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Pajama Potluck, Kerry James Evans

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 76-78

Skating, Charlotte Muzzi

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 126

Domain, Alexis Levitan, Salgado Maranhāo

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 107

Cloud, Alexis Levitan, Salgado Maranhāo

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 112

Birmingham Poetry Review 43 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

No abstract provided.

What The Sand Says, Mary Moore

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 123-125

Cézanne's Atelier, Neil Shepard

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 128-129

Spring Baring Arms, William Logan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 113

Inviting Students To Determine For Themselves What It Means To Write Across The Disciplines, Brian Hendrickson, Genevieve Garcia De Mueller

Arts & Sciences Faculty Publications

Situated in the literature on threshold concepts and transfer of prior knowledge in WAC/WID and composition studies, with particular emphasis on the scholarship of writing across difference, our article explores the possibility of re-envisioning the role of the composition classroom within the broader literacy ecology of colleges and universities largely comprised of students from socioeconomically and ethno- linguistically underrepresented communities. We recount the pilot of a composi- tion course prompting students to examine their own prior and other literacy values and practices, then transfer that growing meta-awareness to the critical acquisition of academic discourse. Our analysis of students’ self-assessment memos …

Poems For My Woofie The Story Of Lt. Wilfred V. Michaud, 1st Parachute Battalion, 1st Marine Division, Allison Orr

Honors Projects in English and Cultural Studies

My senior capstone project is the creation of a book of investigative poetry. The subject of the work is my grandfather, Wilfred V. Michaud. He was a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. The poetry addresses the history of Michaud’s battalion and the battles it fought, as well as personal stories of Michaud’s life and experience in the service. Several secondary sources were used to gain historical context for the poetry. Additionally, primary sources were used to provide information about Michaud’s personal experiences. The combination of primary and secondary sources established the necessary background and …

Vol. Lii, No. 5: "Like Farmers Drilling For Water": A Landscape Of Ron Rash's Fiction, Jerry Wayne Wells

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

An Unnamed God., Luke Cash Mansfield

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This creative thesis is the story of a man returning home at the behest of a friend who is undergoing great difficulties in her life. While Docent Americana ostensibly travels home to help his friend, he is also trying to cope with challenges in his own life. He suffers from bipolar disorder and although he is receiving treatment for it the stresses of the experience trigger a manic episode that threatens his personal stability and his relationships with those around him. An Unnamed God is set in western Kentucky, affording a glimpse at the slow decay of rural communities as …

Important Places (2005), Shaun O’Connell

New England Journal of Public Policy

The author talks about his time and associations with the University of Massachusetts Boston. He also describes Ireland and his family's roots there and how it connects with Boston as well as his life in New York.

Reprinted from New England Journal of Public Policy 20, no. 2 (2005), article 10.

Vol. Lii, No. 4: The Drawbridge To The Plain Road: Elise Partridge's Poetry Of Life And Death, Nicholas Birns

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

“Ab-Soul’S Outro,” “Hiiipower,” And The Vernacular: Kendrick Lamar’S Rap As Literature, Tyler S. Bunzey

Montview Journal of Research & Scholarship

Kendrick Lamar’s “Ab-Soul’s Outro” and “HiiiPower” employ complex patterns of Signifyin(g), testifyin’, and other classical African-American literary tropes in order to construct a nuanced style. Lamar creates a double-voiced text not only within his narrative, but also within the form itself. Lamar plays on rap's unique status in African-American literature as an oral text; it is an extension of the vernacular. Through this oral text, Lamar decentralizes the Eurocentric focus of classical interpretation and qualification of literature to a new Afrocentric perspective that privileges the oral text. These raps are complex, wrapped up in their current context along with a …

Vol. Lii, No. 3: James Alan Mcpherson And The Metaphor Of Dance, James Robert Saunders

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

The Real Thing, Ruben T. Rodriguez

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

THE REAL THING is a collection of short stories released from the confinement of the everyday. The stories allow characters to pop off the page from every angle. With an eye for anthropomorphism and ear for lyric, the collection is comprised of twenty-nine short stories, nineteen of which work in a flash fiction form.

Magical in its motions, and charming in its spirit, The Real Thing explores life’s losses and gains through the lens of the strange and at times the absurd. It invites its readers to cast away expectation, sit back, and watch the show.

Aging Ragefully: A Look At Aging Women In Four Contemporary American Dramas, Rachel Thomas

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Despite the growing feminist discourse in America, ageism continues to be a problem, partially due to stereotypical representations of aging women in the media and in literature. This thesis examines the portrayals of aging women in four American dramas: Zona Gale’s Miss Lulu Bett, Edward Albee’s The American Dream and The Sandbox, and Tracey Letts’ August: Osage County. Each of the aging matriarchs in these dramas plays a different role within her family structure; however, all employ others’ perceptions of them as a means of gaining or keeping control over their own situation. Chapter 1 examines Mrs. Bett from Zona …

Looker: Stories, George Robert Hargett

Master's Theses

The following stories, completed by the author between August 2013 and February 2015, deal with love, obscurity, isolation, failure, vulnerability and insecurity, looking and losing, the fears tied up in all these, and, once in a while, gaining.

Azalea, Kimberly Renee Driggers

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This collection of poems, with its focus on home and absence, is named for the azalea, the thinking of home bush.

Vol. Lii, No. 2: The Quick And The Dead: Deciphering Ralph Adamo's New Volume, Ever, Louis Gallo

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

Banshees: Poems, Eileen P. Kennedy

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Vol. Lii, No. 1: The Dogs Of Literature Seymour Krim: Bottom Dog Part Ii, M.G. Stephens

The Hollins Critic

No abstract provided.

Parnassus 2015

Parnassus

The 2015 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Things About Hotels, Angela Ball

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 34

Martins (Quantum), Geri Doran

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 60

Renovation, Richie Hofmann

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 73

Leaving An Aa Meeting During A Snowstorm, Al Maginnes

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 90-91

Caldo, Dora Malech

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 96-98

A Fisheries Scientist Suffers The Flood To Come, Peter Munro

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 107-110