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For The Women Who Wear Pi Day Shirts, Jacqui Weaver

Honors College

This project, entitled To The Women Who Wear Pi Day Shirts, is a poetry manuscript that explores a journey of a women in STEM. While taking college English courses, I read about characters such as the creature in Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, who had intelligence, yet was physically hideous, an outsider from the human population. The creature was an outsider to the normal human, much like how I feel as a woman in STEM, which gave me the idea to write about my own journey. The poetry in this manuscript is a reflection from being in elementary school learning mathematics …

My Dance Of Life: Teshuvah, Sarah Meyer-Waldo

Honors College

This project resulted in a book of poetry divided into three sections. Each section is accompanied by a video of original choreographic work; each choreographic work is set to one of the original poems from each section. The question proposed for this project is, how can I act on my insights, reflections, and thoughts as I move through life, in order to engage more fully with my own mental/conscious experience?

Therefore, the purpose of this project is to explore how utilizing poetry and dance to engage with my mental landscape might be a means to catharsis, for full self- expression …

The Wall Occupies A Space Too, Ashley Paul

Honors College

This project, entitled the wall occupies a space too, is a creative exploration of the self and the surrounding world. Poetry has been a way for me to explore my thoughts and feelings in order to better understand myself, and to share my perspective and experiences with others. Moreover, it has been a way for me to express my feelings and momentarily free myself from the chains of society by recognizing and cultivating my relationship with the natural world. Much like Anne Sexton’s and Sylvia Plath’s work, because of this focus on the self and in revealing and admitting personal …

Counseling Center_Speak Your Truth Webpages, University Of Maine Counseling Center

UMaine Counseling Center

Screenshot of the University of Maine Counseling Center's Speak Your Truth submission webpage. The project was a poetry platform for students and staff to give voice to their experiences through the pandemic and racial/socio/political unrest.

Counseling Center_Speak Your Truth Submission Form, University Of Maine Counseling Center

UMaine Counseling Center

Screenshot of the University of Maine Counseling Center's Speak Your Truth submission form. The project was a poetry platform for students and staff to give voice to their experiences through the pandemic and racial/socio/political unrest.

Awakening From A Dream, Liam Reading

Honors College

I have created a hand-bound book of copper etchings and poetry called Awakening From A Dream. This project consists of over thirty handmade, printed, and illuminated plates that symbolize an introspective journey through the mind and out the other side. What begins with a looming existential dread transforms into an acceptance for the patterns of creation and destruction. Self-pity and fear of facing the unknown are met with delving deep into the recesses of the mind in order to reconcile my waking life with my nightmares. This is a process of overcoming heartbreak and depression, and becoming self-actualized. In …

The Personal Is Poetic: A Case For Poetry Therapy, Kimberly Crowley

Honors College

“The Personal is Poetic: A Case for Poetry Therapy” explores and deconstructs the history, models, and therapeutic qualities of poetry therapy through an autoethnographic lens of loss and growth. Inspired by the passing of my mother and my foray into poetry as a form of therapeutic expression, I dive into the existing literature on therapeutic usages of poetry and illustrate its connections to my writing and personal experiences. I include narrative accounts of my experiences of grief, growth, and coming of age, as well as samples of my poetry chosen to illustrate principles, model components, and poetic devices related to …

Choking Hazards, Tessa Hathaway

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The following manuscript is a creative writing thesis in poetry. The goal of the thesis was to expand my abilities as a poet and find a cohesion in my work. I wanted to utilize some skills gain in a fiction workshop and apply them to poetry, as well as gain influences in various fields of expertise through the other courses I’ve been taking in the English department. Essays for a poetics class, novels for an American literature class, and short stories for a fiction workshop gave me a base from which to work from and draw inspiration. Not only was …

Spring 2017 New Writing Series, The University Of Maine College Of Liberal Arts And Sciences

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

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The New Writing Series, Spring 2016, The University Of Maine Honors College

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

In its thirty-fourth consecutive semester of programming, the New Writing Series will host six readings featuring four poets (John Keene, Prageeta Sharma, Divya Victor, and John Yau) and two fiction writers (Emily Fridlund and Joanna Walsh).

