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The Maypole (For Carole And Ken), Sara Anne Hook

Graduate Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.

Losing Count: A Re-Collection, By Numbers, Kim D. Hester Williams

The Goose

Poetry by Kim D. Hester Williams

(Emily 479) And Tra/Versing The Year, Naomi C. Gades, Paul Puccio

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

(Emily 479) and tra/versing the year - Poetry

The Grid Elegies, Pamela A. Kallimanis

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Immigrants are a key component in New York City’s pandemic. Historically, New York is a city of immigrants and their children. In the latter part of the 20th Century, more immigrants arrived due to changes in migration policy. There was also an increased outmigration through second and third generations, which mirrors an economic trajectory seen in previous points in history, mainly in the 1970s. At that time, there was the lure of government policies – from federal mortgage agencies that graded white suburban areas as safer areas for banks to make loans than racially mixed urban areas, to road construction …

A Difference In Rhythm: John Burroughs As Rhythmanalyst, Jennifer Macdonald

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Nature writer John Burroughs wrote about the rhythms of life in nature, people, and places, sharing his experiences of his surroundings for readers to learn from, get inspired by, or escape through. In this literature review, using Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis, in which rhythm is the “interaction between a place, a time, and an expenditure of energy” (Lefebvre, 2004, p. 15), I explore some of Burroughs’ writing, asserting that Burroughs himself was a rhythmanalyst. Burroughs is typically read as a literary naturalist who hoped to relay any scene as it truly was (to perfect the “art of seeing things” or …

Some Notes On Birds: Language And Attention In The Age Of Social Media, Aimee Lamoureux

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Technology, social media, and its affiliated distractions are now an ever-present part of our daily lives. Attention is a commodity, one which tech companies value because it delivers them bigger and bigger profits. Their products are intentionally designed to be additive, to demand more and more of our time and attention throughout our day. However, attention is not simply a commodity, but the way in which we connect with the external world and attend to our everyday experience. The world that we create in the mind is the world that ends up forming the reality of our everyday lives. Complex …

Cachexia, Following Flowers, Sinéad O'Bryant

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

This poem explores a similar experience I once encountered working with an oncologist, as a patient learns about the recurrence of cancer after being in remission. The situation struck me as I felt the stir of human sadness and courage, and I would like to dedicate the poem to those living with cancer, who face the trepidation of their daily lives with bravery. What I hope this writing demonstrates is the depth and complexity of emotions felt by both patients and their physicians in times of bad news and expresses the beauty that underlies a strong and genuine patient-physician relationship.

Introduction To Creative Writing, Shamecca A. Harris

Open Educational Resources

This introductory creative writing course asks students to explore their literary interests and proclivities through regular reading and writing activities designed to promote an in-depth understanding and appreciation for the craft of writing. Students will intellectually engage with both contemporary and classic authors within the main genres of creative writing and use the craft elements discussed in class to compose their own original poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction work. While studying various forms of creative writing, emphasis will be placed on the creative process of writing while encouraging students to find their writing voice. Student responsibilities include workshop participation, several …

In-Between The Wind, Victoria L. Vontz

LSU Master's Theses

In-between the Wind is a compilation of poems, short stories, theories, photographs, and drawings that reveal my relationship and connection with nature. Through prose, I expose and question my place in the world, how I see it and how I am connected to it, while photographic images and drawings leave space for thoughtful and reflective meditation. The work draws upon memories, discusses theories of connection, and aims to record ephemeral moments that often seem to be too easily forgotten.

The Current, Scott K. Heysell

Journal of Wellness

No abstract provided.

Fastest On The Playground: Four Generations Of Female Sport Experience, Jessica B. Kirby

The Qualitative Report

The life sport experiences of four generations of females were explored through narrative family research and presented through research poetry. Their stories powerfully represent the transformation of sport and exercise culture across seven decades of overlapping life experiences and demonstrate the generational transmission of value for, expectation of, and experiences with sport. A poem representing each girl/woman’s story was crafted by the author, through the process of poetic transcription, and is presented alongside a photo illustrating each individual’s experiences. The generational experiences and implications of the findings are discussed within the broader sport psychology and sport sociology literature.

