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Feb2019, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Feb2 2019, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Warped Gates, Christopher Roberson

Theses and Dissertations

I am interested in the ambient conditions that are filtered through our bodies and our relationships with the built structures positioning us. I am combining experimental material approaches with a sensitivity to the spaces around an artwork to create sculptural situations that are dissonant and precarious.

A Comparative Study Of Spoken Word Poetry And Its Literary Counter-Part, Haidy Tarek Zakaria

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis discusses the contrast between spoken word and literary poetry, bearing in mind the differences in imagery, allusions and performance methods. Though both are fall under the same genre, the differences between them show as they are compared. There are many similarities between the two and the differences are not clear cut, however, upon closer inspection, one finds that the use of metaphor, and similes differ from one form to another. The fact that spoken word poetry uses performance as part of the poem also casts a difference between the two forms.

Inside A King’S Mind, Benjamin Jones Jr.

Student Works

Inside A King’s Mind is a must read because it gives the reader insight into the obstacles life brings and how to change despite your circumstance. This young author uses this opportunity to help others heal from pain, struggle, defeat, and misguidance with a collage of poems at their reach. May these poems give you guidance through your life's journey.

Laws Of Genetics, Sydney N. Sheltz-Kempf

The Hilltop Review

No abstract provided.

Sub Specie Aeternitatis, Dean Rader

English

No abstract provided.

Legacy 2019, Southern Adventist University

Legacy

The Legacy 2019 edition features both poetry and short stories written by Southern Adventist University students. Poetry was written by Avery Kroll, Destiny Cheyenne Wilson, Saria Smith, Camryn Scott, and Jilian Mounce. Short stories were written by Emma Winegardner, Zachary Hagan, Zach Roberts, and Marchely Registe.

Logos-Sophia, Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society

LOGOS-SOPHIA: The Journal of the PSU Philosophical Society

Logos-Sophia, Volume 15, Spring 2019. The Journal of the Pittsburg State University Philosophical Society has largely been a student publication with occasional faculty contributions.

Walking In The Field Of Words, Jane Frazier

Title III Professional Development Reports

Nature poetry or the appearance of nature in poetry is a vast subject. This article deals with the subject of nature poetry in the modern world. Poetry can be a voice for nature and expression of the universal that is in poetry. I have offered a poem of my own, "Alaska, Again" with an explication. The workshop I attended, "Walking in the Field of Words," at the University of Iowa, explored the depths of nature poetry in our modern time.

Bless Up: Poems, Jada A. Grice

Faith and Travel Fellowship

This collection of poems, centered on the themes of education, family and faith, was completed by the author during an Ursinus College travel fellowship to Jamaica.

Flame In A Jar, Katherine Whitcomb

High Mountain Valley Local Authors Collection Online Content

Containing poems in Spanish and English, Flame in a Jar is part of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana, Cuba, in conjunction with the 2018 International Biennial of Poetry of Havana, under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture, the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, and the Office of the Historian of the City. Katharine Whitcomb is the author of five books, the most recent being a collection of poetry, The Daughter's Almanac. She is a Distinguished Professor of English at Central Washington University, in Ellensburg, Washington, USA. Her website is katharinewhitcomb.com.

El Malecón, Xavier Cavazos

High Mountain Valley Local Authors Collection Online Content

Photographs by the author, English translation by Stalla Moreno.

Sustaining Lamentation In Traumatic Grief Through The Contemporary Elegy: A Practical Theology Of The Poetics Of Testimony, Patricia Shawn Fawson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This project addresses the problem that sustaining lamentation for particular testimonies of bereaved people is not supported culturally or spiritually by current practices of mourning. In a democracy, religious leaders become public theologians who respect and respond to diverse religious, political, historical, and economic interests without losing focus on the individual, family, and corporate systems and the ongoing elements of traumatic grief. In the context of lamentation and memorialization, when spiritual caregiver fail to acknowledge potentials for particular ways of mourning to contribute to empowerment and healing, mourners' grief can be foreclosed.

In North America, the dominant rhetoric of public …

Troubled By Thoughts About Infinity And Oblivion, I Exit The Twombly Retrospective At Dusk And Walk The High Line With The Ghost Of My Father, Dean Rader

English

No abstract provided.

Eight Weeks And A Poetry Slam: A Poetry Curriculum For Second-Graders, Kate Hest

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This paper presents a rationale and an eight-week poetry reading and writing curriculum designed for second-grade students. At the heart of the curriculum is Owl Moon by Jane Yolen, used as a mentor text to guide students’ exploration of poetry. This central text is complemented by a diverse selection of poems and picture books.

