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Allie Hastings is currently a freshman at Endicott College in Beverly, MA, working towards her bachelor’s in English/Creative Writing. On campus she is involved in Pep Band and two writing clubs: Her Campus, which is an online magazine targeted towards the female college student demographic, and the Endicott Review, which publishes a collection of student’s writing and artwork every spring.

Allie Hastings

Poetry Is

Poetry is a stranger that passes you with a smile
It is a rustic bookshop worn by dust and time
It is hearing the tune of a very specific song
It is a sky full of stars obscured by cloudy nightfall

Poetry is walking in a straight line then turning backwards
It is hesitating to be spontaneous and thinking, “why not?”
It is laughing at an inopportune moment,
And saying the wrong thing at the wrong time

Poetry is sitting in a field of flowers by yourself,
And wondering how you got there

— Allie Hastings
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