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Dusk, Sunny Xu

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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I No Longer Hear The Wind, Robert Tyson Steele

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

I No Longer Hear the Wind is a collection of poetry that explores an unnamed narrator's relationship with nature and civilization. The poems follow this narrator through his fragmented journey of trying to find nature in its most authentic form. As the narrator jumps in and out of civilization, he realizes that he ultimately cannot find nature, even in the most wild of places. Understanding this dilemma, the narrator seeks to connect with society while simultaneously avoiding, resisting, and even undermining civilization, technology, and authority.

The collection draws its influence from nature poets like Rumi, Whitman, Thoreau, and many others …

The Dictionary, Ace Boggess

Bryant Literary Review

I keep a dictionary by my bed
in case a word is spoken when I dream

Blue Girls, Jordan Lienhoop

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

No abstract provided.

Bowling, Brian Austin

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

No abstract provided.

Lavender Bride, Robert Kostuck

Bryant Literary Review

Svetlana and Valery at the late edge of a summer weekend, aligned vacations, rented bicycles, wool sweaters, damp air spilled inland from the half-empty beaches.

Hitler Stamp, Paul Hostovsky

Bryant Literary Review

I traded ten triangular
Mongolian stamps for Hitler,

This And That (For Coleman Barks, October, 2008), Lisa Starr

Bryant Literary Review

A while back you said, You know, one of these days
you're gonna have to write that poem about that deer,

Ginger, Charles Butterfield

Bryant Literary Review

After Sam's truck clears the hill, all Lucius hears is the cooing of wild pigeons in the cavernous haymow.

A Bad Sandstorm, Sheryl L. Nelms

Bryant Literary Review

"We all
saw it coming

In Praise Of Cowards, William Jolliff

Bryant Literary Review

No brave man could ever imagine
how much a coward can tolerate

Bayou Mirror, Iris Litt

Bryant Literary Review

At first on the island
I gushed my amazement

Lethal Injection, David Dragone

Bryant Literary Review

It didn't matter where you stood--
It was the way they botched his killing

Nothing At All, Ali Morreale

Bryant Literary Review

You sit and you look at all the strange faces,
on the bus that drives you not far.

Making History, Charles Webb

Bryant Literary Review

Columbus didn't think, "I've discovered
America!" He was happy just to find dry land.

Poem For Humphrey Bogart, Herman Bush

Bryant Literary Review

You always said the world
was three drinks behind,

At The Post Office, Martha Christina

Bryant Literary Review

A blue tooth device
glows behind the ear

Heist, Rachael Colasanto

Bryant Literary Review

Your scent lingers on my pillow.
You've entered my space,
The place for my thoughts.

Lost Memory, Jane Stuart

Bryant Literary Review

You were--
you are--
a dream

She Feeds Me Now, Susan Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

I read cookbooks as if they were ancient texts,
the life of grandmother's grandmother translated

Cul-De-Sac, Dennis Saleh

Bryant Literary Review

The night at
the door is
torn and frayed

The Accident, Victoria Melekian

Bryant Literary Review

I pass the stone walls
of the bridge. Bouquets

Clown School In France, Lee Kisling

Bryant Literary Review

How do these two things fit together--
the rain falls on the just and the unjust, and yet

Plum Undone, Zach Manges

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

No abstract provided.

Hickory And White Paint, Emily Bounds

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

Sing Me Purple, Hannah Lawson

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

One Last Song, Liz Arnold

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

Little Red, Danyelle Pullens

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

The Classics, Blake Fields

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

The Ebb And Flow Of Sir Jacques Depluntaine, Courtney Cox

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.