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Skating, Charlotte Muzzi

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 126

Domain, Alexis Levitan, Salgado Maranhāo

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 107

Cloud, Alexis Levitan, Salgado Maranhāo

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 112

Birmingham Poetry Review 43 (Complete Issue), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

No abstract provided.

What The Sand Says, Mary Moore

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 123-125

Cézanne's Atelier, Neil Shepard

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 128-129

Spring Baring Arms, William Logan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 113

The Book Of Flight, José Angel Araguz

Linfield Authors Book Gallery

José Angel Araguz’s The Book of Flight is a chapbook of aphoristic, fragmentary writings in the style of Ramon Gomez de la Serna’s greguerías and Pablo Neruda’s The Book of Questions. Described by Misha Pam Dick as “a four-part microtreatise-poem. Like aphorisms that don’t preen, or fragments that don’t mourn,” The Book of Flight lives somewhere between the insight of haiku, the personal heat of tanka, and the everyday tone of a poet’s notebook.

Writing On Water Writing On Air: Poetry Installations By Clark Lunberry At The University Of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library, And Beyond, Clark Lunberry, Elizabeth A. Curry, A Samuel Kimball

Writing on Water Writing on Air

Contains photographs and descriptions of visual poetry installations by Clark Lunberry, Professor of English at the University of North Florida. The installations originated at the University of North Florida's Thomas G. Carpenter Library and expanded to various locations around the world.

Contents: Writing on water, Writing on air: seeing in time, reading in motion -- Water on water, March 2007 -- Murmur of words, April 2008 -- Floating form less, November 2009 -- Sensation: water/trees/sky, March 2011 -- No such thing, March 2012 -- Bodies of water, March 2014 -- The uncomprehending window (Paris, France), March 2010 -- Providing positioning …

Crisis Across The Dog-Starred Verse: Tales Of Heroism, Horror, And Apocalypse, David Arroyo

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

Crisis Across the Dog-Starred Verse: Tales of Heroism, Horror, and Apocalypse is a collection of formal and free-verse poems. Although a few pieces are confessional in nature, many of the poems borrow from the genres of speculative fiction: horror and science fiction specifically. The thesis is not divided into sections, rather it alternates visions of a confessional real world and fantasy space. Many poems cover the death of my dog and our adventures in the multiverse, while others like “Together We Are Monsters” are meditations on monsters and pornography. Two longer pieces, however, “Campus of the 21st Century,” and “The …

Forum Magazine, Fall 2016

Forum Magazine

No abstract provided.

Guardians Of Freedom, Drew Davis

Graduate Thesis Collection

Guardians of Freedom is my attempt to make sense out of my time spent in uniform, in the only way that is appropriate: hyperbolic comedy. It is a story of Specialist Henry, a disillusioned soldier returning from one deployment in the Global War on Terror and facing another. Thoughts of making a difference and changing the world dashed, he wants nothing more than to be rid of the uniform and live an admittedly pointless life. He is joined by the various characters of Bravo Company, the deploying unit which has been used as a dumping point for medically-impaired soldiers. Outwardly, …

Restraining Order, Michael Martella

Honors Theses

This thesis is a collection of poetry and creative non-fiction that examines the intersection of place and environment with personal identity. Here are pieces written about sex, anxiety, beauty, death, masculinity, violence. But ultimately, this is a collection derived from and dependent on love.

Brim House, Amie Irwin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Brim House explores the abstract and ever changing realities of motherhood in a broken world, and in a hot, Mississippi summer.

The Laureate, 15th Edition (2016)

The Laureate

Table of Contents

• I Ache in Portuguese, Cristal Cardoso Sao Mateus
• Halloween, Drew Heuermann
• December 12th, Jared Sebastian
• Gravity, June Rose
• Letters I Never Sent, Heaven Barlow
• Harris Ave After Church, Mary Maroste
• Rapture, Ben Koval
• Love in the Other Places, Danielle Kropveld
• When The Person You Love Treats You Badly, Emily W. Recchia
• Rinse Cycle, Miranda Lopez
• When My Sister Was A Girl, Heaven Barlow
• Cocktail Hour in East Berlin, Mary Maroste
• I am Wild, Courtney Bedrosian
• Self Portrait with Booze and the Kamasutra, Heaven Barlow
• RAM, Jack Marsden
• Cracks in the Pavement, Ben Koval
• Looking out a Window, …

Rapture, Ben Koval

The Laureate

No abstract provided.

Brújula Quebrada, Julio Antonio Molinete

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Brújula quebrada o la reinvención del dolor, es un cuaderno de poesía en el cual se aborda el fenómeno del exilio, de la diáspora. Verso a verso es la historia de un diasporante signado por la angustia, el rechazo y el desprecio. Pero más que un poemario personal, deviene en un pedazo de la historia contemporánea cubana. Esa en donde los hijos de la Isla se ven obligados a escapar en pos de la libertad, un derecho que se hace esquivo aun en la tierra de la libertad.

