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Under The Bridge: Poems By Faith Shepherd With Critical Introduction, Faith Shepherd
Under The Bridge: Poems By Faith Shepherd With Critical Introduction, Faith Shepherd
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
The first poem with which I became fully engaged--that is, the first poem with which I interacted beyond one or two readings--was Wallace Stevens' "Autumn Refrain" my senior year in high school. At this point in my life, I was already enamored with literature, and I had written fair amounts of "poetry" for my high school creative writing classes. However, even though I occasionally enjoyed reading poetry and understood that its language tended to be more compact than other types of literature, if I didn't understand a poem after reading it through once or twice I set it aside and …
That Fatal Brew Pub, Gene Washington
That Fatal Brew Pub, Gene Washington
Gene Washington
Skit featuring St. Peter, the devil and other heavenly creatures. The skit is essentially a parody of folks in a small town attempting to establish a brew pub in their town,
Where She Always Was, Frannie Lindsay
Where She Always Was, Frannie Lindsay
Swenson Poetry Award Winners
May Swenson Poetry Award Volume 8, with foreward by J. D. McClatchy. In his Foreword, McClatchy speaks of the musical qualities of Lindsay's work: "It is impossible, reading her poems, not to hear a musical hand at work. This is not just a matter of delicacy or virtuosity. It is also a matter of knowing how to phrase a line... Lindsay moves from detail to trope with utter poise, with an intuitive sense of what to sustain or emphasize. Her language is crisp. I can pick a stanza at random... and praise its plosive energy, its modulated vowels, its variety …