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Or Does It Explode?, Howard Schaap

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"How Langston Hughes' poem “Harlem” still gives us a lens through which to understand racial relations in America."

Posting about poetry, Ferguson, Missouri, and race relations from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

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Poetry & Prints: Impressions From Detroit & Brazil, Marion Jackson Ph.D., Thomas L. Pyrzewski

The Mid-America Print Council Conference

This panel presentation will discuss how one good idea developed into the blueprint for a high-quality arts program for Detroit area youth that can be used year after year.

Eight Detroit arts organizations are collaborating to offer a 9-week summer program of workshops presenting high-quality instruction in visual arts and poetry for Detroit youth – introducing students to a variety of media and techniques, focusing particularly on poetry, screen printing, and letterpress printing. As part of the summer program, students will learn about a fascinating artistic tradition of the Northeast of Brazil known as literatura de cordel (“stories on a …

A Poem- Inspired By Alex Katz, Margaret Sargent

Colby Magazine

Margaret Sargent '14 wrote this poem last year as an assignment in Introduction to Poetry. The project asked students to write ekphrastic poetry, work that collaborates with visual art, inspired by a piece of their own choosing in the Colby College Museum of Art.

Psalms For Skeptics (101-150), Kent L. Gramm

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

Sparked by phrases from the book of Psalms, these poems question and occasionally affirm our everyday ideas about life, mortality, the afterlife, God, family, and belief. In vigorous contemporary language—complaining, lamenting, and wisecracking on everything from Job's wife to baseball, crows to angels, circus elephants to Mary Magdalene—but in traditional form, these sonnets, or little songs, "speak what we feel, not what we ought to say." [From the publisher]

Westview: Vol. 30, Iss. 2 (Summer 2014)

Westview

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Fresh Air, Kaitlyn Koby

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

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Magic Tricks, Mallory Hasty

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

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Driving Tioga Pass, Mary Ardery

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

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Human Nature, Rachel Higson

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

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Rest In Plants, Zach Manges

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

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Carmelite, Zach Manges

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

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Poems, Amanda Nigon

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Amanda Nigon’s two poems (see)Shell Cracked on Rocks by Gulls and Fistula were written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Losing Innocence. LOSING INNOCENCE by Alison Broderson, Andrea Bruton, Eric Groonwald, Amy Herron, Eric Hoffeiser Josephine Jarvis, Joe Loweth, Amanda Nigon, Jenny Sodomka: This project was inspired by our group’s desire to heighten its social awareness as it explored the loss of innocence resulting from impoverishment. As creative writers we chose to explore this theme through poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction--our subjects ranging from working in a women’s shelter to college life. Because the process …

Poems, Eric Hoffheiser

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Eric Hoffheiser's two poems View from Ubehebe Peak and How to get Rid of Sorrow were written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Moving On. For our group, Moving On represented the emotional weight in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Moving On implies change, and all good prose and verse possess change. As creative writers, we explored this theme through subjects ranging from the death of a loved one to loss of one’s faith. By focusing on our theme, we examined our own lives and improved our creative writing skills. We attained our goals through observation, …

Poems, Nathan Klein

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Nathan Klein's poems were written as part of a creative writing group using the theme of Where we Live. For my part of the project I tied in the theme of Where We Live through a series of poems. The aspects of the theme that I based my poems on included interpretations on where we live mentally, spiritually, chronologically, geographically in the universe, and on earth. I used the theme to pinpoint just were it is that we all truly live; even in those areas were a pin has no place.

For Robert Grosseteste, Robert Bringhurst

Ontario Review

ROBERT BRINGHURST is the author of two books of poetry, The Shipwright's Log (Kanchenjunga Press, 1972) and Cadastre (Kanchenjunga  Press, 1973); his third book, Bergschrund, will be published in  late 1974.

Prowlers, Carl Dennis

Ontario Review

CARL DENNIS, of the English Department of the State University of  New York at Buffalo, has published poems in Salmagundi, The New  Yorker, and elsewhere. His first book, A House of My Own, will be  published this fall by George Braziller.

Deaf Mute, Philip J. Klukoff

Ontario Review

PHILIP J. KLUKOFF teaches at Stockton State College in New Jersey; he  spent last year in Bucharest, Romania, where he was a Fulbright  Lecturer in American Literature. His first book of poetry is in night's chirp.

Two Poems, William Heyen

Ontario Review

WILLIAM HEYEN is the author of Depth of Field (Louisiana State University  Press, 1970), Noise in the Trees: Poems and a Memoir (Vanguard  Press, 1974), the editor of A Profile of Theodore Roethke  (Columbus: Charles E. Merrill, 1971) and American Poetry in 1976  (to be published by Bobbs-Merrill in 1976); and he has published  numerous critical essays. Poems of his have been selected several times for inclusion in the Borestone anthologies.

Three Poems, Tom Wayman

Ontario Review

TOM WAYMAN has published widely, in Canada, the United States, and England. He is the author of Waiting for Wayman (reviewed in  this issue) and For and Against the Moon: Blues, Yells and Chuckles (Macmillan, 1974). The Canadian Forum recently featured a number of his poems.

Snowscapes, Derk Wynand

Ontario Review

DERK WYNAND teaches at the University of Victoria, and has published or will be publishing work in The Dalhousie Review, The  Canadian Fiction Magazine, Littack (England), and The Far Point.