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Faculty Book Launch Celebrates Works Of Plath, Theune, Vi Kakaras, '20 Jan 2018

Faculty Book Launch Celebrates Works Of Plath, Theune, Vi Kakaras, '20

News and Events

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Mike Theune And Bob Broad Interview November 12, 2017, Laura Kennedy Nov 2017

Mike Theune And Bob Broad Interview November 12, 2017, Laura Kennedy

Interviews for WGLT

Laura Kennedy, from WGLT Radio, interview with IWU Professor of English Mike Theune and Bob Broad, Professor of English from Illinois State Univeriversy. The two co-authored the book "We Need to Talk: A New Method For Evaluating Poetry."


Poem For The Inauguration: The Spirit Line, Joanne Diaz, Michael Theune Apr 2016

Poem For The Inauguration: The Spirit Line, Joanne Diaz, Michael Theune

Inauguration of Eric R. Jensen

The text of this poem is available for viewing below and may be downloaded above. A photo of Drs. Diaz and Theune is also available here.


Private Speech, Public Pain: The Power Of Women's Laments In Ancient Greek Poetry And Tragedy, Olivia Dunham Nov 2014

Private Speech, Public Pain: The Power Of Women's Laments In Ancient Greek Poetry And Tragedy, Olivia Dunham

CrissCross

Women’s discourse in Greek society has been traditionally controlled and restricted by strict sociocultural codes. Barred from participating in the exclusively male public political scene, women have developed another mode of expressing their concerns and opinions about the world around them-through performance of ritual laments. In these songs of mourning women are empowered through their pain to address publicly issues of social importance; the most successful performers skillfully weave sometimes abrasive, often persuasive, and always highly charged judicial and political language into their lament. Women use this medium of public mourning as a protected vehicle through which they pronounce moral …


Ferradáns Publishes Bilingual Collection Of Spanish Poet's Work, Kim Hill Apr 2014

Ferradáns Publishes Bilingual Collection Of Spanish Poet's Work, Kim Hill

News and Events

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Diaz Wins Brittingham Prize In Poetry, Kim Hill Mar 2014

Diaz Wins Brittingham Prize In Poetry, Kim Hill

News and Events

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My Right Breast And Other Poems, Carmela Ferradans Jan 2006

My Right Breast And Other Poems, Carmela Ferradans

Scholarship

A collection of original poetry about the author's experience with cancer.


Standing In The Reception Line At The Wedding Of My Ex-Wife, James Plath Mar 2003

Standing In The Reception Line At The Wedding Of My Ex-Wife, James Plath

Scholarship

The book features a collection of poetry by Illinois poets. The poem reprinted here is one two selections contributed by Plath.


The Boy Who Would Be God, James Plath Mar 2003

The Boy Who Would Be God, James Plath

Scholarship

The book features a collection of poetry by Illinois poets. The poem reprinted here is one two selections contributed by Plath.


Las Lágrimas De King Kong, Carmela Ferradans Jan 1992

Las Lágrimas De King Kong, Carmela Ferradans

Scholarship

Desde uno de los muchos páramos afectivos donde la vida transcurre entre palabras de ordenador y margaritas aguadas en el bar que ni siquiera es del barrio.


Húmeda Memoria, Carmela Ferradans Jan 1990

Húmeda Memoria, Carmela Ferradans

Scholarship

No abstract provided.