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What Is Love?
It was the summer of 1985, I was a rising junior at Towson State University, and I was rebounding from a break up with my… Read more.
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Finding the Five: What Are You Most Passionate About?
As we begin our study of poetry in my English classes, we are preparing for our participation in Poetry Out Loud, a program sponsored by… Read more.
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Building a Writer’s Online Platform
I need your help. In 2025, my primary goal was to immerse myself into my creative endeavors: writing, drawing, crafting, and photography. On all measures,… Read more.
Rus VanWestervelt
If the world is too much with us, as Wordsworth suggests, then let us choose what we do with it. Let us allow that world to burn brightly within, so that we may throw the prismatic world of our own imaginings white-hot on to whatever canvas we are using.
The Author
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
— Stephen King, On Writing
Rus VanWestervelt 