Jesus and Fentanyl: A Mortician's Perspective is actually thoughts from a funeral director and also an ode to an overdose victim.
One Man’s Perspective on Grieving and Death is a narrative representation of death as a universal humanistic theme.
This story explores childbirth-related trauma and postpartum mental health through the lens of a ‘good birth.’
The dynamic taking place in these poems was autoethnography, a hybrid of my investigation of the 1960's coupled with my personal experience.
“Letter from Okinawa” describes my research and observations into the impact the U.S. military has had on the island, and tells the story of the Japanese government’s historical culpability by colonizing, controlling, and discriminating against the island.
My weird depression showed up this summer like “hey sis!” And I was like “fuck my life”! I wasn’t ready. This time, it caught me off guard.
I use autoethnography to provide first-hand observations in the predominantly conservative English classroom as a way to analyze and understand a rise in toxic masculinity and its detrimental impacts.
After 34 years of monogamy I entered the dating app world and began writing the first weekend I was single. This is story of my experience.
The poem driving this experimental film about television considers the insomniacs who wake at the same time each night in rhythm.
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
This work shows that the benefits of reading multiple texts, each from a different perspective provides opportunities for students.
I documented my two-month diet in a food journal and it began as a personal effort to lose weight following a "Barthes diet".