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Fire In The Pasture: Twenty-First Century Mormon Poets, Angela Hallstrom, Tyler Chadwick

BYU Studies

In the foreword to the poetry anthology Fire in the Pasture, poet and BYU English professor Susan Elizabeth Howe explains that a poet's desire is "to make readers see what they did not see before, to offer insight, to create empathy, to provoke thought, or to express beauty, soundness, depth." Editor Tyler Chadwick, a poet and doctoral candidate in English at Idaho State University, has gathered into one substantial volume the work of eighty-two contemporary Mormon poets, and the majority succeed in conjuring the emotional, spiritual, and aesthetic rewards Howe describes.

This anthology is the first major collection of poetry …

Shieldmaiden, Allison A. Taylor

Student Publications

"Shieldmaiden" is a poem that examines J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series from a feminist perspective, focusing on the character of Éowyn and her influence on female readers of Tolkien's novels.

Little Soldiers, Macy F. Collins

Student Publications

"Little Soldiers" is a poem that examines the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on a personal level.

Barbie, Alexandra C. Barlowe

Student Publications

This is a piece of poetry about self-imagery and beauty expectations.

Lessons In Tourism, Emily A. Francisco

Student Publications

A section poem in four parts that examines a number of experiences from the perspective of a female traveler, addressing themes such as dislocation of self, the remaking of identity, and the nature of female otherness within the global community.

Love You Much, Kathryn M. Gittings

Student Publications

This poem, written for my senior seminar class, is a personal poem about my grandmother, whom I both love and admire.

Ode To The Eye, Sophia K. Reid

Student Publications

"Ode to the Eye" is written in the form of an ode; whereby, it celebrates and praises the 'eye' for its ability to see the beauty of nature and its surroundings.

Seeds - 2013, Abrahim Harb

Seeds

Contributors include: C.J. Althus, George Augustin, Scott Brehman, Elbert Tavon Briggs, Stephanie Caceres, Mimi Cross, Larry O. Dean, Eden DeGenova, Michelle Emery, Ian Feigle, Ana Karen Gonzalez Barajas, Esmeralda Guerrero, Eugene Guzzardi, Abrahim Harb, Carl Hauck, A.i. Herv, Anupama Lukose, Emilio Maldonado, Nergal Malham, Sumaiya Maniya, Domingo Reyes, John Ross Jr., Sheila FitzGerald Russell, Sharon Rutledge, Camillie J. Severino, Nathan Steele, Chris Sykora, Julia Talley, Regina Torres, Nick Walsh, Janean L. Watkins, Kristin L. Wilkins, Chris Zavacki

Just Being There, Dixie L. Partridge

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Letter To Jennifer ’09, Mike Santora

Booth

Jennifer, this letter is about
the afterlife of letterman jackets,
your letterman jacket.
Inside the crumbling Jenga-stack
brickwork of St. Malachi’s Shelter downtown
tonight; a homeless man is twirling in
the plumage of your coat.

Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 153. Poems, 1934-1991, obituaries, 1964-1990, written by Arlis Odell Harmon, a gospel song writer and enthusiast, of Allen County, Kentucky. Includes correspondence about gospel music, genealogical data, photos, etc.

Possible Ways That Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, Michael Regime, Fell In Love With Language., Travis Vick

Booth

How, suddenly, near the age of nine, almost all noise begins to sound like a heartbeat: the footsteps of his mother on the kitchen linoleum, moving in a beating circle around the boiling pasta; a pack of cigarettes smacking his father’s palm; the sound of slapped fat as a flock of house sparrows take to air in the lawn; any hammer, anywhere; his brother punching the dirt to keep from crying after losing some senseless, pick-up basketball game; applause.

William Stafford: Memoir Of A National Poet In Prose And Poetry, Nathan Furr, Dr. Lance Larson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”– William Stafford, Writing the Australian Crawl

Following His Shadow: The Haiku Of Sant¨Ka, Keith Johnson, Dr. Van C. Gessel

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Apart from an all too brief period of popularity during the early ’80’s, the poetry of Taneda Sant©ka (1882-1940) has languished in relative anonymity. He has yet to enjoy the household-name status of fellow haijin like Bash©, IkkyÅ, Ry©kan, et al. This strikes me as inexcusable and yet somehow expected. The life of Sant©ka was defined more by its defeat, rejection, and loneliness than by its triumph, acceptance or fellowship. What amazed me when I first came upon his work (and continues to amaze me now) was how, despite alcoholicism, poverty, malnutrition, suicidal dementia, emotional desolation and loneliness so sharp …

A Poet Drives A Truck: Poems By And About Lowell A. Levant, Lowell A. Levant

University of Akron Press Publications

Lowell A. Levant had the twin vocations of poet and truck driver. He rose to prominence in Berkeley in the sixties as a member of the Artists, Musicians, Poets, and Sympathizers Local of the I.W.W., whose work was collected in Poems Read in the Spirit of Peace and Gladness. Readers will notice four main qualities of his poems. First, as observed by his mentor, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gary Snyder, there is “… the complex depth of his writing about work, machinery, trucks, equipment, repair, maintenance -- all in a deceptively slightly befuddled voice that masks the surprising competence of …

First, Brian Glaser

English Faculty Creative Works

No abstract provided.

At 80, Peter Serchuk

Booth

It’s a good day for pancakes
although I have to watch
the syrup. I have to watch
the sugar and the salt,
the caffeine and the meat.

'Breakfast-Time Back Home'?: 'New Irish' Poets Greg Delanty And Eamonn Wall, Ailbhe Mcdaid

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

Homophonic Translation, Appositional Writing, And The Monster, Ryan Landry Clark

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation features a combination of critical and creative work

exploring the ethics of appropriative writing and the reparative potential of homophonic translation. The opening essay examines the ethics of appropriation- based poetry and introduces the concept of what I call "appositional writing," a term to describe ethically-minded works of poetry that make use of appropriative writing methods. The next three parts of this dissertation are each appositional writing projects that make use of homophonic translation as the primary method of composition. "Arizona State Bill 1070: An Act" is a homophonic translation of the anti-immigration bill of the same name. …

Bilingual Quotations In Renaissance Poetry And The Relations Of Romance Languages, Treb Hw Winegar, Dr. Christopher Lund

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The study of bilingual quotations, made possible by this grant, has led me into a number of fascinating, related sidetracks which have been very little studied, especially since the waning of the French school of literature compareè. I have taken the time to study some of these sidetracks since they are relevant to the phenomenon I proposed to study. Others I have been able only to marvel at and reserve for future study.

Reflections Of The English Tradition In James Henry’S Poetry, Ryan D. Stewart, Dr. John Talbot

Journal of Undergraduate Research

James Henry (1798-1876) was an Irish classicist most well known for his long and eccentric commentary of Virgil’s Aeneid—Aeneidea, or Critical, Exegetical and Aesthetical Remarks on the Aeneis—and known to some extent for his work as a physician and his penchant for pamphleteering. In the mid-1980s, however, Christopher Ricks—a prominent Victorian scholar—discovered a privately printed volume of Henry’s poetry “‘unopened’, as the book dealers say,” (meaning the pages had not been cut) as he was browsing the stacks at the Cambridge Library. He included some of Henry’s poetry in the New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987), which he edited. …

The Foreign Ear: Elizabeth Bishop's Proliferal Wit & The Chances Of Change, Kelly Barrett Brown

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Abstract

The Foreign Ear: Elizabeth Bishop's Proliferal Wit & the Chances of Change

Elizabeth Bishop has been widely celebrated as a painterly or photographic poet, a naturalist and geographer, and yet she was a subtly exquisite musician of wordplay attuned to subvocal effects. This dissertation examines a network of Bishop's affinities and aesthetic commitments, including her wish to "say the most difficult things" and "be funny, if possible." One surprising claim regarding the poet's variously called "All Eye," "the famous eye," etc., is that her sense of the spiritual is rather antithetical to an ocular regime: even those extremely fluid, …

An Ecologist’S Poetry, Bryn Ellen Palmer, Dr. Susan Howe

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My creative project was an exploration into the poetic wilderness of both previously written poetry and my own originally created works dealing with the natural world. This experience was principally completed during January to August of 1996. The experience as a whole was stimulating and evolving for me as a poet and for the works that I created.

Milton’S Prose: Why Did He Do It?, Shawn D. Rossiter, Dr. O. Glade Hunsaker

Journal of Undergraduate Research

My project came about as a result of a computer database of Yale’s edition of Milton’s Prose being constructed by the Brigham Young University English Department. The completion of the database has been delayed, however, and consequently I was compelled to shift the object and approach of my study. Originally, I had planned to make an analysis of the development of Milton’s religious thought over time by tracing his use of significant words. Instead, for the ORCA project I have completed a thorough reading of Milton’s prose with an attempt to formulate an informative hypothesis for why the prose was …

Signaletics, Emilia Phillips

University of Akron Press Publications

Signaletics pits the measured against the immeasurable, the body against identity, and the political against the personal. With a defunct 19th-century body measurement system of criminal identification as a foundation, the poems move in and out of history, only to arrive at the immediate voice of a speaker, distraught about the death of a child brother, the remove of a father, and the estrangement of the personal with the politics of her country.

Orca Scholarship Report And Summary, Amy Morris Mcglashan, Robert Marshall

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I have been looking forward to the time to report on the results of my research project. I had proposed to study the writings of Robert Burns, travel to Scotland to experience the places he lived in and wrote about, and paint those places described in his ballads and poetry. The entire process was incredibly enjoyable, not to mention educational and inspiring.

Department Of Literature News, Georgia Southern University

Literature News (2013-2020)

• Where Scotland Met Ireland: Ulster Poetry of the Romantic Period
• Dr. Anderson

Noun-Adjective Compounds In Old English Poetry, Ryan Christensen, Dr. Don Chapman

Journal of Undergraduate Research

One of the marks of Old English poetic style is the compound word. Malcolm Godden calls compounds “the essence of Anglo-Saxon poetic language.”(1) The lexicon of words exclusive to poetry includes many compounds, and many of these compounds are used only once in the Old English corpus. Thus it seems Anglo-Saxon poem-making consisted not only in using a large number of compound words, but in true compounding, in coining new words by combining two old words.

Ovid’S Poetic Voice In The Metamorphoses, Christopher Meldrum, Dr. Cecilia Peek

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Written around 8 A.D., the Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) is considered a classic of both Roman and World culture. It holds a unique place in Classical literature, which has caused it to remain an object of focused interest in the academic community. Although Ovid declares it to be an epic, it nevertheless displays several striking differences in style and composition from traditional epics such as Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad. The text of the Metamorphoses is also intriguing to scholars because many of the myths it contains do not follow the traditional accounts given in other …

Howard, Chloe (Miller), 1899-1989 (Sc 2758), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2758. Items related to the teaching career, including salary information, of Chole Howard; includes list of retired teachers in Monroe County, Kentucky (dated 1977) and information about the Mothers' Day program at Skaggs Creek Baptist Church in Monroe County.