Tag: Love poetry

  • Writing From the Classroom: Alejandra Gaspar

    Writing From the Classroom: Alejandra Gaspar

    Alejandra, known by her friends as Ally, graduated from Mount St. Mary’s University, Los Angeles, in 2016.   The Dwelling Star Abandoned in connected ache, I mold- My bosom, rusting colors of warm wine, Then festering in ardor shant define Our spoiling youth engraved and uncontrolled. In your decay, I seek thy dust to hold;…

  • How I Read a Poem

    How I Read a Poem

    I remember when my seventh grade English teacher, Mrs. Lauderback, assigned us Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken.” She read it aloud, paused a couple of seconds, lifted her head from the book and asked us, “Okay, so, what does the poem mean?”              I bet that happened to some of you. In that moment,…