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Palm (Excerpt From Northern Flicker), Fiona Martinez
Palm (Excerpt From Northern Flicker), Fiona Martinez
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Palm is a poem excerpted from the collection titled Northern Flicker. The collection traces themes of the pressing co-existence of violence and tenderness, entanglement with people and nature, and evolving ideas of home, language, and self.
Fusion Dance: Exploring Identity And Social Possibilities, Katie Taylor
Fusion Dance: Exploring Identity And Social Possibilities, Katie Taylor
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
In this collection of personal essayettes about partner dance, particularly fusion dance, I explore themes of discovering social possibilities, evolving identity, finding connection, healing shame and celebrating joy. Fusion dance, besides being a partner dance, often seems to defy definition, but I sought to capture my experiences of attending fusion events, falling in love with the dance, navigating ups and downs on the path of becoming a dancer and allowing it to transform the way that I view myself and the world. In the interdisciplinary, exploratory spirit of the Honors College, I essay (in the original sense of “to try” …
She Who Seeks The Deep, Laci Bowhay
She Who Seeks The Deep, Laci Bowhay
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
In this poetry chapbook, I explore themes of grief, wellness, interdependence, care-giving, and self-harm. The book is dedicated to my father, as many of the poems deal with my active grief of his living with Parkinson's Disease. I also explore selfhood and all the selves contained within one being. Diving into the murkiness of life and emotion, I seek the deep.
Frank Wins A Staring Contest With The Universe, Frank Depalma
Frank Wins A Staring Contest With The Universe, Frank Depalma
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
In this full-length poetry chapbook, I explore themes of young adulthood, introspection, identity, and memory through a framework of parallel realities depicted with surrealistic, visceral imagery. In working on this project, I pushed myself to write more vulnerably and to embrace craft elements such as litany, line breaks, and space on the page. The result is a deeply personal collection of poems centering around my headspace in my final year of college as I look toward possible futures and reckon with impossible pasts.
A Field Guide To Jezero Crater, Mars, Lee Adair
A Field Guide To Jezero Crater, Mars, Lee Adair
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This project aims to blend art, creative writing, and scientific inquiry to explore the possibilities of geology research on our neighboring planet, Mars. This exploratory field guide combines journals, notes, and images to inform the reader of what they can expect to see on the Martian surface.
About The Dark Times: Poetry For The Miocene, Nadine Waggoner
About The Dark Times: Poetry For The Miocene, Nadine Waggoner
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
About the Dark Times is a chapbook of seventeen poems documenting the author's experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, specifically the Omicron wave which affected the Pacific Northwest from January 2022 to February 2022. Themes include the impact of isolation on the author's self-identity, academic success, and mental health. The chapbook is separated into three sections: 'Poetry for the Miocene,' 'Poetry for the Late Cretaceous,' and 'Poetry for the Permian.' Fossilized animals and periods of mass extinction throughout the earth's history are used in metaphor and comparison to the author's personal experience. The poems each include elements of ars poetica and …
Fragments Of A Soul, Angelina Hinojosa
Fragments Of A Soul, Angelina Hinojosa
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Fragments of a Soul is a fragmentary, epistolary creative writing project consisting of pieces from a fictional, now deceased writer that include polished short stories, stream-of-consciousness writings, and lists. The pieces from 'the Writer' are narratively strung together by notes from 'the Editor,' a mysterious individual who knew the Writer when he was still alive. Fragments is set within a vague fantasy world in which reincarnation is apparently known but not understood, and the Writer appears to be haunted by something he can't quite define and can only write around. This project was an experiment in experiments, trying out different …
Greenhouse, Sophie Hall
Greenhouse, Sophie Hall
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Greenhouse is a chapbook of creative nonfiction lyric essays and poems about what it means to be at home, fragmented forms echoing my own varied definitions. The writing in this chapbook returns to ideas I have explored for years, expanding on my original college application essay titled “Home” to think about what it means to be at home, what defines a home, and how I am currently building one.
While I was not familiar with the term “creative nonfiction” at the time, my college application essay was my first introduction to the genre, allowing me to reflect on my childhood …
Haunting This Garden, Anna B. Thomas
Haunting This Garden, Anna B. Thomas
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Haunting this Garden is a poetry chapbook containing several poems and illustrations. The final copies were printed and bound with paper, glue, and cloth. Poems in the chapbook were written between 2018 and 2021, though all were heavily revised before being used in the chapbook. The pieces explore themes of love, fear, guilt, and shame. They are all heavily grounded in environmental themes.
Hello_World: A New, Not-Quite-Animated Story (First Draft), Jack Harbick
Hello_World: A New, Not-Quite-Animated Story (First Draft), Jack Harbick
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This story is meant for the medium of animation and is intended to act either as a pilot episode for a longer series or the beginning/skeleton of an animated film.
Synopsis: A robot awakens into a human-less world with seemingly no pre-programmed directive and a low battery. With the help of a new friend, a postcard, and some strange plants, they'll undertake a great journey to find whatever answers they can.
What If Society Changed?: A Collection Of Dystopian Stories, Mara Miller
What If Society Changed?: A Collection Of Dystopian Stories, Mara Miller
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
My senior project will be to write a collection of stories in a variety of creative forms ranging from a single short story to a linked collection to a novella. All of the stories give a glimpse into a futuristic society based off of a contemporary issue. The project itself is two fold. It is an exercise in social criticism through story, as well as an exploration of types of stories.
Unfinished Beliefs: Three Stories And An Essay, Adam Kane
Unfinished Beliefs: Three Stories And An Essay, Adam Kane
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Unfinished Beliefs, is a collection of three short stories and an essay written for the Western Washington University Honors Senior Project.
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- Spiro's Mountain
- Spiritus Mundi
Ein Letzetes Mal: Ein Einakter / One Last Time: A One-Act Play, Sean Puckett
Ein Letzetes Mal: Ein Einakter / One Last Time: A One-Act Play, Sean Puckett
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Letztes Mal / One Last Time: A One-Act Play is the Honors Project of Sean Puckett.
Treated Canvas, Kimberly Baer
Treated Canvas, Kimberly Baer
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
senior project: treated canvas, by kimberly baer
Nearing Home, Benjamin Dow
Nearing Home, Benjamin Dow
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
Nearing Home, a collection of writings by Benjamin Dow.