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Trapped, Anne Mitchell

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

This villanelle describes the feeling of being trapped in a body that does not feel like your own; the repetition of the form embodies the haunting thoughts of mental illness or other paralyzing fear.

Bendiciones, Lydia M. Lara

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

A poem embodying the simple yet powerful gesture of the bendicion. For many latinxs this gesture commonly occurs between older family members to younger family members as farewell, prayer, and blessings to protect the younger individual on their journies through life. The gesture of the blessing is a meaningful and deeply rooted action that carries the blessings of the ancestors who have come before us and endured colonization, dictatorship, and civil war and spiritually drives their children and children's children to fight for better in the modern day Latina/Chicana struggle. We are our ancestors wildest dreams.

When You Become A Mine Instead Of A Field, Alyssa Froehling

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

No abstract provided.

Chorus Easily Hummed, Rachel Morgan

CutBank

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Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Lila Zemborain, Tonia León, Ana Maria Fuster Lavin, Maria Negroni, Michael Burkard, Jules Gibbs, Jaime Garcia Maffla, Gloria Posada, Josefina Baez, Colleen Kattau, Tamara Kamenszain Folio, Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Lila Zemborain, Tonia León, Ana Maria Fuster Lavin, Maria Negroni, Michael Burkard, Jules Gibbs, Jaime G. Maffla, Gloria Posada, Josefina Baez, Colleen Kattau, Tamara Kamenszain

Corresponding Voices

A folio of Spanish- and English-language verse and prose poetry by Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Lila Zemborain, Tonia León, Ana Maria Fuster Lavin, Maria Negroni, Michael Burkard, Jules Gibbs, Jaime Garcia Maffla, Gloria Posada, Josefina Baez, Colleen Kattau and Tamara Kamenszain

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A Form Of Birthing, Rae Winkelstein

CutBank

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Trapped, Anne Mitchell

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

This villanelle describes the feeling of being trapped in a body that does not feel like your own; the repetition of the form embodies the haunting thoughts of mental illness or other paralyzing fear.

Poetry As The Scholar's Art: An Interview With Poet Amy Newman, Julie Miller

Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.

Corresponding Voices Volume 10 (Complete)

Corresponding Voices

The full issue of Corresponding Voices volume 10, featuring Josefina Báez, Michael Burkard, Celia Caturelli, Jessica Cuello, Pedro Cuperman, Ana María Fuster Lavín, Jaime García Maffla, Jules Gibbs, Sarah Harwell, Michael Jennings, Tamara Kamenszain, Colleen Kattau, Christopher Kennedy, María Negroni, Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Gloria Posada, Suzanne Shane, Bruce Smith, Madeleine Stratford and Lila Zemborain and edited by Jules Gibbs and Tere Paniagua

When You Become A Mine Instead Of A Field, Alyssa Froehling

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

No abstract provided.

Adventures With Animals Big And Small, Emily Allen, Marcus Blandford, Shannon Brennan, Brennen Keen, Amanda Timm, Tara Penry, Sarah Obendorf

English Literature Student Projects and Publications

The purpose of this project is to produce a short collection of out-of-print children’s stories that would be suitable for first grade level readers. Stories selected for the collection fit the theme of being seasonally themed and include animals as main protagonists. Under the guidance of Dr. Tara Penry, the class searched children’s magazines from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s to find stories that would be relevant and interesting to today’s elementary schoolers.

A Window The Color Of Her Sunburn, Joana Stillwell

Theses and Dissertations

I use video and material fragments to investigate the collapse of virtual and physical spaces as memories, lived environments, and digital interfaces become overlaid and interchangeable. I am interested in the capacity for technology to propose alternative strategies in which to engage with the world as we continue to extend ourselves in new and enduring methods. Seemingly unremarkable fragments offer new potentials in questioning meaning, worth, and care within spaces of downtime, boredom, and play.

