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Lessons With The Mystics: Refreshing Our Vision In Mid/Late Career, Gina Briefs-Elgin

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This paper explores surprising and restorative responses to mid/late career burnout from the perspective of four of the world's great Eastern mystical traditions: Hinduism, Sufism, Zen, and Kabbalah.

The Persuasiveness Of Pleasure: Play, Reciprocity, And Persuasion In Online Discussions, Sue Hum

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

This essay explores the role of pleasure in facilitating diverse modes of rhetorical participation in online discussion.

Faith-Based Worldviews As A Challenge To The Believing Game, Patricia Bizzell

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Elbow's "Believing Game" may help to make room in the academy for religious frames of mind, which encompass particularly dense networks of ideas and emotions.

Reviews, Brad E. Lucas, Heidi Estrem, Yufeng Zhang, William Fitzgerald

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Brad E. Lucas - Teaching Multi writing: Researching and Composing with Multiple Genres, Media, Disciplines, and Cultures

Heidi Estrem - CoUege Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction

Yufeng Zhang - Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric

William FtizGerald - Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference

Connecting, Helen Walker, Louise Morgan, Danielle Sahm, Laurence Musgrove, Rae Ann Derosse, Joonna Smitherman Trapp, Beverly Faxon

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Connecting - Helen Walker

Louise Morgan - Email about the Ego

Danielle Sahm - The Poet Rewritten

Laurence Musgrove - People Get Ready

Rae Ann De Rosse - Authority Issues

Joonna Smitherman Trapp - The Importance of Being Ernie

Beverly Faxon - Why I Read Them Poetry

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The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

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A Modern New Life, Charles Nicholls

Honors Capstones

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Joints And Connectors, Rachel Eve Moulton

Bryant Literary Review

Edward Rudolph Schakowsky III was a freshman and forever late to school.

Why The Music Makes Us Cry, Paul Hostovsky

Bryant Literary Review

I thought it was just me until my Aunt Hannah

said no it wasn't just me it was just

It's Grief To Me, Eli Langner

Bryant Literary Review

I try to make sense of it

but can only surmise

sardonically that

Fortunata, Jay Baruch

Bryant Literary Review

Lawrence Wellbourne, CEO of Poultice Pharmaceuticals, announced to a roomful of vice-presidents the ominous news:

Debriefing, Yvonne Sapia

Bryant Literary Review

You confess all. Even the truth.

You recount what you dread. Exile.

The face of disbelief. The fear

Measuring Time, Heather Hallberg Yanda

Bryant Literary Review

Standing here by her

stove, I am stirring

with her spoon, measuring

Constellation, Janet Mccann

Bryant Literary Review

The sky was full

of bears and warriors,

God put them there.

They wheeled over us,

The Chess Game, James Damron

Bryant Literary Review

I turn from my work to see them

Indian princesses in long gowns

Lying softly on the grass

The Thirteenth Colony, Jéanpaul Ferro

Bryant Literary Review

The morning had been like a mirage:

a green twilight along Kennedy Plaza after the show,

1863 Candid, Wendy Smith-Stenhouse

Bryant Literary Review

If I could

I would ask you why

you looked away

when the flash chiseled pewter eyes

Love Song, Steven Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

New shirt

cotton stiff

cuffs crisp, buttoned

flush against the hands

Virus, Ewa Bronowicz

Bryant Literary Review

"Language is a virus, and she infected me," he said and looked away, as if not interested in the effect his words would have on us.

La Révolution De Ventôse, Bayard Godsave

Bryant Literary Review

Time loves only those it has given birth to itself...

--Vasily Grossman

I have read about the neutron bombs. In the books there are diagrams of radiation waves, tipped with arrowheads,

Don't Date Men Who Live In Mushroom Houses, Amanda Dunne

Bryant Literary Review

When you brush your teeth,

I want to pull my eyes out,

place them in a Ziploc sandwich bag

The Shower, William Baer

Bryant Literary Review

"Younger than springtime," she sings, fading

in and out, for nearly a half an hour,

Tearing Down The Depot, Patrick Carrington

Bryant Literary Review

It's one of those days that's no damn good

from the start. You drop the toast

How The Metaphor Becomes You, John Azrak

Bryant Literary Review

and is becoming, (no matter your where-

abouts), starts with the handsome

blanket you brought home from Santa Fe;

Mount Everest, Falling, Charles Webb

Bryant Literary Review

Three times before, her father'd pounded

9-1-1 in time to bring a team to pump

Letter To Borgstrom In Stone, Fredrick Zydek

Bryant Literary Review

Dear Kurt: If what the Hindus and Buddhists say

is true, everything that makes the universe tick

What You Have, Laura Hogan

Bryant Literary Review

He comes home wearing your husband's face, spreads his arms wide and calls, "Honey, I'm home."

Fishing Penny, Ryan Habermeyer

Bryant Literary Review

Penny used three fingers to wedge the last moon pie into her mouth. I had sore fingers from feeding her all night.

A Salutation, Not An Embrace, Lois Marie Harrod

Bryant Literary Review

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

--George Santayana

Those moments when everything

slips away, perhaps

Fido's View Of Irony, Martha Christina

Bryant Literary Review

I found the shoe under the bed

when She Who Throws Things

threw my ball. "Fetch,"