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Dyslexic, Will Nixon

Bryant Literary Review

The year I learned the hangman's noose

I tied it everywhere: tire swings, clothes lines,

The Baker's Secret, Kathy Anderson

Bryant Literary Review

The town baker wakes at dawn, stands in his silent shop, with floured hands slaps rounded balls of dough

The Word Box, Christopher Brookhouse

Bryant Literary Review

We can't sleep.

I'm hungry, she says.

I know what she wants.

The Day After, Patricia Dobler

Bryant Literary Review

So I walked back to the place we'd found him,

needing to see the blood stains and my hands

in the place his head had lain.

Places, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

Salcajá, Lanquín, Purulhá:

the places we made love.

Consider, Mary Crow

Bryant Literary Review

Consider the polar bear

whose every white hair is a heat pipe

Fan Letter, John Mann

Bryant Literary Review

Dear life, dear earth, dear season of snow.

"Ich Suche Ein Unschuldiges Land," Reading History In The Poetry Of Ingeborg Bachmann, Kathrin M. Bower

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

In this brief monograph based on her dissertation, Leslie Morris sets out to achieve a series of aims: to contest the alleged divide between Bachmann's poetry and prose, to counter "the myth of her apolitical poetic voice" (10), to address the presence and absence of history in her poetry, and, finally, to consider how to read Bachmann's poetic ceuvre in light of historical developments in Germany and Austria in the 1980s and 1990s. In a sense, Morris is also trying to rehabilitate post-war aesthetic modemism from a reductive, binary mode of criticism that separates aesthetics and politics. Following in the …

Haunting The Corpus Delicti: Rafael Campo’S What The Body Told And Wallace Stevens’ (Modernist) Body, LáZaro Lima

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

What the Body Told You, a volume of poems by the Cuban-American poet Rafael Campo (b. 1964), addresses how formal poetry may give form to loss and memory in the age of AIDS by structuring an exchange between the literary institutions that privilege poetry as a representational medium and the inability of language adequately to account for and remember loss. Campo’s What the Body Told haunts modernism’s legacy by construing it as the corpus delicti, literally the body of the crime, where “crime” is conceived as the insufficiency of modernist aesthetic agencies to give evidence of the “truth” …

Lights And Shadows - 2001, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Vol. Xxxvii, No. 5: Charles Baxter: Fiction Resisting The Corilineal, Jeb Livingood

The Hollins Critic

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Total Immersion, Lorna Van Gilst

Pro Rege

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Narene, Mike Vanden Bosch

Pro Rege

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Jane Austen's Falling Women, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

Published in the Calvin Dialogue, Spring 1996

Inventing Metaphors To Understand The Genre Of Poetry, Phyllis Whitin

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

To make personally meaningful connections with poetry as a genre, students in the author's seventh grade classes generated original metaphors to describe the essence of poetry.

Because The Unseen May Vanish, David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

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Reading At Dusk, David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

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Sacrament Of Grace, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

Published in the University of Nevada Interim, Spring 1995

Stones For Bread, Lorna Van Gilst

Pro Rege

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To My Tibia, Lorna Van Gilst

Pro Rege

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Sabbatical Leave Report, James Mcgowan

Sabbaticals

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Poem No. 84, November 2000, Huntsville Literary Association (Huntsvile, Ala.)

POEM

The Huntsville Literary Association was founded in 1967 to provide a community for writers, readers, and artists through workshops, readings, and educational programs. One of their key contributions is the literary magazine titled POEM which showcases original writings from both established and emerging writers. This issue features poems from various writers.

Detour Into What Cheer, Steven Petkus

CutBank

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The Windhorse, Martha Zweig

CutBank

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Vol. Xxxvii, No. 4: Austerity Measures: Paul Auster Goes To The Dogs, Steven G. Kellman

The Hollins Critic

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The Lantern Vol. 68, No. 1, Fall 2000, Olatokunbo Laniya, Monica Stahl, Padcha Tuntha-Obas, Susan Goll, Lori Kruk, Jeff Church, Michael Keeper, Matthew James Terenna, Chris Tereshko, Ryan Mcleod, Thomas Lipschultz, Laura Phillips, Chris Calderelli, John Ramsey, Genevieve Romeo, Aly Jones, Daniel Gallagher, Philip M. Malachowski, Corey Taylor, Tina Benson, Shawn Witt, Jason Fischer, Christine Spera

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• In Attempting to Imitate J. Agard (III)
• Headstones
• Calligraphy Grace
• Fifty Years
• Morning
• The Millstone
• Quick Stop-Off
• Jesus Wept (SuperBuick Bodybag)
• Just a God
• Amy
• Silver Doubloons
• Ogbanje
• Left Behind
• Asymmetrical Smile
• Sundays
• Pie in the Sky
• No Surprises
• Bill Gooden's Son
• Downcast Eyes Meet Tablecloth
• Wetlands
• Desperate Actions
• Receiving End
• A Pack of Matches
• Coffee

Botched Translation, Catherine Meng

CutBank

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Landscape With Gettysburg Address, Josh Corey

CutBank

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Alternatives To Ohio, Josh Corey

CutBank

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The Language Works Extremely Well, Josh Corey

CutBank

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