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Reading Life, Paige Eplin
Literacy = Human Connection, Julie Luey
Literacy = Human Connection, Julie Luey
Literacy Practice and Research
No abstract provided.
A Poem For Ukraine, Linus Umbrasas, Audra Skukauskaitė
A Poem For Ukraine, Linus Umbrasas, Audra Skukauskaitė
Literacy Practice and Research
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Little Intangible Wrongdoings, Jaden Gongaware
Little Intangible Wrongdoings, Jaden Gongaware
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
LITTLE INTANGIBLE WRONGDOINGS is a collection of poems that explores the urgency of climate change and pervasiveness of gender bias. The collection’s themes interact with the natural, supernatural, and fictional worlds of television and movies. The speaker explores zeitgeist moments while leaning into the occult, asking the reader to consider topics like memory, time, and spirits. The collection is divided into three sections, with poems being ordered thematically and by form. The first section asserts the feminist speaker and ushers forward contemporary issues of the 21st century. The second section plays with form, situating the speaker in place at …
Don't Be Another Girl, Brittany M. Owens
Don't Be Another Girl, Brittany M. Owens
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
DON’T BE ANOTHER GIRL is a collection of poetry that braids together themes of familial relationships, death, abuse, mental illness, feminism, and attempts at healing. These free-verse and prose poems use pop culture, politics, and elements of nature as vehicles to explore and reject the violence of the western white patriarchy. In the first section the speaker questions the curses that flow out from bloodlines—genetic traits, behaviors, and gender expectations. The second section utilizes lyrical prose blocks that thread together trauma and sleep paralysis, following an emotionally immobilized speaker who struggles to step off a dangerous escalator, away from toxic …