Poster, August 2021 Events At Studio@620, Studio At 620, Michelle Dowdy, Anthony Patterson, Denzel Johnson-Green, Keep St. Pete Lit

Poster Collection

An event poster for August 2021 programming at The Studio@620, featuring Dowdy! Dowdy! Dowdy!, a solo show by Broadway actress and cabaret performer Michelle Dowdy on August 7, Drunken Fist: Not Your Grandpa's Poetry on August 19, and a Poetry Open Mic hosted by Keep St. Pete Lit on August 25.

Aug2021, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Mic Check : Finding Hip Hop's Place In The Literary Milieu, Victorio Reyes

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The study of Hip Hop poetics has been slowly gaining momentum as an area for scholarly inquiry. Accordingly, Mic Check rests on one critical assumption: Hip Hop is the most significant American form of poetry ever invented. To back up this claim, this project investigates Hip Hop lyricism from five critical angles: tradition, form, tone, medium, and practice. I argue that music’s foundational position in African American literature clarifies Hip Hop’s experiments with language, which operate within and extend an ongoing, centuries-old tradition of linguistic, rhythmic, and poetic experimentation. Comprehension of the longstanding literary/oral territory from which Hip Hop is …

Tsiyim, A Hiding, Aaron Lopatin

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Tsiyim is a collection of poems and poetic sequences that investigate faith, doubt, and the natural world. The poems draw on the stories of martyrs, saints, prophets, and pilgrims, entering a mimetic chain that sets language and poetry as the placeholder for a contemporary faith to take place.

“We Are Girls. We Are Warriors. We Are Writers”: Middle School Girls And Gender Identity Construction In An After-School Writing Workshop, Mary-Celeste Schreuder

All Dissertations

Research continues to reveal that school, as a patriarchal institution, is not often a safe space for girls to enact their gender identities (Liu, 2006; Sadker, Sadker, & Zittleman, 2009). The gender bias and inequality girls experience in classrooms contributes to harmful behaviors, such as self-silencing and adhering to stereotypical gender norms (Bender-Slack, 2009; Gilligan, 1993), which creates challenges for girls’ construction of positive gender identities. In the wake of new feminist movements, such as #MeToo and Time’s Up, research focused on the perpetuation (and disruption) of patriarchal norms and their effect on girls’ gender identity is all the more …

A Life Cut Short, Cacey L. Wells

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Connecting scholars and students with the human side of mathematics is critical. This poem about Évariste Galois provides a synopsis of his controversial life, while also providing details into his life that some may not be familiar with.

Train Algebra, Mary Soon Lee

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

No abstract provided.

The Uncertainty Of Confidence, Michael J. Leach

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This is a free-verse poem about the estimation of population parameters in statistical models. The spacing of words is intended to reflect uncertainty.

Mathematical Rigor From Within, Lowell Abrams

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

There is a certain feel that is unique to the rarefied context of rigorous mathematics. These poems constitute an exploration of my experience of mathematical rigor when I am in the midst of exercising my skills as a research mathematician.

Felix Hausdorff’S Poem “Den Ungeflügelten”, Benjamin Elkins

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

In 1900, Felix Hausdorff published Ekstasen (Ecstasy) under the pseudonym Paul Mongré. The book is comprised of 157 poems (70 sonnets, 32 rondels, 25 "mixed poems", where Hausdorff effortlessly combines different types of poetic styles, and 30 more poems). Den Ungeflügelten (To The Wingless Ones) is the first poem in this book and provides an interesting self-portrait of Hausdorff as he embraces his muse with confidence. Here I present an English translation of this poem without (much) commentary.

Reflections On The Language And Music Of Poetry In The Diwan Of The Late Mohammad Ahmed Al-Ammad, Jawad Alnouri

Hebron University Research Journal-B (Humanities) - (مجلة جامعة الخليل للبحوث- ب (العلوم الانسانيه

This research covers in a very careful reading the poetry book of (Mr. Mohammad Ahmed Al-Ammad), which was published after being audited and verified by a respected committee composed from number of teachers from the department of Arabic Language, Faculty of Arts, An-Najah National University.

