavani on Shutterstock The last thing I remember was they said the mountain...
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A Thought/An Idea
By Jelisa Gonzalez | October 2, 2023 I see you glisten from the illuminated box My eye doesn’t look off I’m holding you, Clutching the...
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The Fishbowl
By Jelisa Gonzalez | September 25, 2023 Photo Credit: Pixabay Perpendicular on all four sides I’m enclosed Encapsulated by Gray concrete...
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Seconds, Minutes, Hours
By Henry Fisher | August 28, 2023 Photo Credit: Pexels The seconds hand is fast. You can see the time burn, Though it’s slow against the...
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Blessings
By Saif Parchment | May 1, 2023 He said Forgive me Father up in Heaven. He was carrying a smith and wesson “He was carrying a smith and...
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Where the Birds Fly
By Henry Fisher | April 3, 2023 Photo Credit: Henry Fisher / The ASP The Earth is awake with the sound of man’s tools. Each one a...
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Ode to the Mountain of Knives
By Henry Fisher | March 6, 2023 Photo Credit: Henry Fisher / The ASP I am told it’s time to climb the Mountain of Knives, the one that...
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Short Piece on Sobriety
By Ivette Rodriguez | March 6, 2023 I know many of you will read the title and end it there. I mean, why wouldn't you? We’re 18, 19, 20,...
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The Child Inside
By Ivette Rodriguez | February 27, 2023 The child in me is so angry Angry that I was always the caretaker Never being taken care of But...
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Raindrop Haikus
By Henry Fisher | February 20, 2023 Photo Credit: Henry Fisher / The ASP A few small raindrops, Trail across the car window. To the...
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Relapse On My Mind
By Ivette Rodriguez God I want to do coke so badly Why’d G have to hit me up today… I was so so close And now it feels like I am...
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Mother Daughter Mother
By: Ivette Rodriguez Mom, if you were my daughter You’d be the most loved in the world Flower crowns adorning your pretty face And a...
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Lorraine
Shianne Henion | April 19, 2022 It’s six in the morning. I sit in the hospital in a daze, unsure of what’s happening. But I know then,...
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Building Sandcastles Out of Ashes
By Henry Fisher It started the morning after a bonfire, When the ashes reminded you of sand. The gray remains not quite granular, And yet...
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Starbright
By Jada Jinks | February 28, 2022 Moonlight dances across my fingertips I paint the sky shades of blue. There was never once a woman That...
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Vast
By Shianne Henion I am clay in your hands, the curl of the ocean, I am gravel and moss and peonies picked by those same nails that dug...
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The Berkshires
Hannah Karim I lose the game, pull the wrong card, but as I stand up, so do you, you tell me I won’t have to jump in alone. We stand,...
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A frozen block of ice
By Jada Jinks A frozen block of ice Weighing upon my chest Memories of you beside me I look upon with dread Lay me down my lover and...
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Always Has My Back
By Jada Jinks “This is boring, you’re gonna have to try harder than that!” A boxing instructor taunted his student as they circled around...
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Smitten
By: Tessa Sutherland | February 14, 2022 Photo Credit: Tessa Sutherland He kicks back in the chair with ease while his college peers...
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Trippp
By: Helena Horvat As the tab settled onto my tongue I stared at Ezra. He smiled with his glossy grey eyes, gently petting my blond curls....
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