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Ekphrasis: An Exploration Of Poetry Inspired By Art, Caitlin Cacciatore

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

“Ekphrasis: An Exploration of Poetry Inspired by Art” is an Open Educational Resource (OER) that occupies the underdeveloped niche of freely available teaching and learning materials about the interdisciplinary poetic medium of ekphrasis. Ekphrastic poetry is a form dating back to Book XVIII of the Iliad, experiencing a revitalization in the latter half of the 18^th century, when demand for written descriptions of paintings was in high demand, and again taking on a new, modern meaning in the early 19^th century, with poems like John Keats’ 1819 “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Ekphrasis is …

Personas, Issue 2, 2024, Jonathan Maiullo

Personas: Multilingual Creative Writing Journal

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My Mind Is A Forest: An Autistic Wandering Through The Language Of Silence And The Poems Of Mary Oliver, Torri Blue

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

The autistic experience has been widely medicalized, pathologized, mischaracterized, and misunderstood. Through this series of essays, I attempt to paint an alternative picture of (an) autistic life—one not defined by deficits, but (at the risk of sounding cliché) differences—by re-storying autism through an Autistic Poetic.

Autistic Poetics, or the poetry of autistic existence, offers to our imagination a new way of relating to the world—alternative pictures of what it means to be human and all the possibilities therein. Autists, as human beings who often express being more at home with the earth-others and more-than-human world, can offer our writings as …

Beauty In The Gothic: Forms Of Autistic Aesthetics, Elinor Rowlands

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

This article will explore how Divergent forms of autistic communication and expression, within an artistic context, convey an aesthetic that awakens otherworldly realms existing between the physical world and portals of invention. These otherworldly creations are often made manifest through modes of stimming.

For autistic artists who use stimming (repetitive motions and actions) in their artwork and texts, intuition plays a key role, and many, particularly female and non-binary, recognize the role Gothic also plays in their work.

This article will use Serres philosophy on intuition and definitions of the Gothic to show how autistic artists may use both in …

The Rainbow Spectrum, Archana Kadam

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

This poem is written from the perspective of an autistic child; who is learning to use an emotional thermometer to recognize, communicate, and regulate basic feelings.

Contributors, Anthropocene Editors

Student Literary Anthologies

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Where You Sleep And What You Want, Conor Flannery

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Spiritsong, Angela Hays

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The Emptiness You Feel Is The Suppression Of An Idea That Demands It Be Externalized., Samara Crouse

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Cups Of Tea At Sunrise, Lydia A. Sharpe

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Elemental Meditations: One Day On A Burning Planet, Olivia Lynch

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Room To Grow, Sylvia Foster

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Life Being Experienced, Amelia Hirsch

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Nature God, Russell Webb

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Thanking The Stars, Amelia Hirsch

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Stargazer, Paige Q. Thompson

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Subject Ninety-Four, Sophie Trist

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Aphrodite, Or The Bane Of My Existence, Paige Q. Thompson

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Cutting Ties, Collette Bliss

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My Gallery Of Hearts, Angela Hays

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