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Beneath the Icing: Inside CupcakKe

“Remind ya I’m kinda (wet) / Run it down my vagina (Wet) / Run it down my vagina.” These are the opening lines of “Vagina,” […]

Let the Body Speak

The letters of the alphabet swim before my eyes like dark tadpoles. From left to right, the letters grow in weight, gaining mass and announcing […]

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Unprecious & Rough Around the Edges

Jason Labbe believes that when encountering writer’s block, a poet should think of three things that he likes and put them together into a poem’s […]

The Passion of Rory Pelsue

Born in Newbury, Massachusetts, Rory Pelsue graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 2011 and is currently in his final year of the Yale School of […]

A Rabbi for Rights

Abby Stein is a transgender blogger, speaker and activist who was raised in a Hasidic community in New York. She was ordained as a rabbi […]

Can You Hear the Call of Duty?

Wilbert Roget II ’05 is an award-winning composer in the video game industry. Beginning with piano at age 4, Roget developed a passion for improvisation […]

The Writing Skills of Emily Skillings

Emily Skillings is a Brooklyn-based poet. She graduated from The New School with a degree in both dance and writing, and received an MFA in […]

An Hour with Ocean

Ocean Vuong is, to offer an incomplete list, a poet, professor, queer person, Vietnamese American and refugee. Last year he published his first full-length poetry […]

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Lauren Redniss: A Tale of Art and Text // Lauren Cueto

Lauren Redniss is a successful creator of visual nonfiction, which is a form that incorporates both illustrations and words to convey a story. She has […]

The Science of Art Conservation

Carol Snow is the Deputy Chief Conservator and the Alan J. Dworsky Senior Conservator of Objects at the Yale University Art Gallery. A devoted art […]

Allowing for Grief: An Interview with Marina Carr

Marina Carr is an Irish playwright and 2017 recipient of the Windham Campbell prize. She has earned global acclaim for her work, which negotiates spheres as diverse as Irish history and Greek tragedy to offer layered reflections on love, subjugation and grief. The author of more than 20 published plays, Carr has won numerous awards, including The Irish Times’ playwright award and the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Carr sat down to discuss history, the work of mourning and her complex relationship with the word “tragedy.”