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Here And Now, Dennis Ross May 2019

Here And Now, Dennis Ross

Westview

Driving along an Iowa gravel road I am sometimes jolted wide awake as from a forever sleep, struck by the immediacy of the world,


Hometown, Kenneth Beck May 2019

Hometown, Kenneth Beck

Westview

My hometown is a monochrome. Pack rats on every block with vintage Whatever-you-have from whatever-year.


Human Rib Bone, $10, Shiann Dawson May 2019

Human Rib Bone, $10, Shiann Dawson

Westview

A little gift shop, nestled into a house of death Filled with…well, Trinkets, mostly.


Imperfect English Composition, Anne Babson May 2019

Imperfect English Composition, Anne Babson

Westview

Thesis: While in love, no matter what my mother says about the milk for free, I have discovered that he is prose, not sonnet. While having sterling qualities, he is not perfect. Remind the reader that no one is. Remind self.


Interactive Sonnet, James B. Nicola May 2019

Interactive Sonnet, James B. Nicola

Westview

This is the place where I’m supposed to say a thing I have to say, and soundly, then expound upon it like a pregnant hen with fourteen eggs she cannot help but lay.


Ire Man, James B. Nicola May 2019

Ire Man, James B. Nicola

Westview

When the life is mostly moor, make it poetry.


Irises Planted On A Grave, Gordon Grice May 2019

Irises Planted On A Grave, Gordon Grice

Westview

The irises lick the wind with fragrant tongues…


New Barista, Dennis Ross May 2019

New Barista, Dennis Ross

Westview

She moves like a half-grown colt, all legs and skinny arms…


On Wings, Richard Dinges Jr. May 2019

On Wings, Richard Dinges Jr.

Westview

Each day, more flies descend and buzz my porch. I bathe.


Part Ii, Diane Glancy May 2019

Part Ii, Diane Glancy

Westview

The Erring Need of Narrative


Prayers Coagulate Around A Woman On Her Porch, Henry D. Goldkamp May 2019

Prayers Coagulate Around A Woman On Her Porch, Henry D. Goldkamp

Westview

Southern static : pink tongue : dewy ears : seagulls yelling Wal-Mart


Princesses, Donna L. Emerson May 2019

Princesses, Donna L. Emerson

Westview

First grade girls are deciding who’s a princess. They say I’m not one.


Promise, Jack Cooper May 2019

Promise, Jack Cooper

Westview

Her hands looked old boney and bruised but her face young her cheeks blushed her eyes wandering


Skippings Rocks, Chad W. Lutz May 2019

Skippings Rocks, Chad W. Lutz

Westview

There’s a place in town where the only two roads meet, marked by an old sycamore. Its bark is blotchy, and the few limbs it has left reach for the sky like the pleading arms of a dying man.


Sunday Morning, Matthew C. Brennan May 2019

Sunday Morning, Matthew C. Brennan

Westview

Back home from Kroger, I sense that something’s terribly wrong: five squad cars flashing red cordon the street, and yellow tape extends from a fencepost to a worksite shed across from us.


The Pie Lady, Shiann Dawson May 2019

The Pie Lady, Shiann Dawson

Westview

You again. You don’t even remember me.


The Yellow Porch Swing, Aimee Klein May 2019

The Yellow Porch Swing, Aimee Klein

Westview

The smell of honeysuckle carried on a breeze the soft squeak


Trash, Eleanore Lee May 2019

Trash, Eleanore Lee

Westview

To find where the Johnsons used to live, You have to turn up the old dirt road, Hang left, then go on past the splintered gate


Villanelle: Flood Time, Eleanore Lee May 2019

Villanelle: Flood Time, Eleanore Lee

Westview

The skies above just opened up, hear how the torrent roars… On city streets, through parks and lots, our stains are washed away.


On The Places We Have Lived, With Children Not Quite Born, Savannah Skinner May 2019

On The Places We Have Lived, With Children Not Quite Born, Savannah Skinner

Gandy Dancer Archives

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First Set, Alfonso Zapata May 2019

First Set, Alfonso Zapata

Master's Theses

First Set is a collection of poetry by Alfonso Zapata, with poems contained therein from as long ago as 2015. This thesis and project examines art, especially music, and its effects on memory and emotion. The world that these poems explicate is charged with passion and drive, spurred on by the continuous exposure to art in its characters both fictional and autobiographical. The goal of these writings is not just to portray how people can be affected by art, but to give art its own agency. In the poetry’s efforts to demystify the subject of art, art becomes its own …


Prayers For Vagabond, Loisa Fenichell May 2019

Prayers For Vagabond, Loisa Fenichell

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Last Prayer To Mack Wolford, Lara Elmayan May 2019

Last Prayer To Mack Wolford, Lara Elmayan

Gandy Dancer Archives

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At The Viaduct, The Hudson In March, Fourteen Days Since He Fell Under // Eastern Meadowlark, Thirty-Ninth Mile Of Morning, Grace Gilbert May 2019

At The Viaduct, The Hudson In March, Fourteen Days Since He Fell Under // Eastern Meadowlark, Thirty-Ninth Mile Of Morning, Grace Gilbert

Gandy Dancer Archives

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I Kept The Memories, Kimberly Jackson May 2019

I Kept The Memories, Kimberly Jackson

Calliope

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This To Which We've Come., Holly Tabor May 2019

This To Which We've Come., Holly Tabor

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This collection of works explores the linkages between moments, the connective thread that accumulates over time to create for each of us a unique present. The title, “This to Which We’ve Come,” attempts to convey that each moment is a point of arrival colored by the smallest of temporal fibers, our most interior histories that stretch and bend and fold back onto themselves when the present forces us into action, or inaction. Through these characters and their stories, I attempt to examine that moment of arrival. A secondary thread explored in this collection is the idea that humans are still …


The End Is Followed By An Ellipsis, Mahogany Brim May 2019

The End Is Followed By An Ellipsis, Mahogany Brim

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

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Ode To My House Plants, Faith Lee May 2019

Ode To My House Plants, Faith Lee

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

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A Letter For God, Alexis Uribe May 2019

A Letter For God, Alexis Uribe

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

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The Drunken Cock, Chad Rohrbacher May 2019

The Drunken Cock, Chad Rohrbacher

Publications

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