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Poem of Missed Connections
DALTON LABARGE, CC ‘12, is an Anthropology major. He can be reached at dtl2113@columbia.edu.
Far Flung
In this issue, the editors asked writers to muse on a surreal experience while abroad. Each of these travelers encounter moments of incongruity and discovery, whether...
October Baseball
I boarded the bus as well prepared as possible given the circumstances. The night before, I had instructed five of my friends to text me updates throughout the...
Boroughing: Ode to NYC
If I were going to write a poem about you, New York, I’d write about your goddamn $10 credit card minimums, about the five o’clock in the afternoon sunlight...
Boroughing: Riding Buses with Strangers
In the summer the days were hot and the city felt different because it was filled with tourists. The pace of life seemed to change; it felt emptier. People walked...
Far Flung
For this issue of The Current, we asked writers to submit stories centered around the theme of miscommunication while studying abroad. The three pieces that follow...
End of the World: Fat Men
Well, Big Boy kept on slapping my chest, blocking my way right in front of the 7-Eleven behind Pho-79, where Kelley Pugluski once laid two waitresses in the kitchen...
Boroughing: Onassis Reservoir
I take Davy by the eyes down to the city reservoir. A follow over the past: a lawn, yawn range, yawns backs. On the north side I tell him there are many stories from...
Boroughing: Seder at the Coops
At dusk the corridors of “The Coops” filled with ironworkers returning from the factory and children bustling from apartment to apartment where arguments over...
Boroughing: The Chocolatier’s Handbook: Love in the City on the Day of Love
Bouquets of flowers populate the landscape, a sea of transparent faces: one sad, one lonely, one hopeful, one positively blissful. Each of these faces tells an...