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Lightning Forest South Of Darby, Bridget Gibbons

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Roots, Sarah Poole

The Oval

No abstract provided.

A Brief Cigarette Break, Kat Gurley

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Untitled, Grace Yon

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Leaving Inverness, Katie Degrandpre

The Oval

No abstract provided.

And There Were Cul-De-Sacs As Far As The Eye Could See, Brendan Jordan

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Environmental Crisis And Transitional Phenomena: Brenda Hillman’S Ecopoetic Playing, Brian Glaser

English Faculty Articles and Research

Many writings in ecopsychology make reference to “the environmental crisis” as an apocalyptic scenario, but few define the cause of this crisis. This essay proposes that the cause for apocalyptic rhetoric of environmental crisis is as much psychological as environmental. It draws on Winnicott’s idea of playing as haunted by the otherness of reality to offer a therapeutic reading of the poetry of Muriel Rukeyser and Brenda Hillman in which the imaginative resources of trope, apostrophe, dedication and allusion serve to make bearable the anxiety that leads to apocalyptic rhetoric in ecopsychological writings.

Horse Trailer, David Salner

Contemporary Rural Social Work Journal

Poem.

All The Things Left Unsaid, Philip Kim

CGU MFA Theses

I search in my paintings a state of constant glide; meditational state by flooding my senses as my eyes wander from scene to scene onto a daze of perpetual visual stimuli.

They are the frozen amalgamation of its transient state – A crosscut of fog condensing into honey. And the burning shadows of a golden hour vaporizing into electric haze. I try to keep the image in perpetual limbo, confused by their nature, wondering if they will be pickled in the vinegar of the web as digital ghosts or finally disintegrate from being a substance. I want to capture in …

Wish, Joe Wilkins

Faculty Publications

This poem by Joe Wilkins originally appeared in Blackbird.

“Like Having A Muse In The Room With You”: The Exchanges Of The New York School, Jared O'Connor

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the relationship between the poets and painters of the New York School through the lens of intertextuality and exchange. Their shared space along with their close friendships engenders an intimate exchange of aesthetic sensibilities. John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, and Joe Brainard, three writers of the New York School, are paired with their visual contemporaries to demonstrate how exchange and intertextuality operates within their diverse body of work. This school of artists marks a drastic change in American artistic culture. And through their endless exchanges, the New York School challenges the ways in which we view and read …

Performance Dialogues: Conversations In Poetry And Dance, Rebekah Moriah Bray

Theses & ETDs

This thesis was concerned with the problem of identifying a relationship between poetry and dance as performance arts. The first chapter explored historical developments among the arts of poetry, music, and dance to suggest that these areas, though distinct, are also harmonious. The second chapter of this thesis was an exercise in interdisciplinary experimentation through the conception and production of a poetry and dance performance. The final chapter of this thesis argues for the recognition of poetry and dance as languages in dialogue with their audiences. Through the process of researching and writing this thesis I discovered evidence to support …

“No Outside Of Nature”: Investigations Toward An Ecopoetics, Kyla Stevens

Theses & ETDs

Belonging to no single school or camp, ecopoetics is expansive in its reach, the discipline composing a theoretical diversity that has resulted in a process of engagement with the natural world. It is a sense of between that seems to be the essential tone of ecopoetics; the edges between disciplines, between ecology and poetry, the boundaries between ecosystems and habitats—areas of tension where the edge of science and art, of poetic innovation and ecological thinking, meet. Central to ecopoetics’ address of the between is an intense awareness of location, a writing practice that enables consideration of emplacement, of ‘being located.’ …

A Fusion Of Mediums And Reversing Ekphrasis: Using Photography To Respond To The Poetry Of George Oppen, Taylor Meredith

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines and reverses the creative practice of ekphrasis in order to argue for the fusion of artistic mediums. This is done, in part, by responding to the poetry of George Oppen through original photography. By translating Oppen‟s poetry into a series of corresponding photographs, I produce my own examples to support the claim that textual ideas and imagery can be applied to the visual arts. I also support this claim by referencing several well-known writers and visual artists who have employed the use of ekphrasis and created works of art that significantly contributed to major artistic movements. This …

Oana Avasilichioaei Folio, Oana Avasilichioaei

Corresponding Voices

A folio of English-language poetry by Oana Avasilichioaei, selected from her collection Limbinal.

