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The Sleepless Ouroboros, Grant Bohl Jan 2017

The Sleepless Ouroboros, Grant Bohl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The poems in The Sleepless Ouroboros are about the obsessions which come to define a person. These obsessions are memories, dreams, objects or ideas that cannot be separated from the whole. Poems such as "Thinking of Big Moe" and "It Begins with a Fox" grapple with the limitations of memory, while poems such as "The Python" and "Heirloom" counterpoint memory's weakness with the supposed permanence of physical artifacts. Depression and anger, the anxieties of identity and displacement, and representations of the people and animals that leave lasting impact on a life are all addressed as vital components of the completed …


When Our Cities Hollowed, Hana Al-Harastani Jan 2017

When Our Cities Hollowed, Hana Al-Harastani

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

When Our Cities Hollowed is an interrelated collection of short fiction that follows an extended family's everyday lives before and during the Syrian Civil War. In efforts to combat current media narratives regarding Syrians, this collection presents a complex counter-narrative, following characters of a typical Sunni Muslim, middle-class family, some of whom support the government, others of whom support the opposition. War, in these stories, is a looming shadow, often acting as a catalyst to many of the characters' conclusions about love, family, and what it means to be alive.


Heavy Hit Me, Shauna Basques Jan 2017

Heavy Hit Me, Shauna Basques

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Heavy Hit Me is a memoir series linking obesity to sexual desire and its corresponding fear, linking fantasy to the lived loneliness of a girl too distrusting of her own body and attractions to live outside her own head. Told through essay, found letters, and shifting points of view, Heavy Hit Me explores the breadth of its protagonist's chosen isolation. It shows how the many itches of insecurity craft a young woman never challenged to really know and love herself—until now.


Blood Moon, Brendan Stephens Jan 2017

Blood Moon, Brendan Stephens

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Blood Moon is a collection of short stories that explore friendship, addiction, and punk subculture. Centered around a hardcore band called Dead Phoenix, the three members—Eliot, Noah, and Josh—go on tour, live in a punk house, and plunge headfirst into opioid addiction. The stories explore their lives before they played together in the band, while touring with the band, and after the band's controversial breakup. These stories attempt to show that music, identity, and temporary bonds forever alter the trajectory of a person's life.


(In)Tangible Things, Ryan Skaryd Jan 2017

(In)Tangible Things, Ryan Skaryd

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

(In)Tangible Things is a collection of memoir essays and poems that examines loss, pain, and identity. Many pieces explore familial ties through separation, secrecy, and divorce, while other stories and poems observe the author's connection to drag culture, sexuality, eating disorders, and time itself. Using techniques such as framing devices, backwards storytelling, and delineated narrative, the author invites the reader to experience memories and moments from his past that show consistency and change, betrayal and forgiveness.


Association Of Sex Drive, Gender, And Infidelity In Romantic Relationships, Mari Eik Jan 2017

Association Of Sex Drive, Gender, And Infidelity In Romantic Relationships, Mari Eik

The Cosenza Prize for Undergraduate Writing: Winning Papers

This study examined the association between sex drive and infidelity based on gender differences. All participants had either been in a serious relationship in the past, or were currently in one. The sample was compromised of students from a Northeastern university in America (N=60). Those who reported having a high sex drive were more likely to engage in infidelity. However, there were only partial statistically significant results for men being more unfaithful than women. Infidelity was examined using two measures, Perception of Dating Infidelity Scale (Wilson, Mattingly, Clark, Weidler & Bequette, 2011) with no statistically significant gender difference, and a …


3rd Place Essay - Engl 1000 Literacy Autobiography Contest - 2017, Lisa Palicki Jan 2017

3rd Place Essay - Engl 1000 Literacy Autobiography Contest - 2017, Lisa Palicki

ENGL 1000 Writing Studies 1 Autobiography Contest

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Honorable Mention - Engl 1000 Literacy Autobiography Contest - 2017, Cameron Andriano Jan 2017

Honorable Mention - Engl 1000 Literacy Autobiography Contest - 2017, Cameron Andriano

ENGL 1000 Writing Studies 1 Autobiography Contest

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1st Place Essay - Engl 1000 Literacy Autobiography Contest 2017, Danuta Chlebek Jan 2017

1st Place Essay - Engl 1000 Literacy Autobiography Contest 2017, Danuta Chlebek

ENGL 1000 Writing Studies 1 Autobiography Contest

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2nd Place Essay - Engl 100 Literacy Autobiography Contest - 2017, Myiesha Boyce Jan 2017

2nd Place Essay - Engl 100 Literacy Autobiography Contest - 2017, Myiesha Boyce

ENGL 1000 Writing Studies 1 Autobiography Contest

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Honorable Mention - Engl 1000 Literacy Autobiography Contest - 2017, Sarah Shoaf Jan 2017

Honorable Mention - Engl 1000 Literacy Autobiography Contest - 2017, Sarah Shoaf

ENGL 1000 Writing Studies 1 Autobiography Contest

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Inscape 2017, Morehead State University. Jan 2017

Inscape 2017, Morehead State University.

