Vol. 2 / Winter 2021-22
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Welcome to WHR Vol. 2, featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting, videos & podcasts by Rutgers University Writers House students.
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Poetry:
Mackenzie Kean / Virtual Class #219, March 2021, 2:50 p.m. – 4:10 p.m
Elaine Kim / In the Year of the Ox
Cori Camp / Two Poems
Crystal Joseph / Four Poems
Carson Cummins / Dara
Tasnova Choudhury / Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Mirror
Courtnie Beckford / Year 2020
Krithika Patrachari / Numb
Madison Roveda / Bye Bye, Birdie
Juliana Guerino / Stars
Elena Kovatcheva / Two Poems
Sheethal Ayalasomayajula / second-generation
Kathleen Schnell / Brainwashed
Srilikhi Nekkanti / Relativity
Shannon Heylin / Wine Night
Emma Chace / 13 Ways of Looking at the Stars
Christian Pittari / Peace of Mind
Jarrielle Cabalfin / Moonochrome
Arol Jan A. Millado / Parallel
Zaynab Khan / Curiosity Killed the Cat
Ichung Tan / Chopsticks and Dumplings
Anaiah James / Black is Black
Daniil V Prikhno / Another Ars Poetica
Nathaniel Johnston / Satisfaction
Acelina Kiyas / Headscarf
Emma Scott / Grief
Kendal Taylor / At The Bottom of the Whiskey Bottle
Christina Evans / sanguine supernova
Natasha Lopez / Autoapparitions
Rachna Vemireddy / Barbie
Ally Olson / Portrait of 1986
Laura Lassen / At the Ball
Brandon Lupetti / ACloudIsAGoodbye
Lanai McAuley / Aren’t I casket pretty?
Francesca Tangreti / Two Poems
Kyra J. Glover / Three Poems
Ayana Tapper / If I Could Write This with Fire
Serena King / Anxiety
Joe Amster / Grandma
Wahhaj Khokhar / An Anti-Ode to Unnecessary Flies of Winter
Sonal Shah / The Dancers
Uchenna Agbu / Rivers In The Sky
Raj Mitaliya / Breath of the Wild
Samantha Artuso / Two Poems
Fiction:
Brandon Kubinak / The Suicide of a Suicide Note
Amisha Mukhopadhyay / The Last Straw
Lanai McAuley / The Smoke Seen From Yankee Stadium
L Dudas / Timaeus and the White Oak
Serina / 18 Silas Road
Elijah Rappaport / The Illusion Of Depth Is A God Almighty Bitch
Emma McMillan / The Sphinx
Anna Santy / Charlie Boy
Amy Entin / The Man in the Chair
Krithika Patrachari / Jeans
Elliot Kraft / The Forest
Kaviyasri Rajan / Dunes
Joe Amster / Text from a Friend
Hannah Orr / The Crop Thief
Sheethal Ayalasomayajula / Edna
Julia Hansen / The Letter
Angelica Petersen / Fireworks
Alex Stone / Asleep
Arthur Silva / Clouded
Nonfiction:
Kathryn Conover / Gently, Down the Stream
Gabriela Chiu / Wet-Tiled Memories
Brooke Ramos / Colin
Lauren Kim / I Love You, Too
Morgan Sanders / The Lion Blanket
Brendan Molloy / Floating at the Bottom
Lauren Bromberg / Thirteen Ways to Feel About a Stranger Named Bob Hacking My Debit Card and Spending $300
Anastasia Zenkevich / Familial Illusions
Christine (Teeny) Chirichillo / Object Permanence
Uchenna Agbu / God, and Other Things That Don’t Exist
Anshruta Chidananda / Dear America,
Tasnova Choudhury / All the Hijab Styles I’ve Worn
Samantha DeMartino / Fine Dining
Playwriting:
Robin Gwak / Solatium
Grace Sheppard / All is Fair
Oishika Ray / Cry To Me
Films and Podcasts:
Isabella Rodriguez / Not In Love
Brett Byll / Shrektospective
Arianna Grewal / A Cross Burning in Hardwick, NJ
Aaron Young / The Keyframes
Hilary Mateo / Glitch
Murphy Collins / The Unsolved Puzzle
Tori Greiner / Of The Guarded Mind
Frank Henderson / A Nerd’s Life
Aniza Jahangir / Oh, For the Love of God
Amanda Zimmerman / Confessions of a Ouija Board Kid
Isaac Mercado / Mission Driven