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Meera Atkinson. The Poetics Of Transgenerational Trauma. Bloomsbury, 2017., Katie Lally Dec 2018

Meera Atkinson. The Poetics Of Transgenerational Trauma. Bloomsbury, 2017., Katie Lally

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Review of Meera Atkinson. The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma. Bloomsbury, 2017.


Midwestern Writers Need Midwestern Historians, Bonnie Jo Campbell Nov 2018

Midwestern Writers Need Midwestern Historians, Bonnie Jo Campbell

Studies in Midwestern History

These remarks were given on a plenary panel titled "Writing on the Midwest," held at the Fourth Annual Midwestern History Conference in Grand Rapids on June 6, 2018. Bonnie Jo Campbell received her MFA in creative writing from Western Michigan University. Her 2009 book, American Salvage, published by Wayne State University Press, was a finalist in fiction for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.


The Audience Of Siblings, Genevieve Weaver Nov 2018

The Audience Of Siblings, Genevieve Weaver

The Kabod

Literature has the unique ability to create an environment where one can address specific issues and hard questions in a comfortable way and at a relevant level. Children’s literature specifically plays a valuable role at a crucial time in the development of children and through this is privy to being used to explore the issues that most children deal with. In reference to the importance of children’s literature acting as a mirror for children, Sims Bishop stated that “literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection, we can see our own lives and experiences …


If This Man, Matthew Spireng May 2018

If This Man, Matthew Spireng

Bryant Literary Review

If this man with hairy ears, ears
sprouting--not like an old man,


It Wasn't In The Cards, Sarah Brown Weitzman May 2018

It Wasn't In The Cards, Sarah Brown Weitzman

Bryant Literary Review

"I'm in", I announced and sat down
to play the cards I'd be dealt.


Prayer Of The Bell, Laura Bonazzoli May 2018

Prayer Of The Bell, Laura Bonazzoli

Bryant Literary Review

I guess you probably want to know how I got to be in a mess like this.


Right Now At This Moment As We Speak, Tom Chandler May 2018

Right Now At This Moment As We Speak, Tom Chandler

Bryant Literary Review

Two humpback whales
are breaching eight miles
off the coast of Venezuela


What's Going On, Ruth Holzer May 2018

What's Going On, Ruth Holzer

Bryant Literary Review

I'm making my way through the stormy night,
a long road back, after I've left Father


Eating The Whale, Mitch Lescarbeau May 2018

Eating The Whale, Mitch Lescarbeau

Bryant Literary Review

He brings the sizzling strip
on a bone china plate.


Death Comes To The Office For Daniel Downer, Jennifer Companik May 2018

Death Comes To The Office For Daniel Downer, Jennifer Companik

Bryant Literary Review

He might've dispatched one of his Angels to do it, but Death knew Daniel would resist, and his best Angel was on vacation, harvesting souls in Costa Rica for the next month, so Death resolved to take Daniel himself.


With A Phone Call To Heaven, Bill Hoadley May 2018

With A Phone Call To Heaven, Bill Hoadley

Bryant Literary Review

I wish I had a phone
that could talk straight to heaven.


Lists, Michael Onofrey May 2018

Lists, Michael Onofrey

Bryant Literary Review

Earl has begun the prep work for painting the "foyer" of Bob and Lisa Kob's house, "foyer" a term Bob had used.


Elegy, Brendan Nixon May 2018

Elegy, Brendan Nixon

Bryant Literary Review

Death stood there in a leather jacket,
sunglasses on and his hands in his pockets.


Birds Of The Black Canyon, Vicki Lindner May 2018

Birds Of The Black Canyon, Vicki Lindner

Bryant Literary Review

As they crossed the big mountains only she talked, hands off the wheel to gesture vivaciously.


Perseids, Deborah Fleming May 2018

Perseids, Deborah Fleming

Bryant Literary Review

Mid-August and the hemisphere
Now turns its head away from light;


My Date With The Scientist, Kristy Nielsen May 2018

My Date With The Scientist, Kristy Nielsen

Bryant Literary Review

He tells me even land has tides,
pulled like water by the moon.


What Is, Stephen Malin May 2018

What Is, Stephen Malin

Bryant Literary Review

It is what it is
unless of course
it isn't in which case


Space Storms, Sarah Thompson May 2018

Space Storms, Sarah Thompson

Bryant Literary Review

You are the star
In the blackened sky


Every Few Years, Jack Cooper May 2018

Every Few Years, Jack Cooper

Bryant Literary Review

Every few years
I look back and think
what a fool I was before


Big Red, Ryan Warneke May 2018

Big Red, Ryan Warneke

Bryant Literary Review

It loses value,
the faded red hood


Late To Find Me, Marge Piercy May 2018

Late To Find Me, Marge Piercy

Bryant Literary Review

In my adolescence, high school
and through college, I was amorphous.


As If It Mattered (Gambling Sounds), Fredda S. Pearlson May 2018

As If It Mattered (Gambling Sounds), Fredda S. Pearlson

Bryant Literary Review

if today moves
through its hours
with no lost rings


Leaning Into The Party, Stephen Roberts May 2018

Leaning Into The Party, Stephen Roberts

Bryant Literary Review

I was having a good time at the party
until I leaned back on the door frame


Block Island Haiku, Fred Yannantuono May 2018

Block Island Haiku, Fred Yannantuono

Bryant Literary Review

So many hatchbacks.


The Blind Man At The Grand Canyon, John Kristofco May 2018

The Blind Man At The Grand Canyon, John Kristofco

Bryant Literary Review

He stood there with his friend,
the hundreds at the rim,


Respect Your Elders, Charles Harper Webb May 2018

Respect Your Elders, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

"Ready for a fastball," the grizzled grampa
leather-lungs. "Alls he's got's a fastball.


Bald Eagle, Blackbirds, Matthew Spireng May 2018

Bald Eagle, Blackbirds, Matthew Spireng

Bryant Literary Review

A dead blackbird on the driveway, eagle
swooping down to avoid the plague of blackbirds


Rising To The Call, Christa Albrecht-Vegas May 2018

Rising To The Call, Christa Albrecht-Vegas

Bryant Literary Review

Julie heard them calling: the high, shrill pinging of a thousand points of--not light, but tinnitus.


Chez Moi, Dennis Saleh May 2018

Chez Moi, Dennis Saleh

Bryant Literary Review

I am all there is
of me Of this there


Victor As A Victim Of Precipitation, Jonathan Greenhause May 2018

Victor As A Victim Of Precipitation, Jonathan Greenhause

Bryant Literary Review

Victor's car was stolen, but he chose to drive it anyway.