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Crossroads: A Novella, Patricia Ann-Marie Abraham

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

Crossroads is the herstory of Tahaj Marie, a woman-child who comes of age in Brooklyn, New York. The single daughter of a single mother, she rejects the pressures put forth by her strict, cold mother and defies her with a sexual relationship at 16 that leaves her pregnant and alone. Spending years raising her son Amir, and rekindling an unsuccessful relationship with his father leads her to the crossroads of her life. Despite the road blocks, she rebuilds herself to strive towards the woman she seeks to become. As a single mother who is Black, female, and disadvantaged, Tahaj Marie …

Raise The Still Rabbit, Michael Kroesche

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

My first collection of poetry, Raise the Still Rabbit, explores the literal landscape we live in, the themes of language and lyric, as well as the relationships between people. The poems are rooted in the experiential, the moments when the act of writing becomes a navigation of the various themes of the local environment, cohabitation between individual people, and the geography of the poems' content and textual construction. Navigating these themes, the poems attempt to dissolve the illusory barriers that appear to separate subjects such as the interior of a home from the desert surrounding it. In this collection, …

2011 Literary Review (No. 24), Sigma Tau Delta

The Greenleaf Review

No abstract provided.

The Ripening Of Mangos, Katherine Hoerth

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This project is a collection of poems which draw influence from Romantic, confessional, and post-modern poetry movements, and can most accurately be described as Confessionalistic, though they are resistant to categorization. The poems function to dismantle archetypal definitions of feminine identity, and instead aim to depict identity to be fluid and multifaceted.

The Ripening of Mangos is divided into four sections. The first section deconstructs the 'angel' or 'virgin' archetype, while the second deconstructs the 'monster' or 'whore' archetype. Section three includes voices of procreation, and functions to complicate the image of 'the mother.' The last section, Transplanting, shows gendered …

Weights, Measures, And Meaning, Monir Feezor

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Monir Feezor on April 21, 2010.

Satori 2011, Winona State University

Satori Literary Magazine

The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.

Mapw Capstone Project, Carol A. Levine

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

Fiction and non-fiction work, short stories and one novel chapter.  Order of Content:

Reflective Essay
"No More Jesus"
"Puzzle Pieces"
"Little Shoes"
"Squeaky"
Nell
"Baby Blue"
"Stunning"
"Culinary Art"
"The Garden"
"A Snow White Van"
"My Hero"
"Small Deer"

Mulk Raj Anand: Moving India Forward, Sandy Wheeler

All Student Theses and Dissertations

Mulk Raj Anand is an innovator in literature. He is one of the first Indian authors to write in English about the humanitarian dilemmas facing India during the mid-twentieth century. His compassionate objective is to produce an awareness of the cruelty and inhumane practices of untouchability and social class distinctions and to seek the enlightening prospects of progress and modernity. In his three novels Coolie, Two Leaves and a Bud, and Untouchable, Anand explores the lives of of the down-trodden. The first chapter of this project defines and discusses the Hindu caste system of India as well as its unfavorable …

2011 Making Literature Conference, Jeanne Murray Walker, Paul Mariani

Making Literature Conference

Keynote Address: "A Crisis of Imagination," Jeanne Murray Walker

Keynote Address: "God & the Imagination," Paul Mariani

The Mother Daughter Bond And History In Wide Sargasso Sea, Valarie L. Phelps

Student Literary Analyses

No abstract provided.

No Surrender! War And The Death Of Innocence In The Fictions Of John Mcgahern, Eamon Maher

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Cyborg Griffin: A Speculative Fiction Literary Journal, Hollins University

Cyborg Griffin: a Speculative Fiction Literary Journal

Notes:

copyrighted

Hollins Student Publication

Scope: short stories, artwork, poetry, essays, and comics

Paper copies shelved in University Archives.

Parnassus 2011

Parnassus

The 2011 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Volume 43 (2011), C. V. Davis

The Broad River Review

The 2011 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by C. V. Davis. The publication contains fiction, non-fiction, art, poetry, and photography. The cover, "Two Girls with Umbrella," was painted by Jennifer Hart. The winner of the J. Calvin Koontz Poetry Award, given annually for a portfolio of poetry to a senior English major, is Nikki Raye Rice. The Broad River Review Editor's Prizes in Fiction and Poetry are chosen among all submissions from Gardner-Webb University students. The prize in poetry was awarded to J. Lauren Fletcher for her work titled, "Woman." The prize in prose was awarded to …

James Brown On The Sea Of Tranquility, Eric Bliman

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 5

Arrival, Julie Funderburk

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 27

The Scottish Play, Quincey R. Lehr

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 47

Night Of The Lepus (It Should Be A Bald Eagle–Like National Treasure), Erica Dawson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 13-14

Choice Virtues, Nick Friedman

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 24

The Therapist On Teleology, Stephen Kampa

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 42-44

Untitled, Sr Joseph De Paor

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 56

On Retreat, After Sunday Mass, Sr Joseph De Paor

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 64

Headway, Jake Ricafrente

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 66-67

The Homestead Down The Way, Jake Ricafrente

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 68

Black Ice, Anne-Marie Thompson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 72-73

Sidney Ellen Wade, Sidney Wade

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 75

Webb Could Talk Less, May Be?, Charles Harper Webb

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 84-85

The Stand-Off, Will Wells

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 90-91

Lyric #6, Ryo Yamaguchi

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 95

Whirl Is King: Poems From A Life List, Luke Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 100-101