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Interview With Ali Eteraz, Elena Decook

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Ali Eteraz is the author of the debut novel Native Believer, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Children of Dust, which was selected as a New Statesman Book of the Year, won the Nautilus Book Award Gold, and was long-listed for the Asian American Writers Workshop Award. Previously, he wrote the short story collection Falsipedies and Fibsiennes. Other short stories have appeared in The Adirondack Review, storySouth, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Forge Journal. Eteraz is an accomplished essayist and has been …

Flake, Kyle Clark

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Poetry by Kyle Clark.

Quick Question, Matt Del Busto

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Poetry by Matt Del Busto. Winner in the 2018 Manuscripts Poetry Contest.

A Treasure, Meghan Allen

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Prose by Meghan Allen. Runner up in the 2018 Manuscripts Prose Contest.

Windows, Melanie Garcia

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Photography by Melanie Garcia.

A Swamp Called Mama, Con Murray

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Poetry by Con Murray.

Mawwage Is What Bwings Us Togetha Today, Megan Ulrich

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Prose by Megan Ulrich.

Out Of Office Reply, Tyler Wagner

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Poetry by Tyler Wagner. Runner up in the 2018 Manuscripts Poetry Contest.

Interview With Monica Youn, Matt Del Busto

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Monica Youn is the author of three books of poetry: Blackacre (2016), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Ignatz (2010), which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Barter (2003). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the New York Times Magazine, and she has been awarded a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. A former attorney specializing in copyright and election law, she now teaches poetry at Princeton University. During …

Mindsight, Jessica Martorano

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Poetry by Jessica Martorano. Finalist in the 2018 Manuscripts Poetry Contest.

Infinity, Eric Baugh

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Prose by Eric Baugh. Finalist in the 2018 Manuscripts Prose Contest.

Mood Swings, Peter Larson

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Photography by Peter Larson.

Shadowed Shame, Carolyn Swartz

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Poetry by Carolyn Swartz.

White Lips, Carolyn Swartz

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Photography by Carolyn Swartz

How To Acquire A Stalker, Katherine Marquam

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Prose by Katherine Marquam.

Warm, Trembling, Etc., Fiona Schicho

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Poetry by Fiona Schicho.

Front Matter, Manuscripts Staff

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Includes table of contents and editor's note.

Experience Bobo Experience, Sara Smith

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Experience Bobo Experience -by Sara Marie Smith (Artist Statements and Images of work)

Spring 2018-CSUMB Undergraduate Capstone Project/ Visual Public Arts Department

My Senior Capstone is about using inspirational wisdom from acknowledged sources to address the quandaries of our human experiences. I have chosen a cognitive clown, named Bobo, to investigate Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Watts. Bobo, my character, goes on a journey of learning. Bobo is a line drawing, rendered in marker, with a circular head, two dot eyes, three puffs of hair with a clown smile and clown clothing. Experience Bobo Experience speaks to …

Narratives Of Loss, Carla R. Stine

Graduate Theses/Dissertations

My research revolves around impermanence, loss, and the grief that accompanies loss. My thesis work consists of digital collages interlaced with short stories, an interactive digital media piece, traditionally-made collages, a picture book, art objects, and an assortment of other supporting work. My ultimate aim is to employ both traditional techniques and digital skills to create visual narratives that supply glimpses into my personal history of loss and that speak to life’s brevity.

Nexus, Spring 2018, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

The Lantern, 2017-2018, Solana Warner, Chiara Demelfi, Emily Shue, Matt Dwyer, Clara Baker, Jason Bennett, Brandon Carey, Kim Corona, Millie Drury, Courtney A. Duchene, Samuel Ernst, Giselle Horrell, Sarah Howell, Nicole Kosar, Malcolm Loh, Morgan Mcafee, Johnathan Myers, Ren Toscano, Daniel Walker, Robin Gow, Albert Hahn, Rae Hodenfield, Paige Szmodis, Madison Bradley, Teddi Caputo '18, Faith Carson, Taahira Davis, Chiara Demelfi, Mya D. Flood, Sophia Driscoll Gamber, Jada A. Grice, Kevin Leon, Joseph Makuc, Valerie Osborne, Janice Partee, Megan Sear, Kara E. Travis, Julian Barocas, Sarah Defelice, Olivia Glover, Mario J. Heitman, Robert Varney

