Samara Journal: Upd

Samara’s editorial board has responded by adjusting their guidelines, explicitly asking mentors to preserve the student’s voice and original thesis, even if the syntax is messy.

This season, we are thinking about that specific kind of courage: the slow spiral away from the familiar. We are taught to hold on—to jobs, to identities, to a version of ourselves we wrote in pencil years ago. But what if our purpose is not to grip, but to disperse ? samara journal

: Recent issues have explored the impact of urban infrastructure on bird breeding biology and the concentration of heavy metals in soil and their correlation with public health. Samara’s editorial board has responded by adjusting their

I found one last Tuesday, lodged between the keys of my piano. It had flown three blocks, over a parking lot and a dog park, to die on middle C. I almost threw it away. Instead, I taped it to the wall above my desk. But what if our purpose is not to grip, but to disperse