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Learn To Speak Japanese In Three Excruciating Steps, Jason A. Bock 2018 Hamline University

Learn To Speak Japanese In Three Excruciating Steps, Jason A. Bock

Creative Writing Programs

Gary, a middle-aged Midwesterner, lost his first wife and the mother of his only son to a terminal illness ten years ago. His son, Brent, has been living in Japan for five years and barely speaks to his father. After Brent receives a life-threatening diagnosis of his own, Gary travels half-way across the globe to be with his son and attempt to repair their tattered relationship.


Rock Island Revisited: Black Hawk’S Life, Keokuk’S Oratory, And The Critique Of Us Indian Policy, Frank Kelderman 2018 University of Louisville

Rock Island Revisited: Black Hawk’S Life, Keokuk’S Oratory, And The Critique Of Us Indian Policy, Frank Kelderman

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

This article examines the writings and oratory of the Sauk tribal leaders Keokuk and Black Hawk in the context of Indian diplomacy at Rock Island Indian agency. While Black Hawk's autobiography Life of Mà-ka-tai-me-she-kià-kiàk (1833) is widely read today, Keokuk's oratory has typically been dismissed as an accommodationist extension of US governmental discourses, as op-posed to Black Hawk's rhetoric of resistance and criticism of the Black Hawk War. Complicating these historical narratives, this article argues that both Black Hawk and Keokuk produced collaborative publications that in similar ways critiqued the management of Indian affairs within networks of Indian agents, traders, …


Walt Whitman: The Man Behind The Words, Sara Duke 2018 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Walt Whitman: The Man Behind The Words, Sara Duke

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Walt Whitman is often considered to be one of the greatest American poets. His ways of writing were unconventional, inappropriate to a degree (according to Victorian standards), yet they intrigued readers not only of the New World, but also those of the Old World. But his writing was not the only thing he was known for. The “Good Gray Poet” was also known for being gentle and warm-hearted, with a striking face and piercing blue eyes. He was welcoming to his neighbors, visitors, and passers-by on the street.

This thesis seeks to understand the man behind Leaves of Grass. …


X̱Wáýx̱Way, Andrea Nicki 2018 Farleigh Dickinson University

X̱Wáýx̱Way, Andrea Nicki

The Goose

Poetry by Andrea Nicki


Museum Archipelago, Elizabeth Dodd 2018 Kansas State University

Museum Archipelago, Elizabeth Dodd

The Goose

Poetry by Elizabeth Dodd


Athabasca River Glacial Melt Global Warming Blues, Gene Hyde 2018 University of North Carolina-Asheville

Athabasca River Glacial Melt Global Warming Blues, Gene Hyde

The Goose

“Athabasca River Glacial Melt Global Warming Blues” is a poem and photograph by Gene Hyde, a writer, photographer, and archivist living in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. This is part of his PhotoEpigraphic51 series that combines a photograph, an epigraph, and a 51 syllable, three haiku verse structure. The photograph was taken in September 2017 along the Athabasca River in Jasper National Park.


Two Poems, Dan MacIsaac 2018 Poet

Two Poems, Dan Macisaac

The Goose

Poetry by Dan MacIsaac


Two Poems, Clea Roberts 2018 University of British Columbia

Two Poems, Clea Roberts

The Goose

Poetry by Clea Roberts


The Eau Claire Log Drivers, Sid Marty 2018 Sid Marty

The Eau Claire Log Drivers, Sid Marty

The Goose

Poetry by Sid Marty


A Collaboration Of Poetry And Art: The Krill Kill Project, Diane Guichon, Sarah Melanie Harrill 2018 University of Lethbridge, Calgary Campus

A Collaboration Of Poetry And Art: The Krill Kill Project, Diane Guichon, Sarah Melanie Harrill

The Goose

Artist Sarah Melanie Harrill interrogates poet Diane Guichon's poem "Krill Kill" in this project of interwoven, creative representations and musings on the connectivity between nature and humanity. This project formed part of the Calgary People's Poetry Festival in the fall of 2017.


Two Poems, Joanna Lilley 2018 Wilfrid Laurier University

Two Poems, Joanna Lilley

The Goose

Poetry by Joanna Lilley.


Two Poems, Carlyle MacPhail 2018 Wilfrid Laurier University

Two Poems, Carlyle Macphail

The Goose

Poetry by Carlyle MacPhail


Two Poems, Scott R. Honeycutt 2018 East Tennessee State University

Two Poems, Scott R. Honeycutt

The Goose

Poetry by Scott R. Honeycutt


Two Poems, Sarah Switzer 2018 York University

Two Poems, Sarah Switzer

The Goose

Poetry by Sarah Switzer


Three Poems, Basma Kavanagh 2018 Wilfrid Laurier University

Three Poems, Basma Kavanagh

The Goose

Poetry by Basma Kavanagh


Three Poems, Renée Jackson-Harper 2018 Selkirk College

Three Poems, Renée Jackson-Harper

The Goose

Poetry by Renée Jackson-Harper


Rag Cosmology By Erin Robinsong, Camilla Nelson 2018 Singing Apple Press

Rag Cosmology By Erin Robinsong, Camilla Nelson

The Goose

Review of Erin Robinsong's Rag Cosmology.


The Terranauts By T.C. Boyle And The Addlands By Tom Bullough, Carly E. Thomas 2018 York University

The Terranauts By T.C. Boyle And The Addlands By Tom Bullough, Carly E. Thomas

The Goose

Review of T.C. Boyle's The Terranauts and Tom Bullough's The Addlands.


Islands Of Grass By Trevor Herriot And The Long Walk By Jan Zwicky, gillian harding-russell 2018 University of Saskatchewan

Islands Of Grass By Trevor Herriot And The Long Walk By Jan Zwicky, Gillian Harding-Russell

The Goose

Review of Trevor Herriot's Islands of Grass and Jan Zwicky's The Long Walk.


Blood Fable By Oisín Curran, Michael Occhionero 2018 Queen's University

Blood Fable By Oisín Curran, Michael Occhionero

The Goose

Review of Oisín Curran's Blood Fable.


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