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Langland Parrhesiastes, Ian Cornelius

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The ancient Greek word parrhēsia designates speech that is bold, frank, and free, holding nothing back; a parrhēsiastēs is a person who gives voice to such speech. Although the word was little used in Latin literature and had no precise Latin equivalent, the concept was transmitted to medieval western Europe in rhetorical theory and the New Testament. In this essay I propose that the concept of parrhēsia may help to register the irruptive force, pointedness, risks, and complexity of certain acts of saying in Piers Plowman, a fourteenth-century English vision poem. For most of this essay, I focus on a …

Chrysalis, Nafisa Choudhury

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

This poem explores the experience of being an Asian American care provider and civilian, growing up and trying to mesh together culture with “fitting in” and suffering racism from other individuals and patients. It was inspired by the March 16, 2022, shootings in Atlanta and discusses the origin of hatred and racism/xenophobia. What I hope this conveys is a glimpse into the shared perspectives of many Asian American and Pacific Islanders and describes the optimism moving forward as we begin to tackle these issues.

Small Talk Haiku - Temur, Turan Temur

Student Work

Library Literary Contest Spring 2022: “Small Talk”

Entrants wrote a haiku that addressed the following prompt: “ You escape small talk with the most unrealistic excuse possible. Write your excuse as a haiku.”

Small Talk Haiku - Boyce, Jaxyn Boyce

Student Work

Library Literary Contest Spring 2022: “Small Talk”

Entrants wrote a haiku that addressed the following prompt: “ You escape small talk with the most unrealistic excuse possible. Write your excuse as a haiku.”

Two Poems, Lauren Coyne

The Hilltop Review

No abstract provided.

We Might Be Salvaged, Hannah Kroonblawd

Theses and Dissertations

We Might Be Salvaged is a dissertation that hinges upon poetic loci of disaster, survival, despair, and hope. The dissertation includes a critical preface, “Beyond Repair,” which contextualizes the central creative work alongside the concerns of the Anthropocene, as well as the collective necessity of environmental justice and disability activism. The creative work, “We Might Be Salvaged,” explores contemporary catastrophes and the lingering hope of an unknown future. The final chapter, “Teaching in the Anthropocene,” provides a pedagogical link through the design of online undergraduate creative writing workshop courses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Womanist Poetics: Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, And Audre Lorde, Aya Telmissany

Theses and Dissertations

Today, the sentimentality associated with poetry is often condescendingly dubbed in a patriarchal society as “feminine poetry.” The first women poets who dared to attempt the pen were often met with attacks on their femaleness and harsh critiques of their writing which was likened to sorcery and witchcraft. Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Audre Lorde are three American women poets who countered these attacks and turned them inside out in favor of their own womanist poetics. They wrote about experiencing the world as women and most importantly about experiencing poetry as women. What happens to poetry when a woman appropriates …

An Archive Of Poetry: Surviving Settlement, Upholding Feminine Virtue, And Practicing Narrative Discipline In Anne Bradstreet's And Eliza R. Snow's Poetry, Britta Karen Adams

Theses and Dissertations

Settlement is a frequent topic in scholarly conversations about early American literature. From studies about William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation to Anne Bradstreet's poetry, settlement is a consistent theme in texts written by early Americans and in scholarship written by experts about early American texts. Settlement is also a major theme in the poetry written by Eliza R. Snow after fleeing with the Latter-day Saints from Missouri and settling in Nauvoo, Illinois. Both Bradstreet and Snow lived through settlement crises, crises that incorporated and exacerbated religious tensions within their communities eventually taking the form of the Antinomian Controversy and the …

Eng 113: Writing About Literature, Joseph Donica

Open Educational Resources

An open-access course about writing and analyzing fiction, poetry, and drama.

