Post- Magazine
minimal effort spaghetti sauce [post-pourri]
By Angel Benjamin | May 1When I first went off meal plan junior year, I was 90 percent certain that it wouldn’t be a big deal. I was one of those kids who was obsessed with Gordon Ramsay’s cooking videos in middle school. I grew up critiquing and brainstorming revisions for recipes on the Food Network shows with my grandmother, ...
meeting your heroes [A&C]
By Jamie Jung | May 1When a poet meets their hero, they are left frank and unpoetic. I had rehearsed every moment, every word, every gesture for years. I promised my poise would be practiced to perfection. I would impress her with my words, speak naturally in metaphor and alliteration— prove that I was a poet in practice ...
and the planet’s turning faster and faster in the blackness [lifestyle]
By Chelsea Long | May 1My first year at Brown passed by like a speeding train. I remember it only in images—snapshots, swathes of color, moments. I went to a lot of places. I said a lot of things, some of which were true and some of which were not untrue. And I read a lot of poems. Here, I’ve compiled some of my favorites, ...
time capsule [lifestyle]
By Katherine Mao | May 1The thing about starting over is that it feels like uprooting the past—like leaving behind fragments of everything you once knew, just to stand before a canvas that’s untouched, a map that’s uncharted.
lunar recession [feature]
By Alissa Simon | May 1I think I owe the moon a love letter.
on endings [feature]
By Ayoola Fadahunsi | May 1“E se ibi ti e ti bere, ese ibi ti e ba de, a dupe ore re, e se ibi te mu wa lo.”
what brings you joy? [narrative]
By Lynn Nguyen | April 28Mama Instant Noodles Shrimp Flavor (Tom Yum). That squeaky wrinkle sound became pleasing when I tore open the foil packaging. I dumped the brick of ramen and the powder of spices into a bowl, and my fingers darted to the switch on my electric kettle. I now had only a minute to get everything ready.
developing [narrative]
By Ana Vissicchio | April 28I dip a tiny strip of photographic paper into a vat of developer and I watch it sink. Tapping it gently with popsicle-stick prongs, I let my mind wander for two whole minutes. I’ll stop the developing process by running it into the “stop bath” for half a minute, then into the fixer solution for ...
growing into spring [lifestyle]
By Daniella Coyle | April 23I used to think that the season you called your favorite revealed something profound and immutable about you. As a kid, since I got sunburnt so easily, I found warm, bright weather forbidding. That ruled out summer. Since I hated snow (peers were even harder to turn into friends when they were pelting ...
for my college house [feature]
By Ellyse Givens | April 23April is the cruellest month, breeding
Oh The Places You’ll Go [A&C]
By Sara Harley | April 23From hip-hop to TikTok, Doechii’s meteoric rise to stardom shows that artists can express their individuality and still gain popularity among diverse audiences.
spring (noun, verb) [lifestyle]
By Katherine Mao | April 23Spring (noun): a basin or pool of water
playgrounds, animals, digging up worms [A&C]
By Alyssa Sherry | April 23It’s the middle of August, and we only just got here. Right now, our whole group is gathered in the basement of a bar that’s too bright on a street that we’ve never seen in the daylight. I’m holding a beer, although I don’t drink beer, and we’re all a little drunk on Moscow Mules that cost ...
what are the chances? [narrative]
By Joe Maffa | April 23A review of 2014’s Spring Weekend from the Brown Daily Herald describes the concerts as “primarily successful.” 11 years later, and I can only chuckle at this subdued summary of a series headlined by one of the most prolific DJs ever and arguably the greatest artist of all time whose sound pioneered ...
















