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Amjambo Africa! (January 2019), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

Public Charge Rule Change ..Page 3

Breaking News from DRC ......Page 4

City-Wide Meeting ................Page 6

Multicultural NightSMCC......Page 7

Global Awareness & Repsonsibility Conference.....................Pages 8 & 9

Axels Samuntu, PAE .............Page 11

Heritage Restaurant.............Page 12

Poetry ..............................Page 13/14

Deqa Dhalac..........................Page 14

On Being a Somali-Mainer ..Page 15

Peter Balakian Folio, Peter Balakian

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Notes

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Assisted Living: Stories, Donovan Swift

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Assisted Living is a collection of stories that explores themes of parenthood, brotherhood, old and new love, adultery, financial strife, and the many faces of loss. The collection offers different points of view, which allow the reader to experience these themes within varying lives and situations. For example, the eponymous "Assisted Living" is from the perspective of a pet-sitter at the brink of losing both her job and husband, while "Holy Mother" explores the point of view of a wife coming to terms with her affair and the physical injury that has changed her husband. "The World of Reptiles" follows …

Trauma, Thomas Sokolowski

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This collection of stories explores the intersection of emotional and physical trauma. In the title story, a rookie EMT relives his brother's death while caring for a young patient who may be permanently paralyzed. "The Rounds at Blanding" follows a military policewoman at a National Guard training base who confronts a strangely determined trespasser as well as painful memories of her son's absentee father. Other stories, such as "Men My Mother Loved," "Watching Mr. Pete," and "Fighting for Faran," consider trauma-as-heritage by asking young protagonists to navigate the loss, wounds, and abuse of their parents. In the collection, pain is …

The Poems You Don't Own, Emma Reinhardt

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Poems You Don't Own is a collection of poems whose speakers explore the journey from the simplistic perspective of childhood to the confusion of adolescence to the first experiences of sexuality, heartbreak, and grief, examining the religious, societal, and gender expectations that influence those experiences. The collection's reverse-chronological order allows readers to travel back through the many experiences that shape a present moment. In poems such as "The Game of Life," the speaker considers the gender roles that begin to influence our perception of relationships from a young age, while poems such as "What to Know Before Writing about …

The Knitting Witch, Katherine Ervin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Dangerous, magical women live in a world which explores queerness and antagonistic female relationships against the backdrop of Midwestern crafting culture. Craft magic is beauty and cruelty entwined, a perfect tool for witches to use against each other. After her mother is murdered, the eponymous knitting witch inherits a kidnapping and extortion ring, the victims sewn into enchanted quilts and hidden. With her mother dead, political squabbles consume the knitting witch's coven and rival magical families put pressure on her to give up the quilts, including the dangerous Ma family, whose daughter the knitting witch loves. The knitting witch must …

The Storm, Kara Delemeester

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Set in a world where natural disasters start increasing in both intensity and frequency, this work examines what it means to be self-reliant when the world is falling apart. As the largest recorded hurricane heads for the eastern coast of the United States, Sierra Egan evacuates her Florida home with her boyfriend and makes her way toward safety - a shelter in Atlanta, Georgia. When Sierra and her boyfriend breakup and part ways along the evacuation route, Sierra assumes her history of self-reliance will work to her benefit. But an anti-government couple, a beach cult, a lonely storm chaser, an …

The Last Of The Hibakusha, Ryan Dunn

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Cafés Are For Writers, Thomas Samuel Benko

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Bless Up: Poems, Jada A. Grice

Faith and Travel Fellowship

This collection of poems, centered on the themes of education, family and faith, was completed by the author during an Ursinus College travel fellowship to Jamaica.

January 2019, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Tu B'Shavat; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; MLK Day; Announcements; Dr.Elcha Buckman Happiness and Humor; Community Notices

Preface, Jules Gibbs

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Nina Puro Folio, Nina Puro

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Southwinds - Spring 2019

Southwinds: The Literary and Arts Magazine of Missouri S&T

THE LITERARY AND ARTS MAGAZINE OF MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SPRING 201p Southwinds is sponsored by the Department of English & Technical Communication

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After Hearing Of His Passing, Rose Mclarney

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Someone Else's Utopia, Alison Umminger

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