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Riding To Devil’S Kitchen, Donna L. Emerson

Westview

I ride Moose today,

A Nice Boy, Austin Watford

Westview

Across the street lives a very nice boy with brown eyes like muddied brick and teeth like tiny fence posts.

Asylum, Lauro Palomba

Westview

The Hospital for Idiots and Imbeciles

Gazebo In The Park, Dennis Ross

Westview

Walnut shells are centered

Drought, Richard Luftig

Westview

Out in the back of farms,

Last Day, Richard Dinges Jr.

Westview

Gray hair and bald

Polybius, Katelin Branham

Best Integrated Writing

This story brought me back to my video-game days—the roll of the joystick in my twelve-year-old palm, the smell of adolescent sweat, and the dizzying belief the game was out to get me. Now I’m wondering if that might have been true. Branham’s story delves deep into its main character’s consciousness to extract complicated questions about competition and friendship, the relationship between humans and technology, and the chilling question of what it means to be alive. Branham trusts her readers to keep up and crack the codes of the story, and what we’re rewarded with is both a wild fantasy …

Intolerancia En Tiempos De Crisis: Hacia Una Literatura Transgresora En El Sitio De Los Sitios De Juan Goytisolo, Oscar Ivan Useche

Modern Languages Faculty Publications

Este artículo propone entender la novela de Goytisolo como una respuesta cultural a la crisis de los modelos de racionalidad occidental. Se estudian las dinámicas de descomposición social de la globalización y la aparición dentro de este contexto de figuras marginales que buscan recuperar su capacidad transgresora mediante la reconquista del cuerpo y la apropiación del espacio urbano. Al trasladar al plano textual el memoricidio y la limpieza étnica como expresiones negativas de la modernidad, Goytisolo problematiza el papel del lector, del autor y de la novela como elementos esenciales en la representación literaria de la realidad.

This paper proposes …

Commune And Cult, Rachel Williamson

Student Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an exploration of the authors life through the genre of creative nonfiction. The first section deals largely with the authors childhood and the impacts of being born on a commune and the lasting relationship made there. Through the power of narration, the second section seeks to show how the author’s childhood affected her adult relationships and the ways in which her autonomy has been threatened and reclaimed. This thesis further deals with themes of bisexual relationships, the threat of indoctrination, and the struggle for selfhood.

I'D Write The Sea Like A Parlour Game By Alison Dyer, Yvonne E. Blomer

The Goose

Review of Alison Dyer's I’d Write the Sea Like a Parlour Game.

Yardwork: A Biography Of An Urban Place By Daniel Coleman, Vivian M. Hansen

The Goose

Review of Daniel Coleman's Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place.

Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-To-The-Land Life By Dianna Hunter And The New Farm: Our Ten Years On The Front Lines Of The Good Food Revolution By Brent Preston, Kristin Van Tassel

The Goose

Review of Dianna Hunter's Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life and Brent Preston's The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution.

Tar Swan By David Martin, Melanie Dennis Unrau

The Goose

Review of David Martin's Tar Swan.

August 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Kiddush Levana; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Community Notices

My Only Protection (Creative Work), Morgan Lewis

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Fictionalized memoir: a young woman working as a lifeguard in adolescence muses on sunscreen as her only protection in a world that sexualizes her body.

Dragonflies (Poetry), Chloe Jensen

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

No abstract provided.

Hallow Hallow (Poetry), Anna Salvania

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Poetry; experience of racism growing up

The Language Of Love (Memoir Fiction), Sarah Justine Skriloff

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Fiction/memoir of a young woman's encounter with her mother over body weight issues.

Amjambo Africa! (August 2018), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

Rwanda Bean Coffee ............ Page 7

Congolese Celebration..........Page 8

Cape Verde Celebration........Page 9

South Sudanese Celebration Page 10

Service Listings - Cut Out & Keep! .....................................Page 13/14

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

The Lessons Of Charity Lamb, Melia Hannigan-Luther

The Case of Charity Lamb (2018)

This poem inspired by the case of Charity Lamb is stylistically based on Jamaica Kincaid’s poem “Girl.”

Antología De La Clase, Britton W. Newman

Student Scholarship

Creative Writing in Spanish

Spanish 441

Ensayos

Orlando Barrientos “El primer día”

Mariana Carreño “Cambio de escena”

Lydia Estes “La oficina 2.0”

“Y voy a llamarla Layla”

Erica Fulton “Casados de Costa Rica”

Mary Burgess Harrelson “La vida corta”

Bijonae Jones “Palabras alemanas”

Brooke Leftwich “Una cosa del sur”

Crystal Rivers “¿Dónde estoy?

