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Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 3 (June, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring an reprinted article on Bern Porter and poems by D. Russel and Nguyen Ducmanh.

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 2 (April, 1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring found works by Bern Porter and Natasha Bernstein's "Return to Belfast, Part II."

Bern Porter International: Volume 3 Number 1 (February ,1999), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring "The Year 2000 (Y2K) Computer Problem (IV): Capitalism's Culpability" by George Shand and poems by Maureen Neville and Anne Welsh.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 6 (December, 1998), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring "Science and Writing, or, Physics is Language: A manifesto or something" by Andrew Russ and an excerpt from Bern Porter's book, Monica Lewinsky: All of Us Want Yours.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 5 (October, 1998), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring an excerpt from Arundhati Roy on nuclear war and art by Dan Russell.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 4 (August, 1998), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring found art by Bern Porter and "To Whom Returns To Naas" by Nugyen Ducmanh.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 3 (June, 1998), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring an overview of poet Sam Silva and a page from Bern Porter's Book of Wisdom.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 2 (April, 1998), Bern Porter, Natasha Bernstein, Sheila Holtz

Newsletters

A bimonthly literary newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring Bern Porter on the Human Genome Initiative and "Omaha" by Dan Russell.

Bern Porter International: Volume 2 Number 1 (February, 1998), Bern Porter, Natasha Bernstein, Sheila Holtz

Newsletters

A bimonthly literary newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute for Advanced Thinking.

Featuring Nick Herbert on Quantum Tantra and statements from Institute scholars.

Warren's Audubon: A Vision Revisited, Sylwia W. Zechowska

Masters Theses

This thesis consists of a Polish translation of a volume of Robert Penn Warren's poetry: Audubon: A Vision accompanied by an introductory essay focusing on historical, cultural and psychological aspects of the poems. As a novelist, Robert Penn Warren is well known to the Polish reading public. All his major novels have been translated into Polish and received with great acclaim, which has been confirmed by numerous editions. Warren's popularity among Polish readers may be attributed to the fact that his fiction is permeated with a peculiar sense of melancholy and a profound awareness of tragic national history, features inevitably …

Bern Porter International: Volume 1 Number 2 (Autumn, 1997), Bern Porter, Natasha Bernstein, Sheila Holtz

Newsletters

Featuring a list of works by Bern Porter and a list of "scholars" of the Institute of Advanced Thinking.

Bern Porter International: Volume 1 Number 1 (Summer, 1997), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newspaper

Featuring the Bern Porter International mission statement with an introduction to the Institute of Advanced Thinking and Porter's literary philosophy.

In Our Very Bones: Poems By Twyla Hansen, Twyla Hansen

Nebraskiana Publications: Resources and Materials on the 37th State

DISTANCES

1 Midwestern Autumn, 2 Going to the Graves, 3 Memorial Day, 4 On the Screen Porch, 5 Gophers, 6 Lilac Tripping, 7 The Separator, 9 Conspiracy, 11 My Neighbor's Daughter Learning To Drive, 12 Platte River State Park, Late January, 13 Spring Equinox, 14 When You Leave, 15 My Husband Snoring, 16 Full Moon, Total Eclipse, 17 My Father's Miniatures, 18 Wind, 20 If My Father Were Still Alive

ON THE PRAIRIE

23 Song of the Pasque Flower, 24 Blue Moon, 25 Crane River, 26 Nine-Mile Prairie, 27 Late May, 29 Prairie Trout, 30 Vines, 31 Building a Bat …

Journal Of Pedagogy, Pluralism And Practice, Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 1997 (Full Issue), Journal Staff

Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice

No abstract provided.

Hunger Unpublished, Mark Axelrod

English Faculty Articles and Research

How Mark Axelrod lined up some of the world’s finest writers on one of the world’s biggest issues – and still couldn’t get them into print.

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

The WKU Student Honors Research Bulletin is dedicated to scholarly involvement and student research. These papers are representative of work done by students from throughout the university.

• Allen, Melody. Women in Control of Courtship in As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice and All's Well That Ends Well
• Amlani, Islamshah. Electron Stimulated Desorption of Alkali Halides
• Brillhart, Kelly. Women Without Men: Hemingway's Female Characters
• Burton, Lori. Financial Statements with Environmental Concerns: An Exploratory Study of the Impact on the Auditor's Role and Responsibilities
• Combs, Vicki. Dancing the Descent: Energy and Entrophy in William Carlos Williams
• Davis, Julie. Prelude to …

Robert Frost And Maya Angelou: Poet-As-Rhetor In The Presidential Inauguration: Textual Symbols And The Symbol Of Enactment, Donna M. Witmer

Masters Theses

This criticism uses an organic approach to examine the rhetorical properties of Frost's and Angelou's inaugural poems and their individual enactments respective of the constraints and exigencies in the Presidential inaugurations of Kennedy and Clinton. Apparently responding to the constraints of television's sound bite as well as to exigencies of the traditional inauguration and the need to serve a new generation and a culturally diverse population, the Clinton Administration combined the poetic form, used to heighten an emotional response, with an enactment as a synecdochic symbol, used to assert sociopolitical ideology.

