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Something American, Carolina S. Souto
Something American, Carolina S. Souto
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
SOMETHING AMERICAN is a poetry collection written from the perspective of a first-generation American navigating a growing family, a political crisis, and a global pandemic. Influences on this collection include Robert Hass’s THE ESSENTIAL HAIKU and FIELD GUIDE, which attend to nature and the poet-speaker’s immediate surroundings with diligence and precision. Ariel Francisco’s place poems and creative titles in ALL MY HEROES ARE BROKE provide important touchstones for Souto’s commitment to here-and-now writing. And Sylvia Plath’s frank and complex writing about motherhood in ARIEL grants the poet permission to probe these subjects as well.
In SOMETHING AMERICAN, experimental poems sprawl …
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.
Poems And Translations, Rome Hernández Morgan
Poems And Translations, Rome Hernández Morgan
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This document is separated into two parts, a collection of original poems and a collection of translations of the crônicas of Rubem Braga. The collection of poems, titled, “Because I Never See You,” attempt to parse the complexities of familial and intimate relationships, addiction, and BIPOC experience. The collection of translations attempts to offer a small sample of the crônicas of Rubem Braga (1913-1990), a Brazilian journalist who is known throughout Brazil for “elevating” the form of the crônica from ephemera to the literary.
A Collection For A Better Misunderstanding, Mark Smeltzer
A Collection For A Better Misunderstanding, Mark Smeltzer
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
What if being understood becomes even more dreadful than being isolated? This collection of poetry stands between two extremes, using form and language to reflect the struggle of living on a continuum between being understood and being alone. By echoing the direct style of poets like Charles Bukowski and Mark Strand, as well as more abstract figures like May Swenson and Sylvia Plath, this collection asserts that the contradictions we carry can coexist, and even complement one another. Part One features original poetry that relies on the senses to recover old memories. A direct style in Part One seeks to …
The First Flowers Of Spring, Gretel Valdes
The First Flowers Of Spring, Gretel Valdes
Senior Theses
This creative writing thesis contains a series of poems by Gretel Valdes.
I.
- Pillowtalk
- Autumnal Hues
- Mis Cejas
- Intimacy
- Without You, in San Francisco
- Sundown of Person
II.
- drinking honey with the bees
- The Lady of Crescent Lake
- A Collection of 2 am Thoughts
- Cold Feet
- Another Year of Thankfulness
- My Grandfather’s First Time in the ICU
- For Oregon Where I Have Yet to Fall in Love
III.
- The First Flower of Spring
- A Dandelion Before the Wind
- Weightless
- Aubade to the Other Woman
- To Denica
- Someday Soon
IV.
- Recovery
- Anxiety
- On the first girl I ever kissed
- Drinks I …
Properly Unhinged: A Collection Of Poems, Madison Everett
Properly Unhinged: A Collection Of Poems, Madison Everett
Honors Projects
This is a collection of poems that explores the identities I possess and am a part of. These identities include being half black and half white, clinically diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Generalize Anxiety Disorder, pansexual or bisexual or something altogether different (depending on the day), and cis gendered womanhood. I also explore what a poem is and what a poem is not, and how there is very little difference between the two. In a lot of ways, this is an exploration into myself and what it means to be within the world. What does it mean to …
Bycatch, Terin Weinberg
Bycatch, Terin Weinberg
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS
BYCATCH
by
Terin Weinberg
Florida International University, 2021
Miami, Florida
Professor Denise Duhamel, Major Professor
BYCATCH is a collection of poems that explore the speaker’s relationship with the natural world. The poems utilize a variety of forms, from traditional sestinas and sonnets driven by image, to puzzle-pieced stereoscopes that can be read grammatically in three different ways—left to right, or down one of either columns. Though the collection is rooted in nature, the emotional drive is rooted in the construction and deconstruction of the family and the body. Each section of the book will function as …
Children Of Greatness, Kimberly Douglas
Children Of Greatness, Kimberly Douglas
Uplifting Blackness Collection
This poem was written by Kimberly Douglas and performed at Western's Black Student's Association closing ceremonies for Black History Month.
Confessions Of A Dark-Skinned Black Woman, Glenys Obasi
Confessions Of A Dark-Skinned Black Woman, Glenys Obasi
Uplifting Blackness Collection
This poem was written by Glenys Obasi and performed during Western's Black Student Association's Black History Month closing ceremonies.
Et Cetera, 2019-2021, Marshall University
Et Cetera, 2019-2021, Marshall University
Et Cetera
Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.
Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.
A Father At 1.5 Metres: Poems Of Pandemic And Fatherhood, Edward J. Leeming
A Father At 1.5 Metres: Poems Of Pandemic And Fatherhood, Edward J. Leeming
Theses : Honours
'A Father at 1.5 Metres: Poems of Pandemic and Fatherhood' is a 36 poem collection with a connecting theme of uncertainty informed by John Keats‟ concept of negative capability. Negative capability, a term introduced by Keats in 1817, suggests that a writer is benefitted by a refusal of the formation of concrete ideas, that being in uncertainty without needlessly chasing after truth allows for a better understanding of the world, and of more perspectives in their writing. The negatively capable writer is more open to possibilities and of exploring new ideas; this allows them to pursue what Keats calls “beauty”, …