Parachute Poetry Project

Submit! I am producing a unique “journal,” and I am looking for your writing. I am looking for around 50 or more small poems, microfiction, nanofiction, vignettes, haikus, and so forth, no longer than 150 words. This is not a strict limitation, and you may exceed this number of words. Why so short? Because, if…

Welcome to the Family: a narrative analysis of the Ikea showroom floor.

For many people, the idea of going to Ikea can be exhilarating and daunting. Strolling amongst the prearranged furniture, one experiences a small thrill as they imagine their own living rooms or bedrooms arranged as tidy and efficiently as the dioramas on the showroom floor.  The well-organized displays provides a brief respite from the realities…

You f*cking hipster!

  You F*cking Hipster a rhetorical analysis of the strategies used to ridicule and deligitimize the hipster subculture. I didn’t choose to be a hipster.  I grew a mustache out one day, because it was the only facial hair that I could adequately grow that didn’t resemble pubic hair (my desire to grow facial hair…