Poetry Commons^™

In The Village Of Mourning, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

Outside the Purulhá market, where the bus had left her, Olivia stared at the mountains to the north of town.

Squeeze The Putty, Mrs. Martin, Mike Onofrey

Bryant Literary Review

"Do you have a minute?" she said to Dwayne as he was coming out of his mother's hospital room at four in the afternoon.

Outside Leadville, Emily Morganti

Bryant Literary Review

I thought we would die on that mountain. Not in my heart but in my head.

Baby And House, Catherine Austin Alexander

Bryant Literary Review

Imagine a yoga studio with pale yellow walls. Corduroy pillows piled under windows

The Lantern Vol. 72, No. 1, Fall 2004, Nathan Dawley, Victoria Wynne, Thomas Richter, Susannah Fisher, Katy Diana, Sarah Kauffman, Trevor Strunk, Chris Curley, Meghan Bickel, Jan Cohen, Ashley Higgins, David Chamberlin, Jill Williams, Alison Shaffer, Abi Munro, Klaus Yoder, Caroline Meiers, Jennifer Mingolello, Daniel Bruno, Peter Bregman

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Jazz
• Bifocal Brainfreeze
• A Mug of Tea
• Autumn Blend
• Montana Skies
• Madeleine Parenthesis
• Ghosts Come Out at Night
• Time
• 144 Cromwell Road
• Market East
• Secret
• Stream
• What Might Have Been or What Never Was
• Buried Mirth
• Conversations With a Writer
• Churning Through
• Chum-Salmon Intentions
• Cages
• Lola Sang of Green Glass Landscapes
• Peg's Antiques
• Life at 120 Decibels

Calliope : War, Love, & Wisdom (2004), Calliope

Calliope

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 71, No. 2, Spring 2004, Jay Richards, Tori Wynne, Jonathan Kiernan, Sarah Kauffman, Sarah Napolitan, Nathan Dawley, Larry Barr, Katy Diana, Alison Shaffer, Susannah Fisher, Trevor Strunk, Melanie Scriptunas, Dennis Kearney, John Ramsey, Dan Bruno, Klaus Yoder, Jessica Schoff, Jen Brink, Kate Chapman, Haley Turney

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Football Captain
• Grass Blades
• Identity Theft
• Her Shoulders
• Doing 100
• Watching the
• Fifteen Lines for Five
• Plague
• On the Occasion of Kissing You Less Than I Used To
• Decomposey
• Broomhandles
• Just a Minute
• War of the Words
• Seguidille
• At the End of One's Rope
• The Ride and Joe
• I Want Soft Curls
• Broken
• Stories of a Hypochondriac
• The TV is in Jail & My Mom is the Warden

2004 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

America's Most Wanted, Erica Olsen

Bryant Literary Review

I'm coming home from City Market when I spot the other vehicle in my drive.

"Look," I say. "Visitors."

St. Viggo, Karina Fuentes

Bryant Literary Review

Helen nearly suffocates me the night before the exhibit. She's walking

around on her heels, big cotton puffs between her calloused toes,

when she stumbles and falls on my head, which is stuffed beneath a

pillow. "I'll never sleep again," I groan.

The Hills Of Laura, Billy Lombardo

Bryant Literary Review

It is true that I hated Hucker Norton. But I did not mean to crush his thumb.

He wasn't one of us, really. Even his name told you he was from some other place. We were Petey and Tommy and Davy and Matty, and he was Hucker.

The Snow Moon, Rebecca Lilly

Bryant Literary Review

A full moon sheared the tip of a pine. Lying in bed, a woodsman and

his wife saw it one December night. "Something must be done," said

his wife. "I know it's a sign."

The Lantern Vol. 71, No. 1, Fall 2003, Katy Diana, Bart Brooks, Sarah Napolitan, Susannah Fisher, Sarah Kauffman, Dan Bruno, Trevor Strunk, Jan Cohen, Jen Brink, Jonathan Gagas, Shane Borer, Kate Chapman, Dennis Kearney, Crystal Mccarney, Ashley Mcintosh, Klaus Yoder, Kate Juliano, John Ramsey, Melanie Scriptunas, Alison Shaffer

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Lights of Venice
• Portrait
• Switzerland
• Drunken
• Revel Writing
• Nectarines
• Shifting Gears
• Stogie
• Reflect
• In the Key of Fuchsia Minor
• Jarring
• Sissy
• Mongols vs. Amish: X-Treme Culture Clash
• Holding On
• The Bethany
• Creekside
• The Real Thing
• On Being Alone and Other Pleasures
• Forced Entry
• The Case of Beauty: Aesthetics of Distance

Arabia, Jeffrey David Peckham

Bryant Literary Review

Although he feels just fine, Neil still takes the morning off and keeps his appointment.