Honors Journal 2019, University Of Maine At Farmington

Honors Journal

The work presented here from our five contributors addresses the theme of the unknown, which mirrors the process of starting a journal from scratch. In this edition, reader, you will see that there is uncertainty in what lies in a relationship once financial struggles cause strain, and there is the struggle to keep knowledge alive when other forms of it have been forced onto populations. There are questions in how we cope and how we heal; there are questions regarding if we survive, or if we burn. We are very fortunate to have had the opportunity to feature the work …

There Must Be A Reason People Come Here, Brian James Foley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The poems in this collection are meant to be read as a preparation of ground and ask to be connected to a larger thought beyond the discrete experience of the poem itself. That thought is that no artistic expression exists outside of the historical conditions in which it was made, and those conditions must be broadcast in concert with the poem.

I cite that these poems are the result of existential degradation developed during the production of subjectivity under modern, hegemonic structures of Neoliberal Capitalism. They were cultivated from "bits of sensitivity" drawn from an unexceptional past regulated by systems …

War Poetry: Impacts On British Understanding Of World War One, Holly Fleshman

All Undergraduate Projects

The military and technological innovations deployed during World War I ushered in a new phase of modern warfare. Newly developed technologies and weapons created an environment which no one had seen before, and as a result, an entire generation of soldiers and their families had to learn to cope with new conditions of shell shock. For many of those affected, poetry offered an outlet to express their thoughts, feelings and experiences. For Great Britain, the work of Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves have been highly recognized, both at the time and in the present. Newspaper articles …

A Matter Of Life And Def: Poetic Knowledge And The Organic Intellectuals In Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, Anthony Blacksher

CGU Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation unpacks the poetry, performances, and the production of Def Poetry Jam to explore how a performative art embodied and confronted racial discourses, including stereotypes and also, addressed the racism, patriotism, and imperialist discourses that circulated after 9/11. Def Poetry Jam contributes to the intellectual capacity of spoken word and performance poetry, and poets as intellectuals, where poets produce and disseminate knowledge, ideas, and data, in the form of narratives, that contribute to critical consciousness. The effectiveness of the series lay in the consistent blurring of entertainment, knowledge, anti-capitalism, and capitalism. This research demonstrates how Def Poetry Jam provided …

A Matter Of Life And Def: Poetic Knowledge And The Organic Intellectuals In Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, Anthony Sean Blacksher

CGU Theses & Dissertations

In December of 2001, Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry (Def Poetry Jam) turned HBO viewers into audience members of a televised poetry reading, featuring spoken word and performance poetry. Over six seasons, actors, rappers, comedians, and the host, Mos Def, joined poets in a unique representation of counter-public open mic poetry readings and poetry slams. This dissertation unpacks the poetry, performances, and the production of Def Poetry Jam to explore how a performative art embodied and confronted racial discourses, including stereotypes and also, addressed the racism, patriotism, and imperialist discourses that circulated after 9/11. Def Poetry Jam contributes to the …

Jan2019, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Sink Hollow Volume 6

Sink Hollow

There is no way around it. This issue, our 6th in the last three years, is painful. The underbelly of the human experience is laid bare and there is no hiding from it here.

But that is also what makes it so incredibly beautiful. It is a raw commentary on those things that, despite their pain, make us so uniquely human. It is our ability to trudge on, to continue to seek happiness even when it feels like there may never be joy again that makes us such wonderful, hopeful creatures.

As always, it is my privlege to present the …

When Fall Arrives, David James

Bryant Literary Review

Fall in four days and another year

winds down to a grinding stop.

The apples ripen in the sun

while the serrano peppers implode.

Saudade, Lisa Russo

Bryant Literary Review

Now that you're gone, you've left me longing.

I smile softly because you were here

All I Know About Pool, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

Winning depends on the right numbers and hues.

If White rolls in a hole, like a dog, you scratch.

Living Dolls, Andrena Zawinski

Bryant Literary Review

A living doll, everywhere you look.

It can sew, it can cook,

It can talk, talk, talk. Sylvia Plath

As a little girl, I never wanted any creepy

Fortress*, . Yvonne

Bryant Literary Review

Not a single ceiling or window fan

In our stifling apartment on the top floor.

Postcard, Harvest: A Poetry Showcase With Sound At Studio@620 In St. Petersburg, Florida, Studio At 620

Postcard Collection

A promotional postcard for HARVEST, a poetry showcase orchestrated by Miesha Brundridge, featuring poets such as Bob Devin Jones, Sara Reis, and Denzel J.G. The event, which also features musical guests like Thaddeus Reis Dziekonski and Eva Maragouthakis, explores nostalgic themes of Fall and the agrarian work of harvesting the last crops before Winter.

Monkey Time, Eric Greinke

Bryant Literary Review

Communication devices destroy communication.

Text messages erode the language,