Tag: Student writings

  • The Exiled Poet: Guisell Gomez

    The Exiled Poet: Guisell Gomez

    While I was at the Associated Writing Programs conference in Florida this past month, I met Guisell Gomez, a student of creative writing and a published poet. Born in Colombia, she and her family moved to the United States when she was a child. She remembers the move, the brutal act of being torn out…

  • 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;…

  • Writing From the Classroom: Ava Rutter

    Writing From the Classroom: Ava Rutter

    Ava Rutter is a student in my Nonfiction Workshop at Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles. She’s a poet, fiction writer and essayist, and has a unique voice in all three genres.   ©2018, Ava Rutter  

  • Writing From the Classroom: Diana Rodriguez

    Writing From the Classroom: Diana Rodriguez

    Here are a few poems by Diana Rodriguez, senior at Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles. I hear whispers of Plath in her lines. Poem 1 You gave up. And they asked why, buttercup? Perhaps it was because they asked too much of you or perhaps it was because of that snake of a…

  • Writing from the Classroom: Silvya Rivas and her Spanish Poetry

    Writing from the Classroom: Silvya Rivas and her Spanish Poetry

    Poemas en español, ¡qué alegre! These are three poems by Silvya Rivas, a student at Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles. You’ll note the Central American tone to them, with “vos” intermixed with “tú” throughout the lines. HOY Hoy, un día regular, mi mente se pierde ¿Qué será del día de mañana? Traerá novedades, nuevas…