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Columbine
After Apalachee: How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic Affects Us All
“I’m hoping against hope—but I won’t stop believing—I’ll even pray that, after Apalachee, everything will become different.”
By
Deirdre Sugiuchi
| September 24, 2024
The Ambiguity of a School Shooting: On Gus Van Sant’s
Elephant
Katya Tylevich Goes Behind the Scenes of a Post-Columbine “Artistic Investigation”
By
Katya Tylevich
| November 16, 2021
'Columbine,' A Poem by Javier Zamora
"Though there had been war; I did not know the way to school yet."
By
Javier Zamora
| October 3, 2019
It's Never Too Soon for Art (or Politics) About Trauma
Tom McAllister on Writing a Novel About a School Shooting
By
Tom McAllister
| April 20, 2018
How Many Must Die? Teachers Reflect on Gun Violence and Student Protest
Thoughts from the Classroom One Month After Parkland
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Literary Hub
| March 14, 2018
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