This document accompanies my thesis exhibition a window the color of her sunburn. It provides background information on selected fragments and residues from my own …

Reflection And Acceptance: Small Town Ghosts Represented In Poetry, Adam Junker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis discusses the theories of ethnography and ethnographic verse and applies these two theories in an original narrative in verse. Ethnography and ethnographic verse have a complicated relationship when it comes to a poet’s authority representing a certain place. Yet authenticity is never obtainable, since perceptions of a place are always subjective. That subjectivity allows a poet creative expression, as he or she shapes his or her relationship with a place and the people within it. The poet then must rely on elements like unifying imagery, dialect, surrealism, and empathetic insights. With these elements, a poet can identify with …

Sibling, Rae Winkelstein

CutBank

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Dust Bowl Wedlock, Roxanne Banks Malia

CutBank

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Strange Notes, Rachel Morgan

CutBank

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Diagram With A Line From Deleuze & Guattari, Patrick Kindig

CutBank

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Measuring, Rae Winkelstein

CutBank

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When Poetry And Humor Get Hitched, Christian Hartselle

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Through humor, poetry explores the imagination and the mind just as it does through other means of expression. Comic poetry finds the truth in the illogical and in the absurd; it finds what unsettles us through its use of surprise; it finds delight and play in the unknown and uncertain. By its very nature, comic poetry clings to the edges of what we know, so pinpointing its characteristics is tricky. But the shared characteristic of all comic poetry is the permission the poet grants herself to disobey boundaries. The poet chooses not to fit her works within the reader’s expectations, …

The Sun, Derek Mong

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

No abstract provided.

Twinless, Molly Mccully Brown

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This manuscript is concerned with the loss of my identical twin sister, who died when we were infants. The collection as a whole uses biographical experience to engage with issues of identity, grief, sisterhood, and selfhood. It’s interested in the ways that spiritual experience is borne out in the body, and in interrogating the manner in which we’re all made and marked by our own particular hieroglyphs of loss.

Pedro Cuperman Folio, Pedro Cuperman

Corresponding Voices

A folio of Spanish- and English-language verse and prose poetry by Pedro Cuperman.

Sarah Harwell, Bruce Smith, Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Jessica Cuello, Cecelia Caturello, Madeleine Starford, Michael Jennings, Suzanne Shane, Chris Kennedy Folio, Sarah Harwell, Bruce Smith, Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Jessica Cuello, Cecelia Caturello, Madeleine Starford, Michael Jennings, Suzanne Shane, Chris Kennedy

Corresponding Voices

A folio of Spanish- and English-language verse and prose poetry by Sarah Harwell, Bruce Smith, Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Jessica Cuello, Cecelia Caturello, Madeleine Starford, Michael Jennings, Suzanne Shane and Chris Kennedy.

Bendiciones, Lydia Lara

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

A poem embodying the simple yet powerful gesture of the bendicion. For many latinxs this gesture commonly occurs between older family members to younger family members as farewell, prayer, and blessings to protect the younger individual on their journies through life. The gesture of the blessing is a meaningful and deeply rooted action that carries the blessings of the ancestors who have come before us and endured colonization, dictatorship, and civil war and spiritually drives their children and children's children to fight for better in the modern day Latina/Chicana struggle. We are our ancestors wildest dreams.

Unbroken, Masood Mohammed

be Still

Unbroken is a short, powerful poem describing some of the all too familiar difficulties that students and physicians face in the hospital and medical field as a whole.

Her, Alessandra Narvaez-Varela

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

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Burning Signs Of Blue, John Veldt

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

I am a beginning poet, and these are my beginning poems. Indeed, I am not Lorca. However, I do believe that his spirit of duende is visible in my work.There is the visible anguish of desire in these poems (just to name a few): the desire to receive a father's love, the desire to be the human animal, the desire to find truth, and a parent's desire to protect her children. It is a longing, a melancholic desire, tinged and/or consumed with the knowledge of death and loss. There is the desire for lost lovers and lost children, the desire …

Neon Is Trying To Tell You Something, Grace Arenas

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The following is the manuscript of my poetry collection, “Neon is Trying to Tell You Something.” This manuscript represents my development of poetic voice and style over the course of the past two years. In these poems, images accrue and take on new meaning, while still retaining echoes of their original connotations. This is how the speaker’s mind makes sense of things: evolutionarily. As a collection, these poems do not attempt to world-build or use their foreign landscapes as the driving force of symbol, but rather they use these landscapes as the essential terminology for their logic puzzles, their syllogistic …

Conversations Of The Waning Moon, Anam F. Ismail

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Reading, The Academy, And The ‘Soft’ Avant-Garde: Tan Lin’S Heath And Heath Course Pak, Alan Golding

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.