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View From Pisgah Crater (Visual Art) And Raking Clouds, Glennon Jarachovic, Lauren Dial

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Glennon Jarachovic is a junior perusing a B.A. in Art History with interests in art management and business. Originally from Barstow, California, he moved to Arkansas for a change of scenery and to be closer to family. While not aspiring to be a professional artist, he enjoys the process of making art and growing as an amateur artist. Art has always been a part of his life since childhood and hopefully it will continue to play a large role in the future.

Lauren Dial is a senior attending the University of Arkansas studying Creative Writing. She was the Fiction Editor …

Ultramarine, Verna Bryan

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Verna Corinne Bryan is a junior from Little Rock, AR. She’s majoring in English with a Creative Writing concentration and minoring in French. She hopes to someday write a book that gets turned into a movie so she never has to work again.

Our Cat And A Close Shave (Visual Art), Erin Allen, Lauren Dial

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Erin is a non-traditional student at the UofA and a former staff writer for The Santiago Times. She mothers, gardens and writes from her home in Fayetteville and plans to pursue an MFA in poetry.

Lauren Dial is a senior attending the University of Arkansas studying Creative Writing. She was the Fiction Editor for the first edition of The Diamond Line. Her work generally revolves around experimenting with new perspectives. She believes stepping into the unknown lives of people, or creatures, entirely unlike yourself is a leap into a greater understanding of the larger consciousness.

Inhabit, Kath Rees

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Kath Rees is a junior at the University of Arkansas, earning her B.F.A. in Creative Writing with a minor in Art History. She writes poetry and prose, and more often than not, something in between. Her interests include baking, being outside, and googling obscure German fairytales This is her first publication.

Untitled (Visual Art) And The Music Of My Newest Nephew, Madison Varns, Caroline Jennings

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Madi Varns is a student writer and artist attending her third year at the university. Her practice focuses primarily in the visual languages of painting and ceramics as well as crafting experiences of sound and space. Through writing and visual arts she hopes to document moments of the self-aware experience that is nuanced and intimate but ultimately shared by all.

Caroline Jennings grew up in Fort Smith, Arkansas and is currently working towards obtain ing a B.A. in Creative Writing and a B.S. in Applied Math. In her free time, she spends quite a bit of time baking, in movie …

Commonthought (2021), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

Orchid Philosophy, Mary Morrison

The Tuxedo Archives

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America, The Pinnacle, Micah Horne

Manuscripts

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Ascension, David Chadburn

Manuscripts

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Garden Of Secrets, Angelina Butters

Manuscripts

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Fool’S Gold, David Chadburn

Manuscripts

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From The Shower Floor, Angelina Butters

Manuscripts

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Sigh, Carly Duncan

Manuscripts

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Wish, Elie Heile

Manuscripts

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Message In A Muse, Alexis Bloom

Manuscripts

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So Says The Busboy, Macy Kent

Manuscripts

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Leapfrog, Elie Heile

Manuscripts

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Radiance, Miriam Berne

Manuscripts

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Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff

Manuscripts

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Visiting The Garden By Ryan Guptil, Ryan Guptil

ART/RSP 299: Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

Visiting the Garden

Winter is gone
The sun is out

I open right up
I come right out.

My bright red complexion
My powerful aroma

Creatures come to see me,
Without a doubt.

They know my smell
They know my name

They know what I am
Not ever a doubt.

Every year I am the same,
But they always change.

Till next year my friends
Please stay the same.

I feel you looking
I never move, always still
Frozen like a rock.

I am as bright as a flame
And catch the shining sun.

You’re drawn to me
Like a …

Dandy/Robin/Gardener By Sadie Pressman, Sadie Pressman

ART/RSP 299: Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

Dandy

I’ll be so direct by saying, if I may, that here is simply, absolutely, the best place to be. Here,
where the rolling hill plunges towards the ocean. Here, where the sight of the Bavarian blue sky
makes my insides feel endless. Here, where, watching as I so often do, as the white cotton
shape-shifts before my eyes, summer-time in suspense. The sun’s rays suspend from the sky,
dangling like the hands of time. They caress me. A pocket watch in the sky, the sky's the best
accessory. Here, where I am more popular than I could ever have …

A Short Stay By Rachel Milne, Rachel Milne

ART/RSP 299: Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

A Short Stay

Gracefully, she leaps over the fence.
Slowly, she walks through the yard,
Plucking low-hanging leaves for breakfast.
She lingers, as she eats
And suddenly –
Nails skittering on wood, a rush of air through the grass,
Her visit is cut short
She sends herself back into the woods
Just as the dog reaches the top of the hill

