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Old Knowledge, Brad Gottschalk

Westview

No abstract provided.

Artesia, Tom Gengler

Westview

No abstract provided.

Infrastructure, Richard Dinges Jr.

Westview

No abstract provided.

Survival, Christopher Clauss

Westview

No abstract provided.

Winnowing, Eva-Maria Sher

Westview

No abstract provided.

Westview: Vol. 38, Iss. 1 (Spring 2024), Westview Staff

Westview

No abstract provided.

Oak Leaf, Eva-Maria Sher

Westview

No abstract provided.

Shreds, Louis Gallo

Westview

No abstract provided.

The White Album, David Vancil

Westview

No abstract provided.

Last July, Tom Gengler

Westview

No abstract provided.

The North Place, Tom Gengler

Westview

No abstract provided.

Heart-Shaped Balloon, Robert Guard

Westview

No abstract provided.

Variations Of Useless Platitudes, Christopher Clauss

Westview

No abstract provided.

Fireworks, Scott Thomas

Westview

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Snake Under Ice, Robert Guard

Westview

No abstract provided.

The Nordstjärna Project: Recovering Voices Of Swedish Migration, Benjamin Austin

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis investigates the Swedish-Mormon migration of the 19th century through the lens of Nordstjärnan, a periodical that served as a crucial link between the Swedish diaspora in Utah and their counterparts in Sweden during this era. This study compares Arnold Barton's observations of a love-hate relationship within the broader Swedish emigration to the diasporic relationship Swedish-Mormons had among themselves; suggesting that Nordstjärnan played a central role in portraying Swedish-Mormons as a symbiotic group compared to their countrymen. Nordstjärnan played this key role in reinforcing distinct Swedish-Mormon-American identity in both its positive reflection of the Swedish-Mormon identity and of immigration …

Creative Critical Reflection Through Poetry And Prose, Beth Moran

School of Health Professions

Artefacts considered in this paper include poetry and prose from my previous doctoral research with social work students; exploring how they experience, express, and manage the emotional content of practice learning. The poetry includes I-poems, where words of students are taken directly from verbatim research transcripts and reconstructed as part of my sense-making. Additionally, an autoethnographic response via poetry and prose creates a counterpoint and further perspective. This co-construction between my experience and that of student participants promotes authenticity via powerful messages in poetic form. In the context of performative research, these artefacts are best shared. Utilising teaching sessions within …

A Poetics Of Entanglement: The Enmeshed Creation Of Interrogative Space, Phil Spotswood

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation theorizes and deploys a poetics of entanglement as a creative practice for questioning relationality and its role in meaning-making. The dissertation includes a critical preface that explores a poetics of entanglement by analyzing poetry by gay cis male US poets whose work is thematically linked by their creative disruptions of the feeling of shame. The dissertation’s creative chapter is a collection of original poems titled It Bears Repeating; the poems deploy a poetics of entanglement to open questions in the shamed body. The dissertation concludes with considerations for how a poetics of entanglement might be taught to undergraduate …

I Can... Will You?, Cheryl Golden

Virginia English Journal

No abstract provided.

March 2024, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Avoiding Burnout: Resources To Help The Overworked Teacher, Victoria Oglan, Janie R. Goodman

South Carolina Association for Middle Level Education Journal

Everyone knows that teaching has always been a demanding job; however, in the last decade the demands on teachers have increased. Today, teachers have to answer to parents, administrators, legislators, and the general public when it comes to their classroom practice and educational beliefs. In addition, long hours, classroom management issues, lack of support, low pay, poor working conditions, and the demands of high-stakes testing have all contributed to widespread teacher stress.

This collection of resources will make your teaching life so much easier. Bringing these authors into your classroom can give teachers a broader understanding of how to configure …

Lai Mi Ka Si (I Am Lai Mi): A Poetry Collection, Thang C. Lian

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

In this poetry collection, I combine oral history with official Burmese history to trace my family’s diasporic journey from the mountains of Myanmar to Kentwood, Michigan in 2008. To do so, I conducted interviews with my mother, father, grandmother, and grandfather over Zoom and accumulated dozens of hours of material. A rumination on refugee grief and displacement, this creative work expresses and investigates the multi-layered ritual of grief refugees conduct internally and externally—an intentional and powerful foray into the “affective.” Finally, this creative work intends to sift through the complications of transnational grief: how, when, and why do we grieve?

Creation Of A Southwestern Authors Archive: Revisiting The Laverne Harrell Clark Collection Ten Years Later, Erin R. Wahl, Pamela Pierce, Wendy Burk, Julie Swarstad Johnson, Sarah Kortemeier

Journal of Western Archives

This article details the processing of the LaVerne Harrell Clark Photographic Collection by University of Arizona Poetry Center librarians, archivists, and interns, and the current status and next steps of the collection. The LaVerne Harrell Clark Photographic Collection, which contains thousands of portraits and candids of poets taken circa 1960-2000 by LaVerne Harrell Clark, the Poetry Center’s first director, is deeply entwined with the Poetry Center’s institutional identity. In addition, the authors explored ways in which the collection and the institution as a whole are positioned as uniquely Western and also of national significance. Those processing the collection became interested …

February 2024, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Audience, Kelly Paystrup

The Utah English Journal

The writer–

Chooses rhetoric

(touching hearts and minds and morals)

The Point At Infinity, Josh Hiller

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

A poem about the longing for parallel lines to meet.

Quik Church, Route 3.141592, Sarah Voss

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

The following set of poems are from one of ten sections in a collection of poetry called Quik Church: Short Poems that Travel Far. Each section illustrates one of many “streets” which individuals often take on their spiritual journey through life, e.g., the Old Gods Path, Nature Trail, Memory Skyway, Mystic Avenue, Pastoral Lane, and so on. This one, Route 3.141592, is the route of mathematics and the science that depends on mathematics.

Ladybugs, Gabrielle Bologna

Comparative Woman

No abstract provided.

You Won't Understand When You're Older, Kimberly P. Chastain

Night Flight: Online Literary Journal

My goal in this project was to exemplify the feelings of insecurity that manage to leak into adulthood. Regardless of their origin, whether that be childhood wounds or recent tragedies, insecurities have been a propelling influence on all of our lives. I didn’t want to convey anything other than their presence and affect, because oftentimes those two things are all that remain.

The Hard Hands Of A Kind Man, Louis A. Scaglione

Night Flight: Online Literary Journal

This series of poems tells the story of a father and son living on a farm. We observe multiple large time skips, in order, as the boy grows up and his father grows older. It takers on the form of a coming of age story and focuses on a blue collar style of living. The conclusion shows lessons learned and how certain traditions and styles of life are carried on through future generations. Poetry was used to more deeply convey the emotions that take place over time.