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Gold-Washed Sky, Abby Smoker

The Peregrine Review

tell me how it is that the ugliest days can be redeemed
by a single sunset: gold and shimmering blush
washed across the sky– Winner of the 2022 Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize! Abby’s winning poem, “gold-washed sky,” will appear on the Academy of American Poets website. Alexis V. Jackson, author of My Sisters’ Country described Abby’s poem as an invitation “to wonder at the mundane thing that is a sunset in a successful attempt at theodicy. With smoldering syntax and hypophora, the speaker…reminds us there’s a ‘who’ somewhere in all of this.”

Garden Of Joy, Rosemary Jones

The Peregrine Review

A Syntax Virus of “Anatomy of Failure” in Halflife by Meghan O’Rourke

Sunbeams shine over the daisies—
bathing them, coloring, blossoming;
even the leaves are green as ripe bell peppers...

Conquered Into Canvas, Erin Goudie

The Peregrine Review

Inspired by Frederic Edwin Church’s painting, Syria by the Sea, 1874.

The greedy garden devours the landscape,
and moss itches up the lone pillar still erect,
having forgotten the climax of its rich civilization
that persists solely as light scattered on crumbled stone....

2020 Full Text Issue

The Peregrine Review

The Peregrine Review, Messiah University’s literary journal accepts poetry (50 lines or fewer), prose (10 pages, double-spaced, or fewer), and art/photography. We welcome submissions from all Messiah students, faculty, and staff.

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CONTENTS

• The Buttercup 1
• Untitled 2
• My Hands 3
• Snow in April 4
• A Haiku About Strawberries 5
• Child’s Play 6
• In the Garden 7
• Growing alone 9
• Sunset 10
• I 11
• Little Monster 12
• What do the Mountains Say 13
• For the #Unfairnandlovely 14
• The Storms of Life 16
• No Ghost There 17
• Pink Lemonade 20 …

Data Diving Into “Noticing Poetry”: An Analysis Of Student Engagement With The “I Notice” Method, Scot Slaby, Jordan Benedict

Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education

This paper explores students’ engagement in reading poems, examining data on their self perceptions of their confidence and competence in reading poems before, during, and after using the “I Notice” methodology as adapted from The Academy of American Poets’ unit plan, “Noticing Poetry” (Slaby, 2017). The data was collected over the course of a month from January 9 through January 30, 2018 and involved five classes of one hundred general English tenth grade students across three teachers’ classrooms at Shanghai American School’s Puxi High School Campus. Data indicates that the “I Notice” method and the “Noticing Poetry” unit and its …

:'( Menage A Trois, Jason Curlin

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