The Literary Arts 

When my grandfather passed away five years ago, I was intimidated by “death.” It was a weird feeling that someone who you just talked...

By Lily '20 The debate about rap music’s societal impact is at once complex and polarizing. Critics assume that hip-hop and rap music...

Poems by Yujin, Julia & Addie Students of the Creative Writing Elective randomly selected lines from Simon Armitage's book of poems...

Poems by Addie, Josie, Eliza, Julia, Riley, Aghogho, Mackenzie, Sevi & Lindsay. Taking the joy of writing a little further, the Creative...

When I was about 4 or 5 years old, one of my favorite things to do was dress up as a Disney princess. I had a collection of outfits all...

Inspired by Orlando White's Letterrs, students wrote odes to interesting letters of the alphabet. An Ode to Z The letter “Z” zig zags on...

A Light Among all the cruelty, among all the death, among all the darkness, there is a small light, although faint, it still stands...

Chocolate Chocolate It smells Delicious, it tastes Better than it sounds Sweet Sundae Yummy! Ice cream Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry Hot...

Wish You Were Here I remember my last visit to you. It was in the early summer I think. Your house was ever so welcoming, I never wanted...

That Parking Lot The cold concrete ground, polka dotted with the spat out gum waiting for a familiar chirp where the blue tire swing...

Gasping in a blinding pain inside my heart, with one hand holding my left ankle and the other hand clenched into a fist, I fell down on...

The loud noise from them. The howling from them. They are near, but soon they will be here. My babies wrinkle their faces with fear. I...

Poems inspired by Edward Hirsch's poem "Cotton Candy." Continue reading for works by Julia, CJ, Sevi, Josie, Mackenzie, Eliza and August....

Inspired by "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" Yujin, Lindsay, Julia, Sevi, Eliza, Giaco and Mackenzie wrote their own poems based on a...

Read poems declaring dreams for the future by Mackenzie, Sejin, and Addie "I Am" by Mackenzie '20 I am a girl, the daughter of a kind...

White wallpaper with makeup stains and antiques cover her dusty tables. Her clothes smell like rotten fish and old french fries... by The...