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Swell, Gary Maggio

Bryant Literary Review

If
all he could move were
his eyes

Study/Leaves, Leonard Gontarek

Bryant Literary Review

I once understood it.
It was something you scraped off.

The Mad Girl Can't Bear Change, Lyn Lifshin

Bryant Literary Review

In a year where
that's all there is.

May Day, Ken Mccullough

Bryant Literary Review

It happens when I feel myself
turning into a cottonwood

Flush, David Jauss

Bryant Literary Review

My father didn't throw the hammer at me,
just toward me. I told myself it didn't hurt

Tremors, David Jauss

Bryant Literary Review

The night I heard you have Parkinson's
I dreamed I was walking through the meadow

Lessons, Ronald Thorpe

Bryant Literary Review

I cannot remember
a day when I did not think
about dying.

School Spirit, J. Tarwood

Bryant Literary Review

Has anybody here ever cheered
A high school quarterback

Frog Legs, Robert Samarotto

Bryant Literary Review

They lie on my plate
like dismembered Barbie Dolls.

The Middle Years, Walt Mcdonald

Bryant Literary Review

Planning a family, we thought heaven would be
four collie pups, two acres without a fence

"Tiny, Delicate Fishbones...", Peggy Lin Duthie

Bryant Literary Review

Some January days, every scrap of sky
sparkles needle-sharp blue and clean

The Gerbils, Rustin Larson

Bryant Literary Review

Happily busy in the middle of the night
Destroying their cardboard tube. To sleep

On The Horizon, Bill Sweeney

Bryant Literary Review

Girls measure their shadows across a tiny courtyard;
above, telephone lines, aerials, antenna

Walking Home From The Cemetery, Peggy Lin Duthie

Bryant Literary Review

I dreamed that corpses did not rot
but recomposed, chose new disguise:

The Letter Carrier, Ronald Thorpe

Bryant Literary Review

Who understood him? Not his brothers.
His father's love had been drained away

The Nazi, Baron Wormser

Bryant Literary Review

I can't remember who played the Nazi
But his face thrummed like glass in summer sun.

Lila Zemborain Folio, Lila Zemborain

Corresponding Voices

A bilingual folio of poems, entitled "Guardians of the Secret V," by the poet Lila Zemborain, presented in its Spanish original and in English translation by Rosa Alcalá.

The Blues In Three Parts: A Collection Of Poetry, Short Stories, And A Screenplay, Desha Tolar Kelly

LSU Master's Theses

This thesis is entitled, “The Blues in Three Parts: A Collection of Poetry, Short Stories, and a Screenplay.” The first part, a collection of poetry, contains themes of childhood and adolescence, love and loss, life struggles, writing, and death. The second part, a collection of short stories, contains five stories centered on similar themes. The third and final part, a screenplay entitled “Cow”, contains elements of the first two parts as well. The epigraph, which contemplates the idea that the blues is not only music, but all the ups and downs of life, sets the stage for the central thread, …

Lights And Shadows - 2002, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

The Strange Attraction Of Blake's Urizen, Kelly Kelleway

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Without Contraries is no Progression. With this simple statement in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake posited, in 1790, a process -- a Hegelian dialectic of sorts, if you will -- that has underscored much of his poetry and has revealed itself in his etchings and engravings. But what, exactly, this Blakean hypothesis means is open to debate. One way to explicate this notion is to look at it in terms of a process of reunification or recursion wherein one falls from the Blakean space of Innocence (or is dragged kicking and screaming) to the rather …

Vol. Xxxviii, No. 5: Sir Star Child: The Asian Odyssey Of Arthur C. Clarke, Steven Lehman

The Hollins Critic

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Music And Poetry: Confessions Of A Rhyming Musicologist, Jean Kreiling

Bridgewater Review

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Cyclone, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

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Cycles Of Grace, Mary Dengler

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Eclipsed, Lorna Van Gilst

Pro Rege

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Hate Crime, David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

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Holidays, Mike Vanden Bosch

Pro Rege

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Visitant, Mike Vanden Bosch

Pro Rege

This poem was published in the 2001 issue of Lyrical Iowa.

Visit, Mary Dengler

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How To Welcome, Mike Vanden Bosch

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