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Rocket Man, Peter E. Murphy

Bryant Literary Review

I'm not sleeping
good and my gut

Probably, Francine Witte

Bryant Literary Review

That summer was knobby
and loose-skinned like the knuckles
of a tired old man. My father

Finishing Touches, Denise Utt

Bryant Literary Review

There's a lady I've heard about
who paints pictures on lampshades

The Widow, Francine Witte

Bryant Literary Review

She stands straight up for the first time
in years. So many hours spent hunched

The Sting Of It, Denise Utt

Bryant Literary Review

If I could retire
I wouldn't have to commute
to the whims of the wind

East Of My Birth, Dennis Trudell

Bryant Literary Review

Even in their homes, the island villagers
sometimes had to raise voices to be heard

An Appeal, Mary Soon Lee

Bryant Literary Review

Colleagues, let us terminate forthwith
the reprehensible hegemony

Problema Ng Makata Sa Panahon Ng Terorismo/The Problem Of The Poet In A Time Of Terrorism, E. San Juan, Jr.

Bryant Literary Review

Nangungulila Tila luho't karangyaan

Grace And The Abandoned, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

Grace walks to the lake
and her critters follow.

Darwinian, Jennifer Tappenden

Bryant Literary Review

The first cry divides
itself from happiness

Looking Forward To The Farmer's Market, Stephen Germic

Bryant Literary Review

Slender lives of orphans, sewage of a nation,
they talk in old age about childhood.

Cutting Room Floor, Heather C. Miller

Bryant Literary Review

Rewind to the time out for Italian with the girls
and my lesbian best friend wanted to go halfsies

Afterlife--The Drowning Pool, Catherine Tahmin

Bryant Literary Review

when you die
they bring you warm towels

Handkerchief, Margaret Hasse

Bryant Literary Review

A constellation of small hearts
embroidered on a white linen square

Intrigue, Dennis Saleh

Bryant Literary Review

In