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Sumi-E? Haiku? Why Not Both!, Sara Anne Hook Jul 2022

Sumi-E? Haiku? Why Not Both!, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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My Body Is A Question Mark Lit From Within, Lisa Marie Schrad May 2022

My Body Is A Question Mark Lit From Within, Lisa Marie Schrad

Graduate Thesis Collection

In her MFA thesis “My Body Is a Question Mark Lit from Within,” Lisa Marie Schrad explores through poetry the body and its different appetites—hunger for justice, for healing, for God, for home, for wonder. Along the way, the poems also make clear that the path toward fullness and satisfaction must inevitably pass through a deep, brave commitment to knowing the full truth about ourselves. When a light shines out from inside the body, what shortcomings are exposed? What goodness is revealed? And how do we live in the world responsibly, kindly, from the space in-between our questions and their …


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, …


Creek In Winter (An Ekphrastic Poem), Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

Creek In Winter (An Ekphrastic Poem), Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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Five Little Dresses, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

Five Little Dresses, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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Haiku And Three Haiga, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

Haiku And Three Haiga, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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Two Birds (An Ekphratic Poem) – For Deanna, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

Two Birds (An Ekphratic Poem) – For Deanna, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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I Can See Clearly Now, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

I Can See Clearly Now, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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Peanuts Please, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

Peanuts Please, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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The City Becomes Her: Poetry Collection, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

The City Becomes Her: Poetry Collection, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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