Author: Moxxy Rogers

A Waterfall of Mercy: Ecocriticism in Toni Morrison by Mikhaila Bishop When reading any literary work, many critical readers regard physical environment as mere setting. Examinations of ecology in literary works attempt to understand humanity’s relationship to natural forces. Water is often undervalued as a literary device, even in ecocriticism, but in Toni Morrison’s novel… Continue reading Online Art Gallery: Volume 26

Fish Mouth by Elle Klock I dress for therapy this morning pulling shirts from the closet and then throwing them on the floor. I settle on a beat up white t-shirt with denim jeans, tattered holes dotting the legs so parts of the tattoos covering my thighs peak out. I hope this reads: don’t look… Continue reading Online Art Gallery: Volume 25

Paterson and Williams’s American Mythos by Sean McCarthy With Paterson, William Carlos Williams set about creating a new form of poetry that was as much a response to Eliot and the Modernists as it was a negation. By focusing his language on the mundane, the brutal and the beatific, Williams sought to juxtapose post-WWII America’s… Continue reading Online Art Gallery // Volume 24