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A Meditation On I, We, And Consciousness In "Only We Can Pull", Allyson Elizabeth Jeffredo

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

In a society focused on the individual, how is community formed? As individuals predisposed to the built-in barrier of our body, our skin, how do we mediate between the self and the external? During this mediation on the barriers between our body, ourselves, and the outside world, how is consciousness simultaneously conflicted and built upon? What does it mean to be alive, to be a complex individual surrounded by a multitude of complex individuals? Can we, as a society, learn to focus balance the community and the individual? ONLY WE CAN PULL attempts to answer these questions through a series …

The American Nightmare: Land Of The Incarcerated, Jamara Bernard

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

A collection of poems focusing on the mass incarceration of African-American men and how the prison industrial complex is designed to legally exploit prisoners specifically for profits. Along with a reflective essay about the history of legal discrimination and the creative process by which the poems were created. Then how it ties in with the capstone course theme of race, gender, class, feminist theory, and social justice.

A Beautiful Apocalypse: A Collection Of Poems, Emily M. Kesler

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

My project consists of three poems on the subject of life in the year 2050. These poems explore and speculate the effects that air pollution, water contamination, deforestation, the government, and the economy will have on humans living in 2050.

Linework, David Felton

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

This collection of poems engages the experience of the workplace in the changing telecommunications field.

Ice, Genesis Montalvo

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

Commonly known as ICE, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement works to monitor the level of illegal migration to the United States. They also are in charge of at least 40% of deportation of innocent, non-criminal immigration violators. At times, the children of these immigrants are born in the United States. As US citizens, ICE cannot deport them without violating their rights, resulting in the separation of families. This poem speaks of a young child whose mother was deported by ICE and the yearning of wanting to know where the mother is. The mix of English and Spanish reinforces the …

Oh Sinnerman, Where You Gonna Run To?, Semein Washington

Theses & Honors Papers

Semein Washington. OH SINNERMAN, WHERE YOU GONNA RUN TO? (Under the direction of Mary Carroll Hackett, MFA) Department of English and Modern Language, April 2016.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the growth of personal identity via poetry. “Oh Sinnerman,” is a run of thirty-eight poems in which the speaker learns survival through experience, and the underpinning ideas, whether traditional or modern, for which life is preserved. In theme, the poems tend to separate his experience into personal and social humanity. In poems such as “No Good Being,” “Sunday Tennis” and “How One Loves,” personal humanity shows through …

Python Crown Girl, Jade Hurter

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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Myth Protagonist X, Jennifer R. Hanks

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

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New Rust, Lauren Walter

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

A poetry thesis exploring issues of loss, death, creation, imagination, family, interpersonal relationships, nature, sexuality, and writing. The manuscript includes a preface that discusses literary influences such as Ai, H.D., and Sharon Olds, as well as writing in forms such as the dramatic monologue, imagistic poem, and confessional poem. Three main sections organize the manuscript's poems.

An Old Woman Bumped Her On Canal, Nordette N. Adams

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This work is a collection of poems revolving around black or African-American identity and the intersection of feminist consciousness with racial struggle. An examination of the unknown or forgotten black woman runs through this work as well as connection to a mother figure. The poems also reflect the influence of place, particularly New Orleans, its history, its culture, and its present evolution post-Hurricane Katrina. The collection's preface includes development of a unique poetics that considers identity theories and models of the subject in light of poetic voice. The poems use caesura heavily, rhyme, and sonic echo. Poets who have influenced …

Undone, Laurie Hilburn

The Anthology

A prose story

Peppered Moth, Connie Shen

The Anthology

A prose story

Cornpone Gives Directions, Patrick Kay

The Anthology

A prose story

The Tie-Dyed Bandana, Lauren Miller

The Anthology

A prose story

No Nerves, Ana Barkley

The Anthology

A prose story

Summer House, Caroline Riley

The Anthology

A prose story

Mourning, Willard Ramsey

The Anthology

A prose story

The Video Tape, Mitch Postich

The Anthology

A prose story

Dark And Stormy, Dave Birley

The Anthology

A prose story

The Bible Belt Stretched Too Tight, Garrett Woolf

The Anthology

A prose story

End Of The Season, Rachel Burns

The Anthology

A prose story

Usurped, Alicia Tosca

The Anthology

A prose story

Decanted, Mike Morales

The Anthology

A poem

Binomial Nomenclature, Emily Thomas

The Anthology

A poem

Peeling, Connor Renfroe

The Anthology

A poem

Consumerism, Rachel Trueblood

The Anthology

A poem

The Purpose Of Gods, Rachel Burns

The Anthology

A poem

Tents, Colby Dockery

The Anthology

A poem

From Anonymous To Identifiable, Alicia Tosca

The Anthology

A poem

A Secret I Kept, Jami Hodgins

The Anthology

A poem