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Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post Immortality, Decapitation, Heroin, & Aliens: Markers of the Apocalypse in the group American Studies: 3 years, 8 months ago

Lidabel Avila, Adelia Callear, Kendall Cruise, Madolley Donzo, Marlee Fancett, Kya Primm, Nicholas Parks, Maddie Butler

Ricky Rice, a former drug addict who works at the Utica train station receives a bus […]
Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post The Need to End All Worlds [for the sake of better beginnings] in the group American Studies: 3 years, 11 months ago

The act of reconstruction is a constant performance. To go about rebuilding anything—city, country, mindset, world, language, or person—there must be the original pieces of what was destroyed or, at some lev […]
Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post To Control What Breathes: A Greedy & Fruitless Endeavor in the group American Studies: 4 years, 3 months ago

Earlier in the semester, I reflected on N. K. Jemisin’s use of unyieldingly strong power—that of Orogenes and the Earth’s in her first novel of The Broken Earth trilogy, The Fifth Season—and how it stands against […]
Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post Generational Trauma and Healing: Not Just For Humans in the group American Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago

By: Maria Pawlak, Abby Anderson, Makayla Williams, Elizabeth Roos, Hallie Edic, Francheska Colon, Emilee Coughlin, Lidabel Avila

More than a decade after the infamous Boxing Day Tsunami left hundreds of […]
Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post To Control What Breathes in the group American Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago

Robert Byrne stated, “Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” The notion of nature not being able to be controlled is a harsh reality (only supported by the rapid evo […]
Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post If…Write. in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 5 months ago

If you’re leaving for spring break, write about going home. If you’re staying, write on the green about the silver wind. If you’re coming back for the rest of the semester, write to tell us about the haunting […]
Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post Poet Ex Machina in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 6 months ago

I don’t want to compare poets to machines: spewing out verses like the Lamron printer spews out newspapers. I just mean to express that our brains never stop creating. I have a notes app file dedicated to […]
Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post On Poetry, In Time in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 6 months ago

Poetry’s ability to move through time, including the future, has always amazed me. I’ve noticed poets experimenting with tenses, form, and narratives in order to do so, and it’s inspired me to the same. I’m […]
Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post Rhyme to Meter in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 7 months ago

I began writing when I was eight years old, composing lyrics to songs with no music behind them. I thought music was the only thing worth writing in a world concerned with fame and money. But I thought it always […]
Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post Adrenaline in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 7 months ago

No, I don’t play competitive sports or shoot up heroin. I don’t go on morning runs or watch the Super Bowl. I get my adrenaline from the scores and lighting in movies seen in theaters and the smell of cooked […]

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