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Modern Obsequies, Elizabeth Davis Dec 2024

Modern Obsequies, Elizabeth Davis

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

Elizabeth Davis is a senior biochemistry major and Honor Scholar at DePauw university. Her hometown is North Liberty, Iowa, where her beloved cats Tracy and Vin live. She enjoys Brandon Sanderson novels, playing the guitar, and Dungeons and Dragons, but her greatest passion is theatre.


Women In Parts, Cole Pedro Dec 2024

Women In Parts, Cole Pedro

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

Cole Pedro is a senior from Griffith, Indiana, majoring in English literature with a minor in creative writing. They use poetry and fiction as outlets for their lifelong love of storytelling.


Catch And Release, Elizabeth Davis Dec 2024

Catch And Release, Elizabeth Davis

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

Elizabeth Davis is a senior English writing major from Indianapolis, Indiana. Her work explores themes of vulnerability, intimacy, and connection, often with a focus on the natural world.


How Beautiful Are We, Abigail Fathauer Dec 2024

How Beautiful Are We, Abigail Fathauer

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

Abigail Fathauer is a junior English literature major, with minors in world literature and art history. She also works as Editor-in-Chief of the DePauw and president of the English Department Student Association (EDSA). In her free time, Abigail enjoys reading, hammocking with friends, and working at the Humane Society.


Bs (A Condition), Trista Keeton Dec 2024

Bs (A Condition), Trista Keeton

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

Trista Keeton has always been a writer, ever since she held a pen she’s been writing little stories. The popular kids on the bus would pay her to write a survival plot line that included slight nudity. Now she’s writing at DePauw with no nudity :/ not as fun.


Kansas, Tatum Coi Dec 2024

Kansas, Tatum Coi

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

Tatum Coi is a junior majoring in English writing and film & media arts. She is an aspiring poet, novelist, screenwriter, and film director. She has written a poetry book that she has yet to publish, and is currently writing her first novel. She would like to thank Chris White.


Her Body Of Water, Anne Gregg Dec 2024

Her Body Of Water, Anne Gregg

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

Anne Gregg is a Senior English Writing major, Honor Scholar, and Media Fellow at DePauw. She is also the Editor-In-Chief of A Midwestern Review. Everytime Anne is anxious, her mother tells her to get a new hobby. Her new hobbies include: embroidery, deciphering cryptograms, and necromancy.


Olives, Ira Satpathy Dec 2024

Olives, Ira Satpathy

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

Ira Satpathy is a Freshman from India. She hopes to pursue Politics and Philosophy. She enjoys doing art, writing poetry, and playing badminton. Ira is very interested in feminist philosophy and produces a bi-weekly podcast about intersectional feminism.


Portrait Of The Church On Fire, Abigail Fathauer Dec 2024

Portrait Of The Church On Fire, Abigail Fathauer

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

Abigail Fathauer is a Senior English Literature major with minors in Art History and World Literature. When she’s not writing papers or reading the next book on her TBR, she’s working at the local animal shelter and not shutting up about it. In another life, she was a medieval scribe.


Sunday Morning, Leo Hamilton Dec 2024

Sunday Morning, Leo Hamilton

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

Leo Hamilton is an Economics major and a Management Fellow at DePauw University. He is from Golden, Colorado and loves the landscapes of the west.


Take The Cherry From My Ice Cream, Cause You Know I Won't Eat It, Jenna Reynolds Dec 2024

Take The Cherry From My Ice Cream, Cause You Know I Won't Eat It, Jenna Reynolds

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

Jenna Reynolds is a Senior English Writing major. She has written for AMWR in the past and has also written for the Depauw stage (Romeo and Juliet at Bridgerton).


Leatherbound, Maya La Croix Dec 2024

Leatherbound, Maya La Croix

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

Maya S. La Croix is a Senior Political Science major, Honor Scholar, and Posse Scholar from New York. La Croix is deeply interested in activism and aspires to go into public service.


Dear Darling Death, Ira Satpathy Dec 2024

Dear Darling Death, Ira Satpathy

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

Ira Satpathy is a Freshman from India. She hopes to pursue Politics and Philosophy. She enjoys doing art, writing poetry, and playing badminton. Ira is very interested in feminist philosophy and produces a bi-weekly podcast about intersectional feminism.


An Ode To My Brother, Ruby Tugeau Dec 2024

An Ode To My Brother, Ruby Tugeau

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

Ruby Tugeau is a Freshman at DePauw majoring in Public Health and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies! She enjoys long hikes, oldies music, and warm soup. Ruby’s been writing all her life, and wants to thank A Midwestern Review for allowing her to share her work.


The Valley, Justine Vandenberg Dec 2024

The Valley, Justine Vandenberg

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

Justine Vandenberg is an Environmental Fellow student at DePauw University majoring in Sustainability Science and Environmental Studies. She is also a writer, poet, and photographer who is passionate about using artistic forms to advocate for the health of ecosystems and human communities. She finds beauty in hiking, gardening, and mountain life.


