Both/And: Life Lessons & Toni MorrisonSince the very beginning of the semester, we have talked at great lengths about the importance of both/and. According to the Longman […]

Thresholds: Beginnings, Ending & Everything in BetweenThresholds, in the literal sense of the word, are strips of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom of a doorway and crossed in […]

Back at the end of February we wrote a reflection essay after our reading of N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season. At that time we had only read one out of the three books in the trilogy and we still had so much to g […]

surely i am able to write poems
celebrating grass and how the blue
in the sky can flow green or red
and the waters lean against the
chesapeake shore like a familiar
poems about […]

The Fifth Season includes many geological concepts to keep the readers engaged and wanting to read more. Throughout my reading of the novel, the most intriguing geological event N.K. Jemisin chose to include, in […]

While voraciously glancing through the many pages that make up the Call and Response anthology, I was pleasantly surprised to see a wide range of literacy organized throughout. I began thinking about the […]