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Around The Table, Rachel E. Mills

All NMU Master's Theses

ABSTRACT

Around the Table

By

Rachel Elizabeth Mills

This collection of nonfiction essays revolves around concepts of food and home. The essays focus on the universalizing nature of food, both from a personal perspective, and from a diasporic Middle Eastern perspective. In these essays I explore how food unifies and creates communities. The essays range from exploring my own upbringing in rural Upper Michigan, and how food creates bonds within my own family and community, to examining how food creates ties and communities within the Arab diaspora. This collective narrative, in focusing on the communal characteristics surrounding the human need …

[Blip] And Other Noises, Jennifer Jacob Brown

Master's Theses

[Blip] and Other Noises is a collection of short stories that explores the illusory nature of identity, time, space, and our experience of reality. Its principal characters include a sea captain, an Elvis fanatic, a space alien, and some very confused children. Its principal settings include small town Mississippi, the Gulf of Mexico, the Indiana wilderness, and uncharted (by humans) outer space. This collection is accompanied by a critical introduction.

Because A Fire, A Lover's Quarrel: Poems, Clifton Clyde Ward

Master's Theses

This thesis comprises poems written and/or revised over the past two years. They mark the development of my aesthetic and writing ability thus far and are representative of the training and practice incited by my own efforts and those of my professors during my enrollment in the Master of Arts degree in English, Creative Writing emphasis. The majority of these poems are written in an open form, and all of them fall under three general categories: autobiographical, absurdist, or formal.

The Rehearsal, Joyce Carol Oates

Ontario Review

Joyce Carol Oates's new novel is Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (William Abrahams/Dutton, 1993). Her play The Perfectionist will open the McCarter Theatre 1993-94 season in October. The Rehearsal had its premier performance in the spring at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Manhattan.

Reincarnation, Goodbye: 1992, Constance Urdang

Ontario Review

Constance Urdang is the author of a number of books, including Alternative Lives, poems (Pittsburgh), and The Woman Who Reads Novels and Peacetime, novellas (Coffee House Press). She lives in St. Louis.

Among The Stars, Eidolons, The Meeting, The Shopper, William Heyen

Ontario Review

William Heyen, a frequent OR contributor, published Ribbons: The Gulf War last year. The Host: Selected Poems 1965-1990 will appear next spring from Time Being Books. He teaches at SUNY Brockport.

From Oh How Can I Keep On Singing?, Jana Harris

Ontario Review

Jana Harris has published several books of poetry, including The Sourlands (OR Press, 1989), and a novel Alaska (1980). OR Press will be bringing out Oh How Can I Keep on Singing? in November. Raised in the Pacific Northwest, she lives with her husband in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains where they raise horses.

Homage To N. (After Chekhov), Daniel Halpern

Ontario Review

Daniel Halpern is the author of seven collections, most recently Foreign Neon (Knopf, 1991) and Tango (Viking Penguin, 1987). He has edited numerous volumes, including The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories. Knopf will release his Selected Poems in April 1994. Publisher of the Ecco Press and Antaeus, he lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

The Muse And The Poet, The Naturalist At Large On The Delaware River, An Acquaintance In The Heavens, I Think Continually Of Those Who Went Truly Ape, Free Fall, Annie Dillard

Ontario Review

Annie Dillard's most recent book is her novel The Living (HarperCollins, 1992). Her poetry has appeared in the Atlantic, Harper's, Poetry, and many other journals. She lives in South Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

The Physicist's Basement, Nora Culik

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

No abstract provided.

Moose: Recollections From A Northern Childhood, Allison K. Athens

The Goose

A creative reflection on growing up with moose.

The Love Letter As A Method Of Academic Discourse , August Smith

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

No Signal , Andrea Walker

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

"Louis, In The Dark", Patry Francis

Ontario Review

Patry Francis has stories in recent issues of The Antioch Review and The Green Mountains Review. She currently resides in Centerville, Massachusetts.

"Bad Hand", Alicia Conroy

Ontario Review

Alicia Conroy's most recent publications include work in The O. Henry Awards 2000 and New Delta Review. Her fiction is forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Chattahoochee Review, and an anthology to be published by Syracuse University Press. She lives in Willimantic, Connecticut.

"Candy", Bonnie Jo Campbell

Ontario Review

Bonnie Jo Campbell, of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is the author of Women & Other Animals, winner of the AWP short fiction award. Her story "The Smallest Man in the World" appears in the 2000 Pushcart anthology.

"The Liar", Richard Burgin

Ontario Review

Richard Burgin's nine books include the novel Ghost Quartet (TriQuarterly Books, 1999) and the forthcoming story collection The Spirit Returns (Johns Hopkins, 2001). He is the composer of a collection of jazz songs In All of the World, available on CD from www.richardburgin.com. Highly recommended.

"The Risk Of The Real", Millicent Dillon

Ontario Review

Millicent Dillon's most recent biography is You Are Not I: A Portrait of Paul Bowles (1998). Her most recent novel is Harry Gold (2000). She lives in San Francisco.

"What About Saving The Earth", Lynn Hamilton

Ontario Review

A recent MFA from the University of Virginia, Lynn Hamilton has had fiction in Iris. She currently teaches writing to undergraduates at the University.

The Laureate, 12th Edition (2013)

The Laureate

The Laureate’s mission is to provide undergraduate students at Western Michigan University a place in which to publish their works of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and other creative works. The Laureate strives to be a professional and engaging journal that appeals to all.

The Laureate, 10th Edition (2011)

The Laureate

The Laureate’s mission is to provide undergraduate students at Western Michigan University a place in which to publish their works of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and other creative works. The Laureate strives to be a professional and engaging journal that appeals to all.

Gumption, Caleigh Burgess

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Coupled With Sartre: An Existentialist Take On Modern Literary Scholarship, Benjamin Moran

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Spa Session, Dina Khalil

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Bearland, James Nelson

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

The Laureate, 9th Edition (2010)

The Laureate

The Laureate’s mission is to provide undergraduate students at Western Michigan University a place in which to publish their works of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and other creative works. The Laureate strives to be a professional and engaging journal that appeals to all.

At The Unmaking, Wendi Ellen White

English Theses & Dissertations

This collection of poetry explores the multiple tipping points facing humanity at the opening of the 21^st century and the end of the industrial age. Resource depletion, species loss and global warming are just a few of the existential threats examined in this work. I believe that the way beyond these crises requires examining the narratives we're inherited and imagining new tales of people, place and planet that can deliver us to a more ecologically just future. This thesis is an offering toward that end. At the Unmaking is a lament for what we have lost and are losing. …

My Father Sleepwalks, William G. Derks

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

The Laureate, 6th Edition (2007)

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

The Problem, Jason Hescock

The Laureate

No abstract provided.