"Drone," "Attempting To Persuade The Musk Ox You Are Not Unlike Not A Threat Not Other",
2024
Brandeis University
"Drone," "Attempting To Persuade The Musk Ox You Are Not Unlike Not A Threat Not Other", Elizabeth Bradfield
Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy & the Arts
No abstract provided.
Letras 16,
2024
Valparaiso University
Teleios,
2024
Utah State University
Teleios, Sandra Edwards
All Graduate Reports and Creative Projects, Fall 2023 to Present
This thesis is a collection of poetry that mixes formal and free verse in order to convey the speaker’s spiritual journey in content as well as form. The work introduces a speaker who is deeply religious and who expresses her spirituality in the form of formal poetry such as sonnets as she adheres to certain principles of faith. The use of form in the thesis represents her adherence to those principles, while breaking form is symbolic of her breaking away from those principles. Through the work, the speaker experiences a shift from frustration with the world and its apparent obfuscation …
Instead Of Holding,
2024
State University of New York at Purchase
In My Free Time I Haunt The Hurricane House,
2024
Fashion Institute of Technology
In My Free Time I Haunt The Hurricane House, Kashi Bakshani
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.
Watershed/Waterspout,
2024
State University of New York at Purchase
Things That Bother Me,
2024
State University of New York at Oswego
Blowing Apart In The Wind,
2024
Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
Blowing Apart In The Wind, Lainey Terfruchte
Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award
No abstract provided.
Here (Toma): Translations Between Me And My Mother,
2024
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Here (Toma): Translations Between Me And My Mother, Seth Courtad
Honors Theses
The lyric mode can be thought of as the engine of a piece, what drives its thinking and structure forward. Memoir writing most often refers to writing based on an author's own memories. For these two reasons, I've labeled my Honors thesis a lyric memoir. The memoir consists of poems, translated into Spanish by my mother, dual essays in which I share the page with another writer, and "after" essays which consider a wide variety of topics on identity, death, religion, and language. Critically, what makes the memoir lyric is its lack of direct narrative, instead relying on the layering, …
Lessons In Persistence,
2024
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lessons In Persistence, Syble Heffernan
Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
LESSONS IN PERSISTENCE is a thesis that operates within the tradition of writing about trauma and resilience, taking up themes of mental illness, class, colonialism, loss of a parent, navigating queerness in a conservative Christian context, and reckoning with gender-based violence and expectations directed toward people socialized as women. The use of ecopoetics highlights the relationship between traumas to the earth brought about by climate change, war, and worldwide suffering, and those brought upon the human body (specifically marginalized bodies) by grief, illness, abuse, and the loss of self. The collection ultimately aims to establish explicit connections between internal and …
I Wrote This Instead Of Being Productive,
2024
University of Connecticut
I Wrote This Instead Of Being Productive, Timothy Hill
Honors Scholar Theses
"I Wrote This Instead of Being Productive" is a poetry chapbook focused on the mythos of productivity in our modern era, from the perspective of a college student. What does productivity mean at the end of an empire? In recent years, culture has become obsessed with new forms of productivity and time management. We optimize our schedules, compete against each other, and attempt to dissociate from the harsher realities of our lives. An omnipresent internet culture motivates us to generate more value from our time, even if it feels hollow. ‘Scientific’ explanations point towards dopamine deficits and cultural narratives emphasize …
A Phenomenological Study Of Latina Poets As Leaders At Higher Education Institutions,
2024
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
A Phenomenological Study Of Latina Poets As Leaders At Higher Education Institutions, Rodney Gomez
Theses and Dissertations
This interpretive phenomenological study addresses the underrepresentation of Latinas in higher education leadership roles by focusing on the lived experiences of Latina poets who have served as higher education leaders. Data, collected through semi-structured participant interviews and participant writing samples, was analyzed through a standard method of thematic analysis. Latin American and U.S. theories of decoloniality and Yosso’s community cultural capital guided interpretation of participant experiences. Five themes emerged from the analysis: border negation, foundational values, othered leadership, importance of community, and writing as necessity. Discussion of participation experiences suggests that ways that poetry and creative writing can be used …
(De)Composition: Earthen Storytelling For Collective Liberation,
2024
University of Montana
(De)Composition: Earthen Storytelling For Collective Liberation, Priya Subberwal
Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects
This interdisciplinary portfolio is an investigation into ecological communication through pedagogical design, online collaborative learning spaces, digital and print media, and creative writing. Braiding lenses of queer ecology, decolonial studies, anarchism, and collaborative and creative practice, this work hopes to explore the field of environmental communication through avenues that are reciprocal, community-driven, and oriented towards environmental justice and collective, intersectional liberation. Through the three distinct components of 1) the creation and facilitation of an online learning community, the Spiritual Ecology Study Club at Advaya, 2) the editing and production of two issues of Camas Magazine, an environmental literary magazine based …
“Caroline”: Deviance In Southern Women’S Poetry,
2024
Clemson University
“Caroline”: Deviance In Southern Women’S Poetry, Sage Aspyn Short
All Theses
Deviance in Southern women’s poetry can be characterized by uncertainty, religious images, and through the telling of stories often unheard of, forgotten, or erased, like racial and gendered violence. Glenis Redmond’s poetry in The Listening Skin and What My Hand Say both explore Southern womanhood alongside race, history, violence, illness, and legacy, among other themes and topics. In Caroline: Poems some deviances include religious metaphors alongside obsessive compulsive disorder, excessive cursing from a woman speaker, and historical graveyard musings. Critical texts about lyric theory and voice provide some background and historical significance to be used in this contemporary study and …
Killdeer,
2024
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Killdeer, Elizabeth Muscari
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This thesis project investigates, through poetry, how women and nature intersect. Formal decisions depict themes of inheritance and the body through couplets, tercets, quatrains, contrapuntal, sonnets, among other free-verse forms.
My Grandfather Taught Me How To Read,
2024
State University of New York at Geneseo
My Grandfather Taught Me How To Read, Diana Morley
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.
Platoon Manager // The Pagan,
2024
State University of New York at Purchase
Platoon Manager // The Pagan, Cielo N. Howell
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.
Revolving Doors, What Have I Done?,
2024
State University of New York at New Paltz
Revolving Doors, What Have I Done?, Jenna Coburn
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.
Wheatstalk,
2024
Monroe Community College
Thanksgiving Conversations,
2024
State University of New York at Geneseo
Thanksgiving Conversations, Madolley Donzo
Gandy Dancer Archives
No abstract provided.
