Sleeping With The Lights On,
2018
John Carroll University
Sleeping With The Lights On, Mara Bahmer
The John Carroll Review
No abstract provided.
Reaching,
2018
John Carroll University
Poisons And Remedies,
2018
John Carroll University
Author Bios,
2018
John Carroll University
Table Of Contents,
2018
John Carroll University
The Journey Of An Emotional Black Boy,
2018
Ursinus College
The Journey Of An Emotional Black Boy, Alonzo Elias
Philosophy Summer Fellows
The title of my project is "Emotional Nigga" a.k.a. "Emotional Black Boy" because people would be comfortable if I called it so. The audience for this project may want to think of it this way. The title I chose is meant to express the struggles I faced in my journey to self-awareness. I decided to share my story through fifteen topics, which have brought me a better understanding of myself and will hopefully help the audience as well. These topics are Self-Love, Prelude: Intimacy and Attachment Theory, Relationships, Sex, Beauty, Sexuality, Love, Self-Love, Spirituality, Religion, Astrology, Psychology, Self-Care, and Life. …
Murmuration,
2018
Portland State University
Murmuration, Braeden Dillenbeck
Dissertations and Theses
The poems that comprise Murmuration are an act of vigilance in the face of loss. At certain moments in the distorted timeline of grief one searches the remaining world around them for signs of the beloved, signs that they are not simply gone but instead transformed or dispersed into another way of being. In this looking one's relationship to the external world undergoes a radical transformation of its own and demands a sustained attention from the bereaved that often draws from, but ultimately outruns cataloguing acts of memory. These poems attempt to render the movements of that attention as it …
Amjambo Africa! (July 2018),
2018
University of Southern Maine
Amjambo Africa! (July 2018), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In This Issue...
Profile: Angela Okafor........ Page 10
Know Your Rights ................Page 12
Families Separated at the Southern Border...............Page 12
Mindfulness Of Minnows,
2018
Western Kentucky University
Mindfulness Of Minnows, Will Hollis
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
Literature is a deeply personal and interpersonal act from the author to the reader. In some way the author is attempting to capture their interpretation of space and time inside the vehicle of language. Through metaphor and enjambment, syntax and imagery, this thesis attempts to render the contemporary experience of the artist as he is grounded in location and interpretation. The lens used in inspecting the world is biological and philosophical, seeking and hiding from the truth.
Nature and science are used as linking languages in the collections of poems, seeking to be united with emotion based in the bedrock …
The Earth, The Moon, The Stars: Stories,
2018
Western Kentucky University
The Earth, The Moon, The Stars: Stories, Cameron Jay Moreno
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This is a book-length, hybrid collection of short stories and poetry with a critical introduction. The narrative of these stories and poems are told through the perspective of Xavi Muñoz and various characters related to him. In theme, this collection explores machismo and Xavi’s attempt at overcoming it by discovering the intersectionality between masculinity, sexuality, gender, and gender roles. In addition, the introduction theorizes about masculinity by relating it to water.
Break Us Beautiful,
2018
Western Kentucky University
Break Us Beautiful, Elizabeth Upshur
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The problem addressed in this thesis is cultivating an answer to the question: what creates or comprises the sum total of my Blackness as a modern American woman living in our current political climate? I primarily use a read/call and response methodology, responding to both lived and hypothetical experiences that explore or demonstrate the ways that identity, race, gender, sexuality, regionality, religion, and the historical thumbprint intersect. The results are this collection of poems that is at times mythological, at times irreverent, both abstract and formal as it seeks to fit these pieces into a singular mosaic. The conclusion drawn …
Library,
2018
Colorado College
Library, Jessy Randall, Briget Heidmous
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
“Library” is a visual poem from Mapping Project, a collaborative effort of Jessy Randall and Briget Heidmous. Jessy writes words and Briget draws.
http://www.briget-heidmous.com/mapping-project/
Gonna Die (Poem),
2018
University of Louisville
Gonna Die (Poem), Wes Grooms
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
No abstract provided.
