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Beam, Ernie (Sc 3655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Beam, Ernie (Sc 3655), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3655. “Home Folks,” a booklet of poems by Ernie Beam, Hodgenville, Kentucky.
Watley, Louanne, B. 1937, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Watley, Louanne, B. 1937, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3606. Correspondence of Watley, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and poet, author and Appalachian studies scholar Jim Wayne Miller regarding writing workshops and grant-funded projects. Includes poems of Watley and a detailed critique by Miller.
The Barren Springs Songbook, Caroline Grace Sutphin
The Barren Springs Songbook, Caroline Grace Sutphin
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The Barren Springs Songbook is a poetry collection exploring Appalachian themes through the lens of three representative characters and my own experience. The poems presented are in blank verse and lean heavily on musicality, as each poem features an epigraph from my own Great Uncle Henry’s song lyrics. The poetry explores themes of poverty, folklore, feminism, and Christianity within the context of Barren Springs, an insular Appalachian community. The characters of Henry, India, and Myrtle provide a glimpse into how things have been in my family history, and the more modern poems representing myself show the cultural shifts that are …
Brennan, Mary Kate (Fa 1284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brennan, Mary Kate (Fa 1284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1284. Student interview conducted by Mary Kate Brennan with renowned Appalachian poet Jim Wayne Miller. Brennan’s focus throughout the interview is on “the cultural sensitivity and awareness that permeates Miller’s poetry.” Miller also touches on what he considers to be the central themes of his work, the struggles and triumphs of communities within the Appalachian region, and pride in cultural heritage. The collection contains a detailed index, interview summary, transcription, index cards with questions, and a reel-to-reel audio tape of the interview.
Caverns: Kentucky Middle School Poetry (Volume 2, 2019), Roxanne M. Spencer Editor, Kelly Hancock Associate Editor, Cynthia Houston Associate Editor, Amanda Kennedy Associate Editor
Caverns: Kentucky Middle School Poetry (Volume 2, 2019), Roxanne M. Spencer Editor, Kelly Hancock Associate Editor, Cynthia Houston Associate Editor, Amanda Kennedy Associate Editor
CAVERNS
No abstract provided.
Appalachian Goodbyes, Emily Houston
Appalachian Goodbyes, Emily Houston
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
This is a collection of poetry and nonfiction using the Japanese poetic form of haibun (a back and forth between haiku and prose, both sections attempting to clarify and further each other while approaching the subject in entirely different manners) as a form of memoir instead. This collection is about my home that has not always felt like home and what it means to love and hate an Appalachian identity. It is also about my relationships, both with Appalachia and the world outside it and with the people who call it home and the people I have met when I …
Fulkerson, Brenda (Fa 1272), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fulkerson, Brenda (Fa 1272), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1272. Student folk studies project titled “[Rhymes, Legends, Beliefs and Proverbs of Ohio County],” which includes descriptions of local folk legends and beliefs in Ohio County, Kentucky. Descriptions may include title of the legend, date collected, and informant’s name and address. Note cards include rhyme, belief or proverb, date collected, and informant’s name.
Mindfulness Of Minnows, Will Hollis
Mindfulness Of Minnows, Will Hollis
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Literature is a deeply personal and interpersonal act from the author to the reader. In some way the author is attempting to capture their interpretation of space and time inside the vehicle of language. Through metaphor and enjambment, syntax and imagery, this thesis attempts to render the contemporary experience of the artist as he is grounded in location and interpretation. The lens used in inspecting the world is biological and philosophical, seeking and hiding from the truth.
Nature and science are used as linking languages in the collections of poems, seeking to be united with emotion based in the bedrock …
Vacation Days - What I Did This Summer, Wren A. Jenkins
Vacation Days - What I Did This Summer, Wren A. Jenkins
Sierpinski’s Square
No abstract provided.
To A Proposition Most Despised- A Response To Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress", Wren A. Jenkins
To A Proposition Most Despised- A Response To Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress", Wren A. Jenkins
Sierpinski’s Square
No abstract provided.
Unfound, Samuel C. Kessler
Unfound, Samuel C. Kessler
Sierpinski’s Square
"Look on past the horizon and there; rest your eyes then. But alas, this place you cannot see, but you feel it from your core, tis what you seek, surely there; indeed, yes, that is where it rests; but "it" is not, and "where" is never near nor far, for you forget in onlook as you seek, the thing that lies beneath Your feet A dwelling place Of peace unfound."
