Raven Reese

Raven Reese is a Poetry student at Texas State University’s Creative Writing MFA Program, completing her final year of enrollment. She graduated with a B.A. In English from Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi in 2022, and continues to write for professional and personal projects of many different genres.

Content by Raven Reese

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Field Notes,

On Being “Under-read”

BY Raven Reese

My personal theory behind this phenomenon is that we continue to rely on the familiarity of authors and resources available in a cyclical pattern of engagement: the books that get taught/studied are the ones with an abundance of critical works written about them, and vice versa. But this recycling bin we continue to draw from is something that should be acknowledged if we ever want to change the ways in which we speak about texts.