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Human Life In A Tree And A Mushroom Cloud, Zach Manges

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

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Combining The Names Of Ancestors With The Names Of Birds, Jessica Sierra Durham

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The following manuscript deals with a range of themes including origin, family, place, gender, sexuality and their intersections. The title, Combining the Names of Ancestors with the Names of Birds, and title poem exemplify the intersection of origin, family, place (ancestors) and gender, sexuality, movement, change and freedom (birds). Combining

their names speaks to the interplay between memory and imagination that has served as a foundation for all of the poems in this manuscript. This manuscript is split into three sections: Origin, which deals with home, with growing up in Louisiana, with the land and the water, my family and …

All Is Ripe For Fire, Dana Marie Killmeyer

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

All is Ripe for Fire is a two-part lyrical meditation that captures the world of the unnamed speaker who is visited by the image of a woman, such as the one who appears in the very first poem, "The Unnamed," which begins with an invitation to reader: "Let us look at the French woman's hand touching the flame to her sleeve." However, no sooner is the reader's attention drawn to the woman's hand, the flame, and then to her sleeve, than the image of the woman is gone entirely. In a matter of a few words, the figure of the …

In Jackson Heights, My Father Outsmarted Puberty // Golem In The Backseat Of Our Parents' Blue Station Wagon, Bibi Lewis

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Silence, I Discover, Is Something You Can Actually Hear, Anna Kushnir

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Grandfather's Clams Carved In The Spring, Madeline Herrick

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Recording, Day: Hour: Minute // Seismic Fragmenting, Sarah Corcoran

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I Gave My Uncle Seashells For Ashtrays // Take A Lover Who Looks At You Like Maybe You Are Magic, Joseph O'Connor

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Amuse-Bouche, Stephon Lawrence

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Supply Ice To Swelling, Megan Nolan

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Embouchure, Zachery Gardner

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a representative sample of the poetry I have written in the last four years. It demonstrates a variety of formal techniques and procedures. Some recurring themes and preoccupations include mysticism, birding, and early blues music.

Shape-Note Singing, Traci Rae Letellier

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Shape-Note Singing is a collection of poems about what is loved, lost, and being lost. Placed in the landscape of the Ozark foothills in the northwest corner of the state of Arkansas, the collection explores the poet’s connection to kin, land, and lore. Shape-Note Singing is the story of plain-spoken folks of simple origins telling the truth as they see it and as best they know how.