You Don't Talk About It, Brittany Lee Cheak
You Don't Talk About It, Brittany Lee Cheak
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
I am a poet. As an undergraduate, I explored the other genres of writing—I wrote short stories, attempted a novel-length piece, and crafted essays. While I found plays interesting, I could not write one satisfactorily. But poetry fit like an extension of myself. I could fuse my voice and my ideas in stanzas and images, and I found myself weighing words and sounds as I constructed the lines. It was only natural that I pursue mastery in poetry when I returned for my Masters of Fine Arts.
The material presented in this document is the culmination of two years of …
It’S Cloudy Today, Natalie B. Ngong
Watersheds In Life, Molly Morgan
Watersheds In Life, Molly Morgan
Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest
No abstract provided.
The Systems Of Life, Madeline Stephenson
The Systems Of Life, Madeline Stephenson
Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest
No abstract provided.
Watershed, Matthew Doyle
F. Warden, Natalie Turner
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University
Zephyrus
The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.
Fusion Of Art Forms Across The World: An Examination Of Contemporary Dance Improvisation In England And America, Jade Primicias
Fusion Of Art Forms Across The World: An Examination Of Contemporary Dance Improvisation In England And America, Jade Primicias
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Artists in the dance world are now experimenting with new and more varied subgenres of contemporary dance such as contemporary dance improvisation, but audience reception of this type of work is incongruent from country to country, and even from place to place within one nation. In America, the artistry spans from those who are making breakthroughs and experimenting with new techniques to companies which continue to perform celebrated repertoire. Because of London’s role as a world leader in the arts, and its geographical location in England, avant-garde artistry is especially common throughout that nation. The author spent time studying in …
Heaven's Disco Dances, Savannah Leigh Osbourn
Heaven's Disco Dances, Savannah Leigh Osbourn
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Heaven’s Disco Dances is a collection of poetry about finding identity through defamiliarization and displacing oneself from reality to better understand it. Within the literary community, there is a great deal of derision toward writing that fails to be “real” or “serious” enough, and poetry is an excellent example of how sometimes the extraordinary speaks to us in ways that realistic fiction cannot. The marvelous and fantastic might serve as an escape from the world, but not necessarily from reality. Rather, they give readers a different lens on life, and sometimes that makes it a more powerful one, because people …
Variation Within Uniformity: The English Romantic Sonnet, Thomas Hamilton Cherry
Variation Within Uniformity: The English Romantic Sonnet, Thomas Hamilton Cherry
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century wrote numerous poems from genres and styles all across the poetic spectrum. From the epics of ancient origin concerning kings and fanciful settings to the political odes on fallen leaders and even the anthropological histories of what it meant to live in their time, these poets stretched their stylistic legs in many ways. One of the most interesting is their use of the short and rule-bound sonnet form that enjoyed a reemergence during their time. Though stylized throughout its existence, the sonnet most often falls into a specific form with guidelines …
Isaac Watts And The Culture Of Dissent, Andrew Eli M. Yeater
Isaac Watts And The Culture Of Dissent, Andrew Eli M. Yeater
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Although Isaac Watts wrote hymns in the early eighteenth century, some of his hymns, such as “Joy to the World,” “Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?,” and “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” survive today as well-known hymns. However, little has been written about the rhetorical effects of his hymns. This thesis demonstrates that, like any other literary work, Watts’ hymns can be analyzed rhetorically. This thesis analyzes Watts’ hymns with the aid of Louis Montrose’s New Historicism, showing how Watts’ hymns were impacted by the English culture in which he lived and how they impacted the religious culture to …
Ua68/6/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Publications, Wku Archives
Ua68/6/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Publications, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Publications created by and about the English Department.
Zephyrus is produced by the English Department and contains student creative writing.
"A literary magazine called Voices had been produced for a number of years prior to that, but in 1969 Professor Gatlin, with the help of Professor Will Fridy, came up with the title Zephyrus, the Roman name for the west wind, because Dr. Wood had asked that "Western" be included in the title." From A Centennial History of the Department of English of Western Kentucky University by James Flynn
"In 1979, Frank [Steele], along with his wife, Peggy, began publishing …
Weirdo, Lucas Filip
A Negative Of My Brother, Regina Durkan
A Negative Of My Brother, Regina Durkan
Student Creative Writing
No abstract provided.
Malfunction, Cody Tucker
Villainous Villanelle, Bradley Scott Ashley
Villainous Villanelle, Bradley Scott Ashley
Student Creative Writing
No abstract provided.
Coffee Shop Ghazal, Marianne Hale
The Happiest Place On Earth, Kassidy Vaught
The Happiest Place On Earth, Kassidy Vaught
Student Creative Writing
No abstract provided.
Chronometer, Bobbie Hayse