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A Letter from the Lesser Taste (ART/LIT #3)

2/17/2017

You don’t find poetry that rhymes nowadays.

I guess I’ve always been aware of that nuance, but I chose to ignore it in the dreamy light of postmodern aesthetics and its baroque aftertastes. It’s worthwhile to wonder if rhymelessness is even a problem. After all, free verse is the child of progression. Lose the shackles of stanza, the claustrophobia of meter, and the unholy reductionism of iambic nonsense; and behold a poetic jewel of a boundless, voidless voice. At least that’s the theory meandering about recently.

And people wonder why I’m a pessimist.

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To Pieces Like Snow (ART/LIT #2)

2/6/2017

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It was sitting over a plate of mushu pork pancakes that I first came to understand what was accountable for the night’s considerable and warming sort of success. It was a suburban Chinese restaurant lined in Spartan, oversized décor definitive of a certain excusable and unintended ugliness; clear glass cubes lent the space in between the restaurant’s respective rooms strange clear columns like children’s blocks piled out of uniform stacking; oversized photographic prints of Asian women looking out of dark eyes and kimonos composed of fire-truck red and salmon pink monopolized the walls; hangar-like windows looked out on the scenery of a suburban parking lot which in the summers birthed the triangles of barbecue and potato-rounds and beignet food tents.

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For Minorities, Representation in Stories Matters (ART/LIT #1)

1/29/2017

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Last year, a speaker came to our school for our bi-annual Development Day, a day in which the student body would participate in activities relating to personal development. This speaker was a filmmaker, a storyteller of women's stories. We listened to her discuss the oppression of girls, the misogyny present in everyday life, and the changes we could implement to enforce the concept of gender equality. When it was time for the Q&A session, a girl came up. "How," she asked, "can I, as a woman of color, become a part of the movement to advocate for the feminism you speak of when women of color face very different problems?" The question rang in the air; we waited for the speaker's response, expecting it to have a meaningful impact -- or at least, some sort of an acknowledgement of the very different category of marginalization.

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Staff Spotlight: Meet Our Badass Editors!

3/31/2016

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GKA likes badass things. This includes poetry, short fiction, food, dogs, playlists, random quotes found from the internet... but most importantly we love badass people. And who could be more badass than the two amazingly talented, hardworking, and inspirational editors that lead the GKA's prose and poetry team? It's been a long time coming, so without further ado, here are some of the coolest people in the entire (GKA) world: Lisa and Andy. AKA, our genre editors.

Keep reading to find out more about them, their relationship to writing, what they look for when evaluating pieces, and more!

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Lisa Zou Recommends: Issues 1-3

8/30/2015

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Issue 1

Summertime Melody by Rona Wang
Not only is the image in the background a perfect fit for the poem, the writing itself summons nostalgic memories of summer and school, fireworks and food. History and the modern era fuse together as a revolution is described as a “pressure-cooker” and grilled cheese sandwiches are the traits of a loved one. The beauty in the way the words are phrased allow this poem to be a emotional joy to read. The last line “call it poetry” allows the reader to step back and grasp for more.

Cat by Nicholas Sum
The story itself was hard to predict, which made it an exciting read. We can easily relate to the reader as we see everything that has happened in his point of view. I like how the author recognizes the “black cat-bad luck” association. The dialogue in the story added a nice other dimension to it. Great short story for any type of reader!

Gone Kiss by Rona Wang
This short yet satisfying poem conveys the cliché “girl in the city” feeling but in a fresh way. I like the way multiple words were turned into one such as “stickyelasticAltoid”—I’ve never seen a mouth described that way! It leaves me wondering what were these four letter words.

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A Letter from the Lesser Taste (ART/LIT #3)

To Pieces Like Snow (ART/LIT #2)

For Minorities, Representation in Stories Matters (ART/LIT #1)

Staff Spotlight: Meet Our Badass Editors!

Lisa Zou Recommends: Issues 1-3

Issue 1

GKA Blog

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A Letter from the Lesser Taste (ART/LIT #3)

To Pieces Like Snow (ART/LIT #2)

For Minorities, Representation in Stories Matters (ART/LIT #1)

Staff Spotlight: Meet Our Badass Editors!﻿

Lisa Zou Recommends: Issues 1-3

Issue 1

GKA Blog

Archives

Categories

Staff Spotlight: Meet Our Badass Editors!