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

On Dissociation • Untouchable • After "Rocket Man" • The Science Fair • Cardinal Rule at Stephen J. Memorial • Quentin & Sylvie • Cabello • The Get Out • Painting Day • Black, White and Grey • Family Pruning • How to Remove a Stain • Becoming Ourselves • Wonderbread U • Overture • Pescadero • Gross • Stage Fright • Lucky Daddy • Sarah • Rumble • Silvermine • The Green Iguana • A Poem for Ghost Children • A Poem for Lost Boys • Mother • Drop of Grease • Don't Wanna be White • I • …

Good Game, Greyory Blake

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis and its corresponding art installation, Lessons from Ziggy, attempts to deconstruct the variables prevalent within several complex systems, analyze their transformations, and propose a methodology for reasserting the soap box within the display pedestal. In this text, there are several key and specific examples of the transformation of various signifiers (i.e. media-bred fear’s transformation into a political tactic of surveillance, contemporary freneticism’s transformation into complacency, and community’s transformation into nationalism as a state weapon). In this essay, all of these concepts are contextualized within the exponential growth of new technologies. That is to say, all of these semiotic …

Commonthought (2017), 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.

Live. Tell. Resist., Angel Vazquez, Kyle Liang, Anthony Zelaya-Umanzor, Rosie Mejia, Patricia Gutierrez, Kayla Hampton, Mariacarolina Gomez, Melissa Martinez-Sanchez, Harman Brah, Victoria Arevalo, Tyra Cecilio, Dion Dang, Camila De Pierola, Noemi Fernandez Luna, Isabelle Marin, Mackenzie Mead, Jason Munoz, Daniel Penuela, Andrei Pineda, Patrick Pozon, Larissa Ramirez, Jasmine Segovia, Julien Stone Zachary, Aira Wada, Jiaxing Yu, Ariana Siordia, Jazmin Quezada

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

This edition of First-Gen Voices features the stories and work of 24 first-generation college students at multiple higher education institutions. The aim is to disseminate a story about us, for us, and consequently, the dominant cultures that have yet to learn from our power.

Dignidad, Poder, Resistencia // Dignity, Power, Resistance, Michael Munoz, Alanis Gonzalez, Tallie Spencer, Isabelle Marin, Lesly Juarez, Christopher Reynoso, Antonia Garcia, Abigail Goad, Athena Martinez, Ruth Gomez, Angel Vazquez, Jazmin Quezada, Jasmine Segovia, Jordyn Wedell, Yulisa Gonzalez, Laura Mena Hernandez, Keiri Fernandez

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

First To Go Abroad" is a partnership between the Loyola Marymount University First To Go Program, LMU Study Abroad, and the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), which seeks to increase study abroad opportunities for first-generation college students. In May 2017, fifteen first-gen students and two first-gen faculty mentors traveled together to Santiago, Dominican Republic, where they spent ten days exploring the country and learning about the local cultures, customs, and histories of the people who call the DR home.

Travel is a privilege not all students have the same access to; for some students, this trip was the first …

Contributors, Manuscripts Staff

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List of contributors and short biographies.

Dreams Of The Past, Present, And Future, Camille Bates

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Illustration by Camille Bates.

Sharp, Kasey Kirchner

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Poetry by Kasey Kirchner.

It’S Not You It’S Me (And Other Lies Told At Kickapoo State Park), Erica-Noel Ortega

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Poetry by Erica-Noel Ortega.

Destroying Angel, Karena Bakas

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Poetry by Karena Bakas. Runner-Up in the 2017 Manuscripts Poetry Contest with Alessandra Lynch.