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Grid (12): Fireplaces, Jaydn Dewald

Yalobusha Review

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At The Museum Of Southern Art, Allie Mariano

Yalobusha Review

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[“Only This Feather…], Joshua Smith

Yalobusha Review

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2 Poems, Ae Hee Lee

Yalobusha Review

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Elegy For Ken, David Martine Aldridge

Mighty Pen Project Anthology & Archive

Poem about Ken Mick, who served as a Cobra Gunship pilot in the Vietnam War. Ken was a member of the Mighty Pen Project class until his sudden passing in November 2021. All of our MPP class members remember Ken as a loving and intelligent man who gave everything he had to serve America and his comrades.

We will always miss him.

What If This Girl Has A Yellow Labrador?, Danielle Torpey

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

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The Years In Stained Glass, Heather Tillery

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

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Going Back Through, Cassandra Rae Lee

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

These are poems from between 2018 and 221 during which time the author continuously sought out romance, rearranged the furniture , and adopted animals. Amidst this unresolve, primary preoccupations were closeness, what we accrue+conceal, and the forces that guide poems into arrangement. Secondary preoccupations were dust, amnesia, distraction, conduits, and the seething junction of forces where contradiction can be held.

Reed Magazine, Issue 154, Rita Bullwinkel, Alex Gulis, Ashley Burnett, Willow Gelphman, Andrew Mcclure, Ralph Robert Moore, Zach Murphy, Justin Noga, Jihoon Park, Linda Wilgus, Annie Zhu, Suzanne Rico, Joseph Sigurdson, Ashlee Beals, Geraldine Birch, Amelia Joy, Kathleen Mcnamara, Marcia Meier, Josue Montiel, Mackenzie Moore, Magda Romanska, Matthea Harvey, Scott Bade, V. Joshua Adams, Sally Ashton, Ellen Bass, Michelle Bitting, Cassandra Caverhill, Wortley Clutterbuck, Emma Depanise, Paul Dresman, Mary Anna Dunn, Jonathan Endurance, David Groff, Skye Jackson, Danusha Lameris, Megan Merchant, John A. Nieves, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, John Sibley Williams, Turner Wilson, Sarah Nolte, Tvisha Gupta, Erin Salazar, Q'Shaundra James, Alden Hughes, Shelle Barron, Janelle Aina S. Baylosis, Erik Beehn, Mason Brown, Jennifer Carrier, Daquane Cherry, Alex Gulis, Shen Chen Hsieh, Safia Ismail, London Ladd, Hector Ledesma, Jung Min, Gray Passey, Tracy Whiteside, Kenneth Zenz, Timothy Cech, Rachel A. Crawford, Matty Heimgartner, Nick Taylor

Reed Magazine

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Sweet Fruit, Daa Guy-Vasson

Theses and Dissertations

The writing and images in Sweet Fruit are an exploration of my creative works. In the first section, memory, making, and poetics come together to help the reader feel the nuances of my experience. In the exhibition works section, images allow an extended look at the work. Accompanying text describes the relevance of my childhood and my parent's Caribbean upbringing to my creative practice.

A Field Guide To The Poetry Of Theodore Roethke, William Barillas

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

A constellation of essays that reanimates the work of this pivotal twentieth-century American poet for a new century.

This volume is the first to reconsider Roethke’s work in terms of the expanded critical approaches to literature that have emerged since his death in 1963. Editor William Barillas and over forty contributors, including highly respected literary scholars, critics, and writers such as Peter Balakian, Camille Paglia, Jay Parini, and David Wojahn, collectively make a case for Roethke’s poetry as a complete, unified, and evolving body of work. The accessible essays employ a number of approaches, including formalism, ecocriticism, reader-response, and feminist …

The Space Between “Seen” And “Unseen:” Queer People And The 1915-1945 New Negro Renaissance, Claudia R. Campanella

Dissertations and Theses

In November 1926, a group of Black artists, writers, and activists created the first and only edition of Fire!!, edited by novelist Wallace Thurman. Fire!! was created by a younger generation of New Negroes and “devoted to the younger Negro artists” who dissented from the mainstream ideas of the New Negro Movement and used the magazine to spread their own views on the 1915-1945 New Negro Renaissance. Fire!! and other texts speaking to this dissent against a Black intellectual middle class image of the movement will be studied in reference to showcasing the multi-faceted elements of the movement touching …

The Joy Of Listening: Three Voices In The Poetry Of Wisława Szymborska, Mimi Thompson

CMC Senior Theses

One of the greatest feats that a poet may achieve in his or her lifetime is to develop a voice so characteristic of themself, it would be impossible to confuse it with that of any other poet. Polish-speaking and non-Polish-speaking scholars alike have agreed that the voice of 1996 Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska is utterly distinct, despite the fact that her poems explore a wide range of topics and are told from multiple narrative perspectives, rarely featuring herself through any personal details. How, then, is it possible for hundreds of poems, each with their own narrator, to still be “heard” …