Poetry Commons^™

Drownproofing, Tom Chandler

Bryant Literary Review

Just cup your hands

and peel back

water like sky.

Saguaro, Dennis Saleh

Bryant Literary Review

The desert night

touches the air

like the perfume

of a woman

Rhetor, Dennis Saleh

Bryant Literary Review

"Words fail me." Why read further then?

Well, because you see the words do continue,

An Element Of Style, Charles Sabukewicz

Bryant Literary Review

A noun by definition

can be almost anything:

Ice, Holly Guran

Bryant Literary Review

You are no companion

for this aging lover

lying in wait under snow.

Public Library, Brian Glaser

English Faculty Creative Works

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The Glass Spider, Joe Baumann

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Blindness, Mohineet Kaur Boparai

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Aposematism, Zach Fishel

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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The Serial Killer’S Parents, Afterward, Kate Peper

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Night Of A Thousand Clowns, Tom O'Keefe

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Two Against Freud: Pinsky’S ‘Essay On Psychiatrists’ In A Philosophical Context, Brian Glaser

English Faculty Articles and Research

This article offers a reading of Robert Pinsky’s “Essay on Psychiatrists” in the context of a contemporary theoretical work by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus. I do not use the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari to make interpretive comments about poetry, to identify or articulate meanings. Rather I read Pinsky’s poem in the context of the philosophy, noting points of agreement between the two texts, areas where the poetry works as a supplement to the insights of the philosophy, places where the poetry offers grounds for criticisms of the philosophy and times where there might be irreconcilable differences in …

Last Love Poem, Mary Ann Avallone-O’Gorman

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Perfect Tense, Claudia A. Geagan

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Complicated Footwork, Patricia Feeney

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Disordered, Christine Stewart-Nuñez

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Moon Jellies, Christina Garbarino

Honors Theses

A collection of short poems.

Commonthought (2014), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

You Were Born One Time, Quitman Marshall

Ninety-Six Press

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What Holds Him To This World, Phebe Davidson

Ninety-Six Press

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War Story, Brian Taylor

Bryant Literary Review

A barrage of bullets sprays through the air,

crossing the battlefield as the enemy pushes forward.

Curly*, Nora Barry

Bryant Literary Review

He sits on the ground his long hair flowing in the breeze. Beside him is the burial scaffold of his child.

Mommy What Is War For?, Ellen

Bryant Literary Review

One rainy day some people get scared

spill drips of innuendos

Alzheimer's, Theadora Siranian

Bryant Literary Review

At night an ancient giant with smooth blue skin

pulls the stopper from the bottom of the world,

The Man Who Shoots Stop Signs, William Jolliff

Bryant Literary Review

Standing alone on a dark road, maybe he believes

the new ones are virgins, too hard to resist.

Nancy Underwood, Mitch Lescarbeau

Bryant Literary Review

Or it may have been Susan.

Second grade; 1958--

The Fishing Trip, David Dragone

Bryant Literary Review

The waves came up on shore, speaking in tongues

While I waited for the ocean's pitched language

What It Takes, Lisa Starr

Bryant Literary Review

All it takes is one blue rowboat tied to a buoy,

and its reflection, and this moment

Learning To Shoot At Things That Moved, Rick Benjamin

Bryant Literary Review

Soup-cans, tires searing in the summer

air, coke bottles so old the red rubbed

Late Projection, Rick Benjamin

Bryant Literary Review

My twin turns toward the camera

he's propped into the elbow