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I Will Still Visit, Dominika Wrozynski

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 153

Cross The Line: Ventures Of A Collegiate Student-Athlete, Jolynne Denman

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Preparing Dinner, Holly Virginia Clark

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 60-61

Dancing Fire, Helena Alfajora

Canterbury Scholars

My creative process is like the Hero’s Journey. Wrought with “the call to action,” I felt a call from these pieces to bring them into our material world—the ideas, the moods, the colors wanting to translate from my mind through my hand and now, into this room. Through all the musings of our daily lives, these pieces came to be through different mediums with different mentors and different mindsets. The one constant throughout was my content, my inspiration, my grounding—the Hawaiian goddess, Pele.

Her form takes place in art, dance, written words, life, nature, my family, those around me. In …

Blade, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz was awarded the University of Cincinnati Graduate Poetry Prize in 2016 and appeared on the official website of the Academy of American Poets.

La Llorona At The Saloon, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Aster(ix).

Cazar Means To Hunt Not To Marry, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in December.

On Being Called Jorge, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Indianola Review.

Freckles, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Indianola Review.

Alien, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Crab Creek Review.

El Rio, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Crab Creek Review. “El Rio” comes from trying to move beyond predictable tropes about border crossing and work out how the river makes itself known, through dreams as well as everyday occurrences of profiling, and unignorable.

Cornflower, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Leave, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Midnight, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

The Music Inside, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Night Sky Manifesto, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

The Story Of Eyes, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Story Of The Salt Doll, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Distinguished Poet José Angel Araguz: The Interview, José Angel Araguz, A. Molotkov, John Sibley Williams

Faculty Publications

This interview with poet José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

"A Bastard Jargon”: Language Politics And Identity In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Rachel Norman

Faculty Publications

This essay explores Junot Díaz's only full-length novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, through the theoretical lens of sociolinguistics and examines the ways in which Díaz has attempted to overcome the publishing industry's complicity in maintaining the nation's ethnocentric expectations in regards to English as the only acceptable language of publication. By introducing the work of several sociolinguists into the discussion, examining the use of African American Vernacular and “nerdish” alongside the Spanish, and reviewing Díaz’s relationship with his editors, I provide a more nuanced reading of the ubiquitous code-switching throughout Oscar Wao and suggest that beyond …

Book Review: Between 2 Gods: Memoir Of Abuse In The Mennonite Community, Melanie Springer Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "Metzger’s journey toward this epiphany is a difficult one, and she does not attempt to mollify readers by avoiding distressing details. This is a definite strength in Between 2 Gods. Rather than offer us a pleasant story of healing and redemption alone, Metzger names the many abuses she experienced at the hands of those who should love and protect her, including family members and church leaders. One point made both implicitly in Between 2 Gods, and explicitly by its publication, is exactly this: that people need to acknowledge their abuses for there to be healing; and that stories about …

The Moment Of Blue Skies, Golden Eyes, And A Rolling Green Valley, Andrew C. Nosti

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Disorganized Speech, Pamela J. Thompson

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

Corresponding Voices

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Fuzzy Logic, Brandon Courtney

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 62

The Dead, Debora Greger

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 90-91

Temple, Alexis Levitan, Salgado Maranhāo

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 108

The One Who Howls, Alexis Levitan, Salgado Maranhāo

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 109-110

Emma Darwin At Fifteen, Laura Lee Beasley

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 51

The Censor Works At Home In The Evening, Corey Marks

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 115-117