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Poetry And Anarchism, Margaret Konkol Jan 2017

Poetry And Anarchism, Margaret Konkol

English Faculty Publications

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Well This Was Unexpected: Stories From My Life, Barbara Middlebrook Apr 2016

Well This Was Unexpected: Stories From My Life, Barbara Middlebrook

English Theses & Dissertations

A creative nonfiction thesis consisting of essays or stories drawn from my life.


In The Blooming Red, Elaine White Apr 2016

In The Blooming Red, Elaine White

English Theses & Dissertations

My thesis is a hybrid text that incorporates both poems and nonfiction essays. It essentially functions as one very long, very unusual narrative. Though the works in the thesis incorporate multiple locations, both in the US and abroad, the manuscript begins and ends in central Indiana. The best way I can describe what happens in between to say it is an exploration of trauma, mental illness, and what healing sometimes looks like. Though much of what is contained here has been called “dark” and “visceral,” I don’t like to leave it at that. Instead, I see the potential for these …