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Still Learning: Covid Through The Eyes Of A Medical Student, Alexis Strahan Dec 2020

Still Learning: Covid Through The Eyes Of A Medical Student, Alexis Strahan

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

As a first-year medical student when the COVID-19 pandemic found a foothold, I felt an overwhelming amount of emotions that accompanied the pandemic’s spread. Fear, although a reasonable choice, was not the first emotion that I experienced. In fact, it was a general feeling of paralysis. I had not six months prior taken an oath to commit my career and life to the service of the public’s health care needs, yet I could provide little more than the textbook knowledge of biochemistry or genetics from my first semester of learning. My hands felt unarmed and unskilled for the fight. What …


On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney Dec 2020

On Tasso In Prison By Charles Baudelaire, Sharon Fish Mooney

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Translation of and commentary on Baudelaire's "On Tasso in Prison," which is an ekphrastic poem after Delacroix's painting of the same name.


Four Poems By Toshiko Hirata, Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow Dec 2020

Four Poems By Toshiko Hirata, Eric Hyett, Spencer Thurlow

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Translations of "Is It February?" "Is It March?" "Is It November Again?" and "Is It December Again?"


Lullaby By Rainer Maria Rilke And Amen By Georg Trakl, Wally Swist Dec 2020

Lullaby By Rainer Maria Rilke And Amen By Georg Trakl, Wally Swist

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Drops From Black Candles By Abdallah Zrika, Mike Baynham Dec 2020

Drops From Black Candles By Abdallah Zrika, Mike Baynham

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English translation of Abdallah Zrika's "Drops from black candles" accompanied by an essay on the translation process which includes consideration of Laâbi's French translation of the same poem.


While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson Dec 2020

While Dreaming, While Writing (Excerpt) By Max Alhau, Patrick Williamson

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A free rendering of Max Alhau's "While dreaming, while writing," with commentary. The original source text is included.


Corona By Paul Celan, David Capps Dec 2020

Corona By Paul Celan, David Capps

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Five Poems By Michael Krüger, Louise Stoehr Dec 2020

Five Poems By Michael Krüger, Louise Stoehr

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Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston Dec 2020

Two Poems By Charles Baudelaire, Arnold Johnston

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Arnold Johnston's translations of Baudelaire's "The Lovely Ship" and "Invitation to the Voyage."


Blue Crystal By Martha Hofmann, Paul J. Shlichta Dec 2020

Blue Crystal By Martha Hofmann, Paul J. Shlichta

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A translation of a German poem by Martha Hofmann into English verse. The commentary includes a brief biography of Hofmann and a link to additional information.


Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang Dec 2020

Two Poems By Nohad Salameh, Susanna Lang

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Susanna Lang's translations of Nohad Salameh's "I Greet You, My Twin" and "Dance of the One/the Moon."


Four Sonnets By Feng Zhi, Emily Goedde Dec 2020

Four Sonnets By Feng Zhi, Emily Goedde

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Translation of Feng Zhi's Sonnets 6, 12, 16, and 18 by Emily Goedde.


Six Poems By Safiye Can, Marilya V. Reese Dec 2020

Six Poems By Safiye Can, Marilya V. Reese

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Translations into English of six pieces of poetry by Safiye Can, Circassian-German poet from Offenbach.

P.E.N member Safiye Can pronounced like John), award-winning and best-selling Circassian poet from Offenbach, is a German citizen. Can studied philosophy, psychoanalysis and law at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main and is the recent recipient of two prestigious literary prizes (Else Lasker-Schüler Poetry prize and Alfred-Müller-Felsenburg Prize for Civil Courage in Literature). Can’s work examining the place of the individual in society reframes concepts of home and belonging. Safiye Can was featured at the 20th annual, week-long Leselenz, Germany’s largest non-urban literary …


From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler Dec 2020

From The Villa By Lucretius, James E. Fowler

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"From the Villa" is an epistolary poem in hexameters whose argument is loosely based on the Lucretius's De Rerum Natura. It is addressed to Lucretius's putative dedicatee/patron Gaius Memmius, a contemporary politician and poet.


