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Say Grace For Gramma, Bill Mccann

Manuscripts

It was a festive Thanksgiving at Gramma's this year-blood ties drawing the family together from all over the country for a yearly reunion of good food, laughter, and nostalgic memories...

Front Matter

Manuscripts

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Who I Am Through The Lens Of Distortion, Mackenzie Alena Boyer Ms.

Capstone Projects

Who I Am Through the Lens of Distortion is a work of fact and fiction, mixing some of Mackenzie’s actual life events with surrealistic/dreamlike details. During Mackenzie’s time at Otterbein she has loved blending her loves of fiction writing and poetry into one beautiful art form. This project is a culmination of just that. Mackenzie has chosen to focus on her life as a college student, in regards to her memories and her growth as an independent adult, feminist, woman, and writer with distortion of place and time to spice things up. In this project she attempts to answer the …

Education, Crystal C. Gray

Eddie Mabry Diversity Award

Education is a spoken word poem that explores many aspects of the African American struggle within (self-knowledge). It starts with an African American college student who is disappointed with the lack of courses about her culture. Most curricula in the United States tend to be from a Eurocentric perspective, leaving out a multitude of information about people of color. All groups of people of color have unique experiences, however, African Americans have the most known (or perhaps I should say, unknown) history. The standard explanation of their existence is often limited to the start of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, when …

Columbia Poetry Review, Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Poetry Review

Literary journal produced annually. Student editors: Vanessa Borjon, Ethan Chambers, Kati Goldstein, Justin Grogan, Natalia Kennedy, Ashley McCord, Will Mackie-Jenkins, Brittany Tomaselli. Editorial Board: Byle Ballou, Byle Butler, Matthew DeMarco, Elizabeth Forsythe, Jan-Henry Gray, Evan Kleekamp, Laurel Milburn, Beyza Ozer, Charlie Popetz, Taylor Lynn Robinson, Dominique Wagner. Cover: Georgia Ponton.

Gen Ms 31 Thomas Carper Papers Finding Aid, Megan Hendrix

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Description:

This collection contains poems, writing logs and published works of poet Thomas Carper. Originally from Cornish, Maine, Carper is a Professor Emeritus who taught poetry and creative writing at USM from 1967 to 1997 and currently divides his time between Maine and France. The Papers include multiple drafts showing revisions of the poem along with the final version.

Date Range:

1982-2007

Size of Collection:

2 ft

"Not I!": Strategies Of Post-Millennial Confessionalistic Poetry, Charlotte J. Pence

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

With the technological ability and pop-cultural fascination to record private moments and distribute them, poetry that reveals personal details and conflates the identity between speaker and author must feel the effects of what could be viewed as an over-saturation of the confessional—which was during the 1950s and 1960s with Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath a political, rebellious act. It is far from that now. In this Kim Kardashian era, revealing sex tapes are used as marketing tools to launch careers whereas once they destroyed careers. Considering the hyper-confessional climate of our era and that “Confessional” is something of …

Santa Clara Review, Vol. 102, No. 2, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Review

No abstract provided.

Satori 2015, Winona State University

Satori Literary Magazine

The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.

The Lantern, 2014-2015, Nora Sternlof, Blaise Laramee, Sophia Gamber, Kara Travis, Maxwell Bicking, Emily Duffy, Amanda Sierzega, Collin Takita, Isabella Esser Munera, Brian Cox, Annie Rus, Dominick Knowles, Solana Warner, Brian Thomas, Sarah Gow, Alyse Brewer, Mara Koren, Briana Mullan, Albert Hahn, Aubrey Atkinson, Eliana Katz, Josh Hoffman, Caylon Fowlkes, Dana Kluchinski, Lauren Geiger, Michele Snead, Andrew Tran, Erica Gorenberg, Henry Wilshire, Emily Shue, Rae Hodenfield, Madison Bradley, Kristen Costello, Brian Leipold, Quinn Gilman-Forlini, Lauren Marano, Mary Lobo, Arthur Robinson, Kevin Moore, Mary A. Holmcrans, Angier Cooper, Michael Heimbaugh

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• The Retreat
• Part of Eve's Discussion
• Buchanan
• Hypotheticals
• The Baby Hippo
• Sertraline and Cheerios
• Margins
• Anatomy of Me
• Orange
• Ode to Mathematics
• Garden Path
• Periphery
• 10n Power=Our Maybe Domains
• Hillside
• Baltimore//Analogues
• Work is a Religion
• At the Bridal Shower
• November
• Revisionist History
• Cold Front
• Lung (for D. Avitabile)
• Tether
• Hold Still
• Reverb
• An Almost English Major and His Daughter
• Clocks
• In the Kitchen on a Sunday Afternoon
• Amy
• Nine
• Customary …

Banshees: Poems, Eileen P. Kennedy

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

2015 Spring Quiz & Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

The Wheelhouse, Lucian Charles Mattison

English Theses & Dissertations

The Wheelhouse is a creative work of poetry divided into three sections. The collection's major themes are centered around the notions of cyclical movement, desire, duende, love, and independence. The poems are linked by the use of repeating images and telescopic movement.

