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The Brotherhood Of Chairs, Jennifer Cormack

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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That Paint On Your Wall, Kianna Burke

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Shards, Tyne Freeman

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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2.26.18, Alicia A. Blumenthal

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Long Way Down, Abigail Packard

Children's Book and Media Review

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Poe: Stories And Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation By Gareth Hinds, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Edgar Allan Poe is synonymous with suspense and mystery. This is a well-illustrated and well-written graphic novel that gives a perfect introduction to the works of the master storyteller. "The Masque of the Red Death" leads the collection with its haughty band of recalcitrant noblemen and women who have left their people to die of plague while they party and mock at death. Read on for the chilling "Cask of Amantillado," where the taste of revenge exceeds fine wine. Also included are "Annabelle Lee," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Bells," and "The Raven." Explore these classic …

Integration Of Local Poetic Voices: An Interview With Lawson Fusao Inada, Alma Rosa Alvarez, John Rafael Almaguer

Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies

An interview with Lawson Fusoa Inada

Tin Rain, Clare Welsh

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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The Ones Abandoned, Thomas Dollbaum

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Tiny Little Rocket, Maryn Wheeler

Children's Book and Media Review

Tiny Little Rocket goes on an extraordinary exploration through outer space. In the silver-finned rocket, the reader becomes the pilot zipping by the burning, golden sun, boosting further into space, and almost running into a meteor. Watch out! From the cockpit the quick-thinking pilot helps maneuver the rocket to safety through the solar system to find a spectacular view of Earth on New Year’s Eve, the world’s birthday.

Breakout, Meagan Andrus

Children's Book and Media Review

Seventh grader Nora Tucker is looking forward to a summer full of cookouts, hikes, and swimming. Her plans for the year go awry when the high-security prison near her home has a breakout. Now two killers are on the loose somewhere near Nora's sleepy town in upstate New York, and the residents are becoming more fearful and distrusting. Inspired by her English teacher, Nora and her friend Lizzie set out to document the events of the breakout through letters, text messages, voice recordings, and more. Along the way they get to know Elidee, a new girl who has just moved …

Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells

Westview

This distance is real.

With My Hands: Poems About Making Things, Nicole Clark

Children's Book and Media Review

What is a maker? According to With My Hands: Poems About Making Things, a maker is someone who is a creator, someone who makes mistakes, and someone who produces something that has never existed before. This picture book is a collection of twenty-six short poems, all of which are topically centered around the theme of creating. The poems showcase a diverse collection of media, including soap carving, shadow puppets, collage, fort building, and collage making

Sheep 101, Haley Singleton

Children's Book and Media Review

Counting sheep is a necessity before falling asleep, but what happens when a sheep gets stuck in the fence? The show must go on and you find help where you can. From the blind mice to the three little pigs, everyone is there to help the reader fall asleep. Everyone pitches in to jump the fence and continue the count, except that 101 remains in the way. They call for help and Sheep 101 is rescued and able to help complete the count.

Finding And Making Home: Poems And Reflections Of Undergraduate Children Of Immigrants, Gladys Perez

Master's Theses

The number of children of immigrants within the United States has grown over the past few decades and more so we are seeing a greater number of these children pursuing a higher education. With a growing number of undergraduate children of immigrants growing, there is a need to understand how they see themselves as a part of the United States. Previous studies take into consideration how these students navigate higher education, however, there is a lack of research on these students’ larger understanding of belonging within the overall nation. Poetry as data and a process was the grounding methodology that …

What Turtle Blood Tastes Like, Jonas Lamb

Faculty and Staff

What Turtle Blood Tastes Like explores acts of initiation and the packs we run with: wild boys, family, animal companions. Turtle blood acts as an elixir, opening doors to the muck of childhood, that coursing of heat and blood felt in the ears while walking the edge of right and wrong. In these poems fatherhood and home ownership are impending disasters that complicate the domestic landscape. Origin stories emerge unexpectedly from gardens, in bites of pickled whitefish and the gold foil of butterscotch candy. What routes have led us here, from what seeds have we grown? The critical essay, “Subverting …

Three Poems From The Fabric Of The Universe By Andrée Chedid, Kathryn L. Kimball

Transference

Translated from French by Kathryn Kimball:

• Still Here Passing Through
• Growing Old VI
• Dying IV

Six Poems From Cargo Of Stars — Coolitude By Khal Torabully, Nancy Naomi Carlson

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Translated from French by Nancy Naomi Carlson:

• I refuse
• I have faith in the rhythm of waves
• I know the echo
• No grammar can express
• My cargo mother-of-pearl
• Night will shower the hidden flowers

Three Inscriptions For Paintings By Yao Nai, Andrew Gudgel

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Translated from Chinese by Andrew Gudgel.

Four Poems From Thorny Roses By Ichinohe Kenzō, Joshua Solomon

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Translated from Japanese by Joshua Solomon:

• Thorny Roses
• Sand Pear Petals
• Rice Fish
• Early Spring

Author acknowledges Ito Yumiko of Tsugaru Shobo for securing translation and publication rights.

Please Excuse This Poem, Emily Loveless

Children's Book and Media Review

One hundred poems by a diverse cross-section of young American poets delivers a wide variety of human experience. This collection touches on a range of subjects, many of them uncomfortable, brutally intimate, and totally unapologetic. With evocative, symbolic, and sarcastic language, these poets saturate the pages with their hearts and minds. If you find some that particularly resonate with you, short biographies and personal Q&As are included at the rear of the book.

In The Past: From Trilobites To Dinosaurs To Mammoths In More Than 500 Million Years, Karen Abbott

Children's Book and Media Review

Poems of prehistoric creatures are combined with watercolor illustrations to take the reader on a wonderful walk with extinct animals both large and small. A combination of clever, humorous poetry about dinosaurs and mammals from ancient history and stunning illustrations create a passage to the world from ages past.

Edgar Allan Poe's Pie: Math Puzzlers In Classic Poems, Nicole Clark

Children's Book and Media Review

What do you get when you cross Walt Whitman with a spider whose web-spinning was disturbed by a wind which blew sixty percent of it away? Robert Frost with boxer shorts at ninety cents a pair? Shel Silverstein with a hippo-po-tah-tum eating you at four percent per bite? In Edgar Allan Poe’s Pie, children’s poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis cleverly integrates math problems into new adaptations of classic poetry using the original rhyme and meter.

Wet Cement: A Mix Of Concrete Poems, Kristie Hinckley

Children's Book and Media Review

In Bob Raczka’s compilation of concrete poems, or 'shape poems,' Bob combines words about science, seasons, stars, and clothes hangers in a delightfully creative way. In the titles of the poems, the author creates pictures with letters, and in the poems themselves, he creates pictures with words. Some poems rhyme and some don’t. Even the table of contents is in the shape of a table. Readers are left with a message at the end to just try poetry!

Roots And Blues: A Celebration, Kylee Vidmar-Hackney

Children's Book and Media Review

Arnold Adoff creates a series of poems about the words and feelings behind ‘the blues’. Each of these patterned and well-crafted poems contain carefully worded narratives describing life as an African American during the time of slavery and inequality. Adoff emotionally describes the natural origins to this soulful music found in ‘the shuffle of chains between wrists,’ each chop of the axe, and voices shouting 'amen.' These were the sounds that inspired the blues, ultimately finding refuge from their pain in their music. During a time of grief and suffering, celebration was still found in the rhythm of the roots …

One Last Word, Taylor Harris

Children's Book and Media Review

One Last Word is a collection of poems from the Harlem Renaissance accompanied by corresponding poems written using the Golden Shovel poetic technique. The poems are from both the past and present. They bring to light injustice, resilience and finding joy in living life while confronting major obstacles. One Last Word is a moving tribute to the great poets of the Harlem Renaissance.

African Poetry Libraries-A Global Collaboration, Lorna M. Dawes, Charlene Maxey-Harris

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

In 2014, the African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) and the University of Nebraska (UNL)literary magazine-thePrairie Schooner established African Poetry Libraries in five countries; Ghana, Kenya,Uganda, Gambia and Botswana. The purpose of these libraries wasto support the creativity of aspiring and establishedpoets in their local communities. The University of Nebraska Libraries was asked toserve as consultants on the initiative by working with local volunteers to set up thelibraries and provideongoing assistance and advice to the new libraries during thefirst three years of their inception. The goal of the librariesis to support thelocal community of poets through access to contemporary poetry, and …

Try To Remember Breath, Rita Chapman

Theses

A collection of original poems.

Blotner, Joseph Leo, 1923-2012 (Mss 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 200. Research material collected by Joseph Leo Blotner for his literary biography of Robert Penn Warren. Includes Warren’s correspondence (photocopies from various repositories), interview transcripts, notes, news clippings, critical essays, and other documentation about Warren. Also includes drafts, galley proofs, and permissions related to the biography.

Six Poems From I Look At My Body And See The Source Of My Shame: ("We've Arranged Our Lives," "My Soul, Steeped In My Pride," "The World Is A Funny House," "My Joy From You Lives Free," "Our Hunger Like A Cockroach," And "Nothing Is Ever Clean In Me"), Mark Anthony Cayanan

English Faculty Publications

Six Poems from I Look at My Body and See the Source of My Shame: ("We've arranged our lives," "My soul, steeped in my pride," "The world is a funny house," "My joy from you lives free," "Our hunger like a cockroach," and "Nothing is ever clean in me")