Category Archives: Illinois
by Julia LaPlaca | May 23, 2018
While at home, I went on a walk, remembering how, after a long rain, the air would smell like cupcakes or Cheerios as the fumes from General Mills wafted over the trees and rooftops.
by Ben DeVries | Mar 18, 2018
Turning out in droves despite rain and wind and snow, we marched and chanted and beat on bucket-drums and blew on whistles and papered the campus with fliers. We disrupted classes. We shut down buildings.
by Caitlin Gent | Mar 4, 2018
Jesse will be your second Tinder date, and your last.
by Ben DeVries | Feb 18, 2018
I do not want to strike. No one wants a strike. But if it comes to it, Jes and I will be on the picket line February 26, bright and early, because at that point we will have no other choice.
by Gabe Gunnink | Nov 20, 2017
And I realized these are the first things: not medals or adventures, but the cinch of laces around a foot and reliable slide of mud and bitter perfume of sweat rising like smoke off shoulders.
by Ben DeVries | Oct 18, 2017
If nothing else then, the Illinois Regional College Fair confirmed for me what I already knew: I would make a terrible salesperson.
by Carolyn Muyskens | Jun 29, 2017
Throughout the service, the wind seemed to heighten our attention rather than scatter it; there could be no looking away from God that day.
by Ben DeVries | Apr 18, 2017
I’ve found that the mundanities of teaching quickly and quietly bleed a name of its import.
by Sabrina Lee | Apr 3, 2016
At first, the concept of intelligent plants seemed a little far-fetched, or, rather, whimsical, a kind of wishful thinking that envisioned a magical world, rather Tolkein-esque.
by Sabrina Lee | Jan 3, 2016
As the semesters and years roll along, my library—my store of knowledge—becomes more and more unread, and, in a similar way, the more I learn, the more I realize how little I actually know.
