Meet Mara Cobb, this year’s editor-in-chief!
Hi! My name is Mara Cobb, and I’m so excited and honored to be the editor-in-chief for Tributaries this 2022-23 academic year. I first joined the Tribs team back in 2017 as a reader. I then served as...
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LOVE + HOPE, NYC
LOVE + HOPE, NYC Written by Rahil Najafabadi Four letters are heavy enough to make the word “love.” The word so many people use passively, the word many despise ironically. The word falls off...
A Word from the Fiction Editor, Camma Duhamell
Welcome to the Tributaries blog! My name is Camma Duhamell and I am proud to be this year’s Fiction Editor. I am a junior at IU East majoring in English—Technical and Professional Writing. After...
What is a Literary Journal?
When scheduling my classes for Spring 2021, I had no idea what a literary journal was. My advisor (who, coincidentally, also used to work for Tributaries) suggested Professor Brian Brodeur’s course, ENG-W 280: Literary...
Mark Strand’s “Blizzard of One”: The Paper Crane of Poetry
By Rahil Najafabadi The poet who dares to look deeper into observations, because they mean more than a sight—that poet can make origami with words. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1999,...
