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“Women Who Don’T Know How To Stay Married”: The Poetic Afterlives Of The 1927 Bristol Sessions, Aubrey R. Adkins

Honors Theses

This project begins from the understanding that song lyrics can have lasting impacts on the poetic work that proceeds from them, and can and should, therefore, be read as literature. In the cultural context of Southern Appalachia, a historically underserved and academically underrepresented region, this understanding is intertwined with Audre Lorde’s idea that “For women...[poetry] is a vital necessity of our existence.” The women of Southern Appalachia, denied access to particular modes of expression as a result of external circumstances such as poverty and sexism, need poetry, according to Lorde, to take “tangible action” in their lives. What came before …

Indigenous Storytelling As Decolonial Praxis, Ceremony And At Colby, Georgia Goodman

Honors Theses

This thesis seeks to amplify Indigenous lifeways, diplomacies, sciences, diplomatic relations, and the power of storytelling. This is not a piece analyzing Indigenous culture. Rather, this thesis returns the gaze to the settler colonial state, specifically its storytelling ideologies, to show that systemic practices of inequity in storytelling can be disrupted and decolonized through a recentering of Indigenous ideologies. For example, reciprocity with lands and animals, reflection on positionality and decentering colonial understandings of time and place.

Finding Aid To The Collection Of Margaret Wade Deland Materials, Margaret Wade Deland, Colby College Special Collections

Finding Aids

The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, and first publications of Maine writer, Margaret Wade Deland. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by Deland to various correspondents between 1884 and 1944. The collection also contains manuscript items of varying length, clippings, published writings, and a few photographic prints. Born Margaret Wade Campbell near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1857, Deland moved to Boston in 1880. She is known principally for the novel "John Ward, Preacher" and her 'Old Chester' books, based on communities where she grew up. She received a Doctorate of Letters from Bates College in 1920, and had a …

African-American Poetry, Music, And Politics, Tyler H. Macdonald

Honors Theses

The 2016 decision to award songwriter and musician Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature sparked a worldwide debate on the relationship between music and poetry and raised many questions about music’s place in literary canon. However, this debate is nothing new. Questions about the relationship between music and poetry have long been debated. Some scholars believe the two disciplines should be studied separately, while others prefer to consider the connections between the two.

My project begins with a question: if Bob Dylan’s songs can be considered poetry, what other forms of music might also be considered poetry? Rap implements …

Finding Aid To The Collection Of Booth Tarkington Materials., Booth Tarkington, Colby College Special Collections

Finding Aids

This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials relating to the life and work of Booth Tarkington. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was a writer from Indiana, well known for his novels of life in the midwest. Pulitzer Prizes were awarded to him for The Magnificent Ambersons and for Alice Adams. He attended Purdue University and Princeton, where he was a well-known literary and social figure. In later life he divided his time between Indiana and his estate, Seawood, in Kennebunkport, Maine, where he became friends with neighbor Kenneth Roberts.

Finding Aid To The Collection Of Waldo Peirce Materials., Waldo Peirce, Colby College Special Collections

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The collection comprises letters, scrapbooks, and manuscript items by Waldo Peirce, an American painter, bohemian, and expatriate born in Bangor, Maine. Waldo Peirce (1884-1970) was born in Bangor, Maine, and educated at Phillips Academy in Andover and Harvard University. He later studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Julian Academy in Paris. As an expatriate American, he drove ambulances for the French Army in World War I and led a bohemian life with notable companions such as Ernest Hemingway and John Reed. His later life was spent in Searsport, Maine, and Newburyport, Massachusetts, where …

Bern Porter International: Volume 7 Number 2 (February 2003), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring "Why I Wrong" by Joel Dailey and "Barn Full of Air" by Daniel Russell.

Bern Porter International: Volume 7 Number 1 (January 2003), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring poems by Anna Carroll and David Stone.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 19 (August 31, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz

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A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring "Conspiracy Theory" by Natasha Bernstein.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 18 (August 24, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz

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Featuring "Dictatorship at Your Doorstep" by James R. Elwood and Jarret B. Wollstein and poetry by David Spiering.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 16 (August 10, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring poems by Cyril A. Dostal and found art by Hugo Pontes.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 15 (August 3, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 17 (August 17, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring poetry by David Napolin and "Who Cares?" by Bern Porter.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 14 (July 15, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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The Bulletin of the Scholars of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

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Zippy the Pinhead cover art by Bill Griffith
An Illustrated Introduction to Ray Johnson 1927-1995 by Mark Bloch

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 13 (July 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring art by Sheila Holtz and poetry by Nguyen Ducmanh.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 12 (June 15, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring "How Many Times Can the System Repeat Itself Before the Metaphysical Takes Over" by Gregory Famum and mail art by CA Conrad.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 11 (June 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring mail art by Gerry M. and "Days in the Early Eighties" by Bern Porter.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 9 (May 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring art by Bern Porter and poetry by Sheila Holtz.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 10 (May 15, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring mail art by Maureen Neville and collage by Sheila Holtz.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 7 (April 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring "Quantum Tantra" by Nick Herbert and "Do Art" by Nguyen Ducmanh.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 6 (March 15, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring poetry by George Gott and "The Document" by Blair Ewing.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 4 (February 15, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring "Global Economy: The Mark of the Beast?" by Sheila Holtz.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 5 (March 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring poetry by Joelle Francis and a Scholars report by Daniel A. Russell.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 3 (February 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring "It's In Our Nature." by Daniel A. Russell and "All Girl Band" by Utahna Faith.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 2 (Jaunary 15, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring "The Heart Bleeds" by Bern Porter and collage by Carolyn Chute.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 1 (January 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring mail art by Carolyn Chute and "whatever happened in new york" by Lee Clark Zumpe.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 24 (December 15, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring found art on homelessness and mail art by Bobolink Bob.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 23 (December 1, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring mail art by Black Bear Bob and art by Carolyn Chute.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 22 (November 15, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring "Report from H.O.M.E." by Sheila Holtz and "Columbus, 500 Year Anniversary" by Missy Martin.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 20 (October 15, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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Featuring art by Bern Porter and excerpts from "The Secret Diary of Natasha Bernstein" by Natasha Bernstein.p>