Their nest may be elsewhere,
But the pair frequently visit this place.
His little, crimson body darts over the yard,
Her subtle, tawny feathers hide away in a tree.
A constant in the garden,
They are a pleasant sight …

Floral Beauty By Sophia Squire, Sophia Squire

ART/RSP 299: Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

Floral Beauty

An appreciation for chrysanthemum
Took bloom within her soul during
Her early years of life and began
To flourish as time went on

Passing slowly, the years whisked
By and things would grow all around
Her as her hair drifted down past
Her slim shoulders – long brown

“I wish to grow my roots, soon,
In one place where I can stay
Becoming stronger within myself
Until it is time for me to wither away

I’ll make this body a lovely space
For my spirit of flora to grow and
Thrive, with windows all around to
Let sunshine …

We, Three By Ginny Majka, Ginny Majka

ART/RSP 299: Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

We, Three

I am the soil, the mountains and oceans of life.
Mycellium colonies beneath my surface plunge up
up, up through the peat and the moss, the decaying leaves. They pray for the rain, the fruit of my earth.
Plantae nestle in, fragile and comfortable,
seeds sprout to eagerly gulp rain,
animalia flourish, consuming what I provide
only to come home, at the end, to me
to rejoin my earth;
we are one
I am the atmosphere, the sunny clouds and storms producing bounty to those below
I am the chaos in the lightning
I am the rainbow after …

Admirers Of The Garden By Tabitha Burgess, Tabitha Burgess

ART/RSP 299: Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

Admirers of the Garden

I fly in as the sun rises
Fluttering to the beaming light
Of golden and red velvety petals
I touch down on the layers of the lilies
Admiring their similar colors
Breaking my concentration
A chirping sound in the distance

I feel the wind beneath my wings
As I fly to an area I’m familiar with
I land on the nearby fence post
My black and white feathers
Illuminated by sunlight
I look down at the nearby botany
The rows of greens growing from the soil
I seek out my next destination and take flight
As …

Visitors By Lindsey Bosk, Lindsey Bosk

ART/RSP 299: Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

Visitors

There is a need within us all,
just like this garden,
for water to replenish what is dry and wilted.
One drop falls from the grey-blue sky onto a leaf.
Another hits my brow, I smile.
Like me, the rain does not stay forever,
we are both visitors here.

The droplets of water pick up speed,
as if sensing urgency.
Thirsty plants lap up water,
the rain is welcome.

Unlike the rain, I serve no purpose.
I quench no one’s thirst.
Nonetheless, I sit in the center of it all,
as If I matter most.

Ilja By Paula Shevenell, Paula Shevenell

ART/RSP 299: Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

ILJA

I remember you
sitting in the woods,
Gathering in the children
Gathering in the
sights and sounds.
You’re expression
warm, kind patient
as the children crawl over you.

I remember
Sitting on this rock
breathing in the scent of the woods
Trying to bring in
the calm I see in you
Amid the chaos
Of children befriending you
Of parents attempting
To capture the moment
With their devices
Of plastic, wires and glass.

Three Garden Visitors By Vivien Russe, Vivien Russe

ART/RSP 299: Gathering in the Garden: Poetry and Studio Art

Three Garden Visitors

Beside a cup of tea, I am a spotted leopard on pajamas.
Outside in the garden, this early summer morning,
Staying sly, quiet, not wanting to draw any attention from the neighbors.

A birdie is hidden in the Emerald Green Arborvitae,
After lunch, Owen comes over, asking politely if he can come into the yard to find it.
I reply, “Certainly, you can retrieve anything that lands in the yard without asking”.

Coming unannounced, no matter when, full of presumption
It comes with the lightest, gentle touch or the hardest hit, knocking flowers off center.
Below the …

Using Big Data To Facilitate A Lyrical Analysis Of Poetry And Rap, Remington Yve Giller

English Undergraduate Distinction Projects

Poetry and rap are dissected using text mining techniques in order to determine overall trends in the words used by both. With this data, the way in which ideas and concepts are expressed can be compared and contrasted as a way of showing the legitimacy of rap as a form of literary expression. Other topics within the paper are: a background of the history of rap and the digital humanities, and an example of a close reading featuring a medieval poem and a rap by Eminem. This demonstrates how even in a traditional way of handling texts, both poetry and …

Afterglow, Cara Triebold

TYGR: Student Art and Literary Magazine 2018-present

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