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Beyond The Binary: A Gender Memoir, Grayson Havens Apr 2024

Beyond The Binary: A Gender Memoir, Grayson Havens

HON 499 Honors Thesis or Creative Project

This is a series of autobiographical poems that delve into the role the audience plays in an individual's gender performance and how that can be helpful and harmful to identity, depending on the person performing and the people watching the performance. The concept of gender as a theatrical performance, the basis for many of the poems, is derived from the work of gender and queer theorists Judith Butler and Jack Halberstam. Additionally, these poems take inspiration from the works of creative writers Stacey Waite and Maia Kobabe and build on their work, which dissects and deconstructs gender as a social …


Where Life And Language Meet: An Interdisciplinary Collection In Context Of My Sámi Heritage, Miles Jordan Stevens Apr 2022

Where Life And Language Meet: An Interdisciplinary Collection In Context Of My Sámi Heritage, Miles Jordan Stevens

HON 499 Honors Thesis or Creative Project

Where Life and Language Meet is an interdisciplinary project exploring my Sámi heritage through research and the creation of a poetry collection. Following a brief historical background on the Sámi, the project showcases how my original poems are informed by Sámi storytelling practices. The analytical essay also explores how these poems fit into a larger framework of contemporary literature. Overall, this project demonstrates the creation of poetry as not only cultural heritage work but also a showcase for a culture not significantly explored in contemporary Western scholarship.


Her Burning Namesake, Alison Hooper Oct 2021

Her Burning Namesake, Alison Hooper

HON 499 Honors Thesis or Creative Project

Her Burning Namesake is a collection of ekphrastic poetry centered around the twenty-two Major Arcana cards in the Tarot Deck illustrated by Pamela C. Smith. The Tarot Deck inspires personal growth and insight as a tool for self reflection and is a unique artwork in its interactiveness; viewers are encouraged to seek themselves within the cards and make inferences about their meanings in a way that is inherently personal. By writing poetry about my deck, I hope to share some of the intimacy of my experience with others, while inviting readers to form their own connection with the cards.


“Poetry, Light, And Intimacy” - An Exploration Of Internal Struggle Through Ekphrastic Poetry, Vanessa Brown Apr 2020

“Poetry, Light, And Intimacy” - An Exploration Of Internal Struggle Through Ekphrastic Poetry, Vanessa Brown

MUH 377: The Pictures Project

A collection of 10 poems influenced on an art installation by Yayoi Kusama, as it explores a human’s longing for understanding emotions and circumstance.


Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 6, Spring 1994, University Of Maine At Farmington Apr 1994

Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 6, Spring 1994, University Of Maine At Farmington

Beyond Memos: A Journal of the UMF Faculty

Beyond Memos is meant to be just that - a forum where UMF faculty can share ideas and creative work that go beyond the day-to-day campus routine of teaching, advising, committees, and memos.


Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 5, Number 2, Spring 1993, University Of Maine At Farmington Apr 1993

Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 5, Number 2, Spring 1993, University Of Maine At Farmington

Beyond Memos: A Journal of the UMF Faculty

Beyond Memos is meant to be just that -- a forum where UMF faculty can share ideas and creative work that go beyond the day-to-day campus routine of teaching, advising, committees, and memos. We welcome submission of anything of general interest: poems, stories, essays, drawings, photographs, interviews, humorous pieces, etc.


Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 5, Number 1, Fall 1992, University Of Maine At Farmington Oct 1992

Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 5, Number 1, Fall 1992, University Of Maine At Farmington

Beyond Memos: A Journal of the UMF Faculty

Beyond Memos is meant to be just that -- a forum where UMF faculty can share ideas and creative work that go beyond the day-to-day campus routine of teaching, advising, committees, and memos. We welcome submission of anything of general interest: poems, stories, essays, drawings, photographs, interviews, humorous pieces, etc.


Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 4, Number2, Spring 1992, University Of Maine At Farmington Apr 1992

Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 4, Number2, Spring 1992, University Of Maine At Farmington

Beyond Memos: A Journal of the UMF Faculty

Beyond Memos is meant to be just that -- a forum where UMF faculty can share ideas and creative work that go beyond the day-to-day campus routine of teaching, advising, committees, and memos. We welcome submission of anything of general interest: poems, stories, essays, drawings, photographs, interviews, humorous pieces, etc.


Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 4, Number 1 , Fall 1991, University Of Maine At Farmington Oct 1991

Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 4, Number 1 , Fall 1991, University Of Maine At Farmington

Beyond Memos: A Journal of the UMF Faculty

Beyond Memos is meant to be just that -- a forum where UMF faculty can share ideas and creative work that go beyond the day-to-day campus routine of teaching, advising, committees, and memos. We welcome submission of anything of general interest: poems, stories, essays, drawings, photographs, interviews, humorous pieces, etc.


Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 3, Issue 1, Fall 1990, University Of Maine At Farmington Oct 1990

Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 3, Issue 1, Fall 1990, University Of Maine At Farmington

Beyond Memos: A Journal of the UMF Faculty

Beyond Memos is meant to be just that -- a forum where UMF faculty can share ideas and creative work that go beyond the day-to-day campus routine of teaching, advising, committees, and memos. We welcome submission of anything of general interest: poems, stories, essays, drawings, photographs, interviews, humorous pieces, etc.


Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 1989, University Of Maine At Farmington Jan 1989

Beyond Memos: A Journal Of The Umf Faculty, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 1989, University Of Maine At Farmington

Beyond Memos: A Journal of the UMF Faculty

Beyond Memos is meant to be just that -- a forum where UMF faculty can share ideas and creative work that go beyond the day-to-day campus routine of teaching, advising, committees, and memos. We welcome submission of anything of general interest: poems, stories, essays, drawings, photographs, interviews, humorous pieces, etc.