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The Awkward Year(S), Kate Seaholm

Senior Theses

This creative writing thesis contains short stories, memoir writing, and a screenplay by Kate Seaholm.

• Preface
• Girl vs. Garbage
• The Blood Test
• Barcelona
• "Wanna see my sailboat?"
• The Question
• Before I Begin
• The Last Straw
• Dear Diary
• Let It Happen
• Lost in London
• Gullible
• Red-handed
• Afterword

Red Painted Roses, Jordan Keller, Hana Oshima

The Case of Charity Lamb (2016)

This poster is an artistic representation of the lyrics for the original song Red Painted Roses. Lyrically, Red Painted Roses is meant to follow the murder ballad tradition with the repeated chorus and twists. However, the keening style of the piece accentuates the haunting tone of Charity Lamb’s story and her relationship with Nathaniel Lamb.

Blade, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz was awarded the University of Cincinnati Graduate Poetry Prize in 2016 and appeared on the official website of the Academy of American Poets.

La Llorona At The Saloon, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Aster(ix).

Story Of The Salt Doll, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

The Story Of Eyes, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

El Rio, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Crab Creek Review. “El Rio” comes from trying to move beyond predictable tropes about border crossing and work out how the river makes itself known, through dreams as well as everyday occurrences of profiling, and unignorable.

Cazar Means To Hunt Not To Marry, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in December.

Freckles, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Indianola Review.

Night Sky Manifesto, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

The Music Inside, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Alien, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Crab Creek Review.

On Being Called Jorge, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Indianola Review.

Cornflower, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Midnight, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Distinguished Poet José Angel Araguz: The Interview, José Angel Araguz, A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams

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This interview with poet José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Leave, José Angel Araguz

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This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

"A Bastard Jargon”: Language Politics And Identity In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Rachel Norman

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This essay explores Junot Díaz's only full-length novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, through the theoretical lens of sociolinguistics and examines the ways in which Díaz has attempted to overcome the publishing industry's complicity in maintaining the nation's ethnocentric expectations in regards to English as the only acceptable language of publication. By introducing the work of several sociolinguists into the discussion, examining the use of African American Vernacular and “nerdish” alongside the Spanish, and reviewing Díaz’s relationship with his editors, I provide a more nuanced reading of the ubiquitous code-switching throughout Oscar Wao and suggest that beyond …

The Book Of Flight, José Angel Araguz

Linfield Authors Book Gallery

José Angel Araguz’s The Book of Flight is a chapbook of aphoristic, fragmentary writings in the style of Ramon Gomez de la Serna’s greguerías and Pablo Neruda’s The Book of Questions. Described by Misha Pam Dick as “a four-part microtreatise-poem. Like aphorisms that don’t preen, or fragments that don’t mourn,” The Book of Flight lives somewhere between the insight of haiku, the personal heat of tanka, and the everyday tone of a poet’s notebook.