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The 2017 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.


Tropos Literary Magazine, 2016-2017, Lawrence University Jan 2017

Tropos Literary Magazine, 2016-2017, Lawrence University

Tropos

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Sequoya Review, University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga Jan 2017

Sequoya Review, University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga

Sequoya Review

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Bad Things To Good People: Stories, Christopher Ryne Brewer Jan 2017

Bad Things To Good People: Stories, Christopher Ryne Brewer

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Bad Things to Good People: Stories is a brief collection of five fictional short stories. As the collection’s title, which also serves as a bookending table of contents, indicates, these stories focus on the wide-ranging idea of bad things happening to good people. Written mostly in the literary style of minimalism, these stories explore various themes which circulate around topics such as: relationships, both familial and romantic, grieving losses, and a basic human need to make meaning of the sometimes-troubling events in one’s life. In the introduction to this collection, the stories offered here are compared alongside the works of …


Volume 49 (2017), C.V. Davis Jan 2017

Volume 49 (2017), C.V. Davis

The Broad River Review

The 2017 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by C. V. Davis. The publication contains fiction, non-fiction, art, poetry, and photography. The cover, "Autumn is Calling," was photographed by Ashley Koch. The winner of the J. Calvin Koontz Poetry Award, given annually for a portfolio of poetry to a senior English major, is Elizabeth Erhartic. The Broad River Review Editor's Prize in Poetry is chosen among all submissions from Gardner-Webb University students. The winner of the poetry award is Ilari Pass for the poem titled, "Death Sentence at Birth." The Rash Awards, named in honor of Ron Rash, …


Catalpa, University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga Jan 2017

Catalpa, University Of Tennessee At Chattanooga

Catalpa

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The Bastard, Tommy Hart Jan 2017

The Bastard, Tommy Hart

HUMBUG

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Remember The Roses, Katherine M. Carithers Jan 2017

Remember The Roses, Katherine M. Carithers

HUMBUG

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Epilogue: The Smell Of Flowers, Tommy Hart Jan 2017

Epilogue: The Smell Of Flowers, Tommy Hart

HUMBUG

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Cheyenne, Tommy Hart Jan 2017

Cheyenne, Tommy Hart

HUMBUG

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Hope, Kylee J. Sibilia Jan 2017

Hope, Kylee J. Sibilia

HUMBUG

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Trapped, Anne Mitchell Jan 2017

Trapped, Anne Mitchell

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

This villanelle describes the feeling of being trapped in a body that does not feel like your own; the repetition of the form embodies the haunting thoughts of mental illness or other paralyzing fear.


Bendiciones, Lydia M. Lara Jan 2017

Bendiciones, Lydia M. Lara

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

A poem embodying the simple yet powerful gesture of the bendicion. For many latinxs this gesture commonly occurs between older family members to younger family members as farewell, prayer, and blessings to protect the younger individual on their journies through life. The gesture of the blessing is a meaningful and deeply rooted action that carries the blessings of the ancestors who have come before us and endured colonization, dictatorship, and civil war and spiritually drives their children and children's children to fight for better in the modern day Latina/Chicana struggle. We are our ancestors wildest dreams.


When You Become A Mine Instead Of A Field, Alyssa Froehling Jan 2017

When You Become A Mine Instead Of A Field, Alyssa Froehling

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

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Because You Are Beautiful And Dead, Yvonne Amey Jan 2017

Because You Are Beautiful And Dead, Yvonne Amey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The poems in Because You Are Beautiful and Dead deal with dysfunctional people, substance abuse, loss, and death and dying. The poems also highlight the struggle of the poet/speaker finding her place in a hideous world, which, paradoxically, she really doesn't want to belong. The poems are influenced by the playful and sad imagery and subject matter of poet Matthew Dickman. These poems, like Dickman's, are assessable and quirky. Michael Earl Craig and Terrance Hayes are two other influences. Hayes' work is artistic and experimental. Michael Earl Craig's poems have a brilliance that isn't fueled in its complex or radical …


Cover, Title Page, Staff List, Contents Jan 2017

Cover, Title Page, Staff List, Contents

CutBank

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The Wedding March, Juliana Gray Jan 2017

The Wedding March, Juliana Gray

CutBank

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Chorus Easily Hummed, Rachel Morgan Jan 2017

Chorus Easily Hummed, Rachel Morgan

CutBank

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At The Dog Park, Derek Updegraff Jan 2017

At The Dog Park, Derek Updegraff

CutBank

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