The Zhongyuan Festival At West Lake By Zhang Dai And Two Poems By Tan Yuanchun, Andrew Gudgel Dec 2020

The Zhongyuan Festival At West Lake By Zhang Dai And Two Poems By Tan Yuanchun, Andrew Gudgel

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A translation of an excerpt from the late Ming Dynasty essayist Zhang Dai's "The Zhongyuan Festival at West Lake" and two poems by the Ming Dynasty poet and writer Tan Yuanchun.


Foreword, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 2020

Foreword, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Transference Vol. 8, Fall 2020, Molly Lynde-Recchia Dec 2020

Transference Vol. 8, Fall 2020, Molly Lynde-Recchia

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Emily Dickinson: 19th Century Poet In A 21st Century World, Stephanie Merrigan Dec 2020

Emily Dickinson: 19th Century Poet In A 21st Century World, Stephanie Merrigan

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

This capstone will discuss what channels mediate public access to literary content in the case of Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters. The discussion continues with how this was a problem for Dickinson while she was alive due to her reclusiveness and unorthodox punctuation. The capstone then looks at the other aspects of this in the roles that editors, the merchandise now made with lines from Dickinson’s work, and digital technologies play in that circulation, but also how they have played a role in making Dickinson a pop culture icon in the 21st century.


Love In The Time Of Coronavirus, David Schelhaas Dec 2020

Love In The Time Of Coronavirus, David Schelhaas

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Remembering John, Ed Dengler Dec 2020

Remembering John, Ed Dengler

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Winter Spider, Bob De Smith Dec 2020

Winter Spider, Bob De Smith

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Ascension, David Schelhaas Dec 2020

Ascension, David Schelhaas

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Golden Shovel Poems

A Golden Shovel is a poetic form devised by Terrence Hayes in homage to the African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks, long time poet laureate of Chicago. It is a poem in which the poet takes a line from another poet’s poem (or the entire poem if it is short) and creates a new poem. In the poems below, retired Dordt professor David Schelhaas takes the words of the poem “Bee Still” by his son Luke (written in 1994 when he was a Dordt student), and creates a new poem by using them as the end words of …


Fearful, Mary Dengler Dec 2020

Fearful, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

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Living, Mary Dengler Dec 2020

Living, Mary Dengler

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Symptoms, Mary Dengler Dec 2020

Symptoms, Mary Dengler

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Bad Quarto, Bob De Smith Dec 2020

Bad Quarto, Bob De Smith

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Babble About Autism Talks Too Much, Adam J. Wolfond Nov 2020

Babble About Autism Talks Too Much, Adam J. Wolfond

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Two poems by Adam Wolfond, "How" and "Babble About Autism Talks Too Much" (2020) "language" autism differently, questioning the way neurotypicality asserts authority over the meaning and experiences of autistic people. Wolfond is a non-speaking writer who is the first and youngest poet to be published by poets.org. He is a public text-to-speech presenter, collaborator on academic projects, an artist who has previously exhibited in Toronto, Canada and has published two books of poetry with Unrestricted Interest. His interest lies in movement, relation, affect and language.


Meditation On Absence, Dean Rader Nov 2020

Meditation On Absence, Dean Rader

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Black Box 2020, Patricia Watkins, Rami C., Eileen Landis-Groom, Gabrielle Pingleton, Daniel Nunez, Audree Davis, Zachary Felton-Priestner, Jordan King, Caleb T. Williams, Keith Tanner, Alexa Pacheco Olguin Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Jennifer James, Marta Verdun Li Bassi, Mark Sinclair Nov 2020

Black Box 2020, Patricia Watkins, Rami C., Eileen Landis-Groom, Gabrielle Pingleton, Daniel Nunez, Audree Davis, Zachary Felton-Priestner, Jordan King, Caleb T. Williams, Keith Tanner, Alexa Pacheco Olguin Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Jennifer James, Marta Verdun Li Bassi, Mark Sinclair

Black Box

The Black Box is a student based creative publication serving the Embry-Riddle Prescott campus. It is our goal to provide a showcase for the creativity and talent of the Embry-Riddle students. Creative works by members of Embry-Riddle's faculty and staff are included.


Immune Boost, Early Pandemic, Lisa Richter Nov 2020

Immune Boost, Early Pandemic, Lisa Richter

The Goose

"Immune Boost, Early Pandemic" by Lisa Richter