Category: Portfolio

How to write about love, when you yourself are not in love:

Kathryn Libertini ’23 Download Tinder and Hinge for inspiration. Scroll through the apps with your roommates, creating narratives and citing opinions that will most likely never materialize (but, hey, there’s a chance). Delete Tinder and Hinge. Tell your roommates Valentine’s Day is a “Hallmark Holiday” incentivized by capitalism. Watch How to Lose a Guy in […]

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The Underground

Kate Ward ’23   By the time of his lunch break, Edmund was exhausted from an early morning preparing a case to defend his client. It wasn’t looking good, and frankly, Edmund had little faith that his client would get out of this unscathed. He walked outside to the loud street and waited under a […]

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Listomania

Biggest Red Flags Asked me out to the PC basketball game Is a business major Has a pet monkey Doesn’t read The Cowl Is in their red hair phase (no offense, Sarah) Goes to URI Is Nate Jacobs (from Euphoria) Posts regularly on Yik Yak Gets hazelnut or pecan flavored coffee Has a favorite song […]

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How to Write a Love Poem

AJ Worsley ’22    Light a candle, admit your flaws, set the tone.  Don’t let the process turn your heart to stone.    Find warmth in lost love, but always try to keep it in your sight.  The best love poems are written after the love has gone to light.    Compare your lover to […]

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Ugly Puppy Love 

Taylor Maguire ’24 They don’t tell you when you’re a kid that love is depressing. When you’re five, you start watching movies that project the happily-ever-after trope, and as you continue on through middle school, your curiosity grows on the concept. Then high school rolls around, and you listen to music that praises the pretty […]

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Book Review: Ugly Love

Book Review: Ugly Love A Perfect Valentine’s Heartbreaker Tully Mahoney ’23 Those who find themselves on “BookTok” have likely heard of Ugly Love. For those who do not, this novel is written by no. 1 New York Times Bestselling Author Colleen Hoover, a romance novel genius. Hoover has an exceptional ability to write with passion, […]

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Questions of Truth and Falsehood in Things I Should Have Said

Questions of Truth and Falsehood in Things I Should Have Said A Look at Jamie Lynn Spears’ Controversial New Book Although much recent media attention has centered on Britney Spears’ conservatorship, another member of the Spears family is now making waves. Britney Spears’ sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, recently released a memoir entitled Things I Should […]

John Downey '23

Tiff and Earl

Dear Tiff and Earl, What happened to Syllabus Week? It’s one day into the semester and I’m already feeling the burnout. Help. Sincerely, Going Downhill Fast Dear Downhill, Now, now, always remember that you MUST put yourself first. If you feel that you need to, take a self-care week. Don’t worry about your professors, your […]

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How Death Lingers

by Mariela Flores ’23 Content warning: This poem contains themes of death and suicide. Both of my parents teased their death. One friend took their death and plastered it onto every wall of my life. I had my very own half death, one at twelve, another at fifteen––I am starting to think these events are […]

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Heist

Kate Ward ’23 My piece of art had been hanging in that museum for far too long. I was never entirely on board with the fact that the museum would take it and display it, and I wanted it back—it was a masterpiece, after all. I called and emailed and called again, but the museum […]

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