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What The Unburied Said, Katharine Rees
What The Unburied Said, Katharine Rees
English Undergraduate Honors Theses
"What the Unburied Said" is a short collection of documentary poetry written during the waning years of the COVID-19 pandemic. In conversation with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, it seeks to exalt the beauty of humans who help each other live within an often-tragic, always-fascinating world.
Naturally: Memory In Verse, Heather L. Drouse
Naturally: Memory In Verse, Heather L. Drouse
English Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis is a collection of free verse poetry that I have written that share a common theme of nature and family. This is a creative work that explores my personal memories and the feelings associated with them with the intention to spread joy and cause readers to reflect upon similar experiences they might have had as children. It consists of four major sections -- mother, father, love, and bridges -- and 18 poems, with "love" having 7 minor sections.
Kaboom, Karstin Margaret Johnson
Kaboom, Karstin Margaret Johnson
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This document is a collection of original poems written between Fall 2018 and Spring 2022.
Love Bug Bite, Macklin Luke
Love Bug Bite, Macklin Luke
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Macklin is a sophomore gearing towards an interdisciplinary degree, with focus in Chinese, film, and creative writing. She enjoys reading and writing poetry, and her favorite poet is Charles Bukowski. In her free time, she likes to practice writing, pet her cat, Chichi, and watch too many animated movies.
Do You Want To Be Tender?, Leah Grant
Do You Want To Be Tender?, Leah Grant
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In this thesis, you will find a body of writings and artworks that reflect Leah Grant’s art practice and research. Throughout the paper, you will see Leah alternate back and forth between her artwork and writings. Leah Grant addresses her personal experience as a Black woman and what it means it explore vulnerability through understanding how the relationships around her affects the relationship she has with herself. Leah has created a collection of poems, prints, and video and audio collages that assist her with revealing and concealing.
Love Paint And Other Private Vegetables, Victoria Hudson
Love Paint And Other Private Vegetables, Victoria Hudson
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Despite her remarkably low score on the Morse Fall Scale, Dolores shattered her femur in August of 2018. Some studies suggest that grief began there: a fracture, a wail—but the mechanism by which we came to recognize it, to plant it in our beds, remained unexplained, and the role of the daughter was controversial. Who gardens? What is the optimal depth for this sort of burial? Rootbound women with a clinical presentation of imminent loss were eligible to participate; we had thought to control the study but found no suitable placebo. The vegetables were necessarily randomized, the paint stratified according …
Mineral Rites, Emma Van Dyke
Mineral Rites, Emma Van Dyke
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This document is a collection of original poems written between Fall 2017 and Spring 2021.
The Lump In Her Breast, Michayla Ashley
The Lump In Her Breast, Michayla Ashley
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Michayla Ashley is a rising senior at the University of Arkansas, majoring in English (Creative Writing). She is pleased to say The Diamond Line Literary Magazine will be the first of many publications.
The Dogwood, Alyssa Tidwell
The Dogwood, Alyssa Tidwell
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Alyssa Tidwell is a native of Northwest Arkansas, where she is currently a Junior in pursuit of an undergraduate degree to teach English and French. She believes writing and reading are tools of empathy, designed to help us detach from self-oriented routine and fit into someone else’s “coat”.
Girls, Heather Drouse
Girls, Heather Drouse
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Heather Drouse is a freshman studying English (Creative Writing) with the hopes that she will be able to find work in editing- or teaching-related coourses in the future. Most of her work consists of free-form poetry based on urban legends she heard growing up in farm-town Michigan, as well as her personal experience with exploring the natural world.
Fatal Floral, Bia Edwards
Fatal Floral, Bia Edwards
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Bia Edwards is a sophomore and English (Creative Writing) major.
Poem For Ann, Elizabeth Muscari
Poem For Ann, Elizabeth Muscari
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
FELIX CHRISTOPHER MCKEEN POETRY CONTEST WINNER Elizabeth Muscari is a senior English (Creative Writing) major from Dallas, TX. Beginning Fall 2020, she will attend the University of Arkansas’ Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing and Translation
Chantix, Sara Schellenberg
Chantix, Sara Schellenberg
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Sara Schellenberg is a senior from St. Louis majoring in studio art and English.
Edited: A Poem About (Love) Changing Seasons, Zach Turner
Edited: A Poem About (Love) Changing Seasons, Zach Turner
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Zach is a fifth year senior majoring in English, History and Creative Writing and minoring in Spanish, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Gender Studies. After graduation in May he will be applying to MFA programs for Poetry or Fiction. In an ideal world, he would spend every day traveling, telling stories, and making art and hopes that he can base his future life around that ideal.
