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Moments As They Pass, Jesus Armenta
Moments As They Pass, Jesus Armenta
Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019
This is a creative project titled “Moments as They Pass.” It’s an anthology of poetry with over 106 original pieces, spanning over 135 pages. These pieces all center on the thematic elements of existential philosophy and its intersection with beauty, time, and concept of self. Each poem will explore a particular facet of existentialism. The anthology will be broken up into chapters that reflect each concept accordingly. There is a dialogue that occurs within each piece that will encourage readers to reflect on their own lives and how they navigate their own search for meaning. Ultimately, this creative …
Horsepower, Joy Priest
Horsepower, Joy Priest
Theses and Dissertations
Horsepower is a collection of poems curated to be a cinematic, black femme, escape narrative. The speaker, who is experiencing a self-imposed exile from her home, radically envisions waywardness as aspirational.
Beyond The Limits Of Sight, Catherine Ntube
Beyond The Limits Of Sight, Catherine Ntube
Theses and Dissertations
Beyond the Limits of Sight is a collection of poems exploring black diasporic identity through and beyond the silences that come to surround violence. In this experimental collection, black bars representing selective silence appear throughout the work, in protest of the compulsory release of licensing rights to the university and its corporate partners as a degree requirement, and in insistence that the poet be able to decide on what terms and via which platforms their voice enters the public sphere.
When We’Ve Left The Table, Lauren Rose Clark
When We’Ve Left The Table, Lauren Rose Clark
Theses and Dissertations
When We’ve Left the Table is a collection of poems that explores personal identity as it relates to family and upbringing, as well as grief in its various forms.