Creative Writing Commons^™

Q&A, Joslynn Howard

Calliope

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Annuals, Kimberly Jackson

Calliope

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"Why?", Caitlin Reynolds

Calliope

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Paper Ladies, Carolyn Lee

Calliope

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Desecration, Natalia T. Arredondo

Theses and Dissertations

Deacon Christopher, a soon-to-be-ordained Catholic priest, is faced with the reality of the sex scandals in the wake of his upcoming ordination.

The Blackbird Blood, Danielle Birnell

Theses and Dissertations

The Blackbird Blood is a novella length piece of young adult fiction. The piece not only includes themes dealing with coming of age such as love, complexities of relationships, and identity, but also touches on issues dealing with race and privilege. This coming of age novella explores these themes through the lens of teen characters navigating life on a military base in a country destroyed by war.

Same Air: Human Relationships In Playwriting, Nicole Cardenas

Theses and Dissertations

The culmination of the creative work and its introduction focus on human relationships, friendships, and the interactions and dynamics of individuals with traumatic experiences. The one act play explores how a secret can strain a group of friends, causing them to create their own realities to cope with the betrayal and guilt cultivated throughout time.

To reach my conclusions, I drew inspiration from various works, playwrights, and the words of other writers. My work is meant to showcase how fragile and resilient friendships are when faced with misunderstanding and lies.

The Soft-Spoken Girl, Ashley Hernandez

Theses and Dissertations

This project is a collection of poetry that celebrates the power of the mujeres fuertes in my life, cultural expectations and prevalent barriers. It is set in the Rio Grande Valley where the unique blend of two cultures, caused much heartache and courage. Each poem in this collection weaves a coming of age story.

A Citrus Wildfire, Mark Anthony Lopez

Theses and Dissertations

An American Dream forged by greed. A family caught in the middle of a race war. A young boy trying to learn how to be a man. A Citrus Wildfire is a fiction novella that tells the story of a Mexican family struggling to survive in the Rio Grande Valley after their only source of income burns down, and the lengths they must go to in order to get the life they were promised.

A small preface from the author proceeds the work. This novella is inspired by many different authors and educators, as well as the Rio Grande Valley …

Hearing/S: Will In The Carceral Archive, Kayla Morse

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This long-form poetry project follows the human will — in this case the “criminal,” or captive will — as it is manhandled through an archive of reverends, wardens and superintendents narrating the future of prison reform. Drawing primarily from National Prison Association Conference archives between the years 1874 and 1895, these documents saturate the work with a will resistant but compelled towards subjugation by the state — as it appears within the text across forced labor economies, eugenic prison science that dictates starvation, classification, and isolation as the rule, the dehumanization of banal bureaucratic processes, the visceral and spectacular violence …

Existentialmd.Com: Building Towards An Embodied Internet Aesthetic, Natasha Ochshorn

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

ExistentialMD.com is a website that aims to treat the body as an emotional and social subject in an online space that is purposefully bodied and fleshy. The website contrasts original creative nonfiction essays with a formal structure that alludes to the medical website WebMD. Mimicking WebMD’s symptom checker, which asks users to locate their discomfort with increasing specificity before suggesting conditions they might be suffering from, ExistentialMD uses a similar structure to yield results that are more exploratory than diagnostic, and which envision the body as a site of experience and emotionality. Form and content combine to create an …

Breaking Free From The Snake Strangling America, Kate Marjorie Shapiro

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Breaking Free from the Snake Strangling America is a novel about the narratives of violence. It tells the story of Audrey Bishop and her investigation into her brother’s death at a mass shooting.

In the months following the shooting Audrey is confronted with various explanations of violence from her estranged parents, journalists, and televised sensationalism. She is at a loss for how to settle her own grief when the truth is stretched in every direction.

When Audrey is mysteriously sent Matthew’s journals, she is confronted with a new narrative, she sets off on a journey to find out the real …

Irredenta, Oscar Oswald

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

For my dissertation I am writing a book, IRREDENTA, which is a collection of three sequences engaging the pastoral legacy of American transcendentalism and the questions of the lyric “I” left open at the ends of modernity and postmodernity. The book is experimental in the vein of Language poetry and its precursors Gertrude Stein and Jack Spicer, while it also draws from the abstract expressionism of John Ashbery and Barbara Guest.

During my comprehensive exams, I surveyed the canon of pastoral poetry and the works of Henry David Thoreau, and in my creative dissertation I write within the visionary landscape …

The Ruins Of Doves, Mariah Tahera Yusofzei

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The Ruins of Doves is a collection of 40 poems that attempts to access the conversational space for the poet’s encounters with her environment, and correspondingly, with the divine. Keeping with this sentiment, each poem embodies a little song or prayer, where the poem itself acts as a gateway in attempting to understand the divine. Amid the quietness in the space of the poem is where the poet explores her relationship with the divine. An understanding of community, domestic love, and intimacy share a point of arrival where many of the poems begin. Each poem is an accumulation and a …

My Mother's Hands, Rosa Elena Mercado

Calliope

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Chang'e 4, Carolyn Lee

Calliope

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Metamorphic, Dominique Cottrell

Calliope

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Fragments, Delainey Willing

Calliope

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Naked Revival, Joslynn Howard

Calliope

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Gorgon's Stare, Dominic Rudd

Calliope

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Chinese Finger Trap, Madeline C. Domingo

Calliope

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Twilight, Lee Kaj

Calliope

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Stockton, Ca, Jennifer Pierson

Calliope

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From Birds, Zaizhen Xu

Calliope

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Please Go To Bed, Madeline C. Domingo

Calliope

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Here, Alex Abbley

Calliope

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Oranges, Molly Westlake

Calliope

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I Swallowed The Sky, Alex Abbley

Calliope

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Vincent Looks Up At The Night Sky, Monica Luona Mendoza

Calliope

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My Mother's Hands, Livy Simms

Calliope

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