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Interview With Aimee Bender, Jane St. John, Aimee Bender

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Twins, Brent Armendinger

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Red Cinquefoil, Daniel Mueller

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Fiction Fix 05, Troy Puls, Vicki Winslow, Todd Kincaid, Christine Utz, Ann Marie Byrd, Mark Fields, Shane Horn, Joseph Derepentigny, Kristen Iannuzzi

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

Early Days In The Green Movement: A Personal Account, Rosemarie Rowley

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

From someone who from an early age had wanted to be a poet, and whose favourite poet was Wordsworth, it is not difficult to imagine that in some way I would relate to nature as a mature woman. For me it was not the difficulty of being a woman poet which offered the greatest challenge, since my father, a traditional musician, and my aunt who was a songwriter in America had encouraged me to write poetry, but the difficulty was of combining political activism with poetry.

Norris - A Growing Plant, Gayle Goldstick

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

'Industriehafen' is the ugliest place it's possible to find in the beautiful German city of Bremen. The first time I saw it, it reminded me of some of the more offensive eyesores around the Los Angeles Harbor or Wilmington where so many chemicals are stored in large tanks along the hills.

Zephyr: The Eighth Issue, Zephyr Faculty Advisor, Jamie Thompson, Emma Bouthillette, Brittany Campbell, Abby Elliott, Tyler Gowan, Ian Guite, Briana Matuszko, Camille Smalley, Mary Taddia, Sarah Tuttle

Zephyr

This is the eighth issue of Zephyr, the University of New England's journal of creative expression. Since 2000, Zephyr has published original drawings, paintings, photography, prose, and verse created by current and former members of the University community. Zephyr's Editorial Board is made up exclusively of matriculating students.

Gestures Toward Cross-Species Reciprocal Relations In Contemporary Poetics, Mary Newell

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

In this essay, I explore some embodied bases of ethical attitudes toward human/ animal exchanges in the texts of three contemporary authors: Mary Oliver, Heller Levinson, and Adrienne Rich. Since other species share with humans varieties of agency, sentience, and purposive activity, I suggest that reciprocity is a fundamental aim in cross-species relations. Phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty depicts the correlation between embodied actions and attitudes, for example, between the hand movement of grasping and an appropriative attitude toward the natural world. His concept of reciprocity, grounded in the experience of one hand touching another, provides a reference for encounters that …

Here, Casey Clabough

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

I am standing, only just arrived but already sweating, beneath a late-morning end of July sun, in a newish-looking housing development at the circular dead end of Grossnickle Court, off Biggs Ford Road in Frederick County, Maryland, gazing westward, toward the river valley of the Monocacy and, beyond it, long Catoctin Mountain, hazy in summer. Like you, I might be anywhere but I happen to be here, now, in this eastern part of southern North America, standing where pavement turns to grass and then, beyond, a field of hay, thick, but carrying in its near spent green the …

The World Is White And Slow And Infinitely Flat, Rob Baum

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Eco-feminism, cultural study and the environment coalesce in the form of poetic cultural commentary, originally fieldnotes. I draw exclusively from my years in the Alaskan Arctic among the Iñupiat Eskimo, who call themselves "the People of the Whale." The striking and severe natural environment, a landscape of endless ice, is central to the poetry, which richly portrays a vision of the Arctic absent from tourist travel guides, National Geographic and anthropological volumes. These magazines vend the Far North's beautiful austerity, including at times the physical beauty of its animal inhabitants, including humans, while disregarding human specificity and violence …

The People Who Live On Lambert Lane, Natalie G. Diaz

English Theses & Dissertations

This work exists as an exploration into the life of a small desert town and the souls that people this town, specifically, American Indians. It is my hope that my characters and my setting spark to life in these stories in a way that they have not been allowed to in mainstream fiction.

Standing Before The Stranger, Jonathan G. Dillion

English Theses & Dissertations

In Standing Before the Stranger I depict different levels of psychological dislocation, ranging from minor anxiety to insanity, initiated by estrangement from both the external world and the inner world of the self. The speakers and characters inhabiting these poems are either suffering or reacting, often violently, to their inner turmoil. Readers will find dark poems that combine the comedic and the tragic, mix surreal elements with the mundane, and often manage to be absurd and meaningful at the same time. Four music-based poems provide relief from the chaos, but transcendence, for both the speakers and the readers, is only …

Eve's Side, Rebecca Lauren Gidjunis

English Theses & Dissertations

Imagine that Eve came to earth one day to tell her side of the creation story. Perhaps she'd say that she came first, not Adam, or tell us that God is actually a matronly woman, with round hips and sagging breasts. Maybe she'd sing of sensuality, body, and female wisdom.

Unfortunately, most of us in Judeo-Christian theology have been privy to only one side—Adam'. By allowing Eve and her daughters to speak, I claim women's stories as essential to our overall understanding of the divine. In Eve 's Side, I allow women to see themselves in God and God …

The Clouds Are Buffalo Stampeding Toward Jesus, Natalie G. Diaz

English Theses & Dissertations

This collection of poems is a compilation of three years of MFA work. The poems intend to represent the explorations and meanderings into the themes of exile, history, family, pain, love, and the way the aforementioned themes overlap and interact. The range of voice and style within the poems collected here are manifestations of the questions l have pursued and will continue to pursue as a poet and also as a human being.

Court Green: Dossier: Political Poetry, Columbia College Chicago

Court Green

An annual poetry magazine with a different theme for each issue; printed from 2004 to 2015.