Only The Aperture, Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Only the Aperture is a collection of ten short stories. Each story renders a moment in a different famous photographer's life.

Nostos: On Recollecting Loss And The Physical Manifestation Of Loss, Stephanie M. Huang

Scripps Senior Theses

This paper examines nostalgia in photo-poetry book Nostos, and nostalgia’s existence as a theoretical global condition arising from displacement, looking at nostalgia specifically not as a yearning for home, but a yearning for a lost sense of feeling at home. It traces the lineage of image-text hybrid art practices and examines the significance of conveying meaning through both synergistically. It studies the psychoanalytic process of transforming loss into object, or absence into presence, ultimately using the object as a lens to view oneself and the way in which nostalgia manifests itself.

The Connection And We Learned It From The Birds, Alexandra T. Copp

Scripps Senior Theses

The Connection is a story about a detective hired to find her client's one true connection in the world.

We Learned It From The Birds, follows the workday of two men as the control the birds population at JFK.

Heroes, Past And Future, Benjamin Green

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

A creative work set in a small town in which everyone has a supernatural ability called a "Gift." This work shows the characters, all on different walks of life, as they show that the metaphorical fish cannot outgrow the fish bowl. Those who have lived in this town all their lives seem to have weaker Gifts than those who have lived even one hour away. Heroes, Past and Future explores how one cannot hope to meet their true potential as a person except by allowing themselves to move even slightly away from the familiar.

Traversing The East Coast In A Pair Of Converse, Laura A. Stall

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

They say the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. My journey began with a step in a pair of low-top pink Converse sneakers. In this creative nonfiction piece, I wrote about my journey through life through my shoes. In humorous and sometimes touching stories, I recount the people and events that I feel have shaped me to be who I am today, whether that is a good or bad thing. Every anecdote comes fresh with a pair of Converse sneakers. However, in the end, the story is not just about the shoes; it’s about the life …

Close Call With Nonexistence: A Memoir, Jeff Gailus

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Fred Eduard Gailus was born on April 26, 1944, in Memelland, a place that no longer exists. It was a tiny sliver of Germandom on the far eastern edge of Hitler’s outsized German Reich. When the Soviet Red Army swept through on their way to Berlin, to end World War Two and the reign of terror perpetrated by the German people, the homeland of my father’s ancestors was wiped off the map forever. Thanks to the courage and tenacity of his mother, Fred survived the largest forced migration in human history to marry young and raise a family of four …

0836: M. Homer Cummings Papers, 1909-1968, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

The 31 boxes in this collection contain the following materials by Cummings: college examination papers; sermons and radio addresses; newspaper columns; letters; poems (single copies, booklets, and a spiral-bound book); and songs (single copies, booklets, song books, printing plates, and recordings). There are also letters written to him; newspaper articles about him and his family; materials from the Literary and Bible Training School and McCrum Slavonic Training School (Rev. and Mrs. Cummings’ alma maters); song books and vinyl records from his collection; and various miscellaneous items.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the …

Young Adult Fiction Writing In The Classroom: Emily’S Investigation And Insights, Emily Westfall

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This project explores the field of young adult literature, while also discovering the creative writing process required to develop a young adult novel. The project is organized into three separate parts. Part One focuses on young adult writers and the literature they create, along with the benefits of using these novels in a high school classroom. To benefit my future career as a future writing teacher, I researched the process required to write a fiction novel, specifically one in the young adult genre. Within this section, sources are cited such as experienced teachers and the scholarship on young adult literature. …

The Call Of The Undertow, Rebekah Bradford

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Artist Statement

Prior to becoming a graphic design student, I was very interested in illustration. I wanted an opportunity to hone my illustration skills, focus on one consistent style of illustration, consistently draw the same characters, and practice writing. Creating a children’s book gave me the opportunity to do all of those things. And, after several semesters of work, it’s great to finally see The Call of the Undertow completed! I hope that you enjoy reading this story and looking at the images because I enjoyed creating it.

Slam Poetry: An Online Intervention For Treating Depression, Spencer J. Ruchti, Mercedes Becker, Cara Mckee, Austin Herron, Alex Swalling

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

Given that depression is the “leading cause of disability worldwide,” and that less than 50% of people suffering from depression receive treatment, this study aims to provide support for a globally accessible depression treatment (WHO, 2012). The study conducted implemented an internet-based treatment for depression in which users were provided an opportunity to watch slam poetry videos related to mental health issues and write free responses regarding the content of the videos and their subjective experience of depression. Numerous studies provide support for the effectiveness of expressive writing, online mental health interventions, and slam poetry in particular for reducing symptoms …

Yellow On The Screen, David Sriboonreuang

Calliope

No abstract provided.

There Is Mulch Here, Eleuterio Pacheco

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Blood Orange, Christine Viney

Calliope

No abstract provided.