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Grad School
I’ve gotten bitten by the grad school bug, and I think I’m ready to finally apply. It’s been over two years since I’ve been in school, so this whole process feels so weird. I have to find my “best work” whatever that means, and I have to choose between poetry and nonfiction. University of Baltimore…
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2nd person vs 3rd person
So I’m working on For You, My Best Friend, and I am realizing that half of it, I have written in the first and second person and half of it I have written in first and third person. The struggle. Both sound authentic to the work, but the second person definitely sounds more accusatory even…
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Rejections
I get them. I get a lot of them. And each rejection is starting to hurt just a little less, but I must say, each one also gives me something to strive for. Now I’m not the absolute best by any means. I am not perfect. And generally, my writing is very touchy-feely, very passionate,…
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No, Not “Pretty for a Black Girl”
This is something that I’ve been wanting to write for a long time and finally have.
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Thoughts on 4/27
I asked more from you baltimore to be better to be bold and you are you are angry breaking gray’s shackles a broken voice box and a shattered spine brought you together you are more and I am proud
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Why I am Not Here for Kylie Jenner
My thoughts about a certain someone’s constant cultural appropriation
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Names Are Not Innocent
I may be writing from the completely opposite perspective expected, but this is valid nonetheless.
Ashley Elizabeth 