Sarah Spiro “Una historia escuchada”

“Una parroquiana”

Eric Stanley “Viaje solo a Nueva York”

“Un sabor americano en una casa española”

Holly Stevens “Encontrar mi lugar con una cebolla”

Relatos

Phyllicia Colvin-Panton “Capítulos”

Helen Cribb “Auténtico”

Lydia Estes “Llena la botella”

Emma Hauser “Una historia incalculable”

Sarah …

Tales Of Cherry Blossom Dreams, Kelly Dykstra

Honors Projects

I studied the writings of Female authors during the Heian era of Japan to write an original work imitating that style.

Blazing Worlds, Bethany Kinney

Master's Theses

Blazing Worlds is a collection of short stories exploring themes of understanding, isolation, the world of work, and identity. These stories follow characters who are searching for connections to others, to their environments, to their work, and to themselves. The protagonists of these stories inhabit worlds that are slightly adjacent to reality, worlds cast into a near future, and worlds that operate by the logic of the campy and the fantastic. Through heightened technology, body horror, or blurred metaphysical boundaries, the residents of these blazing worlds pursue knowledge of their place in life and fight to establish and maintain their …

Things We Have In Common: Essays And Experiments, Willow Grosz

All NMU Master's Theses

Things We Have in Common is a collection of short stories, flash pieces, and image-text experiments that attempts, in the wake of the death of my mother, to excavate the relationship between memory and narrative, identity and belonging against a backdrop of the main forces that have influenced my familial group, namely generational poverty, a changing relationship with our Athabascan and Caucasian heritages, and the complicated ecology, geography, and culture of Alaska. Like many forays into memory, this project represents a joyous failure. Please read this collection as a love letter to Alaska.

That Said, Karl Alderic Schroeder

All NMU Master's Theses

That Said, a creative thesis of poetry and poetics in two parts, explores points of contact between human interaction, capitalism, consciousness, and the process of meaning itself. The collection appropriates the language of business, scholarship, and politics alongside philosophical substructures from such disparate traditions as Marxism, Existentialism, and Taoism to provide a several windows of perspective into anxiety, relationships, identity, and consumerism. Through the blending of both direct and experimental forms and processes, nontraditional and everyday diction and syntax, and multifaceted content of both personal and external significance, these poems may simultaneously amuse, alienate, and inspire philosophical and critical …

Plan B (Poetry), Madelyn Taylor

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

Poetry. A young woman contemplates how an unplanned pregnancy can manifest the grace of God.

When Mercy Seasons Justice, Basant K B

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

This is based on the simple mathematical concept of ratio, which tends to get more intricate the more one thinks about it.

The Rockingham Shoot And Other Dramatic Writings Review: Good But Not Great, Eamon Maher

Articles

John McGahern is rightly renowned for his carefully crafted prose, his skill at describing characters and situations that have a universal resonance and his uncannily accurate representation of the people and places associated with his native Roscommon and Leitrim. Author of six novels, two short story collections (many of which were brought together in The Collected Stories and the posthumously published Creatures of the Earth, which contains significant new material) and a highly successful memoir, McGahern won several literary prizes and warm critical acclaim. Faber has now brought out a collection of his dramatic writings, a genre in which, …

Sunshine ‘89, David O'Connor

English Language and Literature ETDs

Sunshine ’89 is a coming-of-age-novel, set in Canada in 1989, this creative work explores the travel of a young adoptee from a remote outpost to the bourgeois center of the country in order to pursue a life in the theatre. What ensues is a mentor-apprentice story exploring art, race, sexuality, performance, aging, dementia, alcoholism, politics, Canada, and other theme. Above all, a page- turner and picaresque romp meant to entertain and challenge.

Reflecting On And Shattering My White Lens: A Critical Autoethnography On My Experience As A White Editor Working With Authors Of Color, Kelsey Medlin

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

This critical autoethnography aims to reveal how the cultural biases of a white majority industry impact the stories they select for acquisition and how they are edited. As an editor, I came to this topic from my personal desire to see if my own whiteness affects the way I view writers of color, their stories, and the audience that the companies market to. Thus, the purpose of this project is to explore the current conversations on the topic of diversity within the publishing industry and whether the conversation is making a connection between the lack of diversity in the workforce …