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The Hard Truth, Elayna Clair Westman

English Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

The Hard Truth is a poetry manuscript that explores the significance of everyday choices whether we are dealing with grief, anger, hope, or exhaustion. These poems remind readers that the choices we make reveal the kind of relationship we have with God. If we follow God, we will love others and make sacrifices for them by working hard. If we follow the ways of the secular world, we will fall captive to Ptolemaic, self-centered viewpoints where we only care about ourselves. With a focus on Biblical narratives, the poems in this manuscript ask readers to examine God’s character as we …

The Rarer Game, Don Welch

Special Collections

Poems by Nebraska poet Don Welch.

Contents

• The Rarer Game: A Sequence of Poems about Birds and an Animal
• Cardinal
• The Dutchman
• Walking a Pit South of Gothenburg
• The Doe
• Poet in Residence at a Country School
• The Bloodroot
• Singing a Bird's Song
• The Chicken Poem
• Upon Finally Winning Something Big at the Fair
• North of the House
• The Cranes
• The Runner
• The Last Wild Passenger Pigeon, 1899
• How to Live in Buffalo County
• The Lee of December
• The Widow
• The Duck Woman
• The Once
• Fishing, at Coot Shallows
• Deer, at Night
• The Ball
• The Wild Asparagus Hunters
• Blood-red Sumac …

A Shape A Writer Can Contain, Don Welch

Special Collections

Detailed instruction on how to write an essay from Nebraska poet Don Welch

Erogenous Zone, David Rice

Special Collections

Content Warning: Poems are sexually explicit. All were written while the author was imprisoned and some reference prison.

Erogenous Zone: sensual poetry was written by David Rice (Mondo). "David Rice has concentrated on the beauty of people relating to each other sexually and has also given us an erotic view of the interplay between the forces and elements of the universe." Erogenous Zone was one of a number of creative works Mondo produced. He published numerous short stories, poems, plays, and newspaper columns during his imprisonment.

Mondo, a native of Omaha, Nebraska, was a member of the Omaha Black Panthers …