Granny's Tumor, T. M. Bemis

Bryant Literary Review

"What?" I asked again, and the Indian doctor repeated it."

An Innocent Heart, Catherine Harris

Bryant Literary Review

I lived in a share house then, with embossed gold paisley wallpaper in the living room and rising damp in the hall.

Still Life, Brian Arundel

Bryant Literary Review

We live a few hundred yards from a drive-in theater at the end of a dead end street on the edge of a small Virginia town called Spotsylvania that people only pass through on their way to someplace else.

Rope Dancers, Jessica Newton

Bryant Literary Review

When you walk a tightrope you have to think of it as getting across the first third, then the second third, which makes it the last third a piece of cake

Getting Married In Vegas, Natalia Cortes Chaffin

Bryant Literary Review

Maggie woke up to the stop and start of a car outside her bedroom window.

Chosin Reservoir, Robert Wallace

Bryant Literary Review

SNOW

First the snow: lots of it. Heavy and wet and blinding to the naked eye on a sunny day.

Calliope : Across The Disciplines (Spring 2003), Calliope

Calliope

No abstract provided.

2003 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 70, No. 2, Spring 2003, Christopher Tereshko, Sarah Napolitan, John Ramsey, Alison Shaffer, Sarah Kauffman, Susannah Fisher, Kate Chapman, Katy Diana, Andrew E. Petersen, Laura Phillips, Abigail Munro, Deidre Delpino, Stephen Corrado, Melanie Scriptunas

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• To the Automobile Owners of the Fine State of New Jersey
• Topless
• Lame Foot
• Rosary Apologia
• Alias
• So Luscious
• Dec 12 02
• Climbing
• On Susannah in the Morning
• Statistics
• A Thursday in February
• Breaking Blue
• Leaves on my Tongue
• The Bread They Mistook for a Kiss
• The Process
• Home is Where the Hershey's is
• Rock the Boat
• The Splitting

Calliope : Across The Disciplines (Fall 2002), Calliope

Calliope

Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, Visual Arts

The Lantern Vol. 70, No. 1, Fall 2002, Alison Shaffer, Katy Diana, Christopher Tereshko, Susannah Fisher, Drew Petersen, Klaus Yoder, John Ramsey, Sarah Kauffman, Rachel Jessica Daniel, Keith Truman, Jen Brink, Kate Chapman, Laura Phillips, Dennis Kearney, Cara Nageli, Sarah Napolitan

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• (For Z)
• Little Sister
• Eulogy to Her Son, Dead at 22
• Tuesday
• 7 Couplets for Drawing Genevieve
• Diner Reflection
• We Swam. We Made Sand Castles.
• His Lips Were Figure Fitting
• Public Transportation
• Pop Culture
• Running the Ridge
• Like a Sunflower
• Snooze
• Match
• Behavioral Correctional Facility of Santa Fe...
• The Cellar

Discovering The Craft And Art Of Writing, Melissa Daigle

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

The Lantern Vol. 69, No. 2, Spring 2002, Erin Dickerson, Cory Spangler, Kevin Hankins, Sarah Kauffman, Christopher Tereshko, Sarah Napolitan, Alison Shaffer, Melanie Scriptunas, John Ramsey, Christine Spera, Monica Stahl, Patricia Quinn, Syreeta Dixon, Raquel Pidal, Genevieve Romeo, Dennis Kearney, Phil Malachowski, Rosabelle Diaz, Michael Pomante, Katie Lambert, Daniel Bruno

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• What was Said in the Court of Riong
• Bailan Pies (Dancing Feet)
• Canard
• Vernacular City
• Saturday Night Motorcycles
• The Muse
• I Stuffed my Face in the Herbs
• Jacob's Nightingale
• At Tracey's
• Ona Time, a Rhym-mer
• For Yo Yo Ma's Encore
• Two Minutes from Earl's Court Tube Station
• For Two
• Bald
• This Year's Love
• The Dimmer Switch
• Tickertape
• Imaginary Highway
• First Kiss and Related Terrors
• Hairball
• His Hobbies
• Spaghetti Dinner

2002 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

Fat, Jeffrey David Peckham

Bryant Literary Review

Arlene and Pappy spill out at the usual booth.

Look What Happened To Me, Bayard

Bryant Literary Review

Twilight in the window is all I remember.