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The Stanley Kunitz-Stockmal Collection, Stanley J. Kunitz, Greg Stockmal, Carol Stockmal

Finding Aids

Stanley Kunitz was born in Worcester in 1905 and shortly after college moved away. Beginning in the 1960s, he returned to give poetry readings and to receive honors. Kunitz searched unsuccessfully for his boyhood home on Woodford Street. Then, in 1985, he came to Worcester for the week-long Stanley Kunitz Poetry Festival in honor of his 80th birthday and on the last day of the festival, Kunitz decided to try once more to find the house on Woodford Street. Greg and Carol Stockmal, who had bought the house in 1979, found Kunitz and his entourage standing in front of their …

The Milton Lehman Papers, Milton Lehman

Finding Aids

Milton Lehman (1917-1966) was a free-lance writer, contributing about 250 articles to national magazines such as Saturday Evening Post, Life, Reader’s Digest, McCall’s, Look, The York Times, and other periodicals, books and newspapers. He wrote a biography of Robert H. Goddard that was published in 1963. He was helped throughout the seven year writing process by Esther C. Goddard, Goddard’s wife, who supplied him with transcripts of Goddard’s notes, notebooks, diaries, reports and correspondence and with photographs of his work as well as her own recollections. Lehman interviewed people from all parts of Goddard’s life; his childhood, schooling, early Clark …

The Leah And Samuel Levenson Papers, Leah Levenson, Samuel Levenson

Finding Aids

Samuel Levenson was a Worcester native who received his A.B. from Clark University in 1930 and his A.M. in 1936. He was a journalist and both he and his wife, Leah, were authors of biographies. Samuel died in 1977 and Leah in 2000 and Leah left their papers and library without restriction to Clark University in her will. Appropriate books were incorporated into the Goddard Library circulating collection. The books written by the Levensons were primarily biographies of Irish men and women. The papers include transcriptions and tapes of interviews made in the course of the Levensons’ researches, photographs of …

Trainsong, Geri Doran

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 61-62

Stairmaster, Parneshia Jones

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 81

Sex Dreams With Two Boxes, Terri Witek

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 159

Split / Small Porcelain Head / The Tulip Flame, Michelle Chan Brown

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 166-170

"Not I!": Strategies Of Post-Millennial Confessionalistic Poetry, Charlotte Pence

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

With the technological ability and pop-cultural fascination to record private moments and distribute them, poetry that reveals personal details and conflates the identity between speaker and author must feel the effects of what could be viewed as an over-saturation of the confessional—which was during the 1950s and 1960s with Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath a political, rebellious act. It is far from that now. In this Kim Kardashian era, revealing sex tapes are used as marketing tools to launch careers whereas once they destroyed careers. Considering the hyper-confessional climate of our era and that “Confessional” is something of …

A Few Lines From The Library, Joel Brouwer

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 41-42

Augustine Chanting, Daniel Corrie

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 57

Splitting The Lark, Lesley Jenike

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 79-80

Split, Michelle Chan Brown

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 171-172

Mystery, Julia Battisti

The Oval

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Vibrant Domain Of Atoms, Kris Price

The Oval

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Re: Generation, Colter Murphy

The Oval

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October 21, 2005, Michael Melugin

The Oval

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Fallen, Stacia Hill

The Oval

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How Strange, Innocence, Clare Menahan

The Oval

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An Old Cat, Stacia Hill

The Oval

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Grandfather Is In, Emma Jacobsen

The Oval

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Lost Highland House, Erika Tibbetts

The Oval

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Lumberjack (Cover Art), Halisia Hubbard

The Oval

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When Grandparents Moved From The Puget Sound To Palm Springs, Ryan Hitchcock

The Oval

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Freedom, Madison Hinrichs

The Oval

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Escape To The Woods, Courtney Cathers

The Oval

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Honey Does Not Rot, Sara Bickley

The Oval

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Isaac, Afterward, Al Maginnes

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 92-93

Cylindrical Bales, Catherine Staples

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 148

Condorcet And I - A Fictional Conversation Between Condorcet And Me: On The Outlines Of An Historical View Of The Progress Of The Human Mind, Michael S. Christopher

Master of Liberal Studies Theses

The thesis’ main question is: Has the reality of Condorcet’s Outlines of an Historical View of the Progress of the Human Mind been realized with humanity becoming perfect, as Condorcet indicates? In answering that question, my thesis contention will present the fictional encounter between Condorcet and me in which we debate Condorcet’s essay. The two of us will embark upon our world views of humanism and theism in a dramatic debate, presenting our perspectives and try to get to a resolution.

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.