Dana Johnson

Do we all need to commit fully to every book we start reading? Is it wrong to give up on a book? I say no....

Getting Outdoors and Unplugged This Summer

Dana Johnson reviews Anne Marie Macari's Red Deer today in Rumpus Poetry....

I was first attracted to Hannah Gamble’s writing when I stumbled upon her poem “Growing a Bear” whilst perusing the Poetry Foundation’s  website. The poem is about an aging man......

If you’re willing to value comfort over style, and need over want, you may be surprised by how simple it is to carry everything you need for an eight-day trip in the same amount of space you use to tote textbooks across campus....

GenTwenty - A twenty-something's guide to life

Life is hectic. You have meetings to attend, projects to work on, dinner to prepare, clothes to launder… the list goes on. But even if you can’t completely escape from......

GenTwenty - A twenty-something's guide to life

After years of suffering from debilitating loneliness, I finally came to the realization that the source of my unhappiness was internal. Being alone, and being lonely are not synonymous. By......

There are days when I want nothing more than to stuff my backpack with essentials, buy a used car camper, and travel across the country from national park to national......

Have an English degree? You have many valuable skills that are usually overlooked - here's how to market your english degree on your resume....

Our teachers told us we were studying some of the greatest pieces of literature ever written, but most of us hardly believed it. In fact, I’d fashion a guess that most of us probably didn’t quite finish all the reading we were supposed to....

Us millennials are constantly berated for being self-obsessed, narcissistic, and vain. We take too many selfies, spend too much time on social media, and too much money on Starbucks. But......