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Inscape 2019, Morehead State University.

Inscape: Art & Literary Magazine Archive

The 2019 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.

Flash Nonfiction Contest

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Like Snow In The Wind, Logan Jorgenson

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Volume 51 (2019), C.V. Davis

The Broad River Review

The 2019 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by C. V. Davis. The publication contains fiction, non-fiction, art, poetry, and photography. The cover, "Blue Window," was photographed by Harold Ackerman. The winner of the J. Calvin Koontz Poetry Award, given annually for a portfolio of poetry to a senior English major, is Callista Eckert. The Broad River Review Editor's Prize in Poetry is chosen among all submissions from Gardner-Webb University students. The winner of the poetry award is Joseph Rash for the poem titled, "The Comet." The Rash Awards, named in honor of Ron Rash, a 1976 graduate …

Don't Make Eye Contact, Elizabeth Parker Garcia

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Gasoline, Dave Gregory

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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"Quiddity | Leaving Home", Jonathan U. Barton

Theses and Dissertations

The poetry collection in four sections features pieces concerned with memory, particularly of the author’s childhood in Ireland. Difficult family relationships as well as early romantic failures are prominent obsessions. Landscapes and careful portraits of characters recur. Travel to Eastern Europe and within the author’s adopted United States give the opportunity to meditate on larger issues and spans of time. Domestic pleasures and the struggle to be a good parent and husband provide the ultimate trajectory of the work.

The nonfiction memoir consists of eight essays which tackle among other topics a failed first marriage, a return visit to the …

"Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor", Seo-Young J. Chu

Publications and Research

In this lyric essay/work of creative nonfiction (listed among “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in Best American Essays 2020), Seo-Young Chu uses poetry, autotheory, and creative nonfiction to explore the generational trauma/postmemory han she inherited from her parents and the importance of destigmatizing mental illness through dialogue.

Reed Magazine, Issue 152, Megan R.F. Alfaro, Shawn Anto, Garrett Ashely, Darius Atefat-Peckham, Lino Azevedo, Rachel Blakley Ball, Rebecca Bangs, Lane Berger, Eric Berlin, Meredith Birdsong, Michael Butcher, Claudia Caranfa, Leslie Carlin, Anne Cheilek, J. David, Claudia Di Marco, M.H. Dodson, David Dumo, Tess Falotico, Robert Morgan Fisher, Kenny Fries, Carmen Garcia Gordillo, Beatrix Gates, Tidnek Haileselassie, Andrew Jackson, Jad Josey, Michele Kilmer, Andrea Kowch, Andrew Lam, Catharine Lucas, Larry Malchow, Peter Nathaniel Malae, Ajuan Mance, Ryan Mcfadden, Mighty Mike Mcgee, Kathleen Mcguire, Bhavna Misra, Nayomi Munaweera, Martha Nance, Michella Nguyen, Beverly J. Orth, Sophia Pomponio, Buku Sakar, Shanthi Sekaran, Jesse Sensibar, Taylor Sezen, Joseph Sigurdson, Janet Spicer, Arthur Sze, Victoria Toney-Robinson, Annie Vitalsey, Mark Lee Webb, Arisa White, Michelle Wright, Sheri Wright

Reed Magazine

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Baby Fat -- A Legacy, Brandi M. Gard

Masters Theses

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The American Dream As A Cultural Movement, Thomas W. Raskay

English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

This piece investigates the relationship between the American Dream and automobility through a generational lens, assessing cultural change in each renewal of the American Dream. Comparing generations of Americans exploring and reforming cultural space reveals evidence of the American Dream as a tendency for generations to expand to new frontiers balanced by a duty to reform current social space. Automobility multiplies Americans’ options for exploration and explodes the rate at which modern generations engage with different spaces. Now that automobility is routine, Millenials have expanded to the new social space frontier in cyberspace, but a limitless frontier may disrupt the …

314 East 25th Street, On January 1st, Matthew Brennan

Westview

It’s moving day—the sun glimmers as dimly as Venus in the morning sky.

Tuesday Night, Amber Thompson

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The coppery softness of cinnamon sticks to my fingers.

I Remember Rodney, David Vancil

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You admitted you’d abused your body

The Patience Of Trees, Jill Jones

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We compare ourselves to trees, Draw analogies and metaphors for human experience

The Valley, Sheila Cohlmia

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I wander through a deep narrow valley

The Skaters, Matthew Brennan

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As in a winter scene of the Flemish Masters, Skaters glide like swans across the surface Of Lake of the Isles

Heterochromia, John Tavares

Westview

This short fiction, with a dystopic vision, is set in a future Toronto, devastated by social unrest and a nuclear disaster, while the action of the story explores a retired librarian’s conflict with a repressive censorship authority.

For Joe Conley, Ike Godsey On The Waltons 1928-2013, David Vancil

Westview

In your favorite episode, you are past your prime

Petticoat In The Navy: My Mother's War, Sheila A. Murphy

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In 1918 Julia Lehan, age nineteen, lives in Roxbury

The Ymca, Cal Castle

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Feet trampling, Treading upon The hardwood terrain.

Qwerty, James E. Fowler

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What you’ve seen but can’t place, always overlooking

Big, James E. Fowler

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The setting sun casts a Giacometti shadow before me.

Contributors, Westview Staff

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Stitch-By-Stitch, Katacha Diaz

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Many years ago while on vacation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, I decided to take an early morning stroll in the city’s art district.

In The Pacific: A Wwii Photograph, David Vancil

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In the black and white snapshot, my father and my uncle, sweaty from volleyball, stand side-by-side

My Father's Wars, Sheila A. Murphy

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Longer now than sixty years ago, dying in a veterans’ hospital, committed by my mother

Well Of Despair, Sarah Brown Weitzman

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As a follow up to that classic

Half-Way, A. S. More, Edward Wells

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This distance is real.

Looking As They Should, Philip Wexler

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On the ferry to the Stockholm Archipelago, Gunilla