Hey there! This is Allyson, a co-editor of Opus, writing from the frigid shores of Lake Michigan. I’m not exaggerating. I couldn’t feel my face when I walked into campus. But I don’t want to focus on the freezing outside; today I want to talk about what it means when we freeze as writers. You

Hello! I’m Abby, one of the poetry editors! I’m new to Opus and writing a first post is very intimidating. As I struggled to come up with a topic, my brain got stuck on Valentine’s Day—because it’s Valentine’s Day. Love is an interesting theme to trace through literature. I looked up

Hello, lovely blog readers! My name is Alicia Schubert, and I’m one of the poetry co-editors for Opus. I can’t pinpoint exactly when my love for poetry began, but I can remember the first poem that impacted me. In elementary school, I memorized a poem a week for English class, and one of those p

Hi friends! The past few days, I’ve been thinking about why I go to Opus meetings, why I like to sit and talk about your work, what it is that I get from spending my Monday and Thursday evenings in a familiar little room on the second floor of Lubbers. I think it has to do with