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I Carried You, Kate Delay

Bryant Literary Review

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God's Country, Kate Delay

Bryant Literary Review

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When They Tore Down The White House, Abby E. Murray

Bryant Literary Review

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To The Doctor With A Twelve-Step Skincare Routine, Colleen S. Harris

Bryant Literary Review

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After Yesterday, Sean Cho A

Bryant Literary Review

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Surfacing, Rebecca Faulkner

Bryant Literary Review

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Christine Keeler, Rebecca Faulkner

Bryant Literary Review

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Unnoticed, Mary Zelinka

Bryant Literary Review

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Insomnia, Tim Louise Macaluso

Bryant Literary Review

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Fifty, Tim Louis Macaluso

Bryant Literary Review

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“Das Muttermal” - “The Birthmark” - “דער מוטער־צײכן”, Kristin K. Mlay-Kuhns

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture

“Das Muttermal / The Birthmark / דער מוטער־צײכן” is a trilingual work of transcreative poetry that stages translation as a method of mourning, cultural memory, and feminist inheritance. Composed first in German and then translated into English and Yiddish, the poem explores the catastrophic rupture of maternal loss and the slow transformation of trauma into understanding. The central metaphor of the birthmark—Muttermal, the “mother-mark”—figures the maternal body as both wound and connective tissue, binding ancestors and descendants through a physical trace that persists across generations, geographies, and languages. Formally, the project demonstrates how translation unveils the layered meanings embedded in …

My Love Poetry, David Achodo

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture

My Love Poetry is the premier collection of my five poems on the power of love as a metaphysical quest. Dominant themes of affection, heroism, destiny, spirituality, and timelessness are stylistically woven through tension and revelation. The imagery of time, covenant, prophecy, and light maintains the assurance of destiny’s verdict in the search for love. The first poem, “A Quest in my Quest,” reveals the poet’s patience, anticipation, and endurance through time as he waits for the bride of his dreams. The second poem, “Invade my World,” is an invitation to a transcendent future wife. This piece blends sacred longing …

Three Poems, Rachel Ann Martin

Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture

The search for knowledge across languages and languages beyond knowledge leads to questions of completeness, control, and understanding. One of these poems was written in response to an omnipoetics class, where the problems and promise of anthologizing across time, languages, and cultures took center stage. Another poem came from the experience of co-teaching a translation group. The third was born from a paired writing relationship; poetic language for communication is always a leap of trust. Together, these poems reflect the lived experiences of the author; a multilingual poet who studies multilingual poets.

Light And Dark, Quinn Marshall

The Agora

Some of my recent poems. They are melancholy, and many play on ideas about what is light and darkness and how they manifest themselves. Most of these poems are written based on my thoughts about some of life’s challenges and how they make me feel. “The days” is an example of this. Others, particularly “Lights” and “Dark”, are more idealogical in nature and I use them to explore what I think are prevailing cultural assumptions.

Lyreen, Maynooth, Gage Anderson

The Agora

An entry from a collection of short poems written over the summer of 2023. This collection recalls the island of Ireland: the history, the nature, the people, from an outsider’s perspective. Written on location across the varied landscapes of the emerald isle, this collection centers the melancholy of travel, and the resiliance of the Irish people. The titular poem recalls the Lyreen River, which runs through the town of Maynooth.

Poems By Nursing Students, Anonymous, A. Jann Davis, L M. A, Larry Atkins

Documents

A series of four poems presumed to be authored by nursing students in approximately the 1980s on themes related to mortality and grief.

The first poem "Thoughts of a Dying Person" is written by an anonymous author whose speaker questions the things in life they would do differently if they had more time. Its form is more prose like than the others in the document and could be considered flash fiction or prose poetry but seems to fit the poetic category more through the usage of a triangular shaping of the poem.

The second poem, an untitled piece by A. …

Unveiled., Kimberly Barga Com 28

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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Ghazab Din, Ramanjot Singh Com 28

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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Mornings At Kcu, Ramanjot Singh Com 28

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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Oms1, Ramanjot Singh Com 28

PULSE: A Student Publication of Literary & Artistic Works

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