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The Thing Itself, Tallulah Woitach

Senior Projects Spring 2023

A book of poetry centered around the tarot. It will explore the vast meanings, interpretations, and angles of each card. It will be w meditation upon the quest of shedding self, and to what degree that is possible discursively, dialectically, and creatively. Is that even a goal we should be reaching towards? The form will be dictated by the cards, for example the magician which is card one will be composed of one line stanzas, and so on. It will also be informed by my own personal occult studies, as well as the correspondences and correlation between Tarot and cobbler …

Reading Sunstone, Wyatt Reu

Senior Projects Spring 2023

A reading of Octavio Paz's Sunstone.

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Junkyard, Jess M. Berkun

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Attempt At An Open Letter To The Bronx, Christopher Valdivia

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Open letter to and interrogation of the Bronx, in the form of autoethnographic writing.

¿Quién me encontrará a mí, en la noche, en el Bronx, a mis 22 años?

From Ictus To Raptus, Andrea Abel

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Multidisciplinary Studies of Bard College

FROM ICTUS TO RAPTUS

From Ictus to Raptus is a story about the emergence of sound. This performance is only a human attempt to capture the Event from which all existence emerges (Ictus), and an attempt to interpret and rejoice in the resulting complexity of the world, by tracing multiplicity back to singularity and reuniting it with its origin (Raptus).

Thresholds, Shannon Anne O'Neill

Senior Projects Fall 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Metamorph, Heather Woodworth Garufi

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Wind Still Blows, Sophie Ellen Kautenburger

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Artist's Diary, Anamae Gilroy

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

A Clear Place In The Sun, Sarina Donin Schwartz

Senior Projects Spring 2022

A Clear Place in the Sun is a poetry collection centered around growing up in Florida and all of the beauty and contradictions that that entails.

Made Entirely Of Vapor: A Poetic Unwriting, Sophia Luna Fangman

Senior Projects Spring 2022

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Pomegranate Seeds, Grace Faye Kasemeier

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Before You Grow Fruit, Stella Rose Schneeberg

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Compendium, Sara E. Manlowe

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

A Small Bird Sings For Miles, Sophie M. Gregory

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Please Stand Back, Amelia Sage Van Donsel

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Heaven Is A Hot Tub, Charlotte Catherine Foreman

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A lot of people don’t know that most of what America considers “Florida”– the tri-county area of Miami-Dade, Broward, & Palm Beach – was underwater before it was developed. The unadulterated marshland of the Everglades flooded everything south of Orlando. On some days, so many wading birds crowded the air above that you couldn’t even see the sky. Fast forward about a century, & half of the marsh has been drained with the help of dredges, levees & canals. 90% of the wading birds are gone, but the snowbirds from the northeast, biding out retirement on the beach, have replaced …

Cicadas & Other Hauntings, Miriam J. Anastasi

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Letter Blocks, Lukas Graham Hemmer

Senior Projects Spring 2020

A collection of prose and poetry exploring language as a material object.

Nostalgia For Glaciers, Luke Burton

Senior Projects Fall 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

What If I Don't: Episodes From Her Life., Emmanuella Okoli

Senior Projects Fall 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

Chutes And Ladders: John Ashbery's Poetics As Experience, Alexander Ibo Zondervan

Senior Projects Spring 2019

I’ve always found it difficult to say just what I think is happening in John Ashbery’s poetry, even when I recognize that I’ve undergone something through the course of reading. With Ashbery, I find myself becoming conscious of how I construct meaning from language, and I understand this self-reflexivity as a “poetics as experience.” Ashbery had read or at least been aware of the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens—all of which explore how consciousness manifests through language. I read these figures through American pragmatism, which views writing as an activity that follows perception …

Red Sea, Yellow Earth, Isabella Clay Martinez

Senior Projects Spring 2019

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

For The Intruder In My Home, Bennett Chinsena

Senior Projects Spring 2018

A collection of lyric, prose, and experimental poetry.

Inverted Pyramid This Earth, Maggie Louisa Zavgren

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

House God, Geneva Zane

Senior Projects Spring 2018

A study of faith and its many forms, ranging from the faith a child has in dreams to the God like status of a writer and Their creation.

The Second Language: An Argument For The Superlative Authenticity Of Poetry Through The Complex Personal Relationships It Develops With Its Audiences By Way Of Truth In Metaphor, C Mandler

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Abstract: In this paper, I will argue that poetry allows for a kind of expression that is not found within other uses of language. This is because the poetic form is able to better lend itself to larger notions of not only truth, but also authenticity, which it achieves through the building of complex emotional engagements between a work of poetry and its audience. When discussing the authenticity of poetry, one’s personal connection to the work by way of metaphor is more truthful than the so-called literal truth one comes to when one reads something exactly as it is written—meaning …

Horizon's Door, Mackenzie Kristofco

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

From Here It Is A Patch Of Silver, Caroline H. Petty

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.

The Waters I Saw Drank Me In, Will Steen Strand

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.