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Photo From Ballydehob, Robert Funge

Bryant Literary Review

We're staying in this little village just west of Cork
in the green and yellow house on the left

Father, 1970, Julie Danho

Bryant Literary Review

Outside Sip-N-Dip Donuts, he and Drag and Crazy Andy down Cuervo until

Decrescendo, Patrick Graydon

Bryant Literary Review

Angst disappears with the rest of his fears,
the fanfare has begun.

The Widow, Francine Witte

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She stands straight up for the first time
in years. So many hours spent hunched

Finishing Touches, Denise Utt

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There's a lady I've heard about
who paints pictures on lampshades

Mcneal's Rant, Lucile Blanchard

Bryant Literary Review

"McNeal's Rant" is a Scottish country dance, a 40-bar strathspey, and a variation of "The Black Dance," a 32-bar reel. It is danced by Ian and Abigail McNeal (first couple) and Rick and Rita Milton (third couple).

Bars 1-4: First couple turns with the right hand.

Darwinian, Jennifer Tappenden

Bryant Literary Review

The first cry divides
itself from happiness

Problema Ng Makata Sa Panahon Ng Terorismo/The Problem Of The Poet In A Time Of Terrorism, E. San Juan, Jr.

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Nangungulila Tila luho't karangyaan

Airport, Alex Russo

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a universe of utter transience connects people
moving in every direction like twelve thousand

Intrigue, Dennis Saleh

Bryant Literary Review

In a conspiracy
of sky

Midwestern Mythologies, Adam Lee Hubrig

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This collection of poems works toward unpacking the complications of moving from one geographical center to another. Its poems aim to work out changing and strained relationships, expectations and environments.

Advisor: Kwame Dawes

Due Partly To Inertia, Justin Lee Irizarry

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In the preface to Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman said, "The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They are of use--they dissolve poverty from its need, and riches from its conceit." My poetry aims to exist in Whitman's `kosmos' and in doing so advance through the turmoil and the strategies of certainty to something resembling principles. Politics is a common theme; it is not in an attempt to write political poetry, but an attempt to not leave anything out. Other themes throughout this manuscript include death, music, wanting, having, …

There Are Moments That Hang Suspended, Mark B. Lennon

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This project is the culmination of ten years of work in poetry. It was begun in imitation of those who impressed, not only with their fine words and dexterity with language, but also with their clear conviction in their subject material. Reflected in the works of Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, and Adrienne Rich, among others, was evidence of a life lived, in Thoreau's term, deliberately. The writing of poetry seemed to be not simply a means of expression, but a goad to live a life worth examining, and to keep doing so; a progress report for a radical mind.

Politics …

In What Array That They They Were In And Participating Godlike Food, Thomas Jackson Wills

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

I am submitting two manuscripts for my creative dissertation, In What Array That They Were In and Participating Godlike Food. The former is a sequence of odes followed by a brief epic, followed by a cycle of verse dramas, with an ode epilogue. The latter is a book-length excerpt from an epic poem/crime novel/Menippean satire/television show/Dada collage/historical document/vatic investigation that comes in 20 page sections that are supposed to approximate the 42 minutes of an average crime show.

Preying Mantis, Paige Sandgren

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Friday Afternoons, Emily Bell

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Paranoia In 1967, Nicky Chokran

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, New York, 1911, Nicky Chokran

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Online Discovery, Amanda Feller

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

2013 Paul Query Prize in Poetry

For Monique, Carianna Arredondo

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Herring Bay, Maryland, Storm Strader

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Other: Poems, Catherine Pritchard Childress

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This creative thesis is a collection of original poems entitled Other. The poems in Other reflect my study of the aesthetics of poetry as well as that of how women are represented as poets and as the subject of poems. Some of these poems are the product of my particular interest in the use of persona. Most reflect my desire to achieve self-reflection, to write from my experiences and perception, while still maintaining the universality that is an essential element of successful poems.

The critical introduction situates my poems within the framework of the poetic mode Personal Classicism—poetry that …

Dogwood Thoughts, Grayson Pitts

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Intrinsic, Storm Strader

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Fuchsias, Amanda Feller

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

2013 Paul Query Prize in Poetry

Seance In A Soybean Field, Amanda Feller

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

2013 Paul Query Prize in Poetry

The Home-Wrecker, Jim Easterhouse

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Soil And Space: Fumigation // Language Barrier, Samuel Preminger

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.

Ersatz Umbrella, Jeff Handy

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.

Afterimage // The Depot, Daniel T. O’Brien

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.