It’s a new year, and like many in this season of self-evaluation, I feel a need for freshness in my life. Although I did bite the “my-thighs-could-use-some-work” bullet and renewed the standard January gym membership, I have decided that freshness and newness in my life will not mean only leg presses and squats. Newness this [...]
The first Sherman Alexie poem I ever read was “At Navajo Monument Valley Tribal School.” When I got to the last line, heard the “wild horses, wild horses, wild horses,” I was hook, line, and sinkered. Those words have simmered in my mind long enough that I’ve made several attempts at conjuring Alexie’s mojo in [...]
Welcome to the online home of the Student Writers Series of the Alive and Living Poets Society and Avalanche, a diverse collection of our inspirations, aspirations and perspirations.
We’ll keep the blog updated regularly with thoughts and discoveries from every nook, cranny and wide expanse of interest, while Avalanche awaits your submissions for its first trip down the mountainside.
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