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View From Pisgah Crater (Visual Art) And Raking Clouds, Glennon Jarachovic, Lauren Dial

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Glennon Jarachovic is a junior perusing a B.A. in Art History with interests in art management and business. Originally from Barstow, California, he moved to Arkansas for a change of scenery and to be closer to family. While not aspiring to be a professional artist, he enjoys the process of making art and growing as an amateur artist. Art has always been a part of his life since childhood and hopefully it will continue to play a large role in the future.

Lauren Dial is a senior attending the University of Arkansas studying Creative Writing. She was the Fiction Editor …

Ultramarine, Verna Bryan

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Verna Corinne Bryan is a junior from Little Rock, AR. She’s majoring in English with a Creative Writing concentration and minoring in French. She hopes to someday write a book that gets turned into a movie so she never has to work again.

Our Cat And A Close Shave (Visual Art), Erin Allen, Lauren Dial

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Erin is a non-traditional student at the UofA and a former staff writer for The Santiago Times. She mothers, gardens and writes from her home in Fayetteville and plans to pursue an MFA in poetry.

Lauren Dial is a senior attending the University of Arkansas studying Creative Writing. She was the Fiction Editor for the first edition of The Diamond Line. Her work generally revolves around experimenting with new perspectives. She believes stepping into the unknown lives of people, or creatures, entirely unlike yourself is a leap into a greater understanding of the larger consciousness.

Inhabit, Kath Rees

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Kath Rees is a junior at the University of Arkansas, earning her B.F.A. in Creative Writing with a minor in Art History. She writes poetry and prose, and more often than not, something in between. Her interests include baking, being outside, and googling obscure German fairytales This is her first publication.

Untitled (Visual Art) And The Music Of My Newest Nephew, Madison Varns, Caroline Jennings

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

Madi Varns is a student writer and artist attending her third year at the university. Her practice focuses primarily in the visual languages of painting and ceramics as well as crafting experiences of sound and space. Through writing and visual arts she hopes to document moments of the self-aware experience that is nuanced and intimate but ultimately shared by all.

Caroline Jennings grew up in Fort Smith, Arkansas and is currently working towards obtain ing a B.A. in Creative Writing and a B.S. in Applied Math. In her free time, she spends quite a bit of time baking, in movie …

Letter From The Editors, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Diamond Line - Fall 2021, Diamond Line Editors

Diamond Line Undergraduate Literary Magazine

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Campus Poetry Walk: (Re)Creating And Reconnecting A Community (Presentation), Lisa Villa

Staff publications

In January 2020, the Outreach and Engagement Team at the College of the Holy Cross began preparing a poetry walk, which was reconfigured to a social media “poetry event” due to COVID-19. With the anticipated return of students to campus for the Spring 2021 semester and a need for the community (especially students) to have recreational opportunities that were safe, socially distanced and preferably outside, the Team attempted for a second time to plan a poetry walk. CrossWorks, the institutional repository for the College, was a part of this plan from the beginning. Foremost, CrossWorks would support the scholarly and …

Amjambo Africa! (December 2021), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue

Film: .......................................2/3

Le Intersection/Le Carrefour Zamzam Elmoge Black Owned Maine/Amjambo Holiday Gift Guide. ...........4/5

Editorial......................................6

Healthcare in Chad ...................8

French • Kinyarwanda Portuguese • Somali • Spanish Swahili

Poetry: My version of the American dream ......................13

Hermenegildo Paulo and Mathilde Micomyiza...............14

Diversity Calendar project.....16

Finance/All about cars............18

Columns. ............................18/19

Preble Street • MIRC • ILAP Maine Equal Justice • IntWork

5 New Mainers celebrate holidays...............................20-29

French • Kinyarwanda Portuguese • Somali • Spanish Swahili

Community Health Workers/CHOWs....................28

New Voices...............................29

Rupal Ramesh Shah • Roseline Souebele

Humanitarian crisis in Maine.31

Commonthought (2021), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

Smoke Signal, Mia Donaldson

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Dirty Umbrella, Michael Denicola

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Jones Beach 2021, Michael Denicola

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Apocalypse Song, Ashley Halm

Gandy Dancer Archives

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New World, Mira Jaeger

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Hands, Mira Jaeger

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Deceivingly Beautiful Trails, Jennifer Mirarcki

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Thigh High Lace Love, Cassandra Manzolillo

Gandy Dancer Archives

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The Truth Of Lemon Dish Soap, Rachel Valente

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Sureline, Sarah Sharples

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Blackberry Girls, Tess Woitaszek

Gandy Dancer Archives

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The Sacrificial Lamb Attempts Assimilation, Mia Donaldson

Gandy Dancer Archives

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I Was Never Actually That Hungry, Susan Romance

Gandy Dancer Archives

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Dragonchaser, Kiel M. Gregory

Gandy Dancer Archives

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A Potted History Of Fevers (The Just War Was Slow Weather), Mark Anthony Cayanan

English Faculty Publications

The poem is a part of a sequence that loosely revolves around the Agoo apparitions in the early 1990s.

Swallow's Nest: Birdwatching Poems, Karissa Wehri

Greenway Press Chapbooks

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Plead To The Usl Championship Side, Oscar Alejos

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This creative project invites the United States Soccer League side Monterey Bay Football Club The Union, to change, transition and transform its format allowing for fair play, competition, and growth at all levels.

The Red Miata, Danielle Henry

Gandy Dancer Archives

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تأويل الشعر في مجالس السماع الصوفية عند الغزالي, كامل يوسف عثوم

Dirassat

Interpretation of Poetry in the Sufi- Listening Councils According to Al-Ghazali

This research attempts to identify the interpretation of poetry in the Sufi hearing councils from the viewpoint of Al-Ghazali, his philosophy of interpretation, and his presentation of the activities of these councils, with a focus on poetry as a diverse, deep, and open to interpretation cultural source.

Still Waiting For A Cure, Uchenna Emenaha

Journal of Multicultural Affairs

Poetry elicits emotions and imagery, which can capture the sentiments of the collective experiences that educators and our society are experiencing during this moment in history. This poem calls to attention the way in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our country through social distancing precautions put into place to curb the spread of the virus. The verses in the poem speak to the loss of community and celebrations that occurred during this time. The poem concludes by addressing the racial awakening that has also taken place during these unprecedented times. The pandemic reduced many of life’s distractions allowing a …