Goodbye and Hello
It’s time to pass this space on to the next generation.
Abby Zwart (’13) teaches high school English in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She spends her free time making lists of books she should read, cooking, and managing the post calvin.
by Abby Zwart | Sep 1, 2020 | 4 comments
It’s time to pass this space on to the next generation.
by Abby Zwart | Jul 12, 2020 | 13 comments
To be sure, I found several things that made me cringe. But I also found a lot of things to love.
by Abby Zwart | Jun 12, 2020 | 7 comments
A bar of soap slips from its shelf and clatters to the shower floor with the power of a thousand stampeding wildebeest.
by Abby Zwart | May 31, 2020 | 2 comments
Are you interested in joining the post calvin community? We have several openings for new writers beginning this August, and we’d love for you to audition!
by Abby Zwart | May 12, 2020 | 2 comments
It’s just that in the year of our virus 2020, I simply cannot stop watching the Bon Appetit YouTube channel.
by Abby Zwart | Apr 12, 2020 | 2 comments
The next morning she was clutching the screen door with her dainty insect toes.
by Abby Zwart | Mar 12, 2020 | 1 comment
“Why is no one washing their hands before going to lunch?!”
by Abby Zwart | Feb 29, 2020 | 1 comment
We decided to put this extra day of the year to creative use by checking in with some of our former writers.
by Abby Zwart | Feb 12, 2020 | 3 comments
it’s curious, the way we’re all tinted.
by Abby Zwart | Jan 12, 2020 | 3 comments
You’re not supposed to say yes to everything these days. I know.
by Abby Zwart | Dec 31, 2019 | 1 comment
Favorite posts of 2019 from our editors.
by Abby Zwart | Dec 30, 2019 | 1 comment
Favorite pieces of 2019 from our writers.
by Abby Zwart | Dec 29, 2019 | 1 comment
Favorite pieces of 2019 from our audience.
by Abby Zwart | Dec 12, 2019 | 2 comments
Silent night, hole punch night,
Teachers quake at the sight
by Abby Zwart | Nov 12, 2019 | 2 comments
That’s a lot of lead up, I know. But, like, welcome to my head I guess.
by Abby Zwart | Oct 12, 2019 | 5 comments
There’s more than meets the eye
Invisible to the naked eye
I can do that with my eyes closed
by Abby Zwart | Sep 12, 2019 | 2 comments
So I guess I’m waiting. Statistically, that shoe’s gotta fall sometime.
by Abby Zwart | Aug 12, 2019 | 0 comments
It’s a little weird that I, of all people, feel nervous being watched. Being watched is literally my job.
by Abby Zwart | Jul 12, 2019 | 0 comments
This can become extremely funny because the network isn’t always that good at making stuff up, mostly because the English language is hard and also because a computer doesn’t have a brain.
by Abby Zwart | Jun 12, 2019 | 5 comments
Grand Rapids Christian High commencement address
May 28, 2019
by Abby Zwart | May 31, 2019 | 0 comments
Are you interested in joining the post calvin community? We have several openings for new writers beginning this August, and we’d love for you to audition!
by Abby Zwart | May 12, 2019 | 0 comments
Claire makes Lucky Charms and it turns out cereal is extremely hard to make at home, which is maybe why General Mills can charge us $4 for a twelve-ounce box of air and sugar.
by Abby Zwart | Apr 12, 2019 | 1 comment
Both artists choose the same virtue as their guide through their newly dark and silent worlds—Patience.
by Abby Zwart | Mar 12, 2019 | 0 comments
When is it okay to bring up an ex? My answer, at its simplest, is never.
by Abby Zwart | Feb 12, 2019 | 0 comments
dinner for two
at a blessedly quiet establishment
except the waiter is in training
and keeps bothering us
by Abby Zwart | Jan 12, 2019 | 0 comments
I know. It’s just a suitcase. OR IT’S JUST THE MAW OF THE CAVE OF WONDERS FROM ALADDIN WAITING TO EAT ME ALIVE.
by Abby Zwart | Dec 31, 2018 | 0 comments
This year, we decided to let the writers speak for themselves.
by Abby Zwart | Dec 30, 2018 | 0 comments
This year, we decided to let the writers speak for themselves.
by Abby Zwart | Dec 29, 2018 | 0 comments
This year, we decided to let the writers speak for themselves.
by Abby Zwart | Dec 12, 2018 | 0 comments
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are,” Dumbledore says, “far more than our abilities.”