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There Could Be Light Here, Audrey Bowers May 2023

There Could Be Light Here, Audrey Bowers

Graduate Thesis Collection

Poems about healing and hurting. The journey begins with a 14-year-old who is struggling with suicidal thoughts and ends with a 25-year-old learning how to live with bipolar 1 disorder. The poems focus on finding light in the darkness, one poem at a time.


Year Of The Rabbit, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2023

Year Of The Rabbit, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

This is a poem written in 2021 by graduate student Sara Ann Hook, originally published in the SUMI-E: The Quarterly of the Sumie- Society of America.


Beautiful Botanicals: Traditions, Methods, And Materials, Sara Anne Hook Jul 2022

Beautiful Botanicals: Traditions, Methods, And Materials, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.


Sumi-E? Haiku? Why Not Both!, Sara Anne Hook Jul 2022

Sumi-E? Haiku? Why Not Both!, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.


My Body Is A Question Mark Lit From Within, Lisa Marie Schrad May 2022

My Body Is A Question Mark Lit From Within, Lisa Marie Schrad

Graduate Thesis Collection

In her MFA thesis “My Body Is a Question Mark Lit from Within,” Lisa Marie Schrad explores through poetry the body and its different appetites—hunger for justice, for healing, for God, for home, for wonder. Along the way, the poems also make clear that the path toward fullness and satisfaction must inevitably pass through a deep, brave commitment to knowing the full truth about ourselves. When a light shines out from inside the body, what shortcomings are exposed? What goodness is revealed? And how do we live in the world responsibly, kindly, from the space in-between our questions and their …


What We Need: A Poetic Study In Struggle And Self-Healing, Grace Anne Calabria May 2022

What We Need: A Poetic Study In Struggle And Self-Healing, Grace Anne Calabria

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

In many ways, this thesis examines the eternal, repetitive inevitabilities of life. In a collection of poems, these inevitabilities are examined through the eyes of an observant and omniscient narrator: a girl, long in love with a boy, facing the struggles and rewards of learning to be alone in various ways after the 2020 pandemic. Because this thesis provides an examination of struggles and self-healing alongside its creative centerpiece of the collection, the poems are accompanied by a compilation of memoiristic reflections. This thesis contributes to conversations of mental health, love, growth, and finding legitimacy and value in creative work, …


Creek In Winter (An Ekphrastic Poem), Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

Creek In Winter (An Ekphrastic Poem), Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.


Five Little Dresses, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

Five Little Dresses, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.


Haiku And Three Haiga, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

Haiku And Three Haiga, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.


Two Birds (An Ekphratic Poem) – For Deanna, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

Two Birds (An Ekphratic Poem) – For Deanna, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

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I Can See Clearly Now, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

I Can See Clearly Now, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.


Peanuts Please, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

Peanuts Please, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.


The City Becomes Her: Poetry Collection, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2022

The City Becomes Her: Poetry Collection, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.


Selected Poems Fall Of 2021, Sara Anne Hook Oct 2021

Selected Poems Fall Of 2021, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

A selection select poetry from MFA student Sara Anne Hook from 2021.


America, The Pinnacle, Micah Horne Sep 2021

America, The Pinnacle, Micah Horne

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


Ascension, David Chadburn Sep 2021

Ascension, David Chadburn

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


Garden Of Secrets, Angelina Butters Sep 2021

Garden Of Secrets, Angelina Butters

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


Fool’S Gold, David Chadburn Sep 2021

Fool’S Gold, David Chadburn

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


From The Shower Floor, Angelina Butters Sep 2021

From The Shower Floor, Angelina Butters

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


Sigh, Carly Duncan Sep 2021

Sigh, Carly Duncan

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


Wish, Elie Heile Sep 2021

Wish, Elie Heile

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


Message In A Muse, Alexis Bloom Sep 2021

Message In A Muse, Alexis Bloom

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


So Says The Busboy, Macy Kent Sep 2021

So Says The Busboy, Macy Kent

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


Leapfrog, Elie Heile Sep 2021

Leapfrog, Elie Heile

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


Radiance, Miriam Berne Sep 2021

Radiance, Miriam Berne

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff Sep 2021

Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.


The Maypole (For Carole And Ken), Sara Anne Hook Sep 2021

The Maypole (For Carole And Ken), Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.


Collected Poems: Summer 2021, Sara Anne Hook Jul 2021

Collected Poems: Summer 2021, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

This is a collection of poetry from the Summer of 2021.


Lighthouse Haiku, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2021

Lighthouse Haiku, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

Inspired by the lighthouses of the Sable Points Lighthouse Keepers Association (SPLKA).


Ode To The Crafty Foxes, Sara Anne Hook Jan 2021

Ode To The Crafty Foxes, Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

This is a poem written in 2021 by graduate student Sara Ann Hook.