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Dead Brother, Kelsey Richey

Manuscripts

Poetry by Kelsey Richey.

Westfriedhof, Michael Andrews

Manuscripts

Photograph by Michael Andrews.

Interview With Marlon James, Julian Wylie

Manuscripts

Marlon James is the author of three novels, most recently A Brief History of Seven Killings, which won the coveted Man Booker Prize in 2015. He is also the writer behind John Crow’s Devil, published 2005, and The Book of Night Women, published 2009. Since 2007, James has been a professor of creative writing at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has also written for numerous publications, including The New York Times. During his visit to Butler University as part of the Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series, James took the time to speak with …

Elegy For My Wisdom Teeth, Claire Christoff

Manuscripts

Poetry by Claire Christoff.

Muros, Arisa Moreland

Manuscripts

Prose by Arisa Moreland. Runner-Up in the 2017 Manuscripts Prose Contest with Kelsey Parker Ervick.

Still Life, Ariana Hays

Manuscripts

Illustration by Ariana Hays.

Breathe In, Empty Out, Sonia Goldberg

Manuscripts

Poetry by Sonia Goldberg.

Putrid Pistols Ep, Carissa Marquardt

Manuscripts

Prose by Carissa Marquardt.

Deception, Stephen Neal

Manuscripts

Prose by Stephen Neal.

Liminal, Jessica Benzing

Manuscripts

Poetry by Jessica Benzing.

Detached, Liz Streiff

Manuscripts

Illustration by Liz Streiff.

Interview With Meghan Daum, Julian Wylie

Manuscripts

Meghan Daum is the author of four books, most recently the collection of original essays The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion, which won the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for creative nonfiction. She is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller Selfish, Shallow & Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not To Have Kids. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, the novel The Quality of Life Report, and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, a memoir. Since 2005, Daum has been an opinion columnist …

Retaliation, Sarah Coffing

Manuscripts

Prose by Sarah Coffing.

Alopecia, Laura Wilhelm

Manuscripts

Poetry by Laura Wilhelm. Runner-Up in the 2017 Manuscripts Poetry Contest with Alessandra Lynch.

Seeing Lights, Ariana Hays

Manuscripts

Illustration by Ariana Hays.

Fake Tales Of San Francisco, Caroline Hyde

Manuscripts

Prose by Michelé Strachota.

Summer People, Claire Christoff

Manuscripts

Poetry by Claire Christoff.

Alana Williams, Jebri —

Manuscripts

Illustration by Jebri.

Interview With Robert Wrigley, Matthew Del Busto

Manuscripts

Robert Wrigley is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Anatomy of Melancholy & Other Poems (2013), which won him the Pacific Northwest Book Award. During his visit to Butler, Wrigley sat down to talk with Manuscripts staff member Matt Del Busto about his most recent collection, titled after Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy, written almost 400 years prior. They discussed the power of poetry and melancholy in our lives. In 2016, Wrigley retired from a forty-year teaching career and currently lives in Idaho “in the woods on the side of a mountain” with his wife.

Illicit, Chelsea Yedinak

Manuscripts

Prose by Chelsea Yedinak.

Fools, Caitlyn Zegiestowsky

Manuscripts

Illustration by Caitlyn Zegiestowsky.

Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff

Manuscripts

Includes table of contents and editor's note.

Distraction And Community: The Magic Of Playtime, Heather Alfaro

Graduate School of Art Theses

Experiencing awkward encounters due to an anxious disposition, I create work that fulfills my own needs to fulfill the needs of others. By manipulating environments and providing props and crafted items, I take control of the situation to function within. Using craft, gift-giving and play, I encourage the audience to participate within my work—fostering community by providing an opportunity to play. Being ever fleeting, the encounters with the work and with the other participants distracts to allow the audience to lose themselves. When the work is gone, the memory lives on to comfort, and to inspire.

System Design To Reduce Risk Of Cranial Injury For Servicemen & Servicewomen, Stefan Leimer, David Morgan

Journal of Undergraduate Research

With over 320,000 of our troops returning home with traumatic brain injuries over the course of only six years, brain injuries among U.S. servicemen and servicewomen have become a growing concern. The purpose of this project is to assess the current risks these individuals are facing and to design solutions that provide meaningful protection.

Extensive research was conducted into the epidemiology of traumatic brain injury (abbreviated as TBI) among military personnel deployed abroad. Though the government has long had an extensive program for documenting and reporting injuries, TBI has only recently begun to be recorded and reported. In an effort …

Is Fast Fashion A Concern Of The Everyday Teen?, Mariah N. Cruz

Student Research Symposium

The phrase “fast fashion” refers to getting clothes at extremely low costs to keep up with the newest fashion trends. When we purchase items, we don’t put much thought into where our clothing goes after we “get rid” of them. The saying “Out of sight, out of mind” is apparent when it comes down to consumers and letting go of old clothes. Our only concern as consumers is the next big thing. The fashion industry has drastically changed over the past two decades and trends play a huge role in this push for mass production. We as a society are …

Freed From Fascism: Berlin's Gallery Culture In The Aftermath Of World War Ii, Brooke Fessler

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

In post-World War II Germany, the city of Berlin was left in ruin after six years of war. A nation ripped apart both physically and at its governmental core was finally freed from Nazi fascism in 1945, and the German people were finally able to reconstruct their culture. Born out of years of strict regulation of the German art world, a new type of art was put on display. Focusing specifically on gallery culture in Berlin in the post-war years, one can see how twelve years of classically influenced Nazi art gave way to a push towards the avant-garde. The …

Contemplation Of A Place, Slow And Constant, Colton R. Carter

Graduate School of Art Theses

This thesis focuses on the complex nature of experience and the ability to capture its essence through forms of representation. I start with a narrative to give the reader my personal his- tory and context that drive my work. I then go on to examine the moment in which an experience exceeds the mundane and becomes significant. I also examine the object by focusing on its ability to act as a remnant of an experience, and therefore, it becomes a means of self-reflection. I use the work Box with the Sound of its own making by Robert Morris and Inhabited …

Hell In Hand: Fear And Hope In The Hellmouths Of The Hours Of Catherine Of Cleves, Stephanie Lish

Theses and Dissertations

This paper is an attempt to investigate how well the borders and miniatures of The Hours of Catherine of Cleves facilitated the method of meditation recommended by Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen and therefore was a useful tool in Catherine’s search for eternal salvation.

"Hippie Acid Freak Drag Queens:" Situating The Cockettes Within An Art Historical Context, Scott Dow

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis situates the Cockettes – a performance group rarely referenced in art historical discourse - within Bay Area performance art, second-wave feminist art, and the Gay Liberation Movement. Contextualizing the Cockettes within their contemporary art movements provides a new understanding of the group and emphasizes their significance to art history.

Satan's Beach Surf Them Webs 666, Shawn Burkard

Graduate School of Art Theses

It is crucial in today’s world to embrace technology, which is an essential component of our daily lives. It makes communication in our lives easier. Technology serves a variety of functions that help in the development of education, business, communication, and scientific research. The freedom it offers through social media platforms allows for personal connections at a global level to become feasible. Although the Internet provides ease of communication at a large scale, it is bound to have issues that pollute the intended connections. Virus, spam mail and cyberbullies are some of the items that contribute to it becoming a …