New Tricks (2015), John Nelson, Stacey Berry, Laura Otteson, Laina Darger, Jared Lampe, Chelsea Meyer, Dillon Dwyer, Ashley Geditz, Sarah Sproul

New Tricks

"As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul." Hermes Trismegistus

I am but a humbly painted vessel of the Almighty Artist, here to share in this uniquely significant piece of the great mural. They say that art imitates life and that through the creation of art we become one with the divine painter of the universe. That is why the calling of the artist is the most noble of pursuits, for the artist is the truest reflection of the source of things. Yet art is not finite and cannot be nailed down. Like the …

Black Box 2015, Gini Norgard, Michelle Zanolin, Trentin Post, Tiyo Rowe, Paul Adelgren, Zachary Spahr, Christoper Rosamond, Jordan Jones, Katherine Minott, William Stark, Savannah Bonty, John Bordini, Isaiah Martinez, Destiny Cochrane, E. Groom

Black Box

The Black Box is a creative publication dedicated to displaying the talented work of ERAU. Creativity and ingenuity flow throughout ERAU and we want to put it on display!

Reinventing Language, Vowel By Colorful Vowel, Clark Lunberry

English Faculty Research and Scholarship

A Fable of a Fable, or “The Story of One of My Follies”: After he’d invented “the color of vowels,” regulated the “form and movement of each consonant,” the young poet then, applying his “instinctive rhythms” to the task, proudly proclaimed that he had alchemically created “a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.” Notably, with his project in place, this poet, Arthur Rimbaud, tells us that he was then quick to “reserve translation rights.” This legal move on the poet’s part was perhaps thought initially necessary because, as he notes in 1873, the described synesthetic impact of …

A Wingless Flight, Marilynn Skeggs

Masters Essays

No abstract provided.

The Newsreel, Robert Eristeed Ciara

English Theses & Dissertations

As a reader, I am drawn to poetry and literature that inform me of something new, writings that move me emotionally but more importantly, quench my thirst for new knowledge, culture, and little known history. As a writer, I am compelled to inform my readers of these facts and present them in a way as to evoke deeper meanings and emotions.

THE NEWS REEL is a collection of poems that explores cultural identities, the experimental poetic journalism. It is defined by literature which strives to provide a forum for public criticism and compromise, based on current or past relevant news …

Thinking Like This, Andrew Squitiro

English Theses & Dissertations

Thinking Like This is a creative work of poetry. Its themes are love, devotion, divinity, and freedom. The thesis is composed of three sections: The Body, The Hangover Papers, and The Sound of Your Voice.

“Amidst The Chime Of The Razor Wire”: Narrating Poetic Justice In Guantanamo Bay, Kristina H. Reardon

The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal

The quest of poetic justice carries Marc Falkoff’s 2007 anthology Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak into the court of public (literary) opinion. While the Pentagon asserts that poetry poses special security risks, and related translation issues may obscure the artistry or message of some of the 17 poets’ verse, Falkoff’s volume nevertheless gives prisoners’ voices a forum in which they might be heard. At the nexus of legal and literary scholarship, poetic voice and its expression become a site of deconstructing identity. The Guantanamo poets invite readers to explore the ways that aesthetics form perceptions of their identity as …

Volume 16, Issue 1: Full Text

Manuscripts

No abstract provided.

Editor's Note, The Editor

Manuscripts

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The Cliche Expert At Butler, Kent Mecum, Waneta Staten, Eleanor Overstreet

Manuscripts

Note: The three following pieces were written as a class assignment and all appear under the same title. The possibilities of the subject were so numerous that there is very little over-lapping in the papers and it seemed proper to print all three as representing a more exhaustive treatment of the subject. - The Editor.

Sunday Farmers, R. J. Evans

Manuscripts

Although I did not realize it when I married him, I really married Teddy plus a farm. Young and rather naive, I believed I could soon make myself over into a farmer's wife, especially since the farm in question was a project only for week-ends. But I have found it consumes all of my husband's spare time and as much of mine as I will allow.

April, Suzanne Spiker

Manuscripts

From tall trees,

The cool moisture rushes

To the ground...

My Utopia, Kenneth Ryan

Manuscripts

Do you want to be a hermit? Of course you don't. But! Do you awake in the morning feeling irritable and tired after a hard double feature the night before? Does your head buzz and do your feet ache after hours of shopping through crowded stores? Does the / world of modern man rest heavily upon your weary shoulders? If your answer is yes, then we can help you.

The Impossible Housewife, Demaris Klicka

Manuscripts

Her house-dress is faultlessly tailored. She wears sheer hose and high heels. Her sleek, upswept hair-do is in shining order at 6:00 a.m. Her house, which was a tumbled-down shack bought for almost nothing, has been remodeled with only a few dollars and quantities of ingenuity into a decorator's dream; most of the furniture, deep, handrubbed mahogany, was found in a back street second-hand shop for a few pennies and refinished. Her house is in ship-shape order (Navy style) not later than 8:00 a.m. She does a weekly laundry for seven. people before breakfast without marring her manicure. She prepares …

A Snowflake--An Observation, Suzanne Spiker

Manuscripts

With my face pressed against the cool pane of the window, I watched the snow drifting slowly past. Then my eye was caught by a particularly beautiful flake, lodged on the sill. It was perfectly symmetrical in shape, looking like a delicate white butterfly poised for flight, or a lacy, imaginative valentine, left over from that saint s name-day.

Death, Patrick J. Mahoney Iii

Manuscripts

He had tried to surrender. From behind a section of battered wall, he waved the Nambu with a piece of dirty white rag tied to the barrel, and I waited. Waited, with my Thompson leveled at that piece of white rag. We had long since learned of the treachery of the infamous Seventh Regiment of Imperial Marines, the pride of the Emperor, the giants of Nippon. They were giants too, in comparison to the usual run of Nips. These Banzai boys were all crowding six feet and over. Big fellas, and treacherous as a coiled cobra.

Requiem, Alan Markum

Manuscripts

All shall go down

All shall go under

All shall forget...