What Does Poetry Give You?

Dylan Thomas, 20th century Welsh poet and writer, remarked, “A good poem is a contribution to reality.”  What do you think poetry gives you, dear reader? I would say it could be anything except money. Yeah, that’s the harsh reality of a career in creative writing. The art of writing poetry is a career whichContinue reading “What Does Poetry Give You?”

Dark and Stomach-Churning Novels You Should Add to Your Reading List

A collection of reviews by Odara Massey One of my all-time favorites, Bunny follows Samantha Heather Mackey, an MFAstudent whose life gets entangled with the rest of her creative writing cohort, a cult of rich women who act like little girls and call each other ‘Bunny’. Samantha sees them as a nuisance and detests theirContinue reading “Dark and Stomach-Churning Novels You Should Add to Your Reading List”