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A Story a Day #12: Frank O'Connor
February 17th, 2020 "My Oedipus Complex" Frank O'Connor A young boy enjoys his life with his mother while his father is at war, but when...
Madison White
Feb 17, 20202 min read
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A Story a Day #11: Stephen Crane
February 16th, 2020 "The Open Boat" Stephen Crane A few men are trapped in a small boat after their original boat capsizes. They try and...
Madison White
Feb 17, 20202 min read
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A Story a Day #10: Guy de Maupassant
February 15th, 2020 "Hautot and His Son" Guy de Maupassant The story begins with a young man and his father preparing to go out on their...
Madison White
Feb 15, 20201 min read
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A Story a Day #7: Aldous Huxley
February 12th, 2020 "Young Archimedes" Aldous Huxley A young English family moves to Italy and live next to some peculiar people. One is...
Madison White
Feb 13, 20201 min read
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A Story a Day #6: Isak Dinesen
February 11th, 2020 "The Sailor-Boy's Tale" Isak Dinesen As the title suggest, a sailor boy is out at sea. He notices a falcon caught in...
Madison White
Feb 11, 20202 min read
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A Story a Day #5: Pearl S. Buck
February 10th, 2020 "The Old Demon" Pearl S. Buck In a Chinese village lives an old woman, her son and his wife. The village is worried...
Madison White
Feb 10, 20201 min read
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A Story a Day #4: Oscar Wilde
February 9th, 2020 "The Happy Prince" Oscar Wilde This story tells of a beautiful statue of a prince in a European town and a swallow who...
Madison White
Feb 9, 20202 min read
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A Story a Day #3: Anton Chekhov
February 8th, 2020 "Vanka" Anton Chekhov On Christmas Eve, a young boy writes to his grandfather to come save him because of the abuse he...
Madison White
Feb 8, 20201 min read
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A Story a Day #2: W. S. Maugham
February 7th, 2020 "Mr. Know-All" W. S. Maugham This story begins on an oceanliner sailing from San Francisco to Japan. Our narrator...
Madison White
Feb 7, 20201 min read
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A Story a Day #1: John Steinbeck
Over the past year, I’ve hit a bit of a writing slump. Most writers go through this and it isn’t uncommon for some to go years between...
Madison White
Feb 6, 20203 min read
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Back in the Saddle
Summer brings relief for most professors, but also a fair amount of stress. Unless you’re tenured or on the tenure-track (spoiler alert:...
Madison White
Jul 27, 20194 min read
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New Writing: Summer 2019
Summer is well underway and I have some exciting new publications to share with you. River City Poetry Spring 2019 Although it has...
Madison White
Jun 22, 20191 min read
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One Semester Down
I’ve recently finished teaching my very first semester of college English. As always seems to be the case, four months have flown by....
Madison White
May 9, 20193 min read
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Rejection sucks, I know.
I hate talking about my failures, so much so that I rarely even tell people about things that I’ve applied to so that if I get rejected,...
Madison White
Apr 24, 20194 min read
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New Poetry: "When Kansas was ocean"
My poem “When Kansas was ocean” was recently published in Mikrokosmos 65—a journal run by Wichita State MFA students. This poem appears...
Madison White
Apr 7, 20191 min read
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Thoughts on a lecture: Risk
I attended a poetry lecture this past Friday which ended my ten month lecture drought. When you finish school, you start realize just how...
Madison White
Mar 6, 20193 min read
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I Made a Skillshare Class
So I've just published my very first Skillshare class. Yes, that Skillshare, the one you’re always seeing ads for on YouTube. I joined...
Madison White
Dec 12, 20182 min read
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New Poetry: "Virga" in The Cardiff Review
This blogpost is more or less just a way to announce, with slightly more extravagance, the arrival of my poem “Virga” into the published...
Madison White
Nov 22, 20182 min read
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The environment is the empty space that talks back to you: Attending a Climate Change Workshop
September 27th, 2018: I arrived at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art taken aback by the glowing yellow sign that seemed to appear...
Madison White
Oct 22, 20182 min read
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Manchester Anthology Launch
On September 6th, 2018, I presented two poems, "Happiness" and "Guilt", at the Manchester Anthology VI Launch event. The event took place...
Madison White
Sep 10, 20181 min read
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