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We Are All Boot Makers To Kings, Matt Ross

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I praise the justice,
Raise my hands to the sky,

I Traveled South, Janet Jennings

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We drove to the coast to sip Black Russians. Cream swirled in an ice-
black sea. My name changed every day.

End Of Summer Session At The Music School, Michael Hogan

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Cecilia Hall is silent tonight:
no oboes, no flutes

Jerome And The Angel, Jennifer Anne Moses

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Jerome had two secrets, both of them so beautiful that he wanted to burst open, just burst right open at the seams, spilling himself everywhere, all over the floor

Instructions, Geri Rosenzweig

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Before you fit me into a pine box and
lower me into the ground to the chant

Exposed, Michelle Soucy

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This should have been a clue, an omen.

Barred Owl, B. J. Best

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somewhere in the forest lives a question.
ice cracks, wind whips, a child is putting

Bridge Of Sighs, Don Kunz

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One wrong turn
(For which Venice is famous)

The Waves, Jéanpaul Ferro

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In the afternoon, when the sky
is almost out of sun,

Hartford Circus Fire (1944), John Surowiecki

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All we were told was that the animals
were saved and the children died;

Undershirt, Donna Pucciani

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That undershirt
with the hole I'd like to put my index finger through

Morendo, Al Niente (Dying Away, To Nothing), Ryan Cipriano

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Chicago plaza, centered around a fountain
Beside which Stanley passed away

The Last Transgression, William Peacock

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August 31. Valerie cut her foot on a shell this afternoon and acted like she was going to die.

Autobiography, Pamela S. Wynn

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My parent's match was made on the outskirts of heaven.

To A Former Student Training To Become An Interrogator, David O'Connell

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They say pressure isn't torture
and, at times, because I don't know better
I'm willing to agree

Lyme Tick, Mitch Lescarbeau

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Through the porch screen of the makeshift sickroom
the patient boats in the cove

Gone Too Soon, Nancy Lee Craven

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You left, I think, under the burden of heavy judgment,
Or grief too difficult to bear. I do not know, but I would like to,

How Far Is Home, Robin Caine

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Her younger sister, Beth, met a Venezuelan man at a wedding, where she was a bridesmaid and he was the best man.

Kidnapped At Birth, Buff Whitman-Bradley

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Every one of us was kidnapped at birth
By a man in money-colored shoes who
Snatched us away from our real parents

The Other Betty, Pat Schultheis

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Grow old and you'll become a stranger to yourself.

One More Time For Donny Deadborne, Stephen Roger Powers

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I'm a feature comedian.

Lines For An Absent Friend, Larry Rubin

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So you weren't there--the emptiness
Would have shattered me, except I know how atoms

Chicken-In-The-Pot, Charles Harper Webb

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One dollar buys a chance to catapult
a rubber bird onto a spinning table that seems

Parsimonious, Paul Hostovsky

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I remember the first time I looked it up--
I was a sophomore--Michael

Counting, Mitzi Mcmahon

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Counting is important. Not that you're able to count because an idiot can count.

Leonard On The Farm, Jack Cooper

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He had less than a dozen teeth,
wore shoes with ten years of pigshit

Grim Reaper, Carl Beauchamp

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It's only natural
A black gown
And sharp sickle

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2009 Hard-Boiled For Hard Times In Leonardo Padura Fuentes’S Detective Fiction Hispania. 92.2 (2009): 234-43., H. Rosi Song

Spanish Faculty Research and Scholarship

Abstract: Focusing on Leonardo Padura Fuentes's hard-boiled fiction, this essay traces the origin and evolution of the genre in Cuba. Padura Fuentes has challenged the officially sanctioned socialist literatura policial became popular in the 1970s and 1980s, creating a new model of criticism that is not afraid to confront island's socio-economic problems. This article analyzes how in this novelist's tetralogy, the dominating rhetoric is one of scarcity, and how this constant state of lacking builds on the formulaic elements detective genre to reveal a social reality where crime (and its resolution) do not always have to do with discovery of …

A Dash Of Sufferage Spice: Rural And Urban Ethnicity Construction In The Transnational Women's Suffrage Movement, Anna M. Peterson

Theses and Dissertations

The women's suffrage movement in Europe and the United States led to female enfranchisement in much of the West in the early twentieth century. Suffrage historiography, however, places too much emphasis on a middle-class history of urban white women's struggle to win the vote. This traditional scholarship not only lacks a thorough class-based analysis but also fails to examine ethnicity's role in the American women's suffrage movement as well as larger transnational connections.

Research on the construction of Norwegian ethnicity and its corresponding influence on Norwegian-American support of women's suffrage contributes to filling this historiographical gap. In addition, the influence …