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Escape, Dolores Redfearn

Bryant Literary Review

Mambo sounds provoke the silence, waking the sleepwalkers in the street below.

Laundry, Will Walker

Bryant Literary Review

It's what separates us from the beasts.

Plato did not say I only wear

the idea of laundry;

Laundromat, Sheila Golburgh Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

Out of the washer

endlessly swirling,

damp and wrinkled

and knotted from harsh

With Birds Flying Below Her, Patricia O'Donnell

Bryant Literary Review

Where Muriel wants to be is sitting on a terrace, one on a mountain with a view of the ocean.

A Fifth Of Old Crow, Mitch Lescarbeau

Bryant Literary Review

Feathers black as an undertaker's wingtips,

he struts resplendent with a monocle and a walking stick

Monastery, Marc Harshman

Bryant Literary Review

Inside the cloistered quiet the men dug vegetables

and listened for God

The Man Who Will Perform My Colonoscopy, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

As I slouch in the shower, drained by fear

and laxatives, does he look forward to a day

Love Match, Ann Robinson

Bryant Literary Review

Beast with cufflinks and condoms,

studmuffin with biceps a woman could climb,

Older Brother, Thomas A. West, Jr.

Bryant Literary Review

As a child I wondered

what the lobster saw in the last second

before it flopped twisting into boiling

The Higher Faith, Elton Glaser

Bryant Literary Review

New Orleans, August 2005

When the floodwaters licked at our ankles

And wind prowled around the house,

Whistler's Mother, Lisa Starr

Bryant Literary Review

"Why I are you whistling?" I ask.

Have I been? He replies.

Is it annoying?

Fuckstutter, Anthony Francis Ramstetter

LSU Master's Theses

This manuscript is my Master thesis, which I have compiled to fulfill the requirements of a creative writing examination in poetry. It collects various pathways of poetry in terms of both form & content into professional & publishable finality. The thesis presents sections (untitled) which include subsequent themes & variations that qualifies, consolidates, & measures the poet’s work during this program of writing herein.

Lost Weight, Alyssa Froehling

Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award

No abstract provided.

Constellations – A Space In Time That’S Filled With Moving, Deanne Leber

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Constellations in the sky have been a source of inspiration, in both science and literature, for aeons. Working within the constraints of the ‘official’ 88 constellations, as devised by the International Astronomical Union, this study involved researching the myths and histories of constellations, and then creating a collection of poems based upon those. Thematic connections between the eight modern constellation “families” or groups of constellations were explored and it is in these groupings that the poems work, to tie together, through experimentations with language, a somewhat cohesive fabric of poetry.

Each constellation consists of three poems. The first is a …

Calliope, Armstrong State University

Calliope Magazine

Volume 32

Animal Welfare And Animal Rights, M.E. Rolle

Animal Sentience

This overview of Broom’s book, Sentience and Animal Welfare (2014), considers the role the book could play in the animal rights debate. In a thoroughly researched and objectively presented text, Broom lays out information that could place doubt in the minds of decision-makers. By highlighting not just the ways animals resemble humans, but also the ways humans resemble animals, Broom shines a light on a solidly grey area in the animal rights debate.

The Public Vs. The Private, Elise "Alice" G. Roberson

Audre Lorde Prize

No abstract provided.

No Sorrow In Sight, Jeff Hardin

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 98-99

Discussing The Crucifixion With Jehovah’S Witnesses At The F. Scott And Zelda Fitzgerald House In Montgomery, Alabama, Barbara Hamby

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 96-97

The Belt, Mike James

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 102

Where Justice And Whimsy Lead: An Interview With Barbara Ras, Megan Sexton

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 9-17

On The Nineteenth-Century Chinese Teapot, Mary Moore

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 121-122

Perpetual Morning, Ron Houchin

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 101

Here At The Ofh, Kathryn Starbuck

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 138-139

Teragon, L S. Asekoff

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 48

The Penitent Magdalene, J Bruce Fuller

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 79

Heaney At Halftime, Kieran Quinlan

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 31-38

A Full Shelf Also Hides Its Shame, Joshua Gottlieb-Miller

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 81-82

Frances Of The Pleiades, Laura Van Prooyen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 146

Pajama Potluck, Kerry James Evans

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 76-78