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THAT'S YOUR GRANDFATHER'S WATCH: Robin Ruark
HALLOWEEN: David Allan Evans
UNTITLED POEM: Beryl Younger
SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE BASIC SKILLS CENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: Meta Brandl
SOUNDS FROM BELOW: Lynne Waters
UNTITLED POEM: Carrie Chesnik
SOMETHING: Leon Tetzlaff
FULL SERVICE: James Marten
WHEN ALL IS STILL: Leon Tetzlaff
SISTERS SWEET: Daniel R. Phen
FARM KID ON ROLLER SKATES: David Allan Evans
UNTITLED POEM: Julie Stroup
DIRTY BUCK LOTUS: Emma Dimit
FREDDIE: Frederick Fiekema Manfred
YOU MUDDY: Deb Seaburg and David Wigtil
SLEDDING: t.r. maves
IN FALL: Jomay Steen
DADDY LONG LEGS: Wendy Howell
AT A QUARTER …

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CHANGING LANGUAGE: Beryl Younger [page] 8
SOUTH DAKOTA FARMER: T.R. Maves [page] 9
HENRY'S HARVEST: Kevin Woster [page] 10
YOUNG FARMER SHOOTING POOL: Doug Cockrell [page] 16
COUNTRY STORE: Cary Cross [page] 17
THE COWGIRL IN THE SALOON AT THE RAMADA INN: William Kloefkorn [page] 19
DIRECTIONS: David Allan Evans [page] 21
PEONY RIDGE: J. Alan Martin [page] 22
THE WOOD-CARVER: Meta Brandl [page] 23
THOUGHTS RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD: Linda F. Hanson [page] 24
ON THE RIVER: Ted Kooser [page] 25
ANOTHER DRUNK INDIAN: Kevin Woster [page] 27
SAUNA: Leon Tetzlaff [page] 28
THE NIGHT …

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Heroes: Michael Boer [page] 10
Keith, Genetics Doctor: Jaciel Keltgen [page] 12
The Farm: Anne Seaman [page] 14
When Grandma had her Stroke: Debby Huber [page] 16
A Farmer Dying: Kevin Woster [page] 17
Epitaph For Father: Kevin Woster [page] 18
White River Haiku: Kevin Woster [page] 22
Cedar Waxwing: Martha Graham [page] 23
Farmyard Lights: Doug Cockrell [page] 25
Snow: Mary Lou Ewalt [page] 26
The First Snow: T. R. Maves [page] 29
Drought Cattle: Wendy Howell [page] 30
Garden in the Rain: Martha Graham [page] 31
Neighbor Kid: Bruce Edward Dommer [page] 41 …

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THE NOVELTY IN DYING: David J. Feela [page] 29
CAN TILLICH, SARTRE OR HIGHET SAVE ME?: Patrick Miller [page] 37
NORMALITY: Rory Sullivan [page] 62
SUMMER '36: J. Alan Marten [page] 72

POETRY

SOUTH DAKOTA HIGHWAYS: Robert Canter [page] 9
MEN WHO STEAL GAS IN THE NIGHT: Pat Collins [page] 10
BOY'S BLIZZARD: Pat Collins [page] 11
MILES OF NIGHT: Doug Cockrell [page] 12
HIS LUNCH BUCKET: Doug Cockrell [page] 13
FEEDING: Lon Tonneson [page] 15
BUSINESS TRIP: Dennis Sampson [page] 16
THE FARMER'S SON: Bruce Edward Dommer [page] 17
BETWEEN MY LIPS: John Garvey [page] …

Formal And Informal Undergraduate Ethics Education In Engineering, Grace Ports

Undergraduate Voices

This literature review attempts to answer the question of whether formal education or informal education of ethics within civil engineering is more beneficial. If there is a lack of structured education of ethics in civil engineering, then another area of interest is to discover where engineers are being informally educated. Another area of inquiry is whether it is more beneficial to teach engineers ethics prior to the time when they are required to study the code of ethics for their certification exam, or should engineers wait until moments before the exam to study the code. This article examines the potential …

Sustainability In Chemical Engineering, Alec T. Raber

Undergraduate Voices

For much of the past century, the world has seen industrial and technological progress that has helped make life better for humans but hurt the environment while doing so. Once people realized the damage that was being done, it was observed that this kind of development was not sustainable, meaning it did not “meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (Brundtland, 1987, p. 3). While different experts may define the term “sustainability” (or “sustainable development”), differently, they will all share the substance of Brundtland’s definition. Ever since the light …

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Prose

THE WHITE BULL: Pat Collins [page] 11-16
A LETTER: Siv Cedering Fox [page] 16
PEACE WITH HONOR: Glen Barton [page] 17-22
FRONTIER TRAILER COURT: Dan Domench [page] 23-25
SWEET TIME: WORKING A POEM: Phil Hey [page] 27-29
CENTER RING STAR: Kelly John Mernaugh [page] 30-34

Poetry

TWO POEMS: Albert Goldbarth [page] 35
INDIANS: R. P. Dickey [page] 36
THE WOMAN THE LIGHTENING LIT UP: Mary McAnnally-Knight [page] 37
TWO POEMS: George A. West [page] 38
POEM: Andrew Grossbardt [page] 39
TWO POEMS: Al Fogel [page] 40, 41
CLOCK THE SUMMER: Jay S. Paul [page] 42
COMING …

In The Group Home: Disenfranchised Youth And The Creative Writing Workshop As Intervention, Alyse Bensel

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

Nationwide, creative writing outreach programs serve marginalized groups in the community, empowering participants to regain a sense of control through non-verbal creative outlets. In striving to maintain the humanity and dignity of participants, pedagogies for underserved groups call for workshop facilitators to accompany rather than instruct. Using the group home adolescent population as an example, this article advocates for future alliances between the academy and the community to serve local at-risk populations. This collaboration will foster interdisciplinary cooperation and develop service learning coursework opportunities for positive social change.

