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Is This Poetry or Pop Music? How The Tortured Poets Department Straddles High and Low Culture
The best poets have always done this: they intertwine the most powerful allusions with the muddiest, most mundane details, putting the...

Jamie Lynne Burgess
Sep 20, 202513 min read


Her Own Soulmate: Midnights by Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift became known early in her career for writing a song that was a happy-ending version of Romeo and Juliet, where the final...

Jamie Lynne Burgess
Oct 23, 20229 min read


Jo March & Taylor Swift: Copyrights and Artistic Control
At the New York City premiere of Greta Gerwig's Little Women in 2019, Emma Watson gave a short interview with Variety about the...

Jamie Lynne Burgess
Aug 28, 20209 min read


Modern Romantic Missive: A Close Reading of "the lakes"
Taylor takes the concept of the modern romantics to new heights in this song, asking if songwriters are the poets of our modern times.

Jamie Lynne Burgess
Aug 18, 20207 min read


On Authorship & the Creative Process: What 'folklore' is really about
The women of Taylor Swift’s latest album, folklore, are a handful. They “never leave well enough alone;” they “talk sh*t" ...

Jamie Lynne Burgess
Jul 25, 202013 min read


Part 3: Amy in Reverse
Not everyone is a Jo or even wants to be one. There are plenty of Jos out there: strong-willed women who love to climb trees, who would...

Jamie Lynne Burgess
Feb 11, 20206 min read


Part 2: Subverting Our Memories of Little Women
The girls next to me in the first showing of Little Women were chatting all through the previews. But I knew they had read the book,...

Jamie Lynne Burgess
Jan 18, 20206 min read


Part 1: Facts & Fiction in Little Women
“If I was a girl in a book this would all be so easy,” Jo March tells her mother in the newest adaptation of Little Women, released on...

Jamie Lynne Burgess
Jan 4, 20208 min read
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