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Grace And The Abandoned, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

Grace walks to the lake
and her critters follow.

Darwinian, Jennifer Tappenden

Bryant Literary Review

The first cry divides
itself from happiness

Looking Forward To The Farmer's Market, Stephen Germic

Bryant Literary Review

Slender lives of orphans, sewage of a nation,
they talk in old age about childhood.

A Poet's Uncle, Matthew Dulany

Bryant Literary Review

After the death of his sister-in-law, Bill Ruckelsmann began to pay more attention to his nephew.

Cutting Room Floor, Heather C. Miller

Bryant Literary Review

Rewind to the time out for Italian with the girls
and my lesbian best friend wanted to go halfsies

Afterlife--The Drowning Pool, Catherine Tahmin

Bryant Literary Review

when you die
they bring you warm towels

Ghost, Peter Barlow

Bryant Literary Review

South of Piqua there's a rest stop.

Handkerchief, Margaret Hasse

Bryant Literary Review

A constellation of small hearts
embroidered on a white linen square

Intrigue, Dennis Saleh

Bryant Literary Review

In a conspiracy
of sky

Airport, Alex Russo

Bryant Literary Review

a universe of utter transience connects people
moving in every direction like twelve thousand

Contributors

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

The Ballet Class, Kendall Klym

Bryant Literary Review

I'll be the first to admit that I'm no expert.

Scribbling, Katherine Tozer

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Last Prayer To Mack Wolford, Lara Elmayan

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.

Midwestern Mythologies, Adam Lee Hubrig

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This collection of poems works toward unpacking the complications of moving from one geographical center to another. Its poems aim to work out changing and strained relationships, expectations and environments.

Advisor: Kwame Dawes

Preying Mantis, Paige Sandgren

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Friday Afternoons, Emily Bell

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.

Other: Poems, Catherine Pritchard Childress

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This creative thesis is a collection of original poems entitled Other. The poems in Other reflect my study of the aesthetics of poetry as well as that of how women are represented as poets and as the subject of poems. Some of these poems are the product of my particular interest in the use of persona. Most reflect my desire to achieve self-reflection, to write from my experiences and perception, while still maintaining the universality that is an essential element of successful poems.

The critical introduction situates my poems within the framework of the poetic mode Personal Classicism—poetry that …

Always Away, Mollie Bergeron

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

At any given time, there are pages of notes and thoughts running through our minds; these have to come out in some way. In order to stay sane, to stay human, I write poems. These poems are interested in breath and space, memory and nostalgia, loss and water. Each of these ideas has its own fit as part of the poem as well as part of life and being alive. Human emotion is varied through these. Observation and perception, turned into poems through the very physical act of putting words onto a page, allow these memories and experiences to live …

Pyramid Of The Sun, James Joseph Brown

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Pyramid of the Sun is a novel which is experimental in structure. It weaves traditional prose with original poems based on Aztec creation myths. The narrative is not strictly linear, but approaches the plot from several angles - past, present, and future - simultaneously. It comes back to its starting point at the end, like a snake devouring its own tail. The novel takes the Aztec and Mayan belief that time is circular and never-ending and reinterprets it in a contemporary, hard-edged setting that touches down at various points across the globe, including Moscow, Seville, Seoul and Las Vegas. Pyramid …

There Are Moments That Hang Suspended, Mark B. Lennon

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This project is the culmination of ten years of work in poetry. It was begun in imitation of those who impressed, not only with their fine words and dexterity with language, but also with their clear conviction in their subject material. Reflected in the works of Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, and Adrienne Rich, among others, was evidence of a life lived, in Thoreau's term, deliberately. The writing of poetry seemed to be not simply a means of expression, but a goad to live a life worth examining, and to keep doing so; a progress report for a radical mind.

Politics …

In What Array That They They Were In And Participating Godlike Food, Thomas Jackson Wills

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

I am submitting two manuscripts for my creative dissertation, In What Array That They Were In and Participating Godlike Food. The former is a sequence of odes followed by a brief epic, followed by a cycle of verse dramas, with an ode epilogue. The latter is a book-length excerpt from an epic poem/crime novel/Menippean satire/television show/Dada collage/historical document/vatic investigation that comes in 20 page sections that are supposed to approximate the 42 minutes of an average crime show.

Soil And Space: Fumigation // Language Barrier, Samuel Preminger

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.

Ersatz Umbrella, Jeff Handy

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.

Afterimage // The Depot, Daniel T. O’Brien

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.

The Bone Oracle—The Introvert, James Ryan

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.

Ossified Scaffold // Triptych Of Phase Change, Bibi Lewis

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.

Due Partly To Inertia, Justin Lee Irizarry

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In the preface to Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman said, "The poets of the kosmos advance through all interpositions and coverings and turmoils and stratagems to first principles. They are of use--they dissolve poverty from its need, and riches from its conceit." My poetry aims to exist in Whitman's `kosmos' and in doing so advance through the turmoil and the strategies of certainty to something resembling principles. Politics is a common theme; it is not in an attempt to write political poetry, but an attempt to not leave anything out. Other themes throughout this manuscript include death, music, wanting, having, …

Strange Little Vehicles, Andrew Merecicky

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

It isn't an exploration in or an experiment regarding. It is a praxis, as a commute is the opposite of an adventure. As le chat regarde le poisson. As when one looks at anything, it becomes strange. That is, a thing (a thought, a feeling, Gertrude Stein's "piece of coffee") once considered becomes little and different. It is the world that is large and alike. It is ultimately the similarity, the recognition of which we, who feel small and unique in the grand scheme, find terrifying. Language is always, as Lyn Hejinian wrote, social; it is a vehicle.

As I …

Samsara, Erica Anzalone

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In Samsara, I bring a spiritual-historical lens to art, war, feminism, religion, and the body in extremis. Although the word samsara resonates mostly within the Hindu and Buddhist faiths, meaning literally to wander through the rounds of death and rebirth, my poetics of transience and trauma crosses cultures, including Muslim, Christian, and Judaic notions of spirituality. Bosnia, Iowa, Boston, and Prague are all shifting sands within the mandala-like hourglass of this collection. My voice often issues from a working class register and speaks with rebellious power from a place of powerlessness: "E-bay nirvana, you want me to yes sir/I'll get …