“That’S My Boy”: Challenging The Myth Of Literary Mentorship As In Loco Patris, Neil Surkan, Robert Mcgill

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

Literary mentors have long been mythologized as serving in loco patris: i.e., in the place of their mentees’ fathers. Focusing on depictions of such mentorship in Tom Grimes’s Mentor (2010), the anthology A Manner of Being (2015), and Debra Weinstein's Apprentice to the Flower Poet Z. (2004), we observe that these depictions repeatedly cast mentorship as dyadic, hierarchical, and homosocial. We argue that such depictions rehearse patriarchal norms with respect to literature, gender, and parenthood while fostering fraught psychological dynamics. Consequently, we identify a need for greater self-reflexivity about mentoring relations and a greater focus on alternative forms that …

Transatlantic Détournement? An Institutional Perspective On François Bon’S Reception Of Kenneth Goldsmith’S Uncreative Writing, Gert-Jan Meyntjens

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

This article investigates the ambivalent reception of Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing by the French author and writing workshop facilitator François Bon. Although admiring Goldsmith’s radical poetics, Bon hesitates when it comes to integrating digitally-driven uncreative writing methods in his own workshop. In one entry on his personal website, Bon proposes a détournement of Goldsmith’s experimental practices in the form of a return to the novel. To account for this ambivalence on the part of Bon, this article takes the contexts of American creative writing and the French atelier d’écriture into account. It argues that the novelty of Goldsmith’s project can …

Editor’S Note, Trent Hergenrader

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

One of the primary goals of the field of creative writing studies is to examine creative writing lore. Lore is anecdotal knowledge, often passed down through generations as informal advice and traditional knowledge that is often framed as appealing to our common sense. Lore is not necessarily wrong or bad; indeed, it usually has more than a grain of truth to it, which is why it survives and continues to be shared, like a folk remedy for the common cold.

Voices From Verse: The Power Of Poetry For Seattle's Homeless Youth, Savannah Grace Hadley

Honors Projects

This paper is a creative nonfiction essay combining research, interviews, and personal experience to discuss how and why poetry is helpful in a therapeutic context, specifically working with at-risk youth. Pongo, a program that provides incarcerated youth an opportunity to write poetry, under the direction of Richard Gold, has found through survey responses that with the Pongo Teen Writing Method “100 percent of youth enjoyed the writing experience, 98 percent were proud of their writing, and 73 percent wrote on topics they don’t normally talk about” (Gold, 21). I came to understand, through time volunteering with the writing groups at …

Letter From The Editors

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Little Trumpie Runs Amok At Mar-A-Lago, Marleen S. Barr

Publications and Research

This is a short story that imagines that Trump becomes a child who wreaks havoc at Mar-a-Lago.

Review Of Chris Ware: Conversations, Carly Diab

SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education

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Pre-Service Teachers’ Perspectives On How The Use Of Toon Comic Books During Guided Reading Influenced Learning By Struggling Readers, Ewa Mcgrail, Alicja Rieger, Gina M. Doepker, Samantha Mcgeorge

SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education

The study presented in this article examines the use of comic books, specifically the TOON comic books during guided reading instruction. The instruction was provided to struggling readers by the Literacy Center at a comprehensive university in southeastern United States. What most pre-service teachers in this study agreed upon was that comic books served as an effective tool for getting their students interested in reading. Reading comic books with tutors as partners in conversation with the struggling readers in this study was also a powerful medium for facilitating students’ literacy skills development, particularly in the areas of reading fluency and …

June 2018, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Eléonore Weill Visits; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Bat Mitvahs; Person of the Year; Community Notices

Vol. Lv, No. 3: Stars For A Dark World: The Poems Of Jane Gentry, Lynnell Edwards

The Hollins Critic

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Amjambo Africa! (June 2018), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

Welcome to Amjambo Africa! Welcome to Amjambo Africa! We are Maine’s free newspaper for and about New Mainers from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Amjambo Africa! is here to help New Mainers thrive and to help Maine welcome and benefit from our new neighbors.

Amjambo Africa! will serve as a conduit of information for newcomers as they navigate life in Maine.

Amjambo Africa! will include background articles about Africa so those from Maine can understand why newcomers have arrived here.

Amjambo Africa! will profile successful New Mainers from Sub-Saharan Africa in order to give hope to those newly arrived as well as make …

Reckoning With “Other Lies”: A Review Of “Everything Happens For A Reason”, Melanie Springer Mock

Faculty Publications - Department of English

Excerpt: "Everything Happens For a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved narrates the aftermath of Bowler’s diagnosis, reflecting on what it means to live well despite the specter of death. The memoir, by turns funny, thoughtful, meditative, and sobering, asks important questions about how we understand God in the midst of suffering and pain, especially when those facile mythologies we often turn to—everything happens for a reason, it’s all part of God’s plan, God is teaching me something—provide insufficient comfort for those who are hurting."

When You Meet My Parents, Adella-Marie G. Cloutier

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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The Minotaur, Kevin B. Anderson

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April Fools, Jennifer C. Cormack

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Never Trust A Gun, Stephen P. Hull

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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From What Is Before, Kevin B. Anderson

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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The Edge Of Spontaneity: An Oral History Of New York Long Form Improv, Colleen Goodhue

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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The Disappearance Of Breath, Amy N. Millios

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Keeping Austin, Kevin B. Anderson

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Living History And War Reenactment Stories From Weekend Warriors, Hayden S. Mcneil

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Our Singularity, Kevin B. Anderson

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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