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Remembering A Cool September, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

This ethnographic short story chronicles the author’s emotional journey following September 11, 2001. After weeks of disconnection, she encounters a display of patriotism by two gay male friends, provoking her to process what it means to be both patriotic and gay in contemporary U.S. culture.

Bury My Heart At Badger Creek, Lanada Peppers

The Oval

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Sometimes It's A Good Day To Be Indigenous, Antonio Torres

The Oval

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Oxuricide, Isaac Birchmier

The Oval

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Only Cheap Time, Elizabeth Mays

The Oval

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Quartered Hen, Eli Redeker

The Oval

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Barbie Girl, Madison Hinrichs

The Oval

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Into The Fog, Courtney Cathers

The Oval

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Arbroath, Erika Tibbetts

The Oval

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Father's Blessing: Ethnographic Drama, Poetry, And Prose, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

Following interpretivist traditions focusing on how individuals make sense of and make meaning from their lived experience, the author, a heterosexual woman, travels with a gay male friend/participant to visit his estranged father, a retired Air Force pilot and elder in the Mormon Church. The work attempts to show the dialogic construction, negotiation, and transformation of identities and relationships.

The Olive Higgins Prouty Papers, Olive Higgins Prouty

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Olive Higgins was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1882. She received a Bachelor in Literature degree from Smith College in 1904 and married Lewis Prouty in 1907. Her professional writing career began with encouragement from Albert Boyden, editor of American Magazine. He published When Elsie Came Home in 1909. Her two most famous novels, Stella Dallas and Now, Voyager, were published in 1922 and 1941. Both novels were adapted into movies. Prouty died in 1974.

The Papers consist of correspondence between Prouty and her husband and to various family members. Also included are manuscripts of her …

The Stanley Kunitz-Stockmal Collection, Stanley J. Kunitz, Greg Stockmal, Carol Stockmal

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Stanley Kunitz was born in Worcester in 1905 and shortly after college moved away. Beginning in the 1960s, he returned to give poetry readings and to receive honors. Kunitz searched unsuccessfully for his boyhood home on Woodford Street. Then, in 1985, he came to Worcester for the week-long Stanley Kunitz Poetry Festival in honor of his 80th birthday and on the last day of the festival, Kunitz decided to try once more to find the house on Woodford Street. Greg and Carol Stockmal, who had bought the house in 1979, found Kunitz and his entourage standing in front of their …

The Milton Lehman Papers, Milton Lehman

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Milton Lehman (1917-1966) was a free-lance writer, contributing about 250 articles to national magazines such as Saturday Evening Post, Life, Reader’s Digest, McCall’s, Look, The York Times, and other periodicals, books and newspapers. He wrote a biography of Robert H. Goddard that was published in 1963. He was helped throughout the seven year writing process by Esther C. Goddard, Goddard’s wife, who supplied him with transcripts of Goddard’s notes, notebooks, diaries, reports and correspondence and with photographs of his work as well as her own recollections. Lehman interviewed people from all parts of Goddard’s life; his childhood, schooling, early Clark …

The Leah And Samuel Levenson Papers, Leah Levenson, Samuel Levenson

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Samuel Levenson was a Worcester native who received his A.B. from Clark University in 1930 and his A.M. in 1936. He was a journalist and both he and his wife, Leah, were authors of biographies. Samuel died in 1977 and Leah in 2000 and Leah left their papers and library without restriction to Clark University in her will. Appropriate books were incorporated into the Goddard Library circulating collection. The books written by the Levensons were primarily biographies of Irish men and women. The papers include transcriptions and tapes of interviews made in the course of the Levensons’ researches, photographs of …

Trainsong, Geri Doran

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 61-62

Stairmaster, Parneshia Jones

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 81

Sex Dreams With Two Boxes, Terri Witek

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 159

Split / Small Porcelain Head / The Tulip Flame, Michelle Chan Brown

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 166-170

"Not I!": Strategies Of Post-Millennial Confessionalistic Poetry, Charlotte Pence

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

With the technological ability and pop-cultural fascination to record private moments and distribute them, poetry that reveals personal details and conflates the identity between speaker and author must feel the effects of what could be viewed as an over-saturation of the confessional—which was during the 1950s and 1960s with Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath a political, rebellious act. It is far from that now. In this Kim Kardashian era, revealing sex tapes are used as marketing tools to launch careers whereas once they destroyed careers. Considering the hyper-confessional climate of our era and that “Confessional” is something of …

A Few Lines From The Library, Joel Brouwer

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 41-42

Augustine Chanting, Daniel Corrie

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 57

Splitting The Lark, Lesley Jenike

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 79-80

Split, Michelle Chan Brown

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 171-172

Mystery, Julia Battisti

The Oval

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Vibrant Domain Of Atoms, Kris Price

The Oval

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Re: Generation, Colter Murphy

The Oval

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October 21, 2005, Michael Melugin

The Oval

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Fallen, Stacia Hill

The Oval

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How Strange, Innocence, Clare Menahan

The Oval

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An Old Cat, Stacia Hill

The Oval

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