Postmodern Poetry And Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics, David Hadbawnik

New Queer Medievalisms

This volume builds on recent scholarship on contemporary poetry in relation to medieval literature, focusing on postmodern poets who work with the medieval in a variety of ways. Such recent projects invert or “queer” the usual transactional nature of engagements with older forms of literature, in which readers are asked to exchange some small measure of bewilderment at archaic language or forms for a sense of having experienced a medieval text. The poets under consideration in this volume demand that readers grapple with the ways in which we are still “medieval” – in other words, the ways in which the …

Vol. Lix, No. 3: Thinking Gospodinov Thoughts, Thomas Mcgonigle

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

Pretty Weeds, Sarah Pobuda

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

This thesis collection of poetry centers around the themes of family, love, relationships, death and an exploration of the poet's faith. Split into three parts, the poet delves into different themes in each. In the first part, the poet centers the reader in their perspective, providing poems concerning the self and the world around them. In the second, relationships both romantic and familial are explored. In the last section, the poet returns their focus to the discovery of the foundations of the self from the first section in connection with the relationships established in the second section. This collection utilizes …

Trauma And Poetry. The Case Of Primo Levi, Ilona Klein

Faculty Publications

Most North American readers have come to know and appreciate Primo Levi by his major works in prose. His The Periodic Table (1984) catapulted Levi onto the American stage of scientific-humanistic authors, having the New York Times named it among the Best Books of the Year in 1985. Instead, American readers will likely stumble upon Levi’s poetry by accident, simply because every now and then one of his poems in translation appears in print somewhere. Compared to Levi’s prose, his poems inevitably evoke a sense of unease, for their tone, their style and their content are so unlike the familiar, …

Serinity In The Cracks, Joshua Christian

2022

No abstract provided.

Follow The Shimmer, Meghan Bradbury

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

Follow the Shimmer is a creative thesis collection of poems and songs that explore the depths of trauma, love, and healing. Told through the lens of fairy tale and fantasy, it is a story of grief and hope. Some of the tales are familiar, others are strange and abstract. Fables and nursery rhymes are remixed by the hands of a daughter who wishes for her deceased mother's touch. Archetypes and mythology are scrambled through the kaleidoscopic eyes of a woman who survives the violence of a patriarchal society. The world becomes a landscape of dangerous yet magical realms to discover; …

Poetry Event Including S. Livingston, C1780

Liberty Hall Collection 1780s

A list of Poems and the names of people presenting them, including the poem presented by S. Livingston (likely Susan or Sarah). There are two, loose pieces of paper, with writing on both sides. The pages are not numbered and may be in the wrong order.

Names included: Mrs. Greene, Col. & Mrs. Moylan, Mr. Duer, Lady Kitty, Miss Pronone, Col. Seammel, Miss A.D.H., Doctor Bond, Miss Ricketts, Doctor Draper, Miss S. Livingston, Doctor McHenry, Miss Winslow, Col. William, Miss Elizabeth, Major Steward, Miss P.H., Major Forman, Miss C. W. H., Major Gibbs, Miss Banker, Miss Vanzandt, and Miss Lott.

Faceted, Cass Sissel

The Oval

No abstract provided.

An Ode To What Is Below, Elizabeth Hewey

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Body, No Longer, Jade Taylor

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Cycle Of Hevel, Alicia Mcalpine

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Ballad For The Sink Pissers, Riese Munoz

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Wind In Wyoming, Emma Fisher

The Oval

No abstract provided.

The Oval, 2022

The Oval

This issue includes creative work from undergraduate students at the University of Montana.

I Am, Nonso Obieyisi

The Oval

No abstract provided.

If I Had Stayed Under The Boulder, Elizabeth Hewey

The Oval

No abstract provided.

I Understand The Victorian Obsession With Ankles, Summer Romo

The Oval

No abstract provided.

The Oval, 2022 - Staff Issue

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Symbiosis, Elizabeth Hewey

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Constellation In Red, Jade Taylor

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Nancy., Nance Beston

The Oval

No abstract provided.