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Caitlin McHugh

Caitlin McHugh

Student Editorial Assistant

Capital University

Caitlin McHugh is an English literature major and creative writing minor at Capital University, where she served as student editorial assistant for Intersections.

Published Articles

Poem

Sprigs of Mint

Caitlin McHugh

No. 21 · Summer 2005

McHugh meditates on three light green mint stalks dying in a plastic cup of water in her window frame’s shadow, drawing a parallel between the neglected mint, the “tainted papers” of her unread journals, and the time that both holds her back and drives her forward.
Poem

Emily Dickinson in Columbus, Ohio

Caitlin McHugh

No. 17 · Summer 2003

McHugh imagines Emily Dickinson waking up on a COTA bus to find “the world had ended, and her violets were gone forever,” then escaping the crowd to wander High Street, taste “actual brewed liquor,” quit “the act of reclusive-drama queen-ghost,” and finally smash a bouquet of violets when she realizes that “Beauty had not stopped for her death, but crawled bravely onward.”

Caitlin McHugh

Published Articles

Sprigs of Mint

Emily Dickinson in Columbus, Ohio