Manōwai, Victoria Nālani Kneubuhl

Pacific Studies

This story follows Kanoe, a woman who retreats to rural Kona to recover from an emotionally abusive relationship with Frank, a manipulative academic. Through journal-like reflections and quiet moments in the heat-soaked coastal town, Kanoe processes her heartbreak and rediscovers herself. Her interactions with locals—particularly the wise and warm-hearted Luisa—reveal a rhythm of life grounded in history, resilience, and a subtle but profound sense of healing. As Kanoe begins writing again and exploring her surroundings, her journey shifts from escape to restoration, where stories, memory, and new connections light the path forward.

Muffin 2007, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

Muffin was a newsletter produced in the early aughts by RISD’s Queer Student Union as a student guide to queer culture. The 2007 issue features articles on the Translating Identity Conference (TIC), sexual consent, the integration of rival lesbian groups on campus, lesbian films, and Brokeback Mountain, along with creative writing, a list of gay bars, and a list of queer resources.

Dream Driving, Don Russ

KSU Press Legacy Project

In Don Russ's collection of poetry, Dream Driving, life is a journey. It has dream-like stages, apparitions, visions, and revelations. The journey itself is in some ways a dream, a sleep-wandering among the labyrinths of the mind, of the imagined world, of even the "real" world. What can we finally know for sure? Do we not at least partly create what we see in the act of seeing it?

Section I includes the poems:

• Here
• In the Driveway
• At the End of the Woods
• Fauns
• Metamorphosis
• Easter Biddies
• Walk on Water
• A Little Visit
• The Bachelor Tells a Family Story …

Inscape 2007, Morehead State University

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The 2007 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.

Moonflowers And Other Stories, Sarah Bethany Prevatt-Harris

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Moonflowers and Other Stories is a collection of short stories focusing on complex relationships among characters who are estranged from their families and their pasts; some seek to reestablish connections, while others decide to simply walk away. All of the stories are set in Florida. In "Stained Glass," Abby returns home after seventeen years to help care for the father who disowned her. In "Blue Green Red," Melaney is compelled to find her brother after years of lying about his existence. Selina, the protagonist of "Fatty Walsh" is so embarrassed by her family she will not tell her friend Alucia …

Sequoya Review, University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga

Sequoya Review

No abstract provided.

Two Blades Come Together: Stories, Mark Edward Pursell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This collection of seven short stories details the emotional triumphs and complications of characters whose lives are altered by issues of sexuality and disconnection. An adolescent girl feels her father slipping away from her and, in turn, willfully destroys the imaginary world of the boy she babysits; a speech therapist struggles to make headway with a young patient while finding himself unable to communicate with his ex-lover; a gay poet cheats on his boyfriend in a desperate attempt to fuel his failing art. The dramatis personae of Two Blades Come Together is comprised of individuals who struggle towards grace and …

Parnassus 2007

Parnassus

The 2007 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Frat Star, Nathan Andrew Holic

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis, a social novel in the tradition of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, is all at once an attentive first-person study of a twenty-something man close to his cracking point in his first post-college job, a detailed expose of national fraternities, and the sweeping panoramic view of an entire generation of over-programmed college students searching for direction. Frat Star follows a fragile college graduate named Charles Washington, who takes a position as an "Educational Consultant" with a national fraternity in his first semester after graduation. For sixteen …

In Search Of: Stories From The Ones Left Behind, Mayra Lizzette Velez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In Search Of: Stories from the Ones Left Behind introduces five young women-- June, Leila, Kiss, Marianne, and Alma-- who struggle to impede loved ones from abandoning them. One woman confronts her worst fears when she finds out about her husband's affair with a mutual friend; one comes to terms with her sister's poor lifestyle choices; another copes with her mother's sudden marriage; and yet another figures out that in order to keep her fiance, she must be willing to take on responsibilities foreign to her. And then there is the story of Alma, a contemplative but naive seventeen-year-old girl …

The Round Barn, Susan Elizabeth Fallows

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Round Barn is a novel in two parts that tells the story of two Iowa farm families during the period 1915 to 1929, a volatile time in the history of the American farm. The first part of the novel tells the story of Joe Marshall, a young man in conflict with his hard-working farmer father. At sixteen-years-old, Joe must choose whether to leave the farm to pursue his own desires or to stay where he is needed to help keep his financially strapped family afloat. Part two of the novel focuses on Mae Allinson, a woman in her early …

Zephyrus, Western Kentucky University

Student Creative Writing

The fine arts magazine of Western Kentucky University at Bowling Green.

Neck Of The World, Daniel F. Rzicznek

Swenson Poetry Award Winners

May Swenson Poetry Award Volume 11, with foreward by Alice Quinn. Neck of the World is the eleventh volume in the prestigious May Swenson Poetry Award series. In it, Daniel Rzicznek offers poems that, in quick angular language, capture the natural world and at the same time extend it into a surreal vision, sometimes dream-like, sometimes dark. Alice Quinn, judge for the 2007 Swenson Award, says this of Rzicznek's work: "Throughout, the language pulsates, always vigorous, by turns knotty and crystalline. . . . In Neck of the World, we have a poet with a striking new vision--challenging, rewarding, and …

The Commuter, Eric Parkison

The Angle

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"This is just a story. That's it, no more, no less. It will begin and then at some point, end. And, in the fashion of stories, it will involve characters, and maybe a plot. There will be a middle that has details and hints at ideas, motives behind the authoring of said tale. It will begin, I think, when I tell you that Bob was completely unhappy with his life. He didn't know that, but it's true. His wife suspected, but would never state it out loud. His two …

Full Issue, No Author

The Angle

No abstract provided.