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Ballad Of St. Stephen's Green, James B. Nicola

Westview

While loitering in St. Stephen’s Green, Watching the youth pass by, I spied an elder gentleman In a blue suit and bright tie

Beetles In Moonlight, Gordon Grice

Westview

This rooted cliff is riddled and pocked. On August nights, you can watch the moonlight clatter into shards that move apart and come together to couple.

Blimps Are Cool, Molly Sizer

Westview

Today we saw the Goodyear Blimp. It flew above the roofs of town.

Carved Door, Dennis Ross

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I stagger with a heavy door, thick, ancient oak with six carved panels: a dove, a plow, flowers, wreathed acanthus leaves.

Health Care, Dick Bentley

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On this hill, in this clump of trees at the edge of the golf course, I sit with the wind swaying the daisies.

If Ever, Dilvin Işiki

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If ever this sadness unbraces the ties between me and you, I’ll hang myself to your happiness;

Midnight Run To Nacogdoches, Robert L. Penick

Westview

He is sitting in a fast food restaurant, pining for a woman who has never had an original thought in her life. It is Christmas Eve, and she is five hundred miles away, celebrating with her new in-laws. He is a damned fool, but hasn’t quite realized it yet.

Naming Southwest Oklahoma, Molly Sizer

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Young Andrew Carnegie invested years steeling money; in his old age, he built imposing music halls on the east coast and libraries in rural towns out west.

The Choice Is Mine, John Grey

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I wear mismatched clothes, fill the sink with dirty dishes, sit and watch football on the TV until all hours

Lampyridae, Donna Emerson

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As I walk down the June steps of the farmhouse, fireflies flash close to my face.

Amjambo Africa! (May 2019), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In This Issue...

Cultivating Community .........Page 8

Community Dialogue...........Page 15

Commemorate, Nan Byrne

Westview

We learn by losing The dead—first one becomes many The truth we knew becomes the truth we suffered

Doughboy And Jenny, Donna L. Emerson

Westview

Our summer horses, five-gaited warm-bloods. Alert, easy to ride.

Green, Richard Dinges Jr.

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Green is cool to gaze into, woods strangled in undergrowth

Part One, Diane Glancy

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The Man Who Loves Dreamsicles

Rains, James B. Nicola

Westview

One kind of rain wears moccasins and comes in quiet as a ghost then leaves your cheeks-nose-forehead moist with an unremarked kiss.

Summer Thunderstorm, Richard Dinges Jr.

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A cold pierce, bolts crack sky’s lids, a brief glimpse at eternity

The Promethean, Volume 27, Blue Apocalypse, 2019, English Department, Concordia University-Portland

The Promethean

Like any other, this past year was full of many hard lessons that were difficult to swallow. It's easy to feel like the world is falling apart sometimes, or worse, that you're alone in the devastation. However, remember that when it feels like the end of the world, you will find sanctuary in your community, your loved ones, your passions, and in yourself.

It is my greatest hope that you also will find sanctuary throughout these pages, a collection of our voices coming together to create something beautiful.

This issue is dedicated to the College of Arts & Sciences. In …

A Melody Of Leaves, Adriana English

Emerging Writers

Finalist in the Creative Non-fiction category of the 2019 Emerging Writers Contest. This personal essay describes the writer's discovery of the benefits of tea after she makes a cup of it one evening.

Freedom, Maria Cabrera Yannotta

Emerging Writers

First-place Winner in the Creative non-fiction category of the 2019 Emerging Writers Contest. This personal essay describes the writer's experiences on January 23, 2019, when a new president was sworn into office in Venezuela.

New Year's Gay, Jacob Eubanks

Emerging Writers

Second-place winner in the Creative Non-fiction category of the 2019 Emerging Writers Contest. This personal essay describes the writer's experiences that led to his coming out on New Year's Eve 2017.

A Lover's Heart - No, Mind, Marcos Gonzalez

Emerging Writers

Third-place winner in the Creative Non-fiction category of the 2019 Emerging Writers Contest. This essay describes the writer's personal reflections on love.

Why Do I Love Figure Skating? Good Question., Natalie Dayvault

Emerging Writers

Finalist in the Creative Non-fiction category of the 2019 Emerging Writers Contest. This personal essay describes the writer's experiences as an ice-skating athlete.

"Name Her Reiko!": The Ikemiya Diaspora, Morgan Ikemiya

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This creative-nonfiction project encapsulates a Japanese family diaspora to America beginning in the late 1880s. Through short stories, poems, and monologues, the author expresses familial struggles such as living in a foreign land and being Japanese in White America. The author reflects on her grandparents' time in the Japanese internment camps where they faced hardship and hegemonic oppression as well as her father's experience of growing up Japanese-American in Los Angeles. The stories weave together history, hardship, and race to create a unique diaspora story.

Living The All-American Dream, Emma Franklin

Theses/Capstones/Creative Projects

This creative compilation includes a critical book review, assessed through an autobiographical lens with narrative commentary; a personal essay set in early childhood; and a second personal essay from the young adulthood perspective. The critical book review is influenced by creative non-fiction pedagogy, personal experiences, and texts assigned in English 4820: Autobiography. The objective is to recognize writing moves within the memoir genre and apply them to the subsequent two personal essays, which are sections of a potential full-length piece. Much of the preliminary work for this composition has been an ongoing process of reading, learning, and applying techniques from …

The Plan Revised, Fela Dosunmu

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Between The Glass Door, Cassie Persaud

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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The Hard Truth, Kayleigh Ray

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

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Contributors, Westview Staff

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Birds Of Light, Jack Cooper

Westview

Autumn streams of rain hit the maple tree and red and yellow leaves wing off in all directions