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Fanfiction in the Time of the Anthropocene
I will skip the earthquakes and record temperatures. We begin with the coffee shop AU.
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Charnell Peters
(three poems for spring)
how to fall light like / how to lay like a shadow / how to make a universe / of the cobwebbed corner / how to stay
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Charnell Peters
Going Down Swinging: The Emo Songs that Defined My Preteen Years
Emo, alternative, and pop punk songs gave me words to dream about fighting in ways I did not dare imagine myself.
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The Break / On Poetry and Humanness
Poems are about moving toward doubt, always pushing to the next line where you, at the break, are faced with your own humanness.
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Firefly’s “Serenity” as a Case Study of Relational Power
“Serenity” sets the stage for exploring how power is a communal resource on this ship throughout the duration of the series.
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Nothing Left to Fear: A Review of Waxahatchee’s St. Cloud
Though the songs reveal anger, grief, frustration, and, at times hopelessness, they never linger too long on the heaviest parts.
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An Answer to the Question: Why are You a Race Scholar?
To be Black and from Southern Indiana is to take up space within a place. It is to discern the edges of what is held in. It is to be the edge.
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Sincerely, Charnell
re-learning the joy of writing

Sincerely, Charnell

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