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The Tinker Bell Jar, Kayla Berryman 2022 Utah State University

The Tinker Bell Jar, Kayla Berryman

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

This poetry thesis is a collection of poems thematically linked together. Each poem revolves around characters from fairy tales and children’s books who are stuck in situations with abusive or harmful family members and crave an escape. In Part One of this collection, the poems take place in what readers might identify as the real world. In Part One, the poems have elements of fairy tales in them, and the speaker, or narrator of the poems, uses fairy tales to understand and relate the relationship between her parents and brother in a way that she can understand. The speaker of …


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

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 …


The Kiss Turns: A Play On Aural Manor, Meredith Higgins 2022 Boise State University

The Kiss Turns: A Play On Aural Manor, Meredith Higgins

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The Kiss Turns: A Play on Aural Manor is a poetic work that explores the nature of being and selfhood as they are expressed and modulated through the hearing, speaking, and writing of language. The Manor and surrounding Grounds here are presented as a fluid junk-mosaic: colorful, clamoring, thing-filled, magical, and on the move. Seven characters reside on the Manor’s property and live out their respective longings and loves, apprehending horror, tragedy, abundance, and the possibility of play through accepting and collaborating with the unknown depths of being.


Horsonnets, Shriram Sivaramakrishnan 2022 Boise State University

Horsonnets, Shriram Sivaramakrishnan

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

‘Horsonnets’ was conceived and written between September 2019 and December 2021. As the name suggests, the collection is centered around horses, as objects of desire, metaphor, tropes. The collection is structured into four sections: ‘the way a horse frames blueness’, ‘to nurse a hurt’, ‘horsonnets’ and ‘landscape with horns’. Together, they all address different kinds of pain (horses became emblematic of that): bodily (‘the way a horse frames blueness’), historical (‘to nurse a hurt’), cultural (‘horsonnets’), and spiritual (‘landscape with horns’).


Monitor, Cameron Sanford 2022 DePauw University

Monitor, Cameron Sanford

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Entomology // Placebo, Frances Sharples 2022 SUNY Geneseo

Entomology // Placebo, Frances Sharples

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Love Needs No Wings, Taylor Constantino 2022 SUNY Geneseo

Love Needs No Wings, Taylor Constantino

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Black, White, And Red, Gabriela Nadeau 2022 SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology

Black, White, And Red, Gabriela Nadeau

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Six Of Cups Reversed, Kat Johnson 2022 SUNY Geneseo

Six Of Cups Reversed, Kat Johnson

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Little One, Jocelyn Paredes 2022 SUNY Fredonia

Little One, Jocelyn Paredes

Gandy Dancer Archives

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As Above, So Below: Magical Poetics And Queer Alchemy & A Planetary Spell.., Robert Eric Shoemaker 2022 University of Louisville

As Above, So Below: Magical Poetics And Queer Alchemy & A Planetary Spell.., Robert Eric Shoemaker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

"Words have power": no more obvious statement has perhaps ever been made in an essay. However, the nature of that power is quite complicated, with a long and contentious history. I think of poetry as magic. Poetry is magical in the sense that it has ineffable qualities to it that enable readers to experience new thoughts and feelings when experiencing poetry, but when I say magic I mean that I think of poetry as actual, practical magic. As I will argue, poetry has magical qualities to it regardless of who is weaving the words, while intentional use of a self-aware …


The Taste Of Death, Vy Nguyen 2022 DePauw University

The Taste Of Death, Vy Nguyen

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Venus Burning, Elizabeth Swift 2022 DePauw University

Venus Burning, Elizabeth Swift

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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The Bad Thing, Meredith White 2022 DePauw University

The Bad Thing, Meredith White

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Good Soil, Harry Burgan 2022 DePauw University

Good Soil, Harry Burgan

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Peach, Layla Brown-Clark 2022 DePauw University

Peach, Layla Brown-Clark

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Golden Flesh (The Interlude), Layla Brown-Clark 2022 DePauw University

Golden Flesh (The Interlude), Layla Brown-Clark

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Marrying Buddha, Mana Kunimatsu 2022 DePauw University

Marrying Buddha, Mana Kunimatsu

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Former Poker Pro Reflects On A Life He Saw, Harry Burgan 2022 DePauw University

Former Poker Pro Reflects On A Life He Saw, Harry Burgan

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Entries From The Journal Of An Old Horse Thief, Harry Burgan 2022 DePauw University

Entries From The Journal Of An Old Horse Thief, Harry Burgan

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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