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Full-Text Articles in Poetry

Suncircles: A Prose/Poem 12/18/2014, Charles Kay Smith Dec 2014

Suncircles: A Prose/Poem 12/18/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

A current project is writing a book of poetry. The different kind of poetry I’m trying to write melds science, humanities, and aesthetic aims of clarity and a polished plain style with social consciousness. I’m uploading one of the poems in the collection as an example of the kind of poetry I’m trying to compose.


Every Man's An Odysseus: An Analysis Of The Nostos-Theme In Corelli's Mandolin, Emily A. Mcdermott Dec 2014

Every Man's An Odysseus: An Analysis Of The Nostos-Theme In Corelli's Mandolin, Emily A. Mcdermott

Emily A. McDermott

In the sparkling first chapter of Louis de Bernieres's Corelli's Mandolin, the world of Homer's Odysseus is explicitly invoked. This is hardly surprising in a historical novel which will detail the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Cephallonia, near neighbor of Odysseus's Ithaca, during World War II. What is less immediately apparent is that the novel contains a further pattern of inexplicit allusion to the Odyssey, along with a pervasive theme of nostos. Emphasis on "homecoming" helps create the novel's ardent encomium to the Greek homeland that inspires such fierce love of place in its people and promises them …


So You Want To Write Poetry: A Recommended Reading List, Cheryl Stiles Dec 2014

So You Want To Write Poetry: A Recommended Reading List, Cheryl Stiles

Cheryl Stiles

No abstract provided.


Innovative Representations Of Light, Behaving As Both Particles And Waves, Among The Paintings Of Monet And Renoir, Charles Smith Nov 2014

Innovative Representations Of Light, Behaving As Both Particles And Waves, Among The Paintings Of Monet And Renoir, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Monet and Renoir, friends collaborating in open air about 1865, discovered that sunlight filtering through a canopy of tree leaves does not produce the splotches and dapples that studio artists conventionally represented at the time but circles of light. Sometimes the circles of light punctuating the shade are clear, separate and crisp, as though light is being propagated as particles, but if the pin-hole gaps between leaves are very close together, they will project compound or superimposed circles that look like the waves that Thomas Young saw in his double slit experiment in 1803-4. Newton’s Opticks published in 1704 had …


Writing Showcase (Vol 6 No 6 - 2014), Everett N K Ofori Nov 2014

Writing Showcase (Vol 6 No 6 - 2014), Everett N K Ofori

Everett N K Ofori

No abstract provided.


Shadows Know, A Poem 11/12/2014, Charles Smith Nov 2014

Shadows Know, A Poem 11/12/2014, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Partly written during an illness several years ago; I finished it last year.


21: Twenty-One Questions Frequently Asked By Poets, Cheryl Stiles Oct 2014

21: Twenty-One Questions Frequently Asked By Poets, Cheryl Stiles

Cheryl Stiles

No abstract provided.


Writing Showcase (Vol 6 No 5 - 2014), Everett N K Ofori Sep 2014

Writing Showcase (Vol 6 No 5 - 2014), Everett N K Ofori

Everett N K Ofori

No abstract provided.


Elegy For Allen, Prose/Poem 9/12/2014, Charles Smith Sep 2014

Elegy For Allen, Prose/Poem 9/12/2014, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

This Elegy is a poetic version of a eulogy I made at Allen Midyett's memorial service in late summer of 2013.


Solitary Blue, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Solitary Blue, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Dragons De Mar, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Dragons De Mar, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Blessing, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Blessing, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Toro And Toreador, Kim Ranger Sep 2014

Toro And Toreador, Kim Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


I Am, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

I Am, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Reactions To Villa-Lobos' Rudepoema (Composition For Piano), Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Reactions To Villa-Lobos' Rudepoema (Composition For Piano), Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Desaparecida, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Desaparecida, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Añoranza De Australia, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Añoranza De Australia, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Butcher's Dump, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Butcher's Dump, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Leap To Faith, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Leap To Faith, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Driftwood, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Driftwood, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Voice Of The Angels, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Voice Of The Angels, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Flashback, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Flashback, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Catamountain, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Catamountain, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Blue-Stitched Stones, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Blue-Stitched Stones, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Merdragons, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Merdragons, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Seal Woman, Kim L. Ranger Sep 2014

Seal Woman, Kim L. Ranger

Kim L. Ranger

No abstract provided.


Zdanys Receives Grant To Publish Fifth Book Of Poems Written In Lithuanian, Jonas Zdanys Aug 2014

Zdanys Receives Grant To Publish Fifth Book Of Poems Written In Lithuanian, Jonas Zdanys

Jonas Zdanys

Sacred Heart University Professor Jonas Zdanys of Wallingford has received a grant from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture to complete and publish his fifth volume of poetry written in Lithuanian. This latest work is entitled Ikaro Prisikelimas, which means ‘the resurrection of Icarus.’


Dress Shopping With Ginny, A Prose/Poem 8/5/2014, Charles Smith Aug 2014

Dress Shopping With Ginny, A Prose/Poem 8/5/2014, Charles Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Another poetic experiment that opens an alternative direction for future work.


Frederick Ii: Holy Roman Emperor Extraordinaire, Prose/Poem 7/23/2014, Charles Kay Smith Jul 2014

Frederick Ii: Holy Roman Emperor Extraordinaire, Prose/Poem 7/23/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Frederick avoided fighting the 6th Crusade by negotiating a peaceful sharing of Jerusalem by people of all faiths. No doubt it helped that he spoke Arabic and personally engaged in five months of negotiations rather than combat.


Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith Jul 2014

Blowin’ Against The Wind, Prose/Poem 7/17/2014, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Thoughts on Science, Contemporary Poetry and Human Nature.