Space Jam – Full Design
This week, the Nass meditates on home life, hears from Tracy K. Smith, and telescopes space.
‘Different Tools for Enduring’: An interview with Tracy K. Smith
A Nass writer sits down with the United States Poet Laureate and Princeton Professor to discuss Blackness, the pandemic, and poetry.
Telescoping Space
To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. Looking around and beyond us, this week we telescope “space.”
On Deciding Not To Live In A Literal Castle
A first-year student wrestles with the decision to stay at home in a semester with so many students on campus.
Slanted Perspectives
“The sliver of sunlight, orange, on your curves / I could trace all day”
Enfleshment
“If the body cares not for itself, / who would care for it? / What is the use / of wasted breath?”