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Heaven's Disco Dances, Savannah Leigh Osbourn

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Heaven’s Disco Dances is a collection of poetry about finding identity through defamiliarization and displacing oneself from reality to better understand it. Within the literary community, there is a great deal of derision toward writing that fails to be “real” or “serious” enough, and poetry is an excellent example of how sometimes the extraordinary speaks to us in ways that realistic fiction cannot. The marvelous and fantastic might serve as an escape from the world, but not necessarily from reality. Rather, they give readers a different lens on life, and sometimes that makes it a more powerful one, because people …

Jameson's Story: A Tale Of The Human Condition Through Fiction, Steven Kubitza

Honors Projects

A work of fiction focusing on two characters living in the same world, but under much different circumstances. One must try and find out who he is while the other is attempting to uphold his way of life in a society threatening to take it away. The story delves into the ideas of a somewhat dystopian world; one in which our society could ultimately mirror in the near future. The work is unfinished, which is explained in the reflection paper at the beginning of the document.

Le Flâneur Contemporain: The Wanderer In The 21st Century, Zachary Kocanda

Honors Projects

This creative project is a love letter to walking, poetry, and the French language. The flâneur is a French literary type, the most famous example being Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire epitomizes la modernité, writing poetry about urban Paris in the nineteenth century. The flâneur's importance as a literary type continues in contemporary poetry. Through fifteen prose poems, the project examines what it means to wander in the twenty-first century.

The Hatching, Kristine Wagner

Arrow Rock

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The Apple Never Fell From The Tree, Talia Aiges

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Francois' Laments, Jamie Somerstein

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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The Bluest Sky, Lorraine Xie

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Forget-Me-Nots, Chelsea Charles

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Lifeless Sanity, Michelle Langone

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Calpurnia's Garage Sale, Maria Daniella Vadillo

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Asphalt Skin, Chelsea Charles

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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The Imaginary Grocery Shopping Diaries Of Very Real Authors (And The Imagined Grocery Shopping Diary Of Stephanie Meyer), Leah Bush

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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60 Seconds, Eric Rosenthal

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Uniqueness Is Illusion, Loret Haas-Hanser

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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The Gilded Man, Rachel Morton

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Bridge Of Glass, Alyssa Woodruff

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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I Created A Man, Jamie Somerstein

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Time, Stephanie Benmergui

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Supernova Sonnet, Brianna Gonzalez

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Ghosts Of Suburbia, Lindsay Glick

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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All Elms Washed By The Sea, Lorraine Xie

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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New Beginnings, Rachel Sereix

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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You, Sydney Shiekman

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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The Promethean, Volume 23, Cats In Zanzibar, 2015, English Department, Concordia University-Portland

The Promethean

With every new generation it is important to look back and learn from those that have come before us, but it is also essential to redefine the new era on a personal level. Henry David Thoreau, venerated author and philosopher, concluded his novel Walden with the line, "It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar." Thoreau's sentiment was that a change of soul or purpose is more important than a change of scenery.

I speak for myself as well as a lot of other late-teen and twenty-something when I say that …

May 2015, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center

Newsletter Archive

Contents: Shavout; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; A Bissel of Jewish Maine

Creative Writer's Festival 2015 Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Smith Center for the Arts, Green Room, Lower Level

Creative Writers Festival 2015

Friday, May 1 at 7:00 PM

Student written, directed and acted

Curated by Dave Rabinow

Creative Writers Festival 2015 Flyer, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Smith Center for the Arts, Green Room, Lower Level

Creative Writers Festival 2015

Friday, May 1, 2015, 7pm

Creative Writer's Festival 2015 Playbill, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

Smith Center for the Arts, Green Room, Lower Level

Creative Writers Festival 2015

Friday, May 1 at 7:00 PM

Student written, directed and acted

Curated by Dave Rabinow

IF ONLY by Veronica Murphy

Directed by William Dumais

Ellie: Jasmine Brooks

Dr. Geiger: Dawn Cooper

COME ON EILEEN by Logan Serabian

Judas: Dean Scotti

Cassie: Sabrina Guilbeault

Mason: Jonathan Coppe

Eileen: Marisa Gonzalez

BURN by Dawn Cooper

Directed by Marisa Gonzalez

Performed by Brittany Price

HEART OF THE WEST by William Dumais

Directed by Jennifer Dorn

Performed by Logan Serabian

THE LIFE OF …

Scarred: A Collection Of Creative Nonfiction Essays, Jason A. Ruiz

Theses & Honors Papers

This collection of essays seeks to explore the need for redemption as a necessary element of the Human Condition, by exploring my experiences as a child, adolescent, teen, and adult. Throughout the collection of essays, I, as the central character of the work, am conditioned by my physical deformity (a massive scar on my stomach) to question my life, values, and relationships. I establish for myself a destructive pattern that nearly ends my marriage. These destructive patterns eventually become touchstones through which I finally come to terms with who I am, what I am, and the truth that my existence …

Babel, Anais Dorian Norman

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

babel is a collection of nonfiction essays in which I explore a female twenty-something’s crossdimensional dilemma of spirituality, racism, art, and love in the wake of Bible-belt hipsterdom. I board the train that is human pride, that great metal snake by which we essayists craft our lives, and measure out my stories by cities and coffeespoons—dotted with dark roast, preferably. The train of my collection glides through the first ‘burg and its Godlike aspirations, Babel; travels a ways to Virginia, specifically Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University and Prince Edward County, which was the hotbed of the Civil Rights in Education Movement; …