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For Joe Conley, Ike Godsey On The Waltons 1928-2013, David Vancil 2018 Indiana State University

For Joe Conley, Ike Godsey On The Waltons 1928-2013, David Vancil

Westview

In your favorite episode, you are past your prime


Petticoat In The Navy: My Mother's War, Sheila A. Murphy 2018 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Petticoat In The Navy: My Mother's War, Sheila A. Murphy

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In 1918 Julia Lehan, age nineteen, lives in Roxbury


The Ymca, Cal Castle 2018 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Ymca, Cal Castle

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Feet trampling, Treading upon The hardwood terrain.


Qwerty, James E. Fowler 2018 Univ. of Central Arkansas

Qwerty, James E. Fowler

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What you’ve seen but can’t place, always overlooking


Big, James E. Fowler 2018 Univ. of Central Arkansas

Big, James E. Fowler

Westview

The setting sun casts a Giacometti shadow before me.


Contributors, Westview Staff 2018 Westview Staff

Contributors, Westview Staff

Westview

No abstract provided.


Stitch-By-Stitch, Katacha Diaz 2018 University of California, Davis (retired researcher)

Stitch-By-Stitch, Katacha Diaz

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Many years ago while on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I decided to take an early morning stroll in the city’s art district.


In The Pacific: A Wwii Photograph, David Vancil 2018 Indiana State University

In The Pacific: A Wwii Photograph, David Vancil

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In the black and white snapshot, my father and my uncle, sweaty from volleyball, stand side-by-side


My Father's Wars, Sheila A. Murphy 2018 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

My Father's Wars, Sheila A. Murphy

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Longer now than sixty years ago, dying in a veterans’ hospital, committed by my mother


Well Of Despair, Sarah Brown Weitzman 2018 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Well Of Despair, Sarah Brown Weitzman

Westview

As a follow up to that classic


Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells 2018 Otis College of Art and Design

Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells

Westview

This distance is real.


Looking As They Should, Philip Wexler 2018 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Looking As They Should, Philip Wexler

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On the ferry to the Stockholm Archipelago, Gunilla


Plowing, Kevin Oakes 2018 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Plowing, Kevin Oakes

Westview

As a kid growing up on a farm You are expected to learn how to plow


Nowhere Is Nowhere, Catherine McCraw 2018 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Nowhere Is Nowhere, Catherine Mccraw

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People often speak of rural Western Oklahoma as the middle of nowhere.


September's Grapes, Sheila A. Murphy 2018 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

September's Grapes, Sheila A. Murphy

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There’s grief from harvest early, or too late: bitter, hard, or over-ripened fruit.


Frisk, James E. Fowler 2018 Univ. of Central Arkansas

Frisk, James E. Fowler

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the air vent is a cat


Lady: Bug, James E. Fowler 2018 University of Central Arkansas

Lady: Bug, James E. Fowler

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Tired of buzzing humdrum, she gaped.


Tennyson, By Allergies Immured, John Bradshaw 2018 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Tennyson, By Allergies Immured, John Bradshaw

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Window bound I sit and ponder Letting my sheltered eyes go wander.


The Toxicity Of Otherness, Justin Malone 2018 Kutztown University

The Toxicity Of Otherness, Justin Malone

English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

This article discusses the dangerous philosophical principle of Othering, wherein a group of people are ostracized for being different from the majority. While categorization of information is a fundamental aspect of how the brain works, the categorization of people homogenizes their complexities. In doing so, a group is seen as a single entity, rather than individuals, which strips them of their humanity. After a group has been Othered, society will inevitably invoke some method of forced displacement upon them. Additionally, the article emphasizes the importance of affected individuals telling the stories of their experiences with oppression from Othering. Sharing one’s …


Visionaries Of The Road, Storm A. Wright 2018 Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

Visionaries Of The Road, Storm A. Wright

English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

What is space? It is a personal concept that people develop while on journeys toward discovery. Through means both intentional and not, that space can be shared with the world and make the knowledge gained on the journey available to anyone with the same curiosities. By looking into the travels of Ezra Meeker on the Oregon Trail, Horatio Nelson Jackson across country, and William Least Heat-Moon on the blue highway, space can be conceptualized and understood as these three men allow us to understand them through their own words and experiences.


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