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Picture Postcard, Anthony Fife

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Caudill College of Humanities at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Anthony Fife on December 14, 2007.

The Sleepy Hero: Romantic & Spiritual Sleep In The Gawain-Poet, Erin Kathleen Turner Hepner

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

This thesis examines two accepted styles of writing in the Middle Ages, the romance and religious genres, and what purpose they perform in the Gawain-poet’s religious poem, Patience, and his romance poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK). One recently popular line of research among medieval scholars is examining the way medieval authors, such as the Gawain-poet, combine elements of romance and spiritual writings. By funneling the Gawain-poet’s intermingling of the medieval romance and religious genres through the specific lens of sleep, which is represented differently in medieval romance texts than in medieval religious …

Foibles, Follies And Fantastic Occurrences: First-Time Teaching And The Composition Classroom, Susan Swanson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Foibles, Follies and Fantastic Occurrences: First-time Teaching and the Composition Classroom explores incidents that expectedly—and often, unexpectedly—occur in any instructor's classroom, but especially focuses on the first-time instructor. Following the author's journey from graduate student to graduate assistant to teaching assistant, the thesis describes the steps along the way to teaching that many who have written about the subject leave out—how to negotiate the days before classes begin, what to do to appear older than the students themselves, how to create an interesting and creative syllabus. Once classes begin, instances involving student competition, peer review, responding to student essays and …

The Biographic And Poetic Dimensions In Gary Synder’S Green Buddhism Poetry: Cold Mountain, Mountains And Rivers Without End, And Danger On Peaks, Byoungkook Park

Dissertations

From the perspective of ecology, many scholars have examined works of Gary Synder, who is an environmental activist, a peasant-Buddhist, and one of the most beloved and significant poets in the East and West. While his poems have been widely read, they have been rarely articulated from the perspective of East Asian Mahayana Buddhism or, which I would call, Green Buddhism. Considering this, my dissertation focuses on Snyder's Green Buddhism poetry and delineates the concept of Green Buddhism and how it has emerged in his Green Buddhism poetry over the past fifty years. According to my research, his poetic dimensions …

Ms-086: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor (Rood) Papers, Catherine Q. Perry

All Finding Aids

The Kathrine Kressmann Taylor (Rood) collection consists of materials relating to her writing career, 1938-1978. These primarily include several versions of typed manuscripts, editions of the journals or magazines in which Taylor (Rood’s) stories appeared, several editions of her books, articles, and book reviews.

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2007 Literary Review (No. 20), Sigma Tau Delta

Greenleaf Review

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Bryant Literary Review

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Terrible Twos, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

O God of Mercy, drop me in the sea.

Turn my feet into propellers; my chest,

The Walnut, David Cappella

Bryant Literary Review

Consider the walnut

its crenellation, its meat

like a miniature human brain

The Third Of May, 1808, At Madrid: The Shootings On Principe Pio Mountain, Oil On Canvas, 1814, Ravi Shankar

Bryant Literary Review

When they come for you, Cossack-capped,

in lockstep, carrying the black eye of death

against their shoulders, how will you react?

"And Today", Jack Lindeman

Bryant Literary Review

And today I wonder what should be done

and what not done,

and whether there is really

any difference between the two

In Some Town's Junk Shop, John Hazard

Bryant Literary Review

A photo: someone's tall father leans on a shovel

in failing light. It's black and white, but I see

the orange in the tip of his smoke

Falcon, Colleen Abel

Bryant Literary Review

The falconer makes a show of the release:

pretending to heave the bird to open air,

Body Piercing, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

When he was five, my brother was chased by bees

after poking their hive with a stick

Butterflies And Honey, B. Z. Niditch

Bryant Literary Review

You keep your voice

shivering in the blue sun

butterflies and honey

Dragonflies On The Stairs, Gary Pedler

Bryant Literary Review

It was the only Victorian left on the block. On either side stood apartment buildings, one from the turn of the last century, the other from the nineteen eighties, both nondescript in different ways.

Two Swans In A Pond Next To The Highway, J. R. Solonche

Bryant Literary Review

They have chosen well, these two

swans, one swimming the circumference

of the water, its neck a parenthesis

Drawing Blanks, John Azrak

Bryant Literary Review

I turned my memory over

to you when, unexpectedly

Some Less Well-Tempered Claviers, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

This thinking is not all solitary.

Sometimes I take music along.

Johann Sebastian Bach,

Fugitive Day, Ellen Prentiss Cambell

Bryant Literary Review

Yonder Hills it was called then, and still is now, after the first line from an old hymn my grandmother used to sing, "Yonder Hills are very Fair."

Photography, Rustin Larson

Bryant Literary Review

Earth takes a long-exposure photo of herself--

her apartment a kind of camera obscura--

Squid, Mary Ann Mayer

Bryant Literary Review

We dissected one in school,

and it squirted ink all over the room

when I squeezed it.

The Agreement, Lewis Schrager

Bryant Literary Review

When the shooting starts, the tourists stay home. No tourists, no business--Mamoun Aboulafia knew the situation all too well.

Worms, Gary Guinn

Bryant Literary Review

At the wine and cheese party for the clinic staff, John described his worm farm to Doctor Miles.

Rory Gilley, Cody Stratton

Bryant Literary Review

People always wonder

But never question why

Late Visions, Lynn Domina

Bryant Literary Review

He's an old man with an infant

daughter dead seventy years.

What The Raven Said, Barbara Crooker

Bryant Literary Review

as he balanced on a branch of Douglas fir,

was that it's dark under the stars, the planet

New In Town, Nancy White

Bryant Literary Review

Yes, he still drops by, still for no reason. Even

today when rain bathes the house and

the path sheds its glove of dust.

A Field Of Pumpkins, Martha Christina

Bryant Literary Review

Glimpsed from the train

they're a sudden

and short-lived gift.

The Rocking Cradle, Juned Subhan

Bryant Literary Review

It was bizarre when it happened to them, like a sign of something else to come, as if it was only the beginning, as if they should have foreseen it, but didn't, and were foolish not to.