Domestic Drama, Tess Alexandra Congo

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

Postcard, Red As In Tooth And Claw At Studio@620 In St. Petersburg, Florida, Studio At 620

Postcard Collection

A promotional postcard for Red as in Tooth and Claw, a multimedia performance art production by Alice Ferrulo, presented at Studio@620 from May 22–25, 2014. The performance tells the story of Elizabeth Jeanine Christina Bartholomew, a derailed soul afflicted by love, politics, and betrayal. The production includes poetry, film, music by Philip Glass, and fine art by Alice Ferrulo, Thomas Murray, and Donna Mason Sweigart.

War And Witness In The Poetry Of H.D., Denise Levertov, And Carolyn Forche, Katelyn Bienas

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In my thesis, I focus on the role of the twentieth century female poet in writing about war, looking closely at three poets: H.D., Denise Levertov, and Carolyn Forche. By examining poets from three different points within the century, I question the ways in which the reactions towards these poets evolved alongside society's changing perceptions of women's public responsibilities. Poetry of war is important in documenting events that have a lasting impact upon nations and individuals. However, the role of women poets in writing of these political conflicts is worthy of study because of the questions that arise in terms …

Review Of Rethinking The South English Legendaries, Gregory M. Sadlek

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Blindness, Mohineet Kaur Boparai

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Aposematism, Zach Fishel

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

The Serial Killer’S Parents, Afterward, Kate Peper

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Two Against Freud: Pinsky’S ‘Essay On Psychiatrists’ In A Philosophical Context, Brian Glaser

English Faculty Articles and Research

This article offers a reading of Robert Pinsky’s “Essay on Psychiatrists” in the context of a contemporary theoretical work by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus. I do not use the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to make interpretive comments about poetry, to identify or articulate meanings. Rather I read Pinsky’s poem in the context of the philosophy, noting points of agreement between the two texts, areas where the poetry works as a supplement to the insights of the philosophy, places where the poetry offers grounds for criticisms of the philosophy and times where there might be irreconcilable differences in …

Last Love Poem, Mary Ann Avallone-O’Gorman

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Moon Jellies, Christina Garbarino

Honors Theses

A collection of short poems.

Commonthought (2014), 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.

The Keeper Of Black Rock Light, Suellen Wedmore

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Critique Is Not Enough : The Empirical Imperatives Of Innovative American Poetry, Christopher Rizzo

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Critique is Not Enough: The Empirical Imperatives of Innovative American Poetryproposes that innovative modern and early contemporary American poetries redefine the relation of knowledge, consciousness, and poetic performance to lived experience. This study demonstrates how the radically different poetic projects of Walt Whitman, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and Charles Olson not only equally insist upon empirically investigative poetics, but also endeavor, each to each, to individualize their poetic methodologies, which thus challenges the generalized Enlightenment myth of rationality. In that each of these writers undertakes to redefine the relation of knowledge, consciousness, and poetic performance to lived experience, they also …

Bridging: Poetry Of Place In Putnam County, Megan Carter 14

Honor Scholar Theses

None.

African Poetry Book Fund-African Poetry Library Manual: How To Manage And Set Up The Library., Lorna M. Dawes, Charlene Maxey-Harris

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The African Poetry Library Initiative, an initiative of the African

Poetry Book Fund, is a collaborative venture to establish

accessible and user-friendly small poetry libraries on the African

continent to support aspiring and established poets and to give

them access to contemporary poetry in books and journals, and

to serve as a resource for poets interested in publication in Africa

and around the world. The initiative will be guided by

collaboration between US and UK publishers of poetry, literary

arts organizations, poet’s libraries and literary journals and

African libraries, writers co-ops or cultural centers, and poets and

will be coordinated …