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Falling Into The Dragon's Mouth, Jarrett Bell

Children's Book and Media Review

Jason Parker is an American foreigner in sixth-grade attending a Japanese public school. Despite the advice of his parents to keep his head held high, Jason keeps his head low to avoid detection and constant harassment at his local middle school in Japan. He finds himself in a culture that condones corporal punishment and turns a blind eye to bullying, and the locals find every excuse to harass Jason just because he is different. His only solace is his brave little sister and his ability to find his center in the Aikido martial arts.

The Pirate Jamboree, Sydnee Burr

Children's Book and Media Review

Teague creates a fantastic world for his young readers in this lively story in verse. A reunion of pirates commences, and each participant is described as they arrive. It later becomes apparent that these flamboyant, ferocious, and fancy pirates are neighborhood children gathered together utilizing their advanced imaginations. In their raucous excitement, a huge mess is made! Then they spot Mrs. Jones coming in sailing on the S.S. CLEAN YOUR ROOM. The pirates flee, the harbor is quiet, and tomorrow will probably bring another pirate jamboree.

Vol. Liv, No. 4: Our Lineage Of Damage: Anne Enright's Family Fictions, Marissa Mazek

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

You Don't Talk About It, Brittany Lee Cheak

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

I am a poet. As an undergraduate, I explored the other genres of writing—I wrote short stories, attempted a novel-length piece, and crafted essays. While I found plays interesting, I could not write one satisfactorily. But poetry fit like an extension of myself. I could fuse my voice and my ideas in stanzas and images, and I found myself weighing words and sounds as I constructed the lines. It was only natural that I pursue mastery in poetry when I returned for my Masters of Fine Arts.

The material presented in this document is the culmination of two years of …

Scansion, Chelsea Dingman

All Digital Pedagogy Resources

This is an assignment on rhythm and meter for advanced undergraduate poetry students. They use a digital tool to learn to scan classic poems.

The Digital Monstrosity, Alexander Cendrowski

All Digital Pedagogy Resources

The Digital Monstrosity torments students into discovering, first and foremost, how a piece of digital literature works. Thrust into the digital literature archives, students must wind their way towards a place of learning like Theseus, dragging the rest of us along a particularly juicy strand of Ariadne's thread. In presenting their findings to the rest of the class, we can collaboratively build an understanding of what substantiates digital literature and how one might go about creating their own.

Erasure Poetry Assignment, James Mcadams

All Digital Pedagogy Resources

In this exercise, students working with erasure/blackout poetry were encouraged to create a piece of erasure poetry on their own, using an existing, culturally enshrined, source text. The objectives are twofold: for them to express themselves creatively and feel, as they "write in resistance to a text," that their attitudes in response to a (canonical) text do not have to be reverential, but may in fact be productively subversive; in so doing, the students also, by integrating graphics and audio from a basic Word document, (in most cases) learn with my how help how to make a simple software tool …

D-Ped Assignment Involving Solmaz Sharif's Look And The Influence Of Digital Platforms On Contemporary Poetry, Chelsea Dingman

All Digital Pedagogy Resources

Students were asked to consider the effectiveness of using erasure and language from the Military Dictionary in the writing of Solmaz Sharif's Look. They were then tasked with doing research as to which poems were published digitally from that collection. Finally, they were to compare her poems to the work of the newly famous "instapoets" as to the effects of the different digital platforms on the art form.

D-Ped Articles For Teaching Poetry, Chelsea Dingman

All Digital Pedagogy Resources

These articles are part of the research and the second part of the assignment regarding the effect of digital platforms on poetry and publishing.

Notes For The Next God, Joseph J. Capista

CutBank

No abstract provided.

When I Say I Miss The Drugs, Zackary Medlin

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Leave It To Me, Charlie D'Eve

CutBank

No abstract provided.

American Quartet, Abby Minor

CutBank

No abstract provided.

The Poetry Of Christina Rossetti And Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Same Femme, Different Fate, Carolyn A. Kirsch

Student Publications

Siblings Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Christina Rossetti both lived during the Victorian era and wrote poetry which epitomizes the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Although they were related, these two poets were drastically different, and their differences are evident in their poetry. Dante Gabriel was infatuated with beautiful women and many of his poems express sexual desire, while Christina was intensely devoted to God and many of her poems provide moral instruction. However, these poets both make femme fatales the subjects of their poems “Body’s Beauty,” “The Card-Dealer,” “The World,” and “Babylon the Great.” This paper analyzes the different ways in which Dante …

Seismic Waves, Aubrey L. Kamppila

Student Publications

I was studying abroad in Florence, Italy on November 9, 2016, when I awoke to the news that Donald Trump had been elected President. To say it was a shock was an understatement, like many Americans, I had never dreamed the scenario possible. At that moment, I felt more powerless and disconnected from my country than ever before. For the next few weeks, I struggled to comprehend how I personally could combat the assault on my political views and values, what stand I could take, and what impact it might have. Finally, on one of many emotional phone calls with …

Commonthought (2017), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

Neurasthenia, Robert Graves, And Poetic Therapy In The Great War, Juliette E. Sebock

Student Publications

Though Robert Graves is remembered primarily for his memoir, Good-bye to All That, his First World War poetry is equally relevant. Comparably to the more famous writings of Sassoon and Owen, Graves' war poems depict the trauma of the trenches, marked by his repressed neurasthenia (colloquially, shell-shock), and foreshadow his later remarkable poetic talents.

