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I Traveled South, Janet Jennings

Bryant Literary Review

We drove to the coast to sip Black Russians. Cream swirled in an ice-
black sea. My name changed every day.

End Of Summer Session At The Music School, Michael Hogan

Bryant Literary Review

Cecilia Hall is silent tonight:
no oboes, no flutes

Instructions, Geri Rosenzweig

Bryant Literary Review

Before you fit me into a pine box and
lower me into the ground to the chant

Barred Owl, B. J. Best

Bryant Literary Review

somewhere in the forest lives a question.
ice cracks, wind whips, a child is putting

Bridge Of Sighs, Don Kunz

Bryant Literary Review

One wrong turn
(For which Venice is famous)

The Waves, Jéanpaul Ferro

Bryant Literary Review

In the afternoon, when the sky
is almost out of sun,

Hartford Circus Fire (1944), John Surowiecki

Bryant Literary Review

All we were told was that the animals
were saved and the children died;

Undershirt, Donna Pucciani

Bryant Literary Review

That undershirt
with the hole I'd like to put my index finger through

Morendo, Al Niente (Dying Away, To Nothing), Ryan Cipriano

Bryant Literary Review

Chicago plaza, centered around a fountain
Beside which Stanley passed away

Autobiography, Pamela S. Wynn

Bryant Literary Review

My parent's match was made on the outskirts of heaven.

To A Former Student Training To Become An Interrogator, David O'Connell

Bryant Literary Review

They say pressure isn't torture
and, at times, because I don't know better
I'm willing to agree

Lyme Tick, Mitch Lescarbeau

Bryant Literary Review

Through the porch screen of the makeshift sickroom
the patient boats in the cove

Gone Too Soon, Nancy Lee Craven

Bryant Literary Review

You left, I think, under the burden of heavy judgment,
Or grief too difficult to bear. I do not know, but I would like to,

Kidnapped At Birth, Buff Whitman-Bradley

Bryant Literary Review

Every one of us was kidnapped at birth
By a man in money-colored shoes who
Snatched us away from our real parents

Lines For An Absent Friend, Larry Rubin

Bryant Literary Review

So you weren't there--the emptiness
Would have shattered me, except I know how atoms

Chicken-In-The-Pot, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

One dollar buys a chance to catapult
a rubber bird onto a spinning table that seems

Parsimonious, Paul Hostovsky

Bryant Literary Review

I remember the first time I looked it up--
I was a sophomore--Michael

Leonard On The Farm, Jack Cooper

Bryant Literary Review

He had less than a dozen teeth,
wore shoes with ten years of pigshit

Grim Reaper, Carl Beauchamp

Bryant Literary Review

It's only natural
A black gown
And sharp sickle

The Lantern Vol. 76, No. 2, Spring 2009, Chelsea Catalanotto, Robert Whitehead, Callie Ingram, Paul Rossman, Katherine Murphy, Maire Moriarty, Pete Lipsi, Josh Aungst, Nathan Taylor, Ellyn Rolleston, Liz Brennan, Nicole Dillie, Stephanie Bartusis, Robert Evans, Amber Hyppolite, Kevin Bendis, Christopher Schaeffer, Shane Kowalski

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Coffee and Morning
• Charlie Brown Testifies at the Trial of Westley Allan Dodd, Convicted Child Killer
• In a Women's Bathroom
• The Naming
• An Urban Nightmare
• In the Yellow Kitchen
• City Streets
• Engineering
• Walter Bixby Walks Through Hunsberger Woods
• Sing a Happy Tune
• Apology
• Will You Wear a Helmet?!
• Molly Can't Answer the Phone
• Marked Man
• He's Under a Lot of Pressure
• Ne Me Quitte Pas
• Last Night
• All of Our Second Hand Books are Lightly Worn

2009 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

Flaming Red Wig, Carla Christina Howl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

"Flaming Red Wig" is a collection of short stories and prose poems with a critical preface. Both the preface and the creative work explore notions of artifice, apposition and entering into a text (both written and character) with stillness or intrusion. I try to create an examination and communion with language on much the same level, ultimately yielding a musicality that creates a rhythmic discourse and dynamic between the significance and the notion. The title of my thesis refers to the obvious motif of artifice and the reoccurring theme of emotional pain attached to gender and humanistic role within specific …

The Mercury 2009

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Lights And Shadows - 2009, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Homefront, Stacy Elaine Pratt

Dissertations

This collection of poetry and essays explores the nature of marriage, time, and human experience. Many of the pieces center on the author's experience as the wife of a soldier deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Others use scientific and mathematical imagery to illustrate spiritual concepts.

The Lantern Vol. 76, No. 1, Fall 2008, Louisa Schnaithmann, Dayna Stein, India Mcghee, Callie Ingram, Nathan Taylor, Nathaniel Rosenthalis, Brett Celinski, Chelsea Catalanotto, Nicole Dillie, Robert Whitehead, Ryan Sullivan, Maire Moriarty, Katherine Lecours, Christopher Schaeffer, Robert Evans, Colin Ottinger, Amanda Schwartz, Abigail Raymond, Sarah Round, Maximilian Kreisky, Patrick Hayakawa

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Cruel
• A Night in Three Parts
• The Moment I Said It
• To Know
• I Will Never Skipskipskip a Rock
• The Ravine
• Untitled
• Skeleton
• Midnight Letter
• Where Children Come From
• Orphan of War
• Ciega / Mezquita
• The Other Side
• Those Dancing Days are Gone
• Cycling
• The 2nd of July
• The Tantric Semantics of Studying Abroad
• A Three-Part Study in Musical Relations
• Amway Man
• Hard Luck Investigator
• Spring
• Interview With Poet Eleanor Wilner

We Become Delicate Boats: Poems And Essays, Deja Anne Earley

Dissertations

My collection of poems and essays, We Become Delicate Boats, takes inspiration from a broad range of sources that shift into each other: paintings, pop culture, literary figures, dreams, relationships, faith, family, history. For example, some poems throw together unexpected bedfellows, like Kafka's Gregor Samsa and Marie Antoinette; others are anecdotal, like one that describes going on a blind date with a man who actually turns out to be blind, some re-imagine stories we already know, like one in the voice of Medusa, talking about which occasions call for her various snake "wigs." Although quite a few pieces are playful, …

2008 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 75, No. 2, Spring 2008, Robert Whitehead, Stephanie Bartusis, Natalie Rokaski, Dayna Stein, Jennifer Mingolello, Josh Krigman, Tori Wynne, Jen Bowlan, India Mcghee, Nicole Dillie, John Lukacs, Steven Markoe, Andy Brienza, Christopher Schaeffer, Joshua Solomon, Christopher Curley, Eric Relvas, Michael Taggart, Dan Sergeant, Samantha Owen, Patrick Hayakawa, Laurel Salvo, Ian O'Neill

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• In a French Courtyard at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Picky Mangoes
• And for My Un-Birthday I Drank Poets' Tea and Got to See
• Tree-Baby
• Wrestling With Plants
• I Smile
• Walking Home
• The Wall Between
• Phalangese, or the Art of Speaking to Fingers
• Early Spring
• Karma Kids
• A Bazaar Triptych
• The Joys of Ritual Circumcision
• [Of] Archetype[s] or I Don't Like Your Poetry
• Truth and Beauty Bombed
• Chevalier Anachronistic
• Kinds of Birds
• Sparknotes Entry for The Changing Tide by Eric Relvas
• …

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.