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Stars Pay Back The Dark, Noel Conneely

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 36

Thematics Of Dirt, Cal Freeman

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 49

Complaint Of The Cubicle Jockey, Charles Jensen

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 75-76

Baltimore Mist, Dave Smith

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 122

Lights And Shadows - 2012, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Pathos, Winter 2012, Portland State University. Student Publications Board

Pathos

Editor: Joel Eisenhower

Issue 17

Experimenting With The Future: Born Magazine, Multimedia, And The French Avant-Garde, Anmarie Trimble, Jennifer Grotz

University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Born is an experimental online magazine that brings together writers and "new media" designers and artists, who have collaborated to create multimedia interpretations of poetry (and more rarely, short prose). As editors of one of the earliest, enduring literary publications on the Web, we often receive invitations to share our “vision” of Web poetics, literary multimedia, et cetera. This presents a problem—Born evolved without consciously intending to even focus on poetry (only our current incarnation), but rather with an intent to be a creative, collaborative community. As such our work and vision are shaped as much by the interests of …

La Llorona, Steven Byrd

Society, Culture and Languages Faculty Publications

Miguel, a peasant, journeys to Pueblo Santa Cruz for food, redemption, and a couple of cervezas at the Cantina de los Remedios. While at the Cantina, he becomes fascinated by an old guitar, La llorona, hanging upon the wall. The Cantina's owner, Pedrito, tells him of its origins, and the man who played it -- Rodrigo, perhaps the greatest singer-songwriter to have hailed from Pueblo Santa Cruz, but who mysteriously disappeared following a fateful love affair, leaving La llorona behind.

Outings In The Queer South: Representations Of Male Homosexuality In The Short Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Ramona Wanlass

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates Welty's four short story collections and treats the stories as separate entities that are intimately connected to each other by a theme that evolves over and yet transcends the forty odd years that seem to separate them--namely Welty's theme of male homosexual desire. I will examine Welty's story collections using a theoretical framework that incorporates a history of homosexuality in the South and investigates such themes as travel, identity, reactions to heterosexual coupling, and traces Welty's own experiences through the experiences of her fictional male characters. Welty's work spans several decades but in a discussion of her …

The Princess On Route 4b, Maya Van Wagenen

Statesboro, The Write Place (2012)

No abstract provided.

In The Course Of A Day, Maya Van Wagenen

Statesboro, The Write Place (2012)

No abstract provided.

Wild & Wonderful: A Collection Of Stories, Thomas Bennitt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My thesis is a collection of literary short stories, many of which spring from my life experiences: people I've known, places I lived, jobs I worked, or subjects I have researched. Some stories are more "realistic," where landscape and geography—often West Virginia, or my native Pennsylvania—is an essential part of the narrative. Other stories are more experimental, blending realism with other styles like satire, metafiction, and historical fiction. Yet the narrators in these stories share a comtrait: they are somehow isolated, alienated, or marginalized. Some are physically confined—a lobsterman who works alone on his boat, coal miners working underground, office …

Warm Enough To Undress, Rachel Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Warm Enough to Undress is a collection of six stories that trace pathways and barriers to intimacy in a modern, global world. The characters in these stories are saturated with proximity and access to others—through phone, web, and travel—yet they struggle to participate fully in their closest relationships. A woman discovers her childhood friend is gravely ill; a mother's visit to see her son is marked by deception; a secret affair begins to dissolve. These stories are about disappointments and triumphs in love, affinity, and desire.

The Black Gum Well, Carolyn Ruth Pennington

Online Theses and Dissertations

The writing of the novel as a creative thesis in American literature was a special project approved by the English department of Eastern Kentucky University. Beyond the university's departmental requirements in the course of study for a a Master of English in American literature, I did an independent study of creative writing texts recommended by the creative writing department at Easter Kentucky University. I attended three summer workshops at the Hindman Settlement School Writer's Workshop, Hindman, Kentucky, with classes under professors/authors Robert Morgan, Gurney Norman, Lee Smith and other noted others. My undergraduate study of the English novel and my …

Achilles At The Trojan War, Kelsey Plageman

Calliope

No abstract provided.

The Dream Scheme, Erin Saito

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Ausencia: A Novella, Sarah Mintz

English Honors Projects

This honors thesis is an extended work of fiction that explores the effects of trauma on two generations of Argentine Jews. When Daniel Susterman is kidnapped by the government in 1970s Buenos Aires, his wife Marcela tries desperately to find him and bring him home safely. In the US nearly 40 years later, 14 year-old Nico begins to question what prompted his parents' feud with his grandmother, challenging their policy of silence about the past. Through alternating storylines, Ausencia explores the concepts of loss and family secrets band begs the question: are some memories better left buried?

Quattor Horae, Joseph Fleming

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Park Avenue, Sasha Strelitz

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Silvia Atra, Joseph Fleming

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

The Meadow Of Simple, Katherine Mcinerney

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Come, Darkness Triumphant!, Joe Cirino

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Lords And Gods Of Light And Thunder, Ari Deutsch

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Your Perception Is Lying, Victoria Rajkumar

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

The Control Room, Grace Cox

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Here I Am!, Hanadi Azaiza

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Sir Cosmos, Tyler Conti

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

We Never Met, Rosa Benitez

Digressions: Literary & Art Journal

No abstract provided.

Crafting Characters: How To Write Characters From A Beginning Writer's Perspective, Brittany Michelle Betzer

Honors Program Theses

I will use examples from two of my short stories, “Maple Street” and “Sunday Mail,” to explain certain elements that go into writing characters. I will also be using the craft books Ron Carlson Writes a Story by Ron Carlson, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft by Janet Burroway and Elizabeth Stuckey-French, The Art of Fiction by John Gardner, and Burning Down the House by Charles Baxter. Some of these are books were used as textbooks in my classrooms or are books recommended by my professors to serve as tools for writing my stories. This is the collection of …

Cover Yourself, אשׁה; To The Wailing Wall // Cafeteria, Or The Sixth Grade Classroom, Yael Massen

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.