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The Lindenwood Review, Issue 14 (2024), Full Issue Feb 2024

The Lindenwood Review, Issue 14 (2024), Full Issue

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Contributors Feb 2024

Contributors

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Palm (Excerpt From Northern Flicker), Fiona Martinez Jan 2024

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.


Honeysuckles & Irises: Effigies Of The Land, Ami` L. Hanna-Huff Dec 2023

Honeysuckles & Irises: Effigies Of The Land, Ami` L. Hanna-Huff

English Creative Writing Theses

Here is a memoir of my paternal line through the lens of my Great-Grandmother and myself. A reclamation of the land I hail from and a connection to a history previously felt distant, this examination of race and gender explicitly focused on the African American Southern female experience; I try to make sense of the juxtaposing positions in our lives. The culture built from its creation through Tennessee personified. Here, I integrate history and theory with lyrics and prose to experience the eighty-one years of progress brought between our births and the lingering anxiety of slavery. My great-grandmother, Hazel Irene …


Goddess Of., Megan Childs May 2023

Goddess Of., Megan Childs

Student Research Submissions

My chapbook, “goddess of.”, is a compilation of poems that channel the larger-than-life personalities of the Ancient Greek gods and goddesses. I completed this project over the course of a semester in my ENGL470 course, Seminar in Creative Writing: Poetry. Professor Bylenok, who sponsored this project, was instrumental in the development of my poetry into a fully-fledged collection. My chapbook explores disillusionment, love, loneliness, and fear. At its core, it’s about having to live with yourself – even if it’s embarrassing, ugly, or painful. It’s a chance to feel as powerful as the gods themselves, or as pathetic as their …


She Who Seeks The Deep, Laci Bowhay Apr 2023

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.


The Lindenwood Review, Issue 13 (2023), Full Issue Feb 2023

The Lindenwood Review, Issue 13 (2023), Full Issue

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Contributors Feb 2023

Contributors

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Metanoia: A Short Collection, Liddy Elizabeth Franco Jan 2023

Metanoia: A Short Collection, Liddy Elizabeth Franco

The John Carroll Review

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Requiem For A Grocery List, Jonathan Green Jan 2023

Requiem For A Grocery List, Jonathan Green

The John Carroll Review

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Anthropomorphism, Tina Lindberg Jan 2023

Anthropomorphism, Tina Lindberg

The John Carroll Review

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Harvest: A Story Of Afropessimism, Briana Williams, Briana Williams Jan 2023

Harvest: A Story Of Afropessimism, Briana Williams, Briana Williams

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

Afropessimism is the idea that Black people will never be able to truly overcome the centuries of racism and oppression they have faced. A bleak notion, the idea heavily contrasts with Afrofuturism, the ways in which Black people use technology to regain their autonomy and rise from the societal binds they’re placed in. This story focuses on how even in the supposedly more evolved and progressive political landscape of the modern world, Black people still cannot escape the shackles of racism, particularly in the United States. Taking the common themes of and ideologies of Afropessimism, Harvest follows the story of …


Flowerama, Demitri Cullen Jan 2023

Flowerama, Demitri Cullen

Masters Essays

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Forgotten Names And Unmarked Graves: A Collection Of Poems By A Nursing Major, Taylor Howse Jan 2023

Forgotten Names And Unmarked Graves: A Collection Of Poems By A Nursing Major, Taylor Howse

OUR Journal: ODU Undergraduate Research Journal

These poetry pieces are a collection of works from my undergraduate experience as an English minor. "The Sheep in a Wolf's Skin" is a fairytale retelling with a twist. It is a dramatic monologue from the perspective of a villain, who hopefully will make you rethink your favorite childhood stories. "The Forgotten Cinderellas" is a free verse poem written as a twist from a favorite fairytale happily ever after. Finally, "Forgotten Names and Unmarked Graves" is a free verse poem written as a tribute for all the forgotten names that are not taught in history. For Samson Occom and William …


Frank Wins A Staring Contest With The Universe, Frank Depalma Jan 2023

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.


Wayfinding, Kalani N. Padilla Jan 2023

Wayfinding, Kalani N. Padilla

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Western Wall, Jerusalem, Judi Yitti Koval Nov 2022

Western Wall, Jerusalem, Judi Yitti Koval

The John Carroll Review

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The Old Man, Madeleine Polcyn Nov 2022

The Old Man, Madeleine Polcyn

The John Carroll Review

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Migraine During A Late Night Drive, Julia Kashuba Nov 2022

Migraine During A Late Night Drive, Julia Kashuba

The John Carroll Review

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The Kitchen Table, Emily Elvoid Nov 2022

The Kitchen Table, Emily Elvoid

The John Carroll Review

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Unexpecting, Mara Bahmer Nov 2022

Unexpecting, Mara Bahmer

The John Carroll Review

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Peeling, Jessica Disalvatore Nov 2022

Peeling, Jessica Disalvatore

The John Carroll Review

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Two Or Three Days Ago, Marcie Blandford Nov 2022

Two Or Three Days Ago, Marcie Blandford

The John Carroll Review

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Optimal View, Andy Penk Nov 2022

Optimal View, Andy Penk

The John Carroll Review

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Brown Bear, Ashley Bernett Nov 2022

Brown Bear, Ashley Bernett

The John Carroll Review

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What We Need: A Poetic Study In Struggle And Self-Healing, Grace Anne Calabria May 2022

What We Need: A Poetic Study In Struggle And Self-Healing, Grace Anne Calabria

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

In many ways, this thesis examines the eternal, repetitive inevitabilities of life. In a collection of poems, these inevitabilities are examined through the eyes of an observant and omniscient narrator: a girl, long in love with a boy, facing the struggles and rewards of learning to be alone in various ways after the 2020 pandemic. Because this thesis provides an examination of struggles and self-healing alongside its creative centerpiece of the collection, the poems are accompanied by a compilation of memoiristic reflections. This thesis contributes to conversations of mental health, love, growth, and finding legitimacy and value in creative work, …


About The Dark Times: Poetry For The Miocene, Nadine Waggoner Apr 2022

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 …


The Lindenwood Review, Issue 12 (2022), Full Issue Feb 2022

The Lindenwood Review, Issue 12 (2022), Full Issue

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.


Seek Home, Tsigereda Eshete Jan 2022

Seek Home, Tsigereda Eshete

Uplifting Blackness Collection

This poem is about the author’s experience as an international student in Canada. It analyzes and describes the reasons behind the isolation and aloneness she felt as a foreigner. The piece challenges its audience to open their mentality to a different perspective and alternate versions of reality. The poem also briefly describes the kind of background and culture the author comes from using juxtaposition. Phrases like “the fortitude of our broken ship” and “the bliss of our dark humor” depict the nature of her origin and its complexity. Finally, she seems to demand respect or attention to the relevance of …


Former Mother, Matthew Dawkins Jan 2022

Former Mother, Matthew Dawkins

Uplifting Blackness Collection

No abstract provided.