San José Studies, Fall 1993, San José State University Foundation

San José Studies, 1990s

Volume 19, Issue 3

Tough Eloquence, Yusef Komunyakaa

Trotter Review

I began reading Etheridge Knight's poetry in the early 1970s, and what immediately caught my attention was his ability to balance an eloquence and toughness, exhibiting a complex man behind the words. His technique and content were one—the profane alongside the sacred—accomplished without disturbing the poem's tonal congruity and imagistic exactitude. Here was a streetwise poet who loved and revered language. Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes seem to have been his mentors, but Knight appeared to have sprung into the literary world almost fully formed. He had so much control and authority; he was authentic from the onset. …

How To Live In The Heartland, Twyla Hansen

Nebraskiana Publications: Resources and Materials on the 37th State

Foreword by William Kloefkorn -7, How to Live in the Heartland -11, Airing Out -12, Country Girl -13, January Thaw -14, Making Lard -15, Headlines: Hometown Weekly -16, Nuance -17, My Brother Randall Teaches Me to Ride a Bicycle -18, Seamstress -19, Eddie -20, Nine-Mile Prairie, Mid-May -22, The Pine Grove -23, Kissing Cousins -24, Scars -25, Trumpetcreeper Vine -26, 1964 -27, Friday Night at the Plaza -28, After the Farm Sale -30, Highway -31, Night Shift at the Old Hospital, 1968 -32, Fantasy -34, Eyewash -35, Navigating the North Platte from Lingle to Torrington -36, When the Prairie Speaks …

Marge Piercy's Small Changes: Welcome To The Sexual Revolution, Nancy Topping Bazin

English Faculty Publications

Marge Piercy's novel Small Changes is encyclopedic in its incredibly detailed, all-encompassing feminist analysis of female and male behavior in the late 60's and early 70's. The behavior of the younger generation is compared and contrasted with that of their parents. The overall impression given by the novel is that, despite the very different life-styles of the two generations, very little change has, in fact, occurred. At the end of the novel, sexism prevails and no significant threat to male control of the power structure has developed. From examination of the title, Piercy seems to place her emphasis not upon …

The Zen Of Stevens, Rebecca Dickens

Masters Theses

Using comparative studies as background, I develop a Zen model for reading Stevens, arguing that his poetry works in the manner of Zen anecdotes and that it can be understood better by understanding Zen. Three critical studies of Wallace Stevens and Zen assert the Zen-like qualities of Stevens' poetry. Stevens has affinities with Zen writers in three areas: use of language, explorations into the nature of thought, and the structure of anecdotes and poems.

I develop a terminology in order to construct my model, giving attention to the definitions and interrelations of terms such as logical thought, figurative thought, paradox, …

"A Terror And A Dream": Domestic Imagery In The Poetry Of Anne Sexton, Frances S. Waters

English Theses & Dissertations

Women writers often experience a conflict between traditional feminine roles and the less traditional role of the female writer. And for those writers, like Anne Sexton, who choose not to choose between roles, the result is conflict. This conflict, recognized by previous critics and evident in Sexton's biography and poetry, results in a domestic imagery expressing this vacillation. In this study, submitted in partial fulfillment for the M. A. degree in English, I provide an in-depth study of Sexton's domestic imagery. I concern myself with two imagery patterns: one, in which the symbolic image's meaning changes randomly with no controlling …

Bern Porter Scrapbook [Ca. June 1981 - May 1982], Bern Porter

Scrapbooks

Bern Porter Travel Scrapbook #2. Coverage approximately June 1981 - May 1982. Entries not reliably chronological.

Charles Simic: Trends Toward An International Poetry, Denise Clark

Masters Theses

In his article "Wrong Turning in American Poetry," Robert Bly believes that American poetry has been lead astray by the likes of Eliot, Pound, Moore, and Williams. He feels that the main failing of American poetry is its lack of inward, spiritual life. It is the Spanish speaking poets that Bly looks to as the true path-finders of spiritual poetry. If Bly believes that poets like Eliot and Williams were responsible for steering American poetry down the wrong path, it is a foreigner, Charles Simic, who will give American poetry the right turn it needs.

What Simic has been able …

The Endlessly Elaborating Poem: A Comparative Study Of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, And The American Experimental, Long Narrative Poem, Paul Freidinger

Masters Theses

Up to the middle of the nineteenth century, British and American poetry was expected to employ rigid metrical and rhythmical patterns. Any verse that did not conform was considered devoid of aesthetic merit. In addition, some critics, Edgar Allan Poe being one of those, argued that there was no place for a long poem in poetry. Walt Whitman and Wallace Stevens, two proponents of the long narrative poem, both wrote in free verse and, thus, directly confronted these traditional theories.

This study demonstrates that the verse of Whitman and Stevens constitutes a new approach to poetic style and structure. A …

The Whole Of Harmonium Music In Relation To The Poetry Of Wallace Stevens, Mary Alice Hollowell

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Intensification Of American Confessional Poetry In The 'Sixties: Robert Lowell And Some Leading Questions, H. C. Nash

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

Emily Dickinson's Poetics, Edith Lodge

English Theses & Dissertations

No abstract.

"Poetry Reading With Allen Ginsberg And Others", Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bly, Robert Sund, Jon Anderson

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