That Which Goes Through A Child's Mind Upon Birth,
2016
Winthrop University
Mqndr,
2016
Winthrop University
It Is Better To Forget,
2016
Winthrop University
Untitled,
2016
Winthrop University
As Light Runs From A Frozen Star,
2016
Winthrop University
The Trail,
2016
Winthrop University
Khalil,
2016
Winthrop University
Reflections,
2016
Winthrop University
Bonegrinder,
2016
Winthrop University
Bronze Soldier,
2016
Winthrop University
Full Issue,
2016
Winthrop University
Full Issue, The Anthology
The Anthology
This is the entirety of the 2014 Winthrop Anthology issue.
Westview: Vol. 32, Iss. 2 (Summer/Fall 2016),
2016
Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Vs,
2016
California State University - San Bernardino
Vs, Bolin Jue
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
VS is a poetic exercise in rhyme and rhythm. An exercise attempting to camouflage ideas in humor, in song, in lyrical overtures, and in social media pop culture lingo to highlight the damaging effects technology and social media have on the human relationship with the earth. VS is a mirror, is an attempt to selfie the world we have lost touch with by contemplating where our role as caretakers for our planet lies. Through varying poetic forms, VS displays and critiques the limited perspective forced upon us when we socialize and experience life solely through phones and screens.
In this …
Crafting The Fever,
2016
California State University - San Bernardino
Crafting The Fever, Andrea Nikki Harlin
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
The Hibiscus Snake is a collection of poetry investigating the female experience encountering danger. She explores psychic landscapes descended in the unconscious uncanny, the feminine body within the context of horror, and lyrical poems about living in working class communities in San Bernardino. The collection attempts to subvert the presentation of the female body in Horror genres, moving it from a position of victimization to empowerment. In other poems, the speaker ventures into horror-like psychic landscapes filled with images representing the anxiety experienced growing up in a city where danger is quite real. The protagonist risks these journeys to overcome …
The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking Multifarious Prose Performance,
2016
California State University - San Bernardino
The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking Multifarious Prose Performance, Alex Avila
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. St. Mary’s Housing project, in the Bronx, is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary’s community. The Poet shares personal traumatic insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions …
Wild Embrace,
2016
California State University - San Bernardino
Wild Embrace, Timothy Hatch
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
WILD EMBRACE is a collection of poetry that explores the themes of abuse, survival, and fragility. The speaker of these poems, older and distanced from the abuse, asks what it means to be a survivor, and explores our obligation of compassion that, as human beings, we owe one another.
While much of the work in this collection is rooted in personal experience, it is not intended to be read as memoir or autobiography. Many of these poems may have begun as lived experience, but between memory, the transcription of memory, and their final form on the printed page, they have …
A Meditation On I, We, And Consciousness In "Only We Can Pull",
2016
California State University, San Bernardino
A Meditation On I, We, And Consciousness In "Only We Can Pull", Allyson Elizabeth Jeffredo
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
In a society focused on the individual, how is community formed? As individuals predisposed to the built-in barrier of our body, our skin, how do we mediate between the self and the external? During this mediation on the barriers between our body, ourselves, and the outside world, how is consciousness simultaneously conflicted and built upon? What does it mean to be alive, to be a complex individual surrounded by a multitude of complex individuals? Can we, as a society, learn to focus balance the community and the individual? ONLY WE CAN PULL attempts to answer these questions through a series …
The American Nightmare: Land Of The Incarcerated,
2016
California State University, Monterey Bay
The American Nightmare: Land Of The Incarcerated, Jamara Bernard
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
A collection of poems focusing on the mass incarceration of African-American men and how the prison industrial complex is designed to legally exploit prisoners specifically for profits. Along with a reflective essay about the history of legal discrimination and the creative process by which the poems were created. Then how it ties in with the capstone course theme of race, gender, class, feminist theory, and social justice.
A Beautiful Apocalypse: A Collection Of Poems,
2016
California State University, Monterey Bay
A Beautiful Apocalypse: A Collection Of Poems, Emily M. Kesler
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
My project consists of three poems on the subject of life in the year 2050. These poems explore and speculate the effects that air pollution, water contamination, deforestation, the government, and the economy will have on humans living in 2050.
The Sword And The Dove,
2016
Santa Clara University
The Sword And The Dove, Natalie Grazian
Canterbury Scholars
The opening chapters of a young adult historical fiction novel set in 16th-century Spain. Drawing on the tradition of Spanish picaresque literature, The Sword and the Dove is the story of a young girl who runs away from home. On the road, she makes friends and finds adventure, but also witnesses the corruption and cruelty that has taken root in her country. She must both disguise her identity and find strength in it to stay a step ahead of the evil forces that surround her.