A Song For My Brother, Morgan Walker
A Song For My Brother, Morgan Walker
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Morgan Walker is a senior from Prarie Grove, Arkansas and is a English (Creative Writing) major. Currently, Morgan is working on a collection of poetry for her honors thesis.
It Could've Been Me, Claire Riddell
It Could've Been Me, Claire Riddell
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Adopted from Guatamala, Claire Riddell grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. She is currently a junior with a double major in psychology and English (Creative Writing).
Saigon Syndrome, Gabrielle Vatthanatham
Saigon Syndrome, Gabrielle Vatthanatham
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Gabrielle Vatthanatham is a third year University of Arkansas Honors College Fellow majoring in English and French. As a memeber of the UARK English Department’s Diversity and Inlcusion Committee, she celebrates the production and transmission of literature from all people. She is Cancer, an INFP, and an overall goober.
You Say You Love The Streets Of Copenhagen, Kate Duby
You Say You Love The Streets Of Copenhagen, Kate Duby
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Kate Duby is a junior majoring in Editorial/News Journalism and minoring in English.She hopes to one day write for a daily publication in a big city, but her biggest dream is to publish an anthology of her own poetry and essays.
February 3rd, Anna Beth Lane
February 3rd, Anna Beth Lane
Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine
Anna Beth Lane is a senior English (Creative Writing) major and anthropology minor. She enjoys writing poems and nonfiction essays.
Self, Emily Aguayo
Self, Emily Aguayo
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This is a translation of Dr. Erika Almenara’s complete published collection of poetry. The original publications span a period of over twelve years of work, with books published in 2006, 2008, and 2018. The first book of poetry in this series of translations, Reino Cerrado (Closed Kingdom), explores the profound contemplations of life and how to turn those thoughts into words and put them on paper. We see images of nature, hear faint religious overtones, and feel the distress of a woman searching for a healthy relationship, and having little luck. Para evitar los rastros (To Avoid All Traces), the …
Jarfly, Zachary Harrod
Jarfly, Zachary Harrod
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
To look, through poetry, at the men my culture has produced. Formal decisions are unique to each poem which are arranged sonnets, couplets, quatrains, among other forms and free verse forms. Toxic masculinity is examined, as well as the people enabled, participating in, and victimized by that culture.
Ham Radio Operator, Zachary Michael Hester
Ham Radio Operator, Zachary Michael Hester
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Ham Radio Operator is a collection of poems.
The Debt And Other Poems, Kevin Corbett
The Debt And Other Poems, Kevin Corbett
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
A selection of poems, translations, and imitations written from 2009-2015.
What The Fuck Is This?: Aesthetic Nature Of Being Or Ontology In The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Alexis Stephenson
What The Fuck Is This?: Aesthetic Nature Of Being Or Ontology In The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Alexis Stephenson
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
“What the Fuck is This?” examines the intersection of phenomenology and poetry arguing for an aesthetic nature of Being and focuses on how we know or experience the world instead of Cartesian absolutes. This subjective knowledge does not compete against objective knowledge but simply recognizes the use that poetic language has for communicating the subjective knowledge from experience of being as it unfolds for us. The major movements of the thesis focus on aesthetic objects, aesthetic intersubjectivity, and the aesthetic self. These are labeled “aesthetic” because a phenomenological methodology reveals a dialectic between that which is unfolding and that which …
Azalea, Kimberly Renee Driggers
Azalea, Kimberly Renee Driggers
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This collection of poems, with its focus on home and absence, is named for the azalea, the thinking of home bush.
The Sorcerer, William Carlisle Goehring
The Sorcerer, William Carlisle Goehring
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
A collection of poems from 2011-2015.
Shape-Note Singing, Traci Rae Letellier
Shape-Note Singing, Traci Rae Letellier
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Shape-Note Singing is a collection of poems about what is loved, lost, and being lost. Placed in the landscape of the Ozark foothills in the northwest corner of the state of Arkansas, the collection explores the poet’s connection to kin, land, and lore. Shape-Note Singing is the story of plain-spoken folks of simple origins telling the truth as they see it and as best they know how.
Witch Hazel Advent, The Story Of An Ozark Poet, Sarah Moore Chyrchel
Witch Hazel Advent, The Story Of An Ozark Poet, Sarah Moore Chyrchel
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The goal of this Master's thesis project was to document the life of my maternal step-grandfather, John Ross Rule, in a visually compelling manner. Using equipment provided by the Lemke Department of Journalism at the University of Arkansas, I shot and edited a half hour long documentary film comprised of interviews and footage of John at his home near Winslow, Arkansas. John is a talented poet, and segments of his poetry are woven throughout the film.
The inspiration for this project is deeply rooted in place: the remote farmstead in the Boston Mountains of northwestern Arkansas that my grandparents called …