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Because I Want To Know God's Will, Rose Postma

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Missed Phone Calls, Ben S. Sherbacow

Student Publications

A poem about hope and reconnection.

Education, Crystal C. Gray

Eddie Mabry Diversity Award

Education is a spoken word poem that explores many aspects of the African American struggle within (self-knowledge). It starts with an African American college student who is disappointed with the lack of courses about her culture. Most curricula in the United States tend to be from a Eurocentric perspective, leaving out a multitude of information about people of color. All groups of people of color have unique experiences, however, African Americans have the most known (or perhaps I should say, unknown) history. The standard explanation of their existence is often limited to the start of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, when …

Gen Ms 31 Thomas Carper Papers Finding Aid, Megan Hendrix

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Description:

This collection contains poems, writing logs and published works of poet Thomas Carper. Originally from Cornish, Maine, Carper is a Professor Emeritus who taught poetry and creative writing at USM from 1967 to 1997 and currently divides his time between Maine and France. The Papers include multiple drafts showing revisions of the poem along with the final version.

Date Range:

1982-2007

Size of Collection:

2 ft

Applications For Dummies, Carla M. Sanchez

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

This poem discusses the overwhelming pressure that is put on students to justify their right to be admitted into universities or to receive scholarships based on their extracurricular activities. Many working-class, first-generation college students are unable to participate in organizations and programs that offer students a more well-rounded college experience. This can lead first-gen students, like the author, to feel isolated, inadequate, or illegitimate. "Applications for Dummies" expresses Sanchez's incessant fear that she will never be able to compete with other students who were given the opportunity to build more worldly resumes, despite her strong academic commitment and intellectual potential.

Revelation, Tanya Diaz

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

There can sometimes be a gap between first-gen students and parents who have not experienced the stress of higher education. Children may believe this stress to be a necessary sacrifice for their future wellness; however, they often cannot feel their parents' sacrifices, just as their parents cannot feel their child's mental strain. Diaz creates this poem in an effort to examine her relationship with her mother from an outsider's point of view, in the end realizing that although her parents cannot always understand her experiences, they care and will support her decisions.

The Fisherman By Anonymous, Luke J. Chambers

Transference

Translated from the Old French with commentary by Luke Chambers.

Garnets In Glass, David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Ecology, David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

In Love With Jane Eyre, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Tender Executioner, Rose Postma

Pro Rege

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Frances Burney--Without Anesthesia, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Aunts And Uncles (Menagerie), Bob De Smith

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.

Seventeenth Century Published Quaker Verse, Rosemary Moore

Quaker Studies

Early Quakers disapproved of most aspects of popular culture, and before 1661 they published very little verse. During the 1660s some thirty Quaker authors published verse, addressed both to Quakers and to the public. The impetus behind this surge of verse publication was probably the appearance during 1660 and 1661 of a number of papers by John Perrot, a Quaker preacher who had been arrested in Italy and imprisoned by the Inquisition . His writings, which were brought to England, included a considerable amount of poetry. Perrot was released in 1661 and returned to England, feted by many Quakers as …

The Poet, Asalean Springfield

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.

The Final Harvest, Rick D. Hallbeck

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.

Maiden Mantle, Rick D. Hallbeck

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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My Black Community, Ashley Stewart

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

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The Surrender, Diane Hale

Manuscripts

Light revolves
patterning grey age faces
in flashing momentary brilliance--
exposing shadow dreams
of victorious kingdoms
built in bottle caps
the shrapnel of hope's treachery--
to be swept away with
debris of belief

Heat Lightning At Night, Michael Martone

Manuscripts

mute mimic,
the splashing spark

Definition Of Poetry, Lynn Z. Bloom

Manuscripts

Once
I took a course in aesthetics:
Three hours credit
If I could learn
What a poem was.

The Math Of Achilles, Geoffrey A. Landis

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

No abstract provided.

La « Langue Fantôme » : Une Présence Familière Dans L’Écriture – Présentation Du Poète Malek Alloula Suivie D’Un Entretien, Yamna Abdelkader-Chaldi.

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The evolution of Malek Alloula’s works, an important poet of Algerian literature whose first works date back to the sixties, is analyzed by Yamna Abdelkader. Afterwards, she interviews him on his poetic work and its relationship to language. The poet thus explains his writing ; how he composes his poetry in relation to the creative process ; his technique ; the influence of its cultural origins, and its relationship to language. In using the term “phantom language”, the poet refers to the haunting presence of the Arabic language spoken in Algeria, which, while unseen, has a major influence on his …

I Recognized The Mitten, David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

This poem was originally published in Pro Rege 42:2, but in an incomplete form. Here is the complete poem

Washing Machine, Mallory Hasty

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

I'Ll Eat Home For Dinner (For Megan), Carianna Arredondo

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

Carianna Arredondo, a senior double major in English Writing and Studio Art, is the 2014 winner of the Paul Query Prize. Her senior work in writing pairs found photographs with deeply personal poems, creating a simultaneously verbal and visual reading experience

Human Life In A Tree And A Mushroom Cloud, Zach Manges

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Cheyenne, Paige Sandgren

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Gustav’S Kiss, Kathryn Drew

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

To You, Volvo, Sunny Strader

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.