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Satori 2022, Abigail Perlinger, Brianna Strohbehn, Elise Modjeski, Gabriel Hathaway, Gabriela Wallberg, Grace Menke, Jennifer Wendt, Kaysey Price, Keaton Riebel, Louisa Shirmacher, Madi Bonebright, Madison Grove, Mckenna Scherer, Page Sutton, Rae Peter, Savannah Egger, Sophia Sailer, Trianna Douglas, Van Herman

Satori Literary Magazine

The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.

The Satori 2022 editors are Matthew Pearson, Jasmyne Taylor, and Emily Venne. the Satori 2022 faculty advisor is Dr. Jim Armstrong, Professor of English.

Dancing And Poetry: A Study Of The Whirling Dervish Dance Through Rumi’S Poetry, Tasneem Huq

Honors Theses

This exploration investigates the influence of Rumi’s book of poetry, Mathnawi, upon the Sufi practice of the Whirling Dervish dances. It argues that Rumi’s Mathnawi underlies the choreography of the Whirling Dervish dances. Each step of the dance expresses, manifests or embodies themes found in Rumi’s poetry: separation from Unity, ascension, annihilation, and a return to Unity. The thesis introduces this argument, and then discusses historical, theological, and linguistic themes related to Rumi, Sufism, and the Whirling Dervish dances. Following this, the thesis provides a framework that begins with the Neoplatonic theory of emanation grounding Rumi’s poetic thought, followed by …

Legacy 2022, Southern Adventist University

Legacy

The Legacy 2022 edition features both poetry and short stories written by Southern Adventist University students. Short Stories are written by Jamie Henderson, Colton Davis, Mile Pinero, Logan Enoh Fatumi, Michaela Hounslow, Aimee Hunt, Violet Petrikas, Madison Wilcox, Paula Macena, and Kelly Sandel. Poetry is written by Madison Wilcox, Aimee Hunt, Paula Macena, Christina Cannon, Jamie Jansen, and Kelly Sandel.

Gold-Washed Sky, Abby Smoker

The Peregrine Review

tell me how it is that the ugliest days can be redeemed
by a single sunset: gold and shimmering blush
washed across the sky– Winner of the 2022 Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize! Abby’s winning poem, “gold-washed sky,” will appear on the Academy of American Poets website. Alexis V. Jackson, author of My Sisters’ Country described Abby’s poem as an invitation “to wonder at the mundane thing that is a sunset in a successful attempt at theodicy. With smoldering syntax and hypophora, the speaker…reminds us there’s a ‘who’ somewhere in all of this.”

Garden Of Joy, Rosemary Jones

The Peregrine Review

A Syntax Virus of “Anatomy of Failure” in Halflife by Meghan O’Rourke

Sunbeams shine over the daisies—
bathing them, coloring, blossoming;
even the leaves are green as ripe bell peppers...

Drift, Pilar Randolph

Senior Independent Study Theses

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Conquered Into Canvas, Erin Goudie

The Peregrine Review

Inspired by Frederic Edwin Church’s painting, Syria by the Sea, 1874.

The greedy garden devours the landscape,
and moss itches up the lone pillar still erect,
having forgotten the climax of its rich civilization
that persists solely as light scattered on crumbled stone....