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Poetry In A Troubling Time: Analyzing Several Poems Inspired By The Troubles In Northern Ireland, Michael Mccarthy
Poetry In A Troubling Time: Analyzing Several Poems Inspired By The Troubles In Northern Ireland, Michael Mccarthy
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
Most of the news about Northern Ireland for the past year has been about what effect Brexit will have on the North’s relationship with the Republic of Ireland. The discussion of eliminating the “soft-border,” and replacing it with a “hard- border,” which would see the reinstitution of checkpoints along the 500-kilometer border, continues to dominate international headlines. The EU has been attempting to allay concerns, and in March, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, traveled to Dublin and reaffirmed the EU’s commitment to avoiding a hard border and maintaining the peace process in the region (Stone, 2018). At the …
Breastmilk And Theorems, Bonnie Jacob
Breastmilk And Theorems, Bonnie Jacob
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
Breastmilk and Theorems is a poem that traces a mother’s journey breastfeeding her baby over the course of the baby’s first months of life, while mentally working on proving a theorem.
Paperback Vs. Cryptanalysis, Terry Trowbridge
Paperback Vs. Cryptanalysis, Terry Trowbridge
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
This poem is a defiant challenge against online and app based surveillance of readers. It also questions the guesses that are used to make claims about readers using text analyses.
Graphing Lines: A Poem, Shelley R. Nash
Graphing Lines: A Poem, Shelley R. Nash
Journal of Humanistic Mathematics
A brief poem born out of graphing limits.
[There Is So Much Blood In Us], Lindsey C. Whitlock
[There Is So Much Blood In Us], Lindsey C. Whitlock
Scripps Senior Theses
[There is So Much Blood in Us] is an ambiguously alternate universe in which absolutely nothing is true but almost everything could be. In these poems, tension between the absurd and the possible synthesize into one linguistically and psychologically driving force – discomfort. More than anything, I am writing about discomfort.
America’s media representations of women are almost always defined by a singular, and often sexualized experience. Yet, when I talk to the many wonderful / brilliant / badass / etc. women in my life, most of our truly defining experiences are impressively unsexy. Our womanity, if you will, orbits …