Emmy Newman is a poetry student in the MFA program at Texas State University. You can find her in a mosh pit, at the dog park, or watching The Challenge at home. She enjoys horror literature and movies and co-hosts a podcast called Books Are Scary. She has been published in literary journals like Persona, The Eckleburg Project, and Sudden Denouement. With her experience in non-profit work, she hopes to make literature and creative writing more accessible to the community.
Content by Emmy Newman
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Equestrian Monuments: Translating the Moments of Nostalgia and Reflection
This ominous “you” appears throughout the series, indicating longing and comparison to the past.
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Filling in the Blanks of Jane Wong’s How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
[Wong] efficiently contrasts stillness and the movement of time as a parallel to the speaker’s telescope: all of the events of the past have led to slush she can carry—this messy identity.