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Time, Stephanie Benmergui

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Supernova Sonnet, Brianna Gonzalez

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Ghosts Of Suburbia, Lindsay Glick

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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All Elms Washed By The Sea, Lorraine Xie

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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New Beginnings, Rachel Sereix

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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You, Sydney Shiekman

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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The Promethean, Volume 23, Cats In Zanzibar, 2015, English Department, Concordia University-Portland

The Promethean

With every new generation it is important to look back and learn from those that have come before us, but it is also essential to redefine the new era on a personal level. Henry David Thoreau, venerated author and philosopher, concluded his novel Walden with the line, "It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar." Thoreau's sentiment was that a change of soul or purpose is more important than a change of scenery.

I speak for myself as well as a lot of other late-teen and twenty-something when I say that …

Founder’S Rest, Emma Verstraete

Arrow Rock

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Wanderlust, Devin Mitchell Durbin

Arrow Rock

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Between Two Worlds, Stephanie Tillman

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

“Original Sin”—evocative and powerful words, but what if they were applied to one of the world’s most popular fairy tales? This thesis explores Snow White in the context of the Seven Deadly Sins and the grand fall of Adam and Eve. The forbidden fruit manifests itself in different ways, pulling the prim and proper princess into places she never could have imagined. But what of the Wicked Queen, here known as Lilith? She too feels the bite of the world’s sick sense of humor, exacting revenge on those who have wronged her. Are these poems about them? Or are they …

The Knowledge Weapon: Ways Of Knowing, Annette Christine Boehm

Dissertations

This collection of poems explores the language of knowledge and instruction. While it can provide a sense of security, what we are given as ‘knowledge’ is frequently unreliable or even misleading, and used much like a weapon.

What Is The True Color, Mai Urai

Arrow Rock

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The Ashes Of A Man I Used To Be, Devin Mitchell Durbin

Arrow Rock

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85, Helena

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Nighthawk, Olivia Marcus

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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Dusk, Sunny Xu

Hieroglyphics: the NSU University School Literary Magazine

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The Debater’S Clock, Stephen Hawkes

Arrow Rock

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The Rebuff Of Discovery: A Collection Of Poems, Kayla M. Ireson

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This creative thesis is a retelling of events as a collection of poems. Struggling with mental illness most of my life, I base most of my writing in this odd juxtaposition—the struggle for life alternating with my delight in its splendor. I find myself writing about the most challenging times in my life along with the most magnificent.

The critical introduction explores and elaborates on the context and influences of my writing. Every line of poetry on every page has been a journey of reconciliation with my past and present—a journey deciphering who I am among all the leftovers of …

“The Bedroom And The Barnyard: Zoomorphic Lust Through Territory, Procedure, And Shelter In ‘The Miller’S Tale’” & Haunchebones, Danielle N. Byington

Undergraduate Honors Theses

“The Bedroom and the Barnyard: Zoomorphic Lust Through Territory, Procedure, and Shelter in ‘The Miller’s Tale’” is an academic endeavor that takes Chaucer’s zoomorphic metaphors and similes and analyzes them in a sense that reveals the chaos of what is human and what is animal tendency. The academic work is expressed in the adjunct creative project, Haunchebones, a 10-minute drama that echoes the tale and its zoomorphic influences, while presenting the content in a stylized play influenced by Theatre of the Absurd and artwork from the medieval and early renaissance period.

The Recognition Of Micro Poetry As A Literary Art Form Across Time And Culture, Kaitlyn M. Dahle

Undergraduate Honors Theses

My creative thesis, titled, The Recognition of Micro Poetry as a Literary Art Form across Time and Culture, is on micro poetry and its prevalence in the literary world of today and throughout history with examples of writings from past authors, like Emily Dickinson and William Carlos Williams and even as far back as Ancient Greece’s Sappho. Examples of my own micro poetry are included in the thesis. The period followed by two dashes, or .//, mark the beginning of each micro poem I have written. The poems end with one single dash, or /, and each poem is …

The Dictionary, Ace Boggess

Bryant Literary Review

I keep a dictionary by my bed
in case a word is spoken when I dream

Modern Peasantry, Mark Smith

Bryant Literary Review

Are you not yet cognizant,
my people, of how your television

Hoo Doo Interests, Allison Whittenberg

Bryant Literary Review

MaMa Fontaine stirs gumbo in a big rusty pot
telling me that joy is squashing a pregnant roach

A Scarlet Tanager Alights On A Branch, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

The stopping, admiring,
is all on my side.

***, Daria Ivanova

Arrow Rock

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About To Melt The Sky, Mai Urai

Arrow Rock

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10-42, Blake Fields

Arrow Rock

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A Day In The Life: The Tale Of Dr. Capitillar, Danyelle Pullens

Arrow Rock

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Believing, You’Ll See, Emily Bounds

Arrow Rock

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Danse Russe, Danyelle Pullens

Arrow Rock

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