Ai Is The Future Of Poetry: Embracing Innovation Or Threatening Humanity?, Jesus Corcho '28 Oct 2024

Ai Is The Future Of Poetry: Embracing Innovation Or Threatening Humanity?, Jesus Corcho '28

Best First-Year Seminar Writing

Poetry has been shaped by many intellectual and technological innovations. Renaissance poets would have found mesmerizing the use of mathematics that the Oulipo movement applied to poetry, which wanted to use mathematical constraints to produce poetry verses. Similarly, those members of the Oulipo movement or even just the followers, would find hypnotic how GenAI is now being applied to poetry and writing. GenAI, or AI, has been crippling into poetry, as something that does not know how to coexist with it. Now the community is presented with this new technological force as both an opportunity and a challenge: poets and …


Sunday, Kyle Sherman Dec 2023

Sunday, Kyle Sherman

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

Kyle is from Western Springs, Illinois and is currently a sophomore studying political science. His poetry is inspired by nature and the beauty of the mundane.


Drowning Dreaming, Micaiah Furbert Dec 2023

Drowning Dreaming, Micaiah Furbert

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

Micaiah Furbert is a junior DePauw University student from the island of Bermuda. He has a love for poetry which started in high school and his poetry is often influenced by his background growing up on an island and his identity as a person of color.


Glass Skies, Eliana Jolanda Alzate Dec 2023

Glass Skies, Eliana Jolanda Alzate

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

Eliana Alzate is a sophomore majoring in English writing and computer science with a minor in media studies. On campus, she’s the managing editor of The DePauw and a video streaming specialist for Media Services. During her free time, she loves singing karaoke and writing poems in her secret journals.


The Crumpled Pink Receipt From My Dorm Drawer, Eliana Jolanda Alzate Dec 2023

The Crumpled Pink Receipt From My Dorm Drawer, Eliana Jolanda Alzate

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

Eliana Alzate is a sophomore majoring in English writing and computer science with a minor in media studies. On campus, she’s the managing editor of The DePauw and a video streaming specialist for Media Services. During her free time, she loves singing karaoke and writing poems in her secret journals.


I Sit Down At The Dinner Table To Die, Madeleine Cruz Dec 2023

I Sit Down At The Dinner Table To Die, Madeleine Cruz

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

Madeleine Cruz is an aspiring writer who claims to be from Chicago but may be lying. She likes to read; her favorite author is Ursula K. Le Guin. She is frequently tired and only sometimes actually asleep.


Absolute Rhythm, Taylor Cripe Dec 2023

Absolute Rhythm, Taylor Cripe

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

Taylor Cripe is in DePauw's class of 2026. She is pursuing an English writing major with a religious studies bridged major. Although she dabbles in fiction writing, she prefers poetry for the nuanced and intuitive way it conveys its themes. She is excited to be a part of this semester’s edition of A Midwestern Review.


Cornfields, Nargis Kachrumathur Dec 2023

Cornfields, Nargis Kachrumathur

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

Nargis Kachrumathur wishes she existed in Victorian England, because it would be nice to be sent to the seaside as a legitimate medical prescription when one falls sick. But she also likes having rights and being able to wear pants and music and the internet and taking lots of pictures of the sky.


Arachne And The Oracle, Elizabeth Davis Dec 2023

Arachne And The Oracle, Elizabeth Davis

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

Elizabeth Davis is a senior biochemistry major from North Liberty, Iowa. While her academic and professional careers center on science, the arts have always had a special place in Elizabeth’s life. She would like to send her love to Mrs. Zirtzman, the teacher that taught her to love poetry.


In The Well, Maya Simone La Croix Dec 2023

In The Well, Maya Simone La Croix

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

Maya Simone La Croix is a New York born Posse Scholar at DePauw University. They are majoring in political science and are the Co-Chair of SHAC (Student Housing Action Committee). La Croix is deeply interested in activism and aspires to go into public service.


Walking On A Tight Rope, Miyu Aoki Dec 2023

Walking On A Tight Rope, Miyu Aoki

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

Miyu Aoki is a sophomore economics and physics major from Yokohama, Japan. Usually realistic and occasionally political, Miyu’s poems center around finding herself in the American landscape. Her hobbies include knitting, snowboarding, and exploring the Greencastle community through volunteering.


Learning To Shower, Taylor Cripe Dec 2023

Learning To Shower, Taylor Cripe

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

Taylor Cripe is in DePauw's class of 2026. She is pursuing an English writing major with a religious studies bridged major. Although she dabbles in fiction writing, she prefers poetry for the nuanced and intuitive way it conveys its themes. She is excited to be a part of this semester’s edition of A Midwestern Review.


KyōShū, Miyu Aoki May 2023

KyōShū, Miyu Aoki

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

No abstract provided.


Session 31 - Mourning Edition, Nathaniel Swanson May 2023

Session 31 - Mourning Edition, Nathaniel Swanson

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

No abstract provided.


This Old House, Rotting To The Core, Victoria De Dios May 2023

This Old House, Rotting To The Core, Victoria De Dios

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

No abstract provided.