These writers are all highly active across the full spectrum of literary activity. They are editors, publishers, and anthologists; translators and tale-tellers; art-makers and trail-blazing scholars.

The New Writing Series brings innovative and adventurous contemporary writing to the University of Maine's flagship campus in Orono on selected Thursdays at 4:30pm.

"Poetry In Translation", The University Of Maine School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

"Poetry in Translation," is a public lecture by Dr. John Burns. The lecture is scheduled for Wednesday, September 16th, 2015 at 4pm in Hill Auditorium. Dr. Burns will also meet with classes in the English Department and the Department of Modern Languages and will narrate "The Cloths of Heaven," a Faculty Series Concert of song settings of W.B. Yeats' poetry on Friday, September 18th in Minsky Hall.

At Jasper Beach, Carolyn Locke

The Catch

No abstract provided.

Sardine Manifesto 7, Karin Spitfire

The Catch

Poem about fisheries decline, Atlantic herring, sardines, Atlantic salmon, Atlantic cod

Transference, Chris Crittenden

The Catch

No abstract provided.

Gut Knife, Chris Crittenden

The Catch

Poem about skinning fish.

The Spirit Of The Marsh, Joanne Jacob

The Catch

Poem about granite sculpture in Addison, Maine. Sculpture part of the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium.

Figurehead, Jerry George

The Catch

Poem about ship's figurehead viewed in museum in Calais, Maine.

The Case, Nancy Tancredi

The Catch

Poem about sardine cannery.

Hope, Valerie Lawson

The Catch

Poem about cod and herring fishing, sardine canning in Downeast Maine.

The Mad Whittler, Gaylon Jeep Wilcox

Maine Song and Story Sampler

“The Mad Whittler” is about Rangeley’s former dump, which may not sound like a traditional subject for poetry. The dump was, before being closed, a major attraction where people from all over gathered to watch bears forage.

John Mitchell: Journeyman-Poet, Edward D. Ives

Maine History

In this article folklorist Edward D. Ives traces the life and work of journeyman-poet John Mitchell, who moved from job to job in northern Maine at the beginning of the twentieth century. Ives uses oral history and a few extant poems to give us a glimpse at the life of the common laborer on the raw northern Maine frontier. Mitchell was a wanderer, but he knew the world of the ordinary working man from the inside out, and his poems express the hopes, fears, humor and irony of daily life as he saw it. “Sandy” Ives is professor emeritus from …

Old Maps, Samuel H. Manhart

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at The University of Maine, I submit a collection of poems 1 have entitled Old Maps. Many of the poems in this thesis employ natural imagery, and while it is my intent to discover and analyze the natural world, I also hope to uncover and disclose a more thorough understanding of myself through verse. The self-refledions I see in nature both surprise me and find their expression in my poetry. It is my hope, as I believe it is the hope of every poet, that …

Without Flutes Or Flowers., Jason A. Vafiades

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this collection of poetry, the scope and mode of every poem is translation. All three sections, 'Wildernesses", "Silences", and 'Translations" each bear id their creation, the sense of translating one world into another. Yet, it is only in the Last section, appropriately named 'Translationsn, where the general resemblance to any method of the usual sense of translating appears. For the first two sections, all the poems found their creation in the attempt to put into poetry a vision and emotion that had yet to be contained by language: a way of interpreting the language of the natural and physiological …

Queen Catherine's Rose; By Elizabeth Akers Allen, Stephanie Philbrick

Maine History

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Looking Up Times Vol 7, No 1 (1991), Looking Up Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Looking Up Times Vol 6 No 2 (1990), Looking Up Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Looking Up Times Vol 4, No 2 (1988), Looking Up Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Looking Up Times Vol 4, No 1 (1988), Looking Up Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Looking Up Times Vol 3, No 2 (1987), Looking Up Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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Looking Up Times Vol 3, No 1 (1987), Looking Up Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.