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American Idol, Jen Levitt

CutBank

No abstract provided.

I/They, Sean Rys

CutBank

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Though You Left Me I Still Water Your Plants, Bradley Harrison

CutBank

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Open Season, Becca Klaver

CutBank

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12.30.12/1.2/3.13, Brad Vogler

CutBank

No abstract provided.

Denmark: Variations 1, 2, 5, James Tadd Adcox

CutBank

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12.28/29.12/4.20.13, Brad Vogler

CutBank

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Half-Lover, Sam Thayn

CutBank

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The Topography Of Mountains Beyond Mountains, Keegan Lester

CutBank

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Invitation, Naomi Mulvihill

CutBank

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[Oh, Hank Williams, How Bootleg You Is. When You], Jacob Sunderlin

CutBank

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The Ballerina, Natasha M. Dones

Student Publications

Little in the world can be as delicate and poised as the small

ballerina you bought me. She dances motionless upon my

bookshelf, as she did for many years before...

Fiction Fix 15, April Gray Wilder, Mame Ekblom Cudd, D E. Smith, Denise Emanuel Clemen, Dennis Must, Sally Deskins, Nicolas Poynter, Sara Rauch, Timothy Day, David Gaither, Bruce H. Hinrichs, Michal (Mitak) Mahgerefteh, Tina Tocco, Louis Gallo

Fiction Fix

No abstract provided.

A Wavering Prayer, Sarah E. Gorski

Student Publications

Elizabeth Bishop's "Sestina" Imitation; Sarah Gorski's "A Wavering Prayer."

Artemisia In The Metro, Emily A. Francisco

Student Publications

The “art poem” is an intriguing form of poetry. In writing about something that is inherently visual, a poet must remold a work of art into new material, drawing upon the work’s elements of form such as color, line, use of light, contrast, and composition to make his or her own reflective statement, beyond simply describing the artwork’s own content. In my poetry I aim to take this model of the “art poem,” and, through extended experimentation with this idea of ekphrasis (writing about art in a poetic context), intend to suggest a more intimate connection between art and language. …

Argument In Poetry: (Re)Defining The Middle English Debate In Academic, Popular, And Physical Contexts, Kathleen R. Burt

Dissertations (1934 -)

The core problem that drives my dissertation is to find a definition for what has been called Middle English “debate poetry” that accounts for the wide variety of themes, topics, and styles which poems labeled as ‘debates’ cover. The limitations of overly focused and restrictive definitions of the term ‘debate poetry’ encountered by previous scholars illustrates the initial problem of using a generic term that lacks a common vocabulary or framework for discussion. The result has been that each scholar who investigated a poem linked to this tradition used a different definition suited to his or her particular text(s) of …

Her Body Breathes Into Mine, Zarah C. Moeggenberg

All NMU Master's Theses

This collection of poetry highlights the complex human experience of what it means to be a woman who loves women. Adding to the discourse of lesbian poetry, within spoken word poetry and for-the-page poetry, these poems doubly voice silenced perspectives and identities. A large portion of the work is spoken word poetry, which seeks to make the subgenre more accessible to a larger audience. Set primarily in the Midwest, these poems voice queer identity that asks us to consider what makes someone a person, as identity is much more than sexuality. Love, sex, loss, sexuality and gender expression are themes …

Frost For Lawyers: 'The Best Thing That We're Put Here For's To See', Sherman J. Clark

Michigan Law Review

Why should lawyers read Frost? First of all, of course, it can bring great pleasure. As Robert Pinsky put it, poetry brings pleasures “both intellectual and bodily” and can provide “a satisfaction central to life.” And this is particularly true of Frost, whose poems are both accessible and enjoyable. This does not mean that there are no challenges in his poems. Frost does make us work. Indeed, as I hope to explore in this Essay, the work he asks us to do is essential to what we can learn from his poems. But this work is itself engaging and invigorating …

Soliloquy At Dusk, Bob Harris

Manuscripts

Turn low the lights

Half shut the shutters

Seek out the comfort

Of your favorite easy chair

And there

In the intermingled mists

Of lights and shadows

I shall relate to you

The Story

Of Robert Lee

Flames Along The Thames, Richard H. Jowitt

Manuscripts

A thousand flames ascend on high;

A thousand voices shouting cry,

"Oh, God, why must you now deny

our homes!"

The Life Of A Pledge, Betty Lee Snyder

Manuscripts

Rush week, came, and after the whirl

I emerged a sorority girl

(Oh no-I mean a potential one--

My year as a pledge has just begun).

Two Poems, Mary Wiley

Manuscripts

Two poems: "Realism" and "Finale."

Question On A Street-Car, Jack Kilgore

Manuscripts

"What do tired-eyed people live for?

They seem to have no joy."

"They have their joys the same as we;

Be silent, little boy."

Shadows, Donald Bradley

Manuscripts

Oh silent strength

dont vanish yet.

Written On A Wet Page., Tommy O'Rourke

Manuscripts

I could spell it out

in eyelashes but the invisible

boa constrictors that spring out

from your pupils

to strangle and decipher

every scribble are too busy shedding

their scales to sound out "delicate."

(No Title), Tommy O'Rourke

Manuscripts

Distilled crystals

in the fine print.

Antidepressants, Ella Paul

Manuscripts

Sometimes

I don't believe in anything

The Body Of Christ, Bob Barrick

Manuscripts

The scent of embalming fluid

from bearing the pall at my grandfather's funeral--

She's Much More Than Cool, Earl Townsend

Manuscripts

Mussolini's in the parking garage eating Fettuccini Alfredo.

I'm in a museum eating squirrel from Philadelphia.

Sometimes I take a shower with nothing else to do.

4 Tricks To Make Her Orgasm- Askmen, Bob Barrick

Manuscripts

Her shoulder, white like a page.

Her sex; her words.