About a month ago, I was introduced to Pinterest.com, the smorgasbord site that allows users to “pin” their favorite images. The typical post (or “pin”) ranges from Martha Stewart-esque recipes, to witty quotes, to pictures of fuzzy animals dressed up in mini outfits, sitting in baskets atop clouds raining sparkles. Okay, maybe the last example [...]
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either,” said poet, Robert Graves. As an English major with a concentration in (you guessed it) writing poetry–I wrote, analyzed, and interpreted–all while wondering where my liberal arts degree would take me. Inundated with similes, allegories, symbols, and allusion, I learned how to [...]
