Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Creative Writing Commons™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

2016

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 871 - 900 of 1932

Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing

Weekends Spent Watching Hgtv, Kelly Landers May 2016

Weekends Spent Watching Hgtv, Kelly Landers

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Happy//Over, Michal Zweig May 2016

Happy//Over, Michal Zweig

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Bildungsroman, Mary M. Spooner May 2016

Bildungsroman, Mary M. Spooner

Honors Theses

Bildungsroman is an original collection of poems exploring issues of womanhood, relationships, motherhood, and growth. The majority of poems in this collection are written in free verse; however, the collection also includes several formal poems. Bildungsroman is accompanied by a critical preface.


Expatriates Of "Good" Motherhood: Bearing Witness, Guilt, And Burdens Of Transgressive Motherhood, Kelsey Nicole Lueptow May 2016

Expatriates Of "Good" Motherhood: Bearing Witness, Guilt, And Burdens Of Transgressive Motherhood, Kelsey Nicole Lueptow

All NMU Master's Theses

To be an expatriate requires emotional stamina to withstand culture shock, loneliness, and self-doubt. To be an expatriate of “good” motherhood is no less shocking, no less lonely, and no less anxiety-inducing. This collection braids original creative pieces with critical inquiry into the roots of disorienting riptides of motherhood mythology. The creative pieces include flash nonfiction essays and poetry; the critical inquiry explores historical narratives, critical theory, feminist theory, and literary narratives. By braiding these different forms, the work aims to create a collage of cultural artifacts, whose composition can better illuminate the darkest corners of elusive motherhood mythology.


New Game+, Bobby Rich May 2016

New Game+, Bobby Rich

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This is a creative thesis composed of two components: 1) a critical introduction that contextualizes and supports the project of the second component, 2) a book manuscript of poetry. The project explores genre concerns of poetry by developing experimental prose poems that incorporate video game themes, language, and instructional writing. The project presents the interplay of the notions of control and failure to examine the borders between simulation (games) and reality (the world outside of games). The poems are constructed around the idea of designed failure, through which, the introduction argues, their status as poetry is inherently threatened, and they …


Elucubraciones Con Cicatrices Y Gritos, Exal Chong May 2016

Elucubraciones Con Cicatrices Y Gritos, Exal Chong

Theses and Dissertations

Este trabajo es una tesis de escritura creativa en poesía. A través de estos poemas, pretendo transmitir algunas experiencias durante ciertas etapas de mi vida. Mi niñez y los años que he dedicado a la docencia son los temas que tienen mayor protagonismo. Están aquí principalmente, aquellas vivencias que me han dejado cicatrices que aun puedo palpar. Son ellas el cuchillo que me ha esculpido, a fuerza de algunas lágrimas y muchas alegrías, el carácter y la fortaleza. Es la memoria que habita en mi dimensión más cercana, una voz interior que, como en sueños, no cesa en advertencias constantes, …


The Most Violent Season, Zach Manges May 2016

The Most Violent Season, Zach Manges

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

Zach Manges has made much of his time as an English Writing major at DePauw. He has worked in almost every genre - playwriting, fiction writing, and poetry - and he is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Midwestern Review. His work is distinguished by such lines as “We say we have two seasons here: winter/ and construction, where streets get/ facelifts until they can’t stop/ smiling.” When you read Zach’s poems you can tell he’s in love with words. He has developed as a writer as a magician might. As you read Zach’s work notice his sleight of hand.


La Lluvia, Amanda Volel May 2016

La Lluvia, Amanda Volel

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

I’ve had the pleasure of watching Amanda Volel continue to develop as a poet in her senior year. In one poem she writes, “Poetry is a cathedral I find myself in.'" In one sense she worships in the cathedral of poetry, yet in. another, she tears that “cathedral” down. By the end of that poem, poetry is reduced to a “box that opens [her] chest.” Her work moves across the landscape of New York City picking up what she finds both literally and linguistically. As you read her work, allow yourself to live inside her poems, whether you’re in a …


Material Matters, Thomas George Holmes May 2016

Material Matters, Thomas George Holmes

Dissertations

Material Matters is a collection of original poems written by Thomas G. Holmes, while a doctoral student at The University of Southern Mississippi. The poems explore the materiality of writing.