Three Poems,
2018
The University of Arizona Poetry Center
Three Poems, Wendy Burk, Julie Swarstad Johnson, Sarah Kortemeier
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory
These three works of visual art and poetry emerged from our professional experience as librarians and poets at The University of Arizona Poetry Center, a special collection of contemporary poetry housed in a public university. Frequently described as a “living archive,” the Poetry Center’s library houses both open stacks designed for browsing and closed stacks containing archival collections related to contemporary poetry. Our collections, building, and everyday work, as seen through the alternate lens of our identities as writers and artists, comprise the subjects of our collaborative assemblages. We began by generating a list of questions that became the titles …
Bones I Found In The Garden,
2018
University of Southern Maine
Bones I Found In The Garden, Alena Indigo Anne Sullivan
Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones
This collection is a volume of small, intimate moments portrayed in both poetry and prose. Rather than grand, operatic plots telling convoluted stories, this work speaks of the magic in simple things, looking in at personal (and often difficult) moments—the process of finding the beauty in ugly things, finding the crumbs of human emotion that slip through the cracks—lending them the attention they are due but often fail to receive. This collection digs up potsherds of childhood trauma, bones of old romances, and ghosts of things that will never be, all presented to the reader through the lens of fantasy. …
I Was Thinking Something In The Car, But Now I Forgot,
2018
Northern Michigan University
I Was Thinking Something In The Car, But Now I Forgot, Olliemae Bartlett
All NMU Master's Theses
This collection consists of modern free verse poetry left around town, captured with an instant camera using a capitalist lens and developed in the bottom of a purse. Sometimes found, sometimes torn down, sometimes scribbled, riddled, pickled, stickled, belittled, embrittled and initialed, sometimes made by mistake but always left hungry and up for debate.
In I Was Thinking Something In the Car, But now I forgot, the voice is your voice, only from over here, somewhere you’ve never been but could imagine if you tried. The voice speaks to the machine we’ve made together: the florescent, 24hr signs, press 3 …
Editor’S Note,
2018
Rochester Institute of Technology
Editor’S Note, Trent Hergenrader
Journal of Creative Writing Studies
One of the primary goals of the field of creative writing studies is to examine creative writing lore. Lore is anecdotal knowledge, often passed down through generations as informal advice and traditional knowledge that is often framed as appealing to our common sense. Lore is not necessarily wrong or bad; indeed, it usually has more than a grain of truth to it, which is why it survives and continues to be shared, like a folk remedy for the common cold.
Voices From Verse: The Power Of Poetry For Seattle's Homeless Youth,
2018
Seattle Pacific University
Voices From Verse: The Power Of Poetry For Seattle's Homeless Youth, Savannah Grace Hadley
Honors Projects
This paper is a creative nonfiction essay combining research, interviews, and personal experience to discuss how and why poetry is helpful in a therapeutic context, specifically working with at-risk youth. Pongo, a program that provides incarcerated youth an opportunity to write poetry, under the direction of Richard Gold, has found through survey responses that with the Pongo Teen Writing Method “100 percent of youth enjoyed the writing experience, 98 percent were proud of their writing, and 73 percent wrote on topics they don’t normally talk about” (Gold, 21). I came to understand, through time volunteering with the writing groups at …
Amjambo Africa! (June 2018),
2018
University of Southern Maine
Amjambo Africa! (June 2018), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
Welcome to Amjambo Africa! Welcome to Amjambo Africa! We are Maine’s free newspaper for and about New Mainers from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Amjambo Africa! is here to help New Mainers thrive and to help Maine welcome and benefit from our new neighbors.
Amjambo Africa! will serve as a conduit of information for newcomers as they navigate life in Maine.
Amjambo Africa! will include background articles about Africa so those from Maine can understand why newcomers have arrived here.
Amjambo Africa! will profile successful New Mainers from Sub-Saharan Africa in order to give hope to those newly arrived as well as make …
The Body In Pain / The Body In Ecstasy,
2018
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
The Body In Pain / The Body In Ecstasy, Shannon Kenny
LSU Master's Theses
The Body in Pain / The Body in Ecstasy is a series of short lyric essays/extended poems which catalogue major discriminatory movements against disabled people in the 20th and 21st century, specifically in the United States. My work contains duel storylines, using these movements/categories of violence as frames for my own personal narrative, and connecting individual experience to larger historical structures. I do this to disrupt the notion that history is disconnected from the present, and showcase how humans are built by context, where personal and political are inexorably intertwined, and social development is tied to both the body and …