We tried in this work to do the correction and remedial work for language and prosodic mistakes which were very huge in number, still the poems were very excellent and valuable, but, these mistakes disfigured its language rhythms. In our correction and remedial work we depended on number of Arabic language dictionaries, our long scientific …

Watley, Louanne, B. 1937, Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3606. Correspondence of Watley, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and poet, author and Appalachian studies scholar Jim Wayne Miller regarding writing workshops and grant-funded projects. Includes poems of Watley and a detailed critique by Miller.

As Your Writing And Reading Teacher, Jean Prokott

Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal

AS YOUR WRITING & READING TEACHER, and as a poetry enthusiast (fangirl), I was thinking about you yesterday as I watched Amanda Gorman perform her poem at Biden's inauguration, and then I was really thinking about you, students, as I watched Anderson Cooper interview her last night. I hope so much that you heard the poem, and I would truly love for you to watch the interview: she talks about the task to write a poem, the feel of words over images, the research she did from history and culture to pull this poem together. It is a feat that …

Mukhammas Genre In The Second Half Of The Xix Century And The Beginning Of The Xx Century And The Principles Of Its Evolution, Sirojiddin Kholmakhmatovich Khujaqulov

Scientific reports of Bukhara State University

Introduction. The article discusses the evolution of the mukhammas genre in the national enlightenment and jadid literature, the principles of evolution of this genre, the place of the general literary process in the system of literary genres, its new principles, theme and ideological content, examples of works of jadid and enlightened poets. Traditional and innovative features in comparative typological monograph, analytical-comparative, descriptive and critical aspects are analyzed. Methods. During this period, it is possible to observe literary processes and trends in the form of paradoxical models of poetic norms of classical literature, based on realistic elements in the expression of …

Joshua Harmon's The Soft Path (University Of Akron Press, 2019) Reviewed In The New Issue Of Mid-American Review, University Of Akron Press

News of The University of Akron Press

Joshua Harmon’s first collection of poetry, The Soft Path, was reviewed by Turner Wilson in the latest issue of Mid-American Review (vol. XL, no. 1).

Wilson praises the book as “a vision of the future of American pastoral poetry,” reading the “spare and fragmented style” as a comment on our broken “understanding and exploitation of wilderness” (169).

Jul2021, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Visiting The Garden By Ryan Guptil, Ryan Guptil

ART/RSP 299: Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

Visiting the Garden

Winter is gone
The sun is out

I open right up
I come right out.

My bright red complexion
My powerful aroma

Creatures come to see me,
Without a doubt.

They know my smell
They know my name

They know what I am
Not ever a doubt.

Every year I am the same,
But they always change.

Till next year my friends
Please stay the same.

I feel you looking
I never move, always still
Frozen like a rock.

I am as bright as a flame
And catch the shining sun.

You’re drawn to me
Like a …

We, Three By Ginny Majka, Ginny Majka

ART/RSP 299: Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

We, Three

I am the soil, the mountains and oceans of life.
Mycellium colonies beneath my surface plunge up
up, up through the peat and the moss, the decaying leaves. They pray for the rain, the fruit of my earth.
Plantae nestle in, fragile and comfortable,
seeds sprout to eagerly gulp rain,
animalia flourish, consuming what I provide
only to come home, at the end, to me
to rejoin my earth;
we are one
I am the atmosphere, the sunny clouds and storms producing bounty to those below
I am the chaos in the lightning
I am the rainbow after …

Camas, Summer 2021

Camas

Nonfiction:

From a High Place I Can See / Bryce Andrews -- El Camino / Rick White -- Rumble Wagon / Jane McGuire

Fiction:

I Never Loved Cal and I Never Fucked Carlos / Jill Adams -- This is the Trip / John Yohe

Poetry:

Hide and Seek / Kate Maxwell -- Rats in 3 Parts / Izzy Radford -- Faux Spring / Mercury-Marvin Sunderland -- Horsehair / Alex Manebur -- Cardiohaus / Linda Malnack -- stet. / Hasan Gilani -- Red-Winged Blackbird / Rebecca Carson -- A million sails, a billion boats, a trillion fish, a zillion waters! / …