Ain't It Fun, Daniel Cleary May 2016

Ain't It Fun, Daniel Cleary

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

No abstract provided.


El Chupacabra, Cory Hall May 2016

El Chupacabra, Cory Hall

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

No abstract provided.


The Sixth Mistress, Joe Buckley May 2016

The Sixth Mistress, Joe Buckley

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

No abstract provided.


Drunk, Morgan Weller May 2016

Drunk, Morgan Weller

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

No abstract provided.


A Commonplace Book, Rebecca Kerns May 2016

A Commonplace Book, Rebecca Kerns

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

No abstract provided.


Inside, Meagan Khan May 2016

Inside, Meagan Khan

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

No abstract provided.


Parks And Recreation, Jacob Strauss May 2016

Parks And Recreation, Jacob Strauss

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

No abstract provided.


Tooth, Claire Hatton May 2016

Tooth, Claire Hatton

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

No abstract provided.


Whale Walls, Rachel Higson May 2016

Whale Walls, Rachel Higson

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

No abstract provided.


Cleaning The Silver, Zach Manges May 2016

Cleaning The Silver, Zach Manges

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

Zach Manges has made much of his time as an English Writing major at DePauw. He has worked in almost every genre - playwriting, fiction writing, and poetry - and he is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Midwestern Review. His work is distinguished by such lines as “We say we have two seasons here: winter/ and construction, where streets get/ facelifts until they can’t stop/ smiling.” When you read Zach’s poems you can tell he’s in love with words. He has developed as a writer as a magician might. As you read Zach’s work notice his sleight of hand.


Everyone Knows That Birds Are Great, Bristy Skiles May 2016

Everyone Knows That Birds Are Great, Bristy Skiles

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

No abstract provided.


Abajo De La Misma Luna, Amanda Volel May 2016

Abajo De La Misma Luna, Amanda Volel

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

I’ve had the pleasure of watching Amanda Volel continue to develop as a poet in her senior year. In one poem she writes, “Poetry is a cathedral I find myself in.'" In one sense she worships in the cathedral of poetry, yet in. another, she tears that “cathedral” down. By the end of that poem, poetry is reduced to a “box that opens [her] chest.” Her work moves across the landscape of New York City picking up what she finds both literally and linguistically. As you read her work, allow yourself to live inside her poems, whether you’re in a …


Cathedral, Amanda Volel May 2016

Cathedral, Amanda Volel

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

I’ve had the pleasure of watching Amanda Volel continue to develop as a poet in her senior year. In one poem she writes, “Poetry is a cathedral I find myself in.'" In one sense she worships in the cathedral of poetry, yet in. another, she tears that “cathedral” down. By the end of that poem, poetry is reduced to a “box that opens [her] chest.” Her work moves across the landscape of New York City picking up what she finds both literally and linguistically. As you read her work, allow yourself to live inside her poems, whether you’re in a …


Carmelite, Zach Manges May 2016

Carmelite, Zach Manges

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

Zach Manges has made much of his time as an English Writing major at DePauw. He has worked in almost every genre - playwriting, fiction writing, and poetry - and he is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Midwestern Review. His work is distinguished by such lines as “We say we have two seasons here: winter/ and construction, where streets get/ facelifts until they can’t stop/ smiling.” When you read Zach’s poems you can tell he’s in love with words. He has developed as a writer as a magician might. As you read Zach’s work notice his sleight of hand.


