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Riding To Devil’S Kitchen, Donna L. Emerson

Westview

I ride Moose today,

A Nice Boy, Austin Watford

Westview

Across the street lives a very nice boy with brown eyes like muddied brick and teeth like tiny fence posts.

Asylum, Lauro Palomba

Westview

The Hospital for Idiots and Imbeciles

Gazebo In The Park, Dennis Ross

Westview

Walnut shells are centered

Drought, Richard Luftig

Westview

Out in the back of farms,

Last Day, Richard Dinges Jr.

Westview

Gray hair and bald

I'D Write The Sea Like A Parlour Game By Alison Dyer, Yvonne E. Blomer

The Goose

Review of Alison Dyer's I’d Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game.

Yardwork: A Biography Of An Urban Place By Daniel Coleman, Vivian M. Hansen

The Goose

Review of Daniel Coleman's Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place.

Tar Swan By David Martin, Melanie Dennis Unrau

The Goose

Review of David Martin's Tar Swan.

Dragonflies (Poetry), Chloe Jensen

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

No abstract provided.

Hallow Hallow (Poetry), Anna Salvania

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Poetry; experience of racism growing up

Amjambo Africa! (August 2018), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

Rwanda Bean Coffee ............ Page 7

Congolese Celebration..........Page 8

Cape Verde Celebration........Page 9

South Sudanese Celebration Page 10

Service Listings - Cut Out & Keep! .....................................Page 13/14

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The Lessons Of Charity Lamb, Melia Hannigan-Luther

The Case of Charity Lamb (2018)

This poem inspired by the case of Charity Lamb is stylistically based on Jamaica Kincaid’s poem “Girl.”

Things We Have In Common: Essays And Experiments, Willow Grosz

All NMU Master's Theses

Things We Have in Common is a collection of short stories, flash pieces, and image-text experiments that attempts, in the wake of the death of my mother, to excavate the relationship between memory and narrative, identity and belonging against a backdrop of the main forces that have influenced my familial group, namely generational poverty, a changing relationship with our Athabascan and Caucasian heritages, and the complicated ecology, geography, and culture of Alaska. Like many forays into memory, this project represents a joyous failure. Please read this collection as a love letter to Alaska.

That Said, Karl Alderic Schroeder

All NMU Master's Theses

That Said, a creative thesis of poetry and poetics in two parts, explores points of contact between human interaction, capitalism, consciousness, and the process of meaning itself. The collection appropriates the language of business, scholarship, and politics alongside philosophical substructures from such disparate traditions as Marxism, Existentialism, and Taoism to provide a several windows of perspective into anxiety, relationships, identity, and consumerism. Through the blending of both direct and experimental forms and processes, nontraditional and everyday diction and syntax, and multifaceted content of both personal and external significance, these poems may simultaneously amuse, alienate, and inspire philosophical and critical …

Plan B (Poetry), Madelyn Taylor

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Poetry. A young woman contemplates how an unplanned pregnancy can manifest the grace of God.

We Too Have Touched The Sky, Anthony Shoplik

The John Carroll Review

No abstract provided.

Destination: Ireland, Adriana Farian

The John Carroll Review

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Louvre, Adriana Farian

The John Carroll Review

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Monarch, Adriana Farian

The John Carroll Review

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Nicaraguan Children, Wesley Olin

The John Carroll Review

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Brother And Sister - Dominican Republic, Wesley Olin

The John Carroll Review

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Giant Wheel, Gabrielle Rey

The John Carroll Review

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Winter, Gabrielle Rey

The John Carroll Review

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Wandering A Wonder, Allison Kwan

The John Carroll Review

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Riding Away In Rome, Jessica Disalvatore

The John Carroll Review

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1936 Fordson Model N Tractor, Lilian Lebednick

The John Carroll Review

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Cody And Girly, Lilian Lebednick

The John Carroll Review

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Winter Lights, Lilian Lebednick

The John Carroll Review

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Mother Mary, Roserita Dimillo

The John Carroll Review

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