Dylan Coburn Gray

Sentimentality is a lot like gluten.  We all know it's bad, even if we don't know exactly why it's bad or even what it is.  Further, both gluten and sentimentality have created billion-dollar industries dedicated to helping people avoid…

Let me ask you a question that you don't have to answer. Have you ever had a boyfriend who was really nice and really considerate, but with whom the sex was nonetheless not really amazing because he had a habit of doing things like…

What is a rhetorical question? You probably know the answer to that one, which means you also know you're not expected to say it out loud. What, though, is rhetoric? That's what this article is about. Rhetoric is a very old way…

Last time I talked a little about the structure of Deutschland; how each verse works, what the rhyming scheme is, why the rhyming scheme is. This second installment is about everything else that isn't rhyme, but does make the poem special.…

There are reasons to learn off by heart; even if it's mindless, even if you're not an actor, even if you're not a poet, even if you're not Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada.  I say so because over the summer of 2014 I memorised The Wreck…