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Nursing Home // Mobile // Wallball, Joshua Keller

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A Solitary Zebra Is Helpless Prey, Brandon Rumaker

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Holes And Patches, Meghan Kearns

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Broken Bucket Wisdom, Stephanie Nawrocki

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In Jackson Heights, My Father Outsmarted Puberty // Golem In The Backseat Of Our Parents' Blue Station Wagon, Bibi Lewis

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Silence, I Discover, Is Something You Can Actually Hear, Anna Kushnir

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Grandfather's Clams Carved In The Spring, Madeline Herrick

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Recording, Day: Hour: Minute // Seismic Fragmenting, Sarah Corcoran

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I Gave My Uncle Seashells For Ashtrays // Take A Lover Who Looks At You Like Maybe You Are Magic, Joseph O'Connor

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Amuse-Bouche, Stephon Lawrence

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Supply Ice To Swelling, Megan Nolan

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Retrospective Writing, Melissa B. Cavaliero

Senior Honors Projects

The past four years I have devoted my studies to science and mathematics. While I have loved studying these subjects, I wanted to take the opportunity of the Senior Honors Project to explore a different field. I chose the field of writing. Being able to tell a story is one thing, but being able to tell a story well and in writing is another. The focus of my project is retrospective writing. The six written essays will be from the age of five when I entered first grade through my college years. A series of pictures will correlate with each …

The Sand In The Glass: A Journey Through The Writing Process, Cory Wentworth

Senior Honors Projects

“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right.”

—William Faulkner on writing

Storytelling is one of the oldest traditions and forms of entertainment in the history of the human race. Whether through oral storytelling, wall paintings, or the written word, storytelling may be as old as language itself. I yearn to be a part of this history and to have my …

Embouchure, Zachery Gardner

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a representative sample of the poetry I have written in the last four years. It demonstrates a variety of formal techniques and procedures. Some recurring themes and preoccupations include mysticism, birding, and early blues music.

Cascadia Don't Fall Apart, John Lewis Englehardt

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This short story collection explores the tenuousness of relationships--both romantic and familial--against the backdrop of Washington State's regional identity. These stories feature tsunami debris washing up on the peninsula, a biologist combating wetland violations in Olympia, a funerary artist in Seattle, young lovers attempting to be sexually explorative, a young man so befuddled by college graduation that he joins the infantry, and an adult son attempting to comfort his sick father.

Shape-Note Singing, Traci Rae Letellier

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Shape-Note Singing is a collection of poems about what is loved, lost, and being lost. Placed in the landscape of the Ozark foothills in the northwest corner of the state of Arkansas, the collection explores the poet’s connection to kin, land, and lore. Shape-Note Singing is the story of plain-spoken folks of simple origins telling the truth as they see it and as best they know how.