Reference In Hamid Al Rawi's Poetry, Lama Abdel Qader Khanyab, Adnan Hussein Madloul

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research aims to describe the coherent referential structure in Hamed Al-Rawi's poetry, and to explain its function in creating and constructing the text/discourse, in addition to examining the efficiency of this methodological tool in analyzing the poetic text. The research attempts to achieve this by methodically answering a set of questions related to the types of referential means that appeared in Al-Rawi's poetry, and the nature of the referential structure in the language of contemporary poetry and the forms it takes, and how does the referral contribute to the consistency of the poetic text that is dominated by external …

Parker, Dickey (Wilkinson), 1905-1998 (Sc 3146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3146. Letter, 12 February 1985, of Dickey Parker, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to “Miss Ruby,” enclosing a poem by Callie Beals titled “A Day in My Garden.” Mrs. Parker notes that Callie Beals was her Sunday School teacher in her early teen years and praises the impact she had on her life.

Poetry Slammin’ In The Slammer: Questioning The Limits Of Arts-In-Corrections, Rivka Rocchio

Spect-actor: A Journal of Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Through the process of creating—specifically of shaping new worlds of possibility through poetry and the performance of it—the arts may offer gaps in the punishment of incarceration and attempt the reclamation or claiming of individual expression. But what are the limits of artistic expression in a highly monitored and surveilled location? This reflective essay explores a performance of slam poetry by ten inmates inside Arizona's Eyman State Prison for an audience of twenty-five prisoners. Using Keoni Watson’s winning poem as a frame, Rocchio questions the reported impacts of the slam and the larger culpability of arts-in-corrections in simultaneously supporting and …

Veazey, Carl Michael (Fa 1088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1088. Student folk studies project titled: “’Shakerag’ and Its Tales,” which includes a description of tales about Ralph “Rafe” Jones, Brother Cabbage, and M. P. “Coon” Buntin as told in the “Shakerag” area of Hopkins County, Kentucky. Sheets include informant’s age and address with each tale.

Moo, Sarah Rawle

Children's Book and Media Review

Reena never suspected that her family would actually move to Main. But when they do, they meet a crazy old lady, Mrs. Falala, who Reena and her brother Luke end up helping with Mrs. Falala’s many animals. At first it’s difficult, but soon they become comfortable friends. Reena helps take care of Mrs. Falala’s stubborn cow, Zora, and prepare her for the fair while Luke teaches Mrs. Falala how to draw. Preparing Zora for the fair is hard work. Fortunately, Reena makes friends with Zep and Beet and they teach Reena how to train Zora. Throughout the training process, Reena …

Make America Wait Again, Kim Petrovic

Journal of International Women's Studies

As a means of redirecting my own personal grief that stemmed from Hillary Rodham Clinton's loss to Donald J. Trump in the most recent presidential election, I penned the following prose during the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 as Trump gave his victory speech. Like many Americans who voted in the 2016 Presidential Election, I support the right to vote for one's choice of presidential candidate; however, I am not alone in my concerns about the current presidential administration. Not only are Trump's attempts to silence the media and the right to freedom of speech cause for alarm, …

Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book Of The Dead": An Analytical Appreciation, Emily Cogan

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Muriel Rukeyser’s poetry has always focused around a particular event be it something of global proportions such as the Spanish Civil War (Mediterranean) or the Japanese occupation of Korea (The Gates) or, as with The Book of the Dead, a specific disaster closer to her home, America. Her poetry, however, never exists purely in the realm of politics; she never aligned herself with any particular political party and consequently her poetry is never simply a call to arms or a manifesto in verse. Throughout the body of Rukeyser’s work there are echoes and allusions to …

Graduate Student Appreciates Reading Assignments In Online Master Of Arts Program, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Ilari Pass ’18 firmly believes that to excel as a writer, you must first read everything you can. As a student in the Master of Arts in English online program at Gardner-Webb University, she appreciates all the required reading. “I feel like I am the richest person in the world by being able to read such incredible works of literature,” she shared. “This has helped me academically, and I have become a better poet and I am so grateful.”

It’S Cloudy Today, Natalie B. Ngong

Sierpinski’s Square

No abstract provided.

Spoiler Alert, June Notebook, And Political Poem, Dean Rader

English

No abstract provided.

Entering The Lake, Edie Steiner

The Goose

Poetry by Edie Steiner.

Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.

Otolith By Emily Nilsen, Christine Lowther

The Goose

Review of Emily Nilsen's Otolith.