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What’s the Table Function in the Notes App Even For?: A Review of All the Books I Read in 2024

What’s the Table Function in the Notes App Even For?: A Review of All the Books I Read in 2024

Tate Kraetzer, Volunteer February 4, 2025

If you have an iPhone and spend an inordinate amount of time on your Notes app like I do, you might have noticed an odd little feature at your disposal: You can make a table.  Now, when I get my pesky...

Elitist, Sure, But Also Wildly Irresponsible: Why The English Field Needs to Stop Ignoring Popular Fiction

Elitist, Sure, But Also Wildly Irresponsible: Why The English Field Needs to Stop Ignoring Popular Fiction

Shoshana Groom, Assistant Editor January 22, 2025

Last year, I started off an Oregon State University writing class by pissing off my professor, which is rare for a blatantly annoying teachers’ pet like myself. We were required to read the text “Writing...

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Horror, Queerness, and “Malevolent”

Rhys Hodson, Volunteer January 14, 2025

Warning: The following contains spoilers for the podcast "Malevolent."   It comes as no surprise that certain demographics tend to gravitate more towards certain genres. But there is one prevalent...

A List of Free Short Story Podcasts

A List of Free Short Story Podcasts

Shoshana Groom, Assistant Editor January 7, 2025

Audiobooks can be an efficient, engaging way to read while you’re on the move or keeping your hands busy, but finding cheap audiobooks can be difficult, especially if you don’t want to support Amazon....

Body Horror: A Spotlight on Sam Logan and Indie Horror In General

Body Horror: A Spotlight on Sam Logan and Indie Horror In General

Laurent Kate, Volunteer December 3, 2024

Horror is a genre both divisive and varied. Those who adore it often do so for the same reasons others dislike it — the discomfort it invokes. Oftentimes, horror holds a mirror to our face and asks...

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The Nature of Love and Sacrifice in “The Locked Tomb”

Rhys Hodson, Volunteer November 26, 2024

Submit to PRISM here! Warning: The following includes spoilers for all three currently released books in “The Locked Tomb” series “To love and to be loved is to change” — a familiar sentiment,...

What if Winnie the Pooh Went to Oregon State?

What if Winnie the Pooh Went to Oregon State?

Rachel Snyder, Volunteer November 19, 2024

Submit to PRISM here! Oregon State’s Newest Student: Winnie the Pooh Winnie the Pooh has a cozy dorm room with his roommate Piglet in McNary Hall. He requested a room that looked upon a tree, but...

Dystopian Books to Soothe (or Fuel) Your Election Anxieties

Dystopian Books to Soothe (or Fuel) Your Election Anxieties

Sam Szekely, Volunteer November 5, 2024

Submit to PRISM today!   With Election Day practically upon us, I’ve found myself exhausted with American politics, and yet somehow unable to look away. Having spent the entirety of my young...

An Actual College Student’s Response to ‘The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books’: Work with Us, Don’t Fight Us

An Actual College Student’s Response to ‘The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books’: Work with Us, Don’t Fight Us

Shoshana Groom, Assistant Editor October 22, 2024

“I tell you, monsieur, the world’s at an end. Never were there seen such breakings-up of the scholars! It’s the accursed inventions of the age that are ruining everything – the artillery, the serpentines,...

Poetry by Cris Castillo and a Visual Feature by Bryce Powell

Poetry by Cris Castillo and a Visual Feature by Bryce Powell

Brynne Boehlecke June 11, 2024

    Bryce Powell Biography: My name is Bryce, and I have been taking pictures since my first photography class in my Junior year at Benson High School in Portland, Oregon. I...

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Poetry Feature: “Frau Bach (Anna Magdalena Bach)” by AnaKarinn Tracy

Brynne Boehlecke June 8, 2024

Frau Bach (Anna Magdalena Bach) First night. Sweet Christy, meek and misty, Johann’s eyes, our premier prize. The doctor tries. Her little body, prodded, poked In search of hope, is still and...

Interview with Jennifer Richter, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing

Interview with Jennifer Richter, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing

Alina Kroll, Volunteer June 7, 2024

Classes I teach I teach a range of graduate and undergraduate creative writing and literature courses, including the MFA poetry workshop and Narrative Medicine: a core course for undergraduates...

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