Innocence,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Rendevous With Jerry,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Who Are You Pretty For?,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Martha Stewart Lives In The Woods,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Flying Over Vietnam, 1974,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
A Whiff Of Skunk,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Very First Dance,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
The Wake,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Car Living,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Easter Poem,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Ballade In Spite Of Not Knowing,
2026
Freelance
Brook's Comforters,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Occurences,
2026
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Hope, Incorporated: Welborn Hope As B.A. Botkin's "Promising" Oklahoma Poet,
2026
Eastern Oklahoma State College
Hope, Incorporated: Welborn Hope As B.A. Botkin's "Promising" Oklahoma Poet, Cullen Whisenhunt
Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy
In 1927, a letter by then-professor at the University of Oklahoma, Roy Temple House, was published in the Ada Evening News complimenting Ada, OK, poet Welborn Hope and suggesting Hope get in touch with folklorist and literary scholar BA Botkin, also an OU faculty member. That same year, Botkin published “Oklahoma Poets, Inc.,” in which he detailed what he believed to be the three stages of a state’s literary development: the pioneer stage, the popular rhymesters stage, and finally, the union of art and life (30-31). In 1935, Botkin presented a lecture in Tulsa in which he cited Hope among …
A Puff's Exploration Of Wayne Hopkins,
2026
Loyola Marymount University
A Puff's Exploration Of Wayne Hopkins, Ethan G. Mullen, Leon Wiebers
Honors Thesis
This thesis is a synthesis of modalities I have studied during the course of my Theatre Arts degree, applied to the realization of the principal character, Wayne Hopkins in the award-winning play Puffs (Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic) a LMU Theatre Arts Department production. This work is divided into three major sections. First, I reflect on how I applied acting tools I have studied at LMU to the development of my character and performance. These include script analysis, story structure analysis, breath work, and Viewpoints training. Second, I share media displaying my …
Database: A Poetry Collection,
2026
University of San Diego
Database: A Poetry Collection, Lara Dominique D. Solante
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Poets wield their pens to respond to various societal or cultural stimuli—including politics, art, science, and more. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is an exponential development that has become a leading topic of discussion. This project, titled Database, is a collection of poems that interrogates the tensions that exist between humanity and technology through the use of modern imagery, such as robots and virtual reality. These poems also examine the once distinct markers of humanity that characterized classical poetry, including emotion and sensory experiences, and reframes them within a contemporary context, giving technology and artificial consciousness a voice. Although this collection …
Thoughts, Lately,
2026
University of North Alabama
Thoughts, Lately, Thomas L. Reid
Theses
Swift changes in government occur through several avenues. One option involves quick decisive action that entails violence. These set of poems exhibit a reaction to suddenly changing political and social structures in America during the second term of a divisive executive administration. Alongside this change—the author’s personal experiences as queer individual in a historic area of the deep South.
To The True North In Us All,
2026
New York Medical College
Man's Conceit,
2026
New York Medical College
For Whom The Bell Tolls,
2026
New York Medical College
For Whom The Bell Tolls, Christopher Liz
Quill & Scope
This poem was written after reflecting on time spent working in hospitals and medical environments both stateside and while deployed. In these spaces, alarms are constant—bells, monitors, and vibrating alerts competing for attention. Over time, the noise becomes familiar, and clinicians often struggle with what is known as alarm fatigue, where the urgency of each signal begins to dull. In that quiet realization, I found myself asking a simple question: who are these alarms for? The poem explores that moment of awareness and the effort to reconnect the sound of the bell with the life behind it.
