Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 13 of 13
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Palm (Excerpt From Northern Flicker), Fiona Martinez
Palm (Excerpt From Northern Flicker), Fiona Martinez
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Palm is a poem excerpted from the collection titled Northern Flicker. The collection traces themes of the pressing co-existence of violence and tenderness, entanglement with people and nature, and evolving ideas of home, language, and self.
All Patched Up!: A Collection Of Poetry And Prose Detailing Life And Personal Journey, Lukas Spring
All Patched Up!: A Collection Of Poetry And Prose Detailing Life And Personal Journey, Lukas Spring
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
"all patched up!" is a poetry chapbook compiling works from across the author's time at university, portraying a journey filled with ups and downs through mixed media presentation of written word. The result is a patchwork quilt of experiences including exploration of identity, gender, struggle, community, and mental health.
She Who Seeks The Deep, Laci Bowhay
She Who Seeks The Deep, Laci Bowhay
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
In this poetry chapbook, I explore themes of grief, wellness, interdependence, care-giving, and self-harm. The book is dedicated to my father, as many of the poems deal with my active grief of his living with Parkinson's Disease. I also explore selfhood and all the selves contained within one being. Diving into the murkiness of life and emotion, I seek the deep.
Writing Through Becoming, Becoming Through Writing: The Evolution Of Poems Through 2022 And Early 2023, Maya Miracle Gudapati
Writing Through Becoming, Becoming Through Writing: The Evolution Of Poems Through 2022 And Early 2023, Maya Miracle Gudapati
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This CEDAR submission offers a window into the writing process. The working products of poems written between 2022 and 2023 are presented alongside their previous iterations, brainstorming sessions, and other forms of their originating material. The purpose of this exercise is to destigmatize drafting and to embrace the vulnerability of allowing the work to grow and change alongside the author.
Frank Wins A Staring Contest With The Universe, Frank Depalma
Frank Wins A Staring Contest With The Universe, Frank Depalma
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
In this full-length poetry chapbook, I explore themes of young adulthood, introspection, identity, and memory through a framework of parallel realities depicted with surrealistic, visceral imagery. In working on this project, I pushed myself to write more vulnerably and to embrace craft elements such as litany, line breaks, and space on the page. The result is a deeply personal collection of poems centering around my headspace in my final year of college as I look toward possible futures and reckon with impossible pasts.
About The Dark Times: Poetry For The Miocene, Nadine Waggoner
About The Dark Times: Poetry For The Miocene, Nadine Waggoner
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
About the Dark Times is a chapbook of seventeen poems documenting the author's experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, specifically the Omicron wave which affected the Pacific Northwest from January 2022 to February 2022. Themes include the impact of isolation on the author's self-identity, academic success, and mental health. The chapbook is separated into three sections: 'Poetry for the Miocene,' 'Poetry for the Late Cretaceous,' and 'Poetry for the Permian.' Fossilized animals and periods of mass extinction throughout the earth's history are used in metaphor and comparison to the author's personal experience. The poems each include elements of ars poetica and …
Haunting This Garden, Anna B. Thomas
Haunting This Garden, Anna B. Thomas
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Haunting this Garden is a poetry chapbook containing several poems and illustrations. The final copies were printed and bound with paper, glue, and cloth. Poems in the chapbook were written between 2018 and 2021, though all were heavily revised before being used in the chapbook. The pieces explore themes of love, fear, guilt, and shame. They are all heavily grounded in environmental themes.
Recontextaulizing Literature: A Podcast Project Dedicated To Celebrating And Broadcasting The Voices Of Indigenous Authors And Storytellers, Xavier Hickey
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This project is conducted with intention of exploring the sociocultural implications of a decentralized canon. Designed with Indigenous authors and storytellers in mind, this project perceives the way that literature and storytelling are improved by abandoning the universalized and Eurocentric literary canon and replacing it with complex and unique personal cultural contexts. As part of the overarching podcast project, this document looks to lay out a reading list that represents and enforces the power of recontextualized literature.
I Am Still Holding Your Hand, Sophie Glessner
I Am Still Holding Your Hand, Sophie Glessner
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
"i am still holding your hand", a collection of poetry, is the Honors Senior Project by Sophie Glessner.
She Is: A Poetry Collection, Emma Braun
She Is: A Poetry Collection, Emma Braun
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This poetry collection contains 17 pieces written over the course of a year and a half. They address themes of love, loss, identity, loss of identity, the body, trauma, and sexual abuse. They include prose poems, longer free-verse line poems, several poems in slant rhyme, and a sonnet.
Bones N' Things (A Short Book Of Poetry), Tristan D. Hanson
Bones N' Things (A Short Book Of Poetry), Tristan D. Hanson
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Bones N' Things (a short book of poetry), by Tristan D. Hanson, Western Washington University Honors Project.
Science By Accident: Poems Inspired By Science, Ambert Stover
Science By Accident: Poems Inspired By Science, Ambert Stover
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
I have had so many biology and other science classes that I automatically think about the world in scientific terms. Once I found a slug while I was building a trail and gleefully announced to my trail-building companion that terrestrial gastropods were hermaphroditic. To me it meant that the slug I had found was simultaneously both male and female. To my friend, however, it was utter gibberish. This is what I call “science by accident.” Not that it’s a bad thing—penicillin was discovered by accident! But I do have to be mindful of who I am talking with and which …
Moons In Our Bellies: A Collection Of Earth Poetry, Alyssa Von Lehman
Moons In Our Bellies: A Collection Of Earth Poetry, Alyssa Von Lehman
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Women writers from Sylvia Plath to Terry Tempest Williams to Tori Amos have described the poetry and stories they create as their children. Creating poetry is an organic, natural process and the result, the living fruit of our labors, is always intimately connected to its creator. If it fails, stops short of fulfilling its purpose, we are disappointed, our pride bruised, our abilities as mothers questioned. We did not nurture this one enough and its heart stopped before it ever opened its eyes; a stillborn, as Plath says. Or we may say that this one somehow has that intangible breath …