Echo 2024 - Complete Issue,
2024
Furman University
If I Cannot Hear Us, How Do I Know We Are Here? A Journey Into Assyrian Storytelling,
2024
Santa Clara University
If I Cannot Hear Us, How Do I Know We Are Here? A Journey Into Assyrian Storytelling, Nadine Koochou
Canterbury Scholars
In this collection of poetry and prose, Nadine Koochou explores her Assyrian-American identity, retracing family history and merging it with her own reflections. Through creative essays, she communicates the things she knows, to some degree of certainty. Through poetry, she communicates things she thinks she knows, or feelings she understands intrinsically, or things she does not know at all but wishes to know. Combining Assyrian history with intimate stories, she explores themes of generational trauma, language, love, war, and home.
De Feu Et De Sang : Le Désert De Hawad,
2024
Aix-en-Provence, France
And I Become Her,
2024
Dartmouth College
And I Become Her, Alhanouf Almaghrabi
Dartmouth College Master’s Theses
This thesis is a novel written in the first-person point of view with two characters, Jamila and Bella. The two protagonists are identical twins who got separated at birth. The novel addresses cultural effects and explores the role of upbringing in shaping the twins' identities. Jamila is raised by her father in Saudi Arabia while Bella is raised by her mother in the United States. The storyline starts when the two sisters meet in Atlanta, Georgia, 18 years after the separation. Jamila studies business administration at Georgia Tech while Bella studies creative writing at SCAD. Each one of them get …
Riding Shotgun: Authenticity And Discovery,
2024
Dartmouth College
Riding Shotgun: Authenticity And Discovery, James Washington Jr
Dartmouth College Master’s Theses
The truth hurts.” So, my family said to me from my earliest comprehension. The poet’s fundamental ethic requires a commitment to authenticity, at the intersection of myriad creative possibilities. How to write poems about family, friends, and life experiences, mine included, through honest interrogation? Fortunately, empathy and truth are not mutually exclusive. When I began my thesis, my poems written during MALS enrollment were scattered, print and electronic. I could have saved myself plenty of time had I been a good curator. So said, there was an upside to gathering the strays. I was afforded the benefit of thematic discovery …
Reaping In The Dark,
2024
Seattle Pacific University
Reaping In The Dark, Rae Perez
Honors Projects
This project, reaping in the dark, aims to answer the question ‘How do we live in a world where we were never meant to survive?’ Surrounded by heinous war and deathmaking, violent vulnerabilities, and demands that our own bodies must be contributions in the machinations of killing and exploitation, I found myself simultaneously isolated by the devastation, and empowered by solidarity and care networks and coalitions being formed in real time. In particular, I take part in and document my grief and grieving, love and loving in response to the new cycles of escalating violence in Gaza, the …
Me And Ms Jones - The Androgyny Of Black Women,
2024
Dartmouth College
Me And Ms Jones - The Androgyny Of Black Women, Lethokuhle Msimang
Comparative Literature M.A. Essays
Despite the progression of contemporary discourses around gender, the African woman's body remains in a categorical conundrum shaped by post-colonial legacies. This paper explores how prevailing notions of femininity and its intrinsic relationship to delicateness, exclude black women from the female category. Given the significance gender plays in participation in the occident, black women's preclusion from the female category can result in what may appear on the surface as a posturing of whiteness, but which, on further interrogation, reflects a performance of fragility. On the other extreme is the embrace of androgyny as both an internalization and a way to …
Santa Clara Review, Vol. 111, No. 2,
2024
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara Review, Vol. 111, No. 2, Santa Clara University
Santa Clara Review
No abstract provided.
Poem No. 131, June 2024,
2024
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Poem No. 131, June 2024, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)
POEM
The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.
Memoriam,
2024
Dartmouth College
Memoriam, Mira Helena Darham
Dartmouth College Master’s Theses
The chasm between past and present is a constant reminder of the perilous journey one takes through the fissures of memory. While on this expedition the forms surrounding you, the memories themselves, are a constantly changing landscape that make navigation a difficult and dangerous task. Is a memory a recall or a remembrance, truth, or construction? Are all memories as they happened or are we the “rememberer,” the architect of their composition? This dilemma has been the impetus of my academic pursuits and creative endeavors. For Memoriam I have chosen an event in my past, a wildfire, as the catalyst …
The Realm That I Am: An Interdisciplinary Memoir On Identity And Healing,
2024
Portland State University
The Realm That I Am: An Interdisciplinary Memoir On Identity And Healing, Maria Rowen Flores
University Honors Theses
This thesis is an interdisciplinary exploration into identity, self, and meaning-making. Engaging queer studies, Chicano/a Studies, narrative therapy, creative nonfiction, and visual arts, this project is both a collage and self-portrait in two parts. Part one uses the ideas of philosophers Gloria Anzaldúa, María Lugones, Jack Halberstam, and Judith Butler to explore identity formation in the author’s family and social contexts. Part two follows the experience of having C-PTSD and uses memoir and creative writing to explore the narrative therapeutic mode. Both sections explore themes of identity, social isolation, relationships, failure, mental illness, trauma, and addiction. The work is underscored …
Poetry Style Experimentation,
2024
Grand Valley State University
Poetry Style Experimentation, Ian Mcguckin
Honors Projects
This project is an experimentation in different craft and stylistic approaches to poetry. Each week, a different major contemporary poet was studied through one of their collections. Their work was analyzed and dissected to reveal some of the main stylistic choices they make to achieve their individual effect. After analysis, a handful of these elements were chosen to replicate in the author's own poems. Guided by crafted prompts created to inspire the author towards the chosen poet's style or subject, two to three poems were drafted each week and then revised at the end of the week. In total, this …
Ekphrasis: An Exploration Of Poetry Inspired By Art,
2024
CUNY Graduate Center
Ekphrasis: An Exploration Of Poetry Inspired By Art, Caitlin Cacciatore
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
“Ekphrasis: An Exploration of Poetry Inspired by Art” is an Open Educational Resource (OER) that occupies the underdeveloped niche of freely available teaching and learning materials about the interdisciplinary poetic medium of ekphrasis. Ekphrastic poetry is a form dating back to Book XVIII of the Iliad, experiencing a revitalization in the latter half of the 18th century, when demand for written descriptions of paintings was in high demand, and again taking on a new, modern meaning in the early 19th century, with poems like John Keats’ 1819 “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Ekphrasis is …
Dear Cuba,
2024
Nova Southeastern University
The Forest Within,
2024
Nova Southeastern University
The Forest Within, Lindsay N. Scherer
Digressions: Literary & Art Journal
No abstract provided.
Later Traumagator,
2024
Nova Southeastern University
Later Traumagator, Jyllian D. Brown
Digressions: Literary & Art Journal
No abstract provided.
Fish Market,
2024
Nova Southeastern University
Untitled,
2024
Nova Southeastern University
Untitled, Marilyn Yanes Perez
Digressions: Literary & Art Journal
No abstract provided.
The Truth About Satan,
2024
Nova Southeastern University
The Truth About Satan, Mahir Abrar
Digressions: Literary & Art Journal
No abstract provided.
Alluring Red Sight,
2024
Nova Southeastern University
Alluring Red Sight, Roseline Jean-Pierre
Digressions: Literary & Art Journal
No abstract provided.