A Marriage Sewn Together, Marie E. Curran May 2016

A Marriage Sewn Together, Marie E. Curran

All NMU Master's Theses

A Marriage Sewn Together is a creative writing thesis in three parts. Forming the thesis is a collection of very short essays, A Startling Passage, a short story, “Perigee,” and a novella, This Is Not Our Revolution. The latter pieces are fictional and take place in rural settings. All three pieces include explorations of questions concerning birth, beginnings, “original sin,” land, and the tension of balancing personal relationships with political or community ideals. The works are rooted in realism, and sometimes tend toward the lyric. As indicated in the introduction, the three works in A Marriage Sewn Together …


Kingdom Come: Stories Of Modern Appalachia, A. Paige Frazier May 2016

Kingdom Come: Stories Of Modern Appalachia, A. Paige Frazier

All NMU Master's Theses

This thesis is collection of stories about several diverse residents of modern Appalachia, more specifically the rural mountains of Eastern Kentucky and Southern West Virginia.


The Trash Birder's Guide, Ashely Adams May 2016

The Trash Birder's Guide, Ashely Adams

All NMU Master's Theses

This collection of essays details the author’s experience with birds and the bird watching sub-culture. The author grapples with obsession, exploration, and human-animal relationships. Essays include the search for peregrine falcons and ‘u’aus, navigating “The Biggest Week in American Birding,” and tending to owls and geese at a bird sanctuary. In addition, the essays seek to use the langue and images of birding to create an interconnected narrative that not only illuminates the birding sub-culture, but also the world of a transient young birder.


Check The Box Marked Other: Exploring Gender In Family Life, Serenity E. Dougherty May 2016

Check The Box Marked Other: Exploring Gender In Family Life, Serenity E. Dougherty

All NMU Master's Theses

The concept of a traditional family structure has been fading over the last 50 years and with this decline the notion of responsibilities being determined by gender is also losing ground, though it still has a long way to go. This short story collection works to continue to normalize the increasing variety of family structures, especially variety that has its roots in new notions of gender challenging old conventions. The stories are all set in Nebraska, an ideal landscape for exploring tradition versus modernity. Though there are major cities in NE, most of the state is composed of smaller rural …


Remain, Johanna M. Hardy May 2016

Remain, Johanna M. Hardy

All NMU Master's Theses

After completing her own grief counseling group, Gennie Maxwell becomes the leader of a grief group for young adults. Six people are left to her charge in the face of the loss of a loved one. Gennie, still grappling with her own grief, leads the way through each week’s group session, and the people within the group begin to find support and growth in their time within the group. As each member finds a place amongst the others, they unfold a stories of their individual struggles with being left behind when someone they love dies. As the weeks progress, grief …


The Fire In The Firefly: The Unspoken (Speaks), Ania S. Payne May 2016

The Fire In The Firefly: The Unspoken (Speaks), Ania S. Payne

All NMU Master's Theses

This collection of nonfiction essays explores life and the way that we, as animals—humans, mammals, insects—engage the world that we all share together, both from a personal perspective and from a distant, 3rd person perspective. Some of these essays dabble in memoir, wherein I closely examine the intricacies of the relationships between my family members, neighbors, and friends. Other essays are driven by research and my relentless curiosity about the world around me—what goes on in the mind of the earthworm or chigger, the science of fear and the inevitability of death that surrounds us all. This collective narrative …


The Rule Of Contraction: A Manuscript Of Sequential Prose Poems With An Introduction, Bonné A. De Blas May 2016

The Rule Of Contraction: A Manuscript Of Sequential Prose Poems With An Introduction, Bonné A. De Blas

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The prose poem is a hybrid form firmly rooted in 19th century French literary tradition, and later adopted by British and American poets. Questions as to genre arise when critically assessing possible formulaic divisions demonstrated by various techniques and tropes within fiction and poetry. The creative portion of this thesis consists of the complete manuscript of sequential prose poems constituting Bonné A. de Blas’s chapbook, The Rule of Contraction. The introductory essay discusses the history of the modern prose poem, as well as the questions of genre surrounding its form, and describes the influences of the New Prose Poem and …