This Issue Eight Poems to Welcome Spring As much a poem about the arrival of spring as it is about budding hope in the face of despair, Mary Oliver’s “Spring” captures the quiet beauty of Cassie Dallas Poetry, Wellbeing The Luckiest Little Sister My sisters have always been my best friends. Jackie Bond Relationships Shutters of Water / Studies of Water I dream of the stars as I stare at the sun, Simone Minor Poetry An Afternoon at Deception's Pass Deception’s Pass State Park is quite beautiful, but it also has an eerily haunting quality. Ella Powell Fiction Mosaic don’t discard the pieces. make a new mosaic. Carley Frajda Relationships And They Were Roommates…? Move-in day: Ruby and Jane’s Dorm room Jordan Coleman Relationships, Fiction Letter from the Editor: Harbors A ferry cuts through the water on a crisp, foggy evening. Susannah Baker Editor's Letter PreviousNext Popular Letter from the Editor: Harbors A ferry cuts through the water on a crisp, foggy evening. Susannah Baker Editor's Letter And They Were Roommates…? Move-in day: Ruby and Jane’s Dorm room Jordan Coleman Relationships, Fiction Mosaic don’t discard the pieces. make a new mosaic. Carley Frajda Relationships An Afternoon at Deception's Pass Deception’s Pass State Park is quite beautiful, but it also has an eerily haunting quality. Ella Powell Fiction Shutters of Water / Studies of Water I dream of the stars as I stare at the sun, Simone Minor Poetry The Luckiest Little Sister My sisters have always been my best friends. Jackie Bond Relationships Eight Poems to Welcome Spring As much a poem about the arrival of spring as it is about budding hope in the face of despair, Mary Oliver’s “Spring” captures the quiet beauty of Cassie Dallas Poetry, Wellbeing Letter from the Editor: Uncharted Our writers venture deep into the unknown Miriella Jiffar Editor's Letter The Perfect Man So now I just show up — pepper spray tucked into the bottom of my purse — and pray that I don’t end up on the next episode of Dateline. Jackie Bond Fiction I ❤️ Snoopy and you probably do too Has your TikTok, Instagram Reels, or dare I say YouTube Shorts feed been taken over by a beagle? Mine too! Carley Frajda Pop Culture Showing Someone Your Favorite Movie This is what watching the Before trilogy of movies feels like to me, and this is what it feels like to watch them with someone else. Grace Traxler Relationships, Pop Culture New Chapters, But What About Our Old Hobbies? Why were the only options to either go professional, be forced to not take my hobby seriously, or leave it all together? Lindsey Smith Wellbeing Thyroid Case Study She looks in the mirror and every week seems to feel extra weight digging into her heels. Simone Minor Wellbeing Dangerous Woman It is ingrained in us that incessant work is essential and rest is a luxury. But where does this mindset come from? Bailey Middleton Wellbeing, Advocacy Letter from the Editor: Body | Disembodied This latest edition of Iris is urgently interested in all things "Body and Disembodied". Miriella Jiffar Editor's Letter shark where i come from, there are sharks in every lake Vaidehi Bhardwaj Fiction The Fault Lines on My Body I must feed my body and soul Simone Minor Wellbeing In Conversation with John Donne and FKA twigs: Rediscovering the Potential for Modern Love Out of all the creative minds I could have selected to illuminate the essence of love, I had to choose the metaphysical poet, John Donne, and conte Ella Powell Pop Culture, Relationships The Pleasure of Knowing a Teacher Like Lisa Speidel I was not sure what to expect from a class called Pleasure Activism Across Time, but having taken a class with its professor, Lisa Speidel, before, Jordan Coleman Advocacy Finding Beauty in a Body that Moves Jackie Bond Wellbeing, Advocacy Chicken Fight He didn’t want to play, but you pressured him. Cassie Dallas Fiction 60 Degrees and Sunny Last week, when I was walking to class, it was 60 degrees and sunny. Lindsey Smith Wellbeing, Advocacy Orange Juice she’s ripe, holding her / pieces together / by tearable strings & / bruisable skin Carley Frajda Poetry, Relationships feast, your eyes Sometimes I think there are worms in my eyes. Susannah Baker Fiction, Wellbeing PreviousNext Hot Topic Iris MagazineSubscribe to the Iris Newsletter!* indicates requiredEmail Address *UVA students & colleagues: please use UVA computing ID here. The Origins of American…something by Bailey Middleton I am Human and I was Here by Lindsey Smith Let’s Talk About Title IX by Eryn Rhodes The Root of My Mother by Jasmine Wang
