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Full-Text Articles in Poetry
Little Soldiers, Macy F. Collins
Little Soldiers, Macy F. Collins
Student Publications
"Little Soldiers" is a poem that examines the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on a personal level.
Latin-America, Mauricio E. Novoa
Latin-America, Mauricio E. Novoa
Student Publications
A poem describing the Prince George's County and Montgomery County Latin American communities in Maryland.
Adjuration By Alexander Pushkin, J. M. Mcbirnie
Adjuration By Alexander Pushkin, J. M. Mcbirnie
Transference
Translated from the Russian with commentary by J.M. McBirnie.
A Nomad’S Progression To The Settled Life By Yuri Vaella, Claude Clayton Smith
A Nomad’S Progression To The Settled Life By Yuri Vaella, Claude Clayton Smith
Transference
Translated from the Russian by Claude Clayton Smith and Alexander Vaschenko with commentary by Claude Clayton Smith.
After The War By Arseny Tarkovsky, Philip Metres, Dimitri Psurtsev
After The War By Arseny Tarkovsky, Philip Metres, Dimitri Psurtsev
Transference
Translated from the Russian by Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev with commentary by Philip Metres.
Transference Vol. 1, Summer 2013
Transference Vol. 1, Summer 2013
Transference
Transference is published by the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University. Dedicated to the celebration of poetry in translation, the journal publishes translations from Arabic, Chinese, French and Old French, German, Classical Greek and Latin, Japanese, and Russian into English verse. Transference contains translations as well as commentaries on the art and process of translating.
Ethical Imaginations: Writing Worlds Papers: The Refereed Proceedings Of The 16th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs 2011, Byron, Bay, Nsw, Janie Conway-Herron, Moya Costello, Lynda Hawryluk
Ethical Imaginations: Writing Worlds Papers: The Refereed Proceedings Of The 16th Conference Of The Australasian Association Of Writing Programs 2011, Byron, Bay, Nsw, Janie Conway-Herron, Moya Costello, Lynda Hawryluk
Dr Lynda Hawryluk
This conference, held in Byron Bay in November 2011 was dedicated to Aunty Ruby: a Bundjalung woman, multi award-winning author, historian and cultural ambassador, who devoted her writing life to ‘edumacating others’ about the lives of Indigenous Australians. Her humanity was all-encompassing and amazing considering the pain and loss that walked side by side with her throughout her life. A prolific writer of nonfiction books, essays, poems and short stories, her contribution to the academy has been recognised by an inaugural Doctorate of Letters from Latrobe University, Victoria and a Doctorate of Letters from Southern Cross University, New South Wales. …
Who We Are: Incarcerated Students And The New Prison Literature, 1995-2010, Reilly Hannah N. Lorastein
Who We Are: Incarcerated Students And The New Prison Literature, 1995-2010, Reilly Hannah N. Lorastein
Honors Projects
This project focuses on American prison writings from the late 1990s to the 2000s. Much has been written about American prison intellectuals such as Malcolm X, George Jackson, Eldridge Cleaver, and Angela Davis, who wrote as active participants in black and brown freedom movements in the United States. However the new prison literature that has emerged over the past two decades through higher education programs within prisons has received little to no attention. This study provides a more nuanced view of the steadily growing silent population in the United States through close readings of Openline, an inter-disciplinary journal featuring …
5th Annual Rainbow Book Fair, Sarah Chinn
5th Annual Rainbow Book Fair, Sarah Chinn
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
Each year, the Rainbow Book Fair grows larger and more exciting: as the largest LGBT book expo in North America, the RBF is the place to learn about new trends in queer publishing. Exhibitors at the Fair range from academic presses to romance and erotica, from trade presses to art books and literary journals and beyond: it’s the Fair’s goal to represent the amazing variety of queer and trans writers and publishers.
Cape Town Performance Poetry: The Activist’S Pen Is Mighty, Kelsey Rae Brattin
Cape Town Performance Poetry: The Activist’S Pen Is Mighty, Kelsey Rae Brattin
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
Beginning with a look back to historical Xhosa oral traditions and then examining the role of performance poetry in resistance during Apartheid, this paper explores the existence of contemporary Cape Town performance poetry in a setting that has been a home to poets for centuries. Specifically, this project is a look into the space, mental and physical, that exists within Cape Town’s current performance poetry scene for themes of resistance and activism. Through the observation of public poetry performances in local bookstores and coffeehouse, and through interviews with poets and audience members, contemporary attitudes of writers and community members toward …