Essays

The Last Construction Crane in Downtown Austin

Has the boom finished booming?

Feb 12 • Vivé Griffith

Five Years of a Curbside Poetry Box, Part 3

In Defiance of Despair

Dec 31, 2025 • Vivé Griffith

Five Years of a Curbside Poetry Box, Part 2

on rippling and remembering

Dec 19, 2025 • Vivé Griffith

Five Years of a Curbside Poetry Box

Part 1: On Liminal Spaces and Neighbors

Dec 1, 2025 • Vivé Griffith

The Waymos of East Riverside

Autonomous vehicles take over our streets

Nov 7, 2025 • Vivé Griffith

A Tree Older than Austin

on the live oak around the corner

Aug 25, 2025 • Vivé Griffith

Finding the Mermaid

on stuff: keeping it, losing it

Aug 11, 2025 • Vivé Griffith

A Return to the Hill

on Austin, New York City, and our historical moment

Jul 9, 2025 • Vivé Griffith

Tending a Garden Under the Blades of Change

on the hill and in the West of Ireland

Aug 17, 2024 • Vivé Griffith

A Shift in the Weather

in at least one way, Austin may be cooling down

Jun 26, 2024 • Vivé Griffith

13 Ways of Looking at Riverside Drive

after Wallace Stevens, very loosely

May 22, 2024 • Vivé Griffith

Two Hills and a Watering Hole

reflections on staying still

Apr 13, 2024 • Vivé Griffith

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