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Letter From The Editors, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Table Of Contents, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Acknowledgements, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Diamond Line - Fall 2023, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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What The Unburied Said, Katharine Rees

English Undergraduate Honors Theses

"What the Unburied Said" is a short collection of documentary poetry written during the waning years of the COVID-19 pandemic. In conversation with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, it seeks to exalt the beauty of humans who help each other live within an often-tragic, always-fascinating world.

Naturally: Memory In Verse, Heather L. Drouse

English Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis is a collection of free verse poetry that I have written that share a common theme of nature and family. This is a creative work that explores my personal memories and the feelings associated with them with the intention to spread joy and cause readers to reflect upon similar experiences they might have had as children. It consists of four major sections -- mother, father, love, and bridges -- and 18 poems, with "love" having 7 minor sections.

Stop And Smell The Fractals: An Exploration Into Math, Poetry, And Everything In Between, Caroline Jennings

English Undergraduate Honors Theses

Stop and Smell The Fractals is a collection of poetry written during my time at The University of Arkansas. These poems highlight the connections between mathematics and poetry, focusing particularly on their emergence in everyday life.

Kaboom, Karstin Margaret Johnson

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This document is a collection of original poems written between Fall 2018 and Spring 2022.

A Letter About Philadelphia, Gracie Morrison

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Gracie is an undergraduate student majoring in Environmental Soil and Water Science in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences. She writes in her free time and is taking a creative writing course for fun. She wants to improve her writing so she can write plays and perform them in a puppet theatre using sock puppets. She also wants to write Christmas movies but has only written one so far. For now, she is planning to graduate after she completes her Honors thesis project regarding economic analysis of organic and conventional tomato weed management strategies.

Aspects Of Amelie, Allison Flory

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Allison Flory (she/her) is a senior creative writing undergrad at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she resides with her partner and their two dogs. Her work “Ecology of Succession” has been featured in Issue #3 of The Diamond Line, where she has also worked as an editor. She also once wrote a 200 page novel about Clifford the Big Red Dog on loose leaf notebook paper, but she was 9 and is pretty sure this was copyright infringement.

Two People Sitting On The Edge Of The Universe Sharing A Sandwich, Bia Edwards

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Bia is a senior creative writing major. She enjoys complicated and expensive iced lattes and taking her dog to the dog park. She loves reading and writing fiction as well as poetry and hopes to find a job involving both upon graduation.

The Girl With The Colorful Aura, Heather Jenkins

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Heather Jenkins is studying psychology at the University of Arkansas. She plans on being an art therapist, combining her passion for art with the joy of helping others.

The Voyeur, Marie Gray

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Marie Gray is a writer and poet studying English with a concentration in creative writing at the University of Arkansas, where she is about to complete a short fiction honors thesis. When she’s not reading or writing, she spends her time watching foreign films and playing ultimate frisbee.

An Unbothered Cat, David Moneymaker

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

David Moneymaker is a sophomore and bassist in a local rock n roll band. Minimalism is a primary inspiration for his creative endeavors.

Table Of Contents, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Letter From The Editors, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Diamond Line - Spring 2022, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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View From Pisgah Crater (Visual Art) And Raking Clouds, Glennon Jarachovic, Lauren Dial

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Glennon Jarachovic is a junior perusing a B.A. in Art History with interests in art management and business. Originally from Barstow, California, he moved to Arkansas for a change of scenery and to be closer to family. While not aspiring to be a professional artist, he enjoys the process of making art and growing as an amateur artist. Art has always been a part of his life since childhood and hopefully it will continue to play a large role in the future.

Lauren Dial is a senior attending the University of Arkansas studying Creative Writing. She was the Fiction Editor …

Ultramarine, Verna Bryan

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Verna Corinne Bryan is a junior from Little Rock, AR. She’s majoring in English with a Creative Writing concentration and minoring in French. She hopes to someday write a book that gets turned into a movie so she never has to work again.

Our Cat And A Close Shave (Visual Art), Erin Allen, Lauren Dial

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Erin is a non-traditional student at the UofA and a former staff writer for The Santiago Times. She mothers, gardens and writes from her home in Fayetteville and plans to pursue an MFA in poetry.

Lauren Dial is a senior attending the University of Arkansas studying Creative Writing. She was the Fiction Editor for the first edition of The Diamond Line. Her work generally revolves around experimenting with new perspectives. She believes stepping into the unknown lives of people, or creatures, entirely unlike yourself is a leap into a greater understanding of the larger consciousness.

Inhabit, Kath Rees

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Kath Rees is a junior at the University of Arkansas, earning her B.F.A. in Creative Writing with a minor in Art History. She writes poetry and prose, and more often than not, something in between. Her interests include baking, being outside, and googling obscure German fairytales This is her first publication.

Untitled (Visual Art) And The Music Of My Newest Nephew, Madison Varns, Caroline Jennings

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Madi Varns is a student writer and artist attending her third year at the university. Her practice focuses primarily in the visual languages of painting and ceramics as well as crafting experiences of sound and space. Through writing and visual arts she hopes to document moments of the self-aware experience that is nuanced and intimate but ultimately shared by all.

Caroline Jennings grew up in Fort Smith, Arkansas and is currently working towards obtain ing a B.A. in Creative Writing and a B.S. in Applied Math. In her free time, she spends quite a bit of time baking, in movie …

Letter From The Editors, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Diamond Line - Fall 2021, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Love Bug Bite, Macklin Luke

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Macklin is a sophomore gearing towards an interdisciplinary degree, with focus in Chinese, film, and creative writing. She enjoys reading and writing poetry, and her favorite poet is Charles Bukowski. In her free time, she likes to practice writing, pet her cat, Chichi, and watch too many animated movies.

Letter From The Editors, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Diamond Line - Spring 2021, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Do You Want To Be Tender?, Leah Grant

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, you will find a body of writings and artworks that reflect Leah Grant’s art practice and research. Throughout the paper, you will see Leah alternate back and forth between her artwork and writings. Leah Grant addresses her personal experience as a Black woman and what it means it explore vulnerability through understanding how the relationships around her affects the relationship she has with herself. Leah has created a collection of poems, prints, and video and audio collages that assist her with revealing and concealing.

Poems And Translations, Rome Hernández Morgan

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This document is separated into two parts, a collection of original poems and a collection of translations of the crônicas of Rubem Braga. The collection of poems, titled, “Because I Never See You,” attempt to parse the complexities of familial and intimate relationships, addiction, and BIPOC experience. The collection of translations attempts to offer a small sample of the crônicas of Rubem Braga (1913-1990), a Brazilian journalist who is known throughout Brazil for “elevating” the form of the crônica from ephemera to the literary.

Mineral Rites, Emma Van Dyke

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This document is a collection of original poems written between Fall 2017 and Spring 2021.