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Merciless: A Crude Hagiography, Lindsey Ann Klessens Appell 2019 Boise State University

Merciless: A Crude Hagiography, Lindsey Ann Klessens Appell

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is the culmination of a project that began as an attempt to explore my relationship, as a teenager, with the Main Street of my hometown, Roundup, MT. In the process of looking through the Roundup Record-Tribune archives and revisiting adolescent memories, I began to see connective tissue between the autobiographical aspects of this documentary project and the work I had been doing in reclaiming, repurposing, and “translating” folklore and mythology in my poetry. Coming out of classes in Old English and translation theory, I had also developed an interest in experimental and creative translation of early medieval texts, …


Sunday Dinners Creative Introduction & Poem Analyses, Sophie Clark 2019 University of Nebraska at Omaha

Sunday Dinners Creative Introduction & Poem Analyses, Sophie Clark

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

In tandem with my Writer’s Workshop poetry thesis, in which I will work with Dr. Lisa Fay Coutley to produce an original chapbook of 25-30 poems, my Honors thesis will analyze my use of poetic devices and forms throughout my chapbook. To do so, I will write a 250-page analysis of each poem and its overall contribution to the book as a whole. In addition, I will also provide an introduction to my chapbook upon its completion, in which I will summarize my responses to detail an overview of my thematic and structural concepts.


Shipped Away, Fela Dosunmu 2019 DePauw University

Shipped Away, Fela Dosunmu

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

No abstract provided.


Contributors, Westview Staff 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Contributors, Westview Staff

Westview

No abstract provided.


Birds Of Light, Jack Cooper 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Birds Of Light, Jack Cooper

Westview

Autumn streams of rain hit the maple tree and red and yellow leaves wing off in all directions


Drifting, Nan Byrne 2019 Virginia Commonwealth University

Drifting, Nan Byrne

Westview

On the bed my eyes closed I am letting drift take me


Festina Lente, Jack Cooper 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Festina Lente, Jack Cooper

Westview

I once laid a stone path in the yard and unearthed a spadefoot toad in hibernation


Here And Now, Dennis Ross 2019 Iowa State University

Here And Now, Dennis Ross

Westview

Driving along an Iowa gravel road I am sometimes jolted wide awake as from a forever sleep, struck by the immediacy of the world,


Hometown, Kenneth Beck 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Hometown, Kenneth Beck

Westview

My hometown is a monochrome. Pack rats on every block with vintage Whatever-you-have from whatever-year.


Human Rib Bone, $10, Shiann Dawson 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Human Rib Bone, $10, Shiann Dawson

Westview

A little gift shop, nestled into a house of death Filled with…well, Trinkets, mostly.


Imperfect English Composition, Anne Babson 2019 Southeastern Louisiana University

Imperfect English Composition, Anne Babson

Westview

Thesis: While in love, no matter what my mother says about the milk for free, I have discovered that he is prose, not sonnet. While having sterling qualities, he is not perfect. Remind the reader that no one is. Remind self.


Interactive Sonnet, James B. Nicola 2019 Freelance

Interactive Sonnet, James B. Nicola

Westview

This is the place where I’m supposed to say a thing I have to say, and soundly, then expound upon it like a pregnant hen with fourteen eggs she cannot help but lay.


Ire Man, James B. Nicola 2019 Freelance

Ire Man, James B. Nicola

Westview

When the life is mostly moor, make it poetry.


Irises Planted On A Grave, Gordon Grice 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Irises Planted On A Grave, Gordon Grice

Westview

The irises lick the wind with fragrant tongues…


New Barista, Dennis Ross 2019 Iowa State University

New Barista, Dennis Ross

Westview

She moves like a half-grown colt, all legs and skinny arms…


On Wings, Richard Dinges Jr. 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

On Wings, Richard Dinges Jr.

Westview

Each day, more flies descend and buzz my porch. I bathe.


Part Ii, Diane Glancy 2019 Macalester College

Part Ii, Diane Glancy

Westview

The Erring Need of Narrative


Prayers Coagulate Around A Woman On Her Porch, Henry D. Goldkamp 2019 Delgado Community College

Prayers Coagulate Around A Woman On Her Porch, Henry D. Goldkamp

Westview

Southern static : pink tongue : dewy ears : seagulls yelling Wal-Mart


Princesses, Donna L. Emerson 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Princesses, Donna L. Emerson

Westview

First grade girls are deciding who’s a princess. They say I’m not one.


Promise, Jack Cooper 2019 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Promise, Jack Cooper

Westview

Her hands looked old boney and bruised but her face young her cheeks blushed her eyes wandering


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