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The Oval, 2023
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This issue includes creative work from undergraduate students at the University of Montana.
Who Feeds The Strays?, Lily Wages
Silver Dollar Bar, Caitlin Thompson
Look At Your Hands, A.C. Moore
Foxhole, Caroline J. Tuss
The Five Animals You Meet In Heaven, Josh Moyar
Maternal Gifts, Ashlee Dowling
In The Garden Of Holy Death, Alex Andrews
Mint, Riese Munoz
Martha, Martha, Anna Cocking
Look At The Birds, Anna Cocking
Fruit Without Water, Hedron Murray
Michelle, Aged Twenty-Five Years, Madyson Riedinger
Defecational Undressing, Madyson Riedinger
I Am Not A Crime, Nance Beston
What's Left, Alone, Madison Seipp
Owl In The Night, Sean Staples
Train Hopping, Sean Staples
Theory Of Care, Gabriella Ann Graceffo
Theory Of Care, Gabriella Ann Graceffo
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
With a backdrop of the body and its inner forms, Theory of Care is a collection of poems and lyric excerpts that explores themes of queer sexuality, physical and mental health, etymology, desire, and physicality. It coheres moments of internal reckoning with an exploration of how trauma lives in the body, particularly the queer femme body. By accessing various landscapes including the medical sphere, family dynamics, and the social environments of the South, the collection grapples with different vernaculars to question how the language used to discuss (or dismiss) trauma dramatically alters the perception of those experiences.
Witness This Thing So Tender, Erin Marie White
Witness This Thing So Tender, Erin Marie White
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
At once fantastical and down-to-earth, the poems of Witness This Thing So Tender are concerned with the convergence of the speaker’s many selves and influences. Gritty and mysterious happenings shape the speaker’s physical, emotional, and psychological circumstances in the world. Whether the triggering topic is ecological, parental, or sepulchral, the work of the poems is to examine and integrate the changeable natures of memory and reality.
Each poem in the second movement of the collection, entitled “Lunar Cycle,” employs the idiom Once upon a time as its entry point. This small, well-worn turn of phrase operates as a springboard into …
Asked For Another Mountain, Nichole Lynn Moore
Asked For Another Mountain, Nichole Lynn Moore
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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Wayfinding, Kalani N. Padilla
Wayfinding, Kalani N. Padilla
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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Wet Specimen, Abigail Lee Raley
Wet Specimen, Abigail Lee Raley
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Cystic fibrosis is a condition which thickens the mucus throughout the body of the afflicted patient. Bob Flanagan, in his book The Pain Journal, ventures to record that sort of physical experience, as it pertains to the daily practices of his art, leading up to his death. Flanagan expounds on given relationships between his sadomasochistic performance art and the pain of his body in his poem “Why.” Richard Siken, too, in his book Crush, explores the embodied violence of gay lust, love, and obsession. WET SPECIMEN finds itself amongst these traditions, as it ventures to explore the animality …
Circulo Completo, Ben Sholar
Wind In Wyoming, Emma Fisher
I Understand The Victorian Obsession With Ankles, Summer Romo
I Understand The Victorian Obsession With Ankles, Summer Romo
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The Gospel According To My Psychedelic Cat, Or The Frango Chapter, Josh Moyar
The Gospel According To My Psychedelic Cat, Or The Frango Chapter, Josh Moyar
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If I Had Stayed Under The Boulder, Elizabeth Hewey
Ballad For The Sink Pissers, Riese Munoz