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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 …

Merit Beyond Any Already Published: Austen And Authorship In The Romantic Age, Rebecca Lee Jensen Ogden

Theses and Dissertations

In recent decades there have been many attempts to pull Austen into the fold of high Romantic literature. On one level, these thematic comparisons are useful, for Austen has long been anachronistically treated as separate from the Romantic tradition. In the past, her writings have essentially straddled Romantic classification, labeled either as hangers-on in the satiric eighteenth-century literary tradition or as early artifacts of a kind of proto-Victorianism. To a large extent, scholars have described Austen as a writer departing from, rather than embracing, the literary trends of the Romantic era. Yet, while recent publications depicting a “Romantic Austen” yield …

Keep Going, Jeff Lacey

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Keep Going is a collection of poetry whose themes include life in modern America, man’s relationship with the natural world, and living in the Midwest. The collection includes both free verse and metric poetry and both narrative and lyric poetry.

Inherent Poetry Of Meaning, Matt Gerrelts

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Cognitive Processes Of Surrealist Poetry In Light Of Hegel & Insomniac Trials, Edward Rogers

Mahurin Honors College & Office of Scholar Development

This thesis project pursues the stylistic nature of Surrealist writing and provides deeper understanding into how one may interpret Surrealist poetry. My work consists of two written components: an analytical essay concerning how Hegelian philosophy is applicable to the understanding and interpretation of Surrealist expression and a collection of original Surrealist poems titled “Insomnia Trials.” My essay introduces Surrealism then further discusses the processes of Surrealist writing by analyzing the Hegelian dialectic and demonstrating how it corresponds to the interpretation and manifestation of Surrealist poetry. “Insomnia Trials” consists of 16 poems that are divided into two sections, a section of …

Cognitive Processes Of Surrealist Poetry In Light Of Hegel & Insomniac Trials, Edward T. Rogers

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

This thesis project pursues the stylistic nature of Surrealist writing and provides deeper understanding into how one may interpret Surrealist poetry. My work consists of two written components: an analytical essay concerning how Hegelian philosophy is applicable to the understanding and interpretation of Surrealist expression and a collection of original Surrealist poems titled “Insomnia Trials.” My essay introduces Surrealism then further discusses the processes of Surrealist writing by analyzing the Hegelian dialectic and demonstrating how it corresponds to the interpretation and manifestation of Surrealist poetry. “Insomnia Trials” consists of 16 poems that are divided into two sections, a section of …

Shriveled Veins Of My Stories, Jacob W. Franks

English

This is a manuscript of original poetry.

Byzantium 2010: Cal Poly's 20th Literary Annual, Mateja Lane, Beth Shirley

English

The concept behind this year's theme, "Bold," actually came from concepts our art director, Melissa, showed us during our first meeting. We had tossed around ideas of "Timeless," "Enduring," and "Vintage," amidst our discussions of how in the world we were going to raise money for the journal this year. With the economy tanking, we knew art programs like ours would be the first to suffer. We wanted to find a theme that captured how we felt about art and how art made us feel. We kept coming back to the same idea: We have to just be bold and …

Ambush, Anna K. Bush

English

This is a manuscript of original poetry.

Poetry Chapbook: Red Light Laughter, Marcus Lloyd Rummell

Honors Scholar Theses

"Red Light Laughter" is a poetry chapbook containing 20 poems written and edited extensively by Marcus Lloyd Rummell. The poetry included ranges from as recent as April 2010 to as late as January 2009. The book also contains notes, for reference when necessary, and was professionally designed by Lindsey Voskowsky, who is currently employed at the Yale Center of Design.

Through Grace Alone, Lynne Adair Moir

Masters Theses, 2010-2019

Through Grace Alone by Lynne Adair Moir.

Invisible Mink, Jessie L Janeshek

Doctoral Dissertations

Emily Dickinson, Frances Sargent Osgood, and Sarah Piatt render the nineteenth-century “women’s sphere” ironically Unheimliche while simultaneously conveying it as the “home sweet home” the sentimental tradition prescribes it should be. These American women poets turn the domestic milieu into, as Paula Bennett phrases it, “the gothic mise en scene par excellence…the displacements, doublings, and anxieties characterizing gothic experience are the direct consequence of domestic ideology’s impact on the lives and psyches of ordinary bourgeois women (121-122).”

Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath continue to represent the Unheimliche home in their poetry through the middle of the twentieth century, specifically by …

Traveling Alone, She Fell In The Sistine Chapel--, M. J. Iuppa

Bryant Literary Review

collapsed in a whirl, as if a gust of wind
struck her weak ankle and set her spinning--

The Dynamics Of Male/Female Relationships In Jon Donne's Love Poetry, Amanda Boyd

English

No abstract provided.

Snaps Of Eden, Michael J. Hudson

Masters Theses

The following poems are and attempt at reclamation and reconciliation. The first section wades through the delicate subject of personal history and is an attempt to show truth as a means of both self and communal healing. The second is plaintive, a brief effort to interlope into and understand worlds outside (but not foreign) to my own. The third is a poetic essay detailing the journey of a young woman facing the horrors of an undeclared, and seemingly eternal war. The fourth and final sections serve as a means of exploration of the self and place; tackling issues of sex, …

Witness, Rebecca Warren

Masters Theses

The “Red Book” section of this work collects poems written with dream material. The “Couplings” poems investigate the mechanical and sexual implications of “coupling.” What is witnessed and how are the concerns of the poems in “Witness.”

Review: Hate That Cat, Rachel Schwedt, Janice A. Delong

All Children's Book Reviews

No abstract provided.

2010 Forces, Scott Yarbrough

Forces

No abstract provided.

The Palm Reader Is Packing It In, Richard Luftig

Bryant Literary Review

Since the cops have cracked down
there's no future in fortune telling anymore.

Children At The Wake, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

I admit that, more than once,

I've pointed to the sky

I Killed A Bug Last Night, Carol Hamilton

Bryant Literary Review

He was walking along the edge
of the tasseled rug, no hurry,

36., Sean Lause

Bryant Literary Review

Thomas Null, machine 36, the hole-puncher,
was secretly apprenticed to despair

On John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things", Nathaniel Lee Hansen

Bryant Literary Review

With steady three-beat brushes and cymbal
of Elvin Jones, stand-up pulse of Steve Davis,

A Map For Students, William Jolliff

Bryant Literary Review

They want to make their poems right themselves,
and they know they should, but to win the A
they need me to like their work (so goes the rumor).

A Bullfight, C. W. Owens

Bryant Literary Review

Warily, the bull's hooves pound the sand--
black hide, muscle, churning with intelligence--

On The First Morning, Patsy Anne Bickerstaff

Bryant Literary Review

of spring
when I see a red shiny
balloon valentine shaped
descend

He's A Thief, Eliza Demarseilles

Bryant Literary Review

He stole a piece of my heart, attached it to a voodoo doll

Peace, Jack Granath

Bryant Literary Review

I remember it as
a rock song, though

Secret Lives, Mary Elizabeth Parker

Bryant Literary Review

A lacy blouse, two breasts beneath

Sonny, R. Steve Benson

Bryant Literary Review

Seized by the day
he fell under a harrow