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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 The latter is a book-length excerpt from an epic poem/crime novel/Menippean satire/television show/Dada collage/historical document/vatic investigation that comes in 20 page sections that are supposed to approximate the 42 minutes of an average crime show.

Lungs, Lara Elmayan

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Raising Sasquatch, Trisha M. Cowen

Gandy Dancer Archives

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February Burning, Stephon Lawrence

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Effigy, Meaghan Castle

Gandy Dancer Archives

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

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Ersatz Umbrella, Jeff Handy

Gandy Dancer Archives

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

Gandy Dancer Archives

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The Bone Oracle—The Introvert, James Ryan

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Ossified Scaffold // Triptych Of Phase Change, Bibi Lewis

Gandy Dancer Archives

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The Perils Of Hilda, Elizabeth Sackett

Gandy Dancer Archives

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There Isn't A Word, John Allan Chapman

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Letters To Home, Kate Jordhamo

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Pretty In Blue, Christina Mortellaro

Gandy Dancer Archives

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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, …

Not Shut In By Any Fence, Anna Bullock Brown

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

From their beginning in the mid-l 800s, zoos ( or zoological gardens as they were first known) were meant for both research and education. They offered viewers the opportunity to see animals that they otherwise would never have seen. These animals were kept in cages to protect the zoo-goers. The history of zoos demonstrates a conflicting desire between our human need to connect with animals as well as our fear (literal and metaphoric) of what that connection might mean. Informing this creative project are three main areas of research: primary research in the form of interview, place-based research conducted at …

All-Nighter 2013, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

All Student Newspapers

All-Nighter was a digital student publication that began in 2011 as all-nighter.com. The Spring 2013 issue is the only known print issue. It contains writing previously published online as well as new content. Highlights include photographs from Senior Open Studios; articles on the Quad mosaics, community gathering spaces, the timing of Thanksgiving break, Saturday night dinner parties in Ewing House, dining employees around campus, how Mike Fink saved Carr House, and the trouble with summer subletting; as well as comics by Maddy Trower, Jackie Ferrentino, and Casey Roonan.

I Believe In My System, Guy Choate

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Strange Little Vehicles, Andrew Merecicky

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

It isn't an exploration in or an experiment regarding. It is a praxis, as a commute is the opposite of an adventure. As le chat regarde le poisson. As when one looks at anything, it becomes strange. That is, a thing (a thought, a feeling, Gertrude Stein's "piece of coffee") once considered becomes little and different. It is the world that is large and alike. It is ultimately the similarity, the recognition of which we, who feel small and unique in the grand scheme, find terrifying. Language is always, as Lyn Hejinian wrote, social; it is a vehicle.

As I …

Samsara, Erica Anzalone

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In Samsara, I bring a spiritual-historical lens to art, war, feminism, religion, and the body in extremis. Although the word samsara resonates mostly within the Hindu and Buddhist faiths, meaning literally to wander through the rounds of death and rebirth, my poetics of transience and trauma crosses cultures, including Muslim, Christian, and Judaic notions of spirituality. Bosnia, Iowa, Boston, and Prague are all shifting sands within the mandala-like hourglass of this collection. My voice often issues from a working class register and speaks with rebellious power from a place of powerlessness: "E-bay nirvana, you want me to yes sir/I'll get …

Mossy Bottom Golf And Hunt Club, Andrew Joseph Albertson

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This is the story of Greg Goforth and Rick Hale, the owner and director of golf, respectively, of the Mossy Bottom Golf and Hunt Club. Greg and Rick work together through many comic mishaps in attempt to bring the 2015 U.S. Open to Mossy Bottom, Mississippi.

Dogwood Thoughts, Grayson Pitts

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

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For Monique, Carianna Arredondo

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

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Herring Bay, Maryland, Storm Strader

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

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The Home-Wrecker, Jim Easterhouse

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

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Intrinsic, Storm Strader

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

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Paranoia In 1967, Nicky Chokran

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

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

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

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Online Discovery, Amanda Feller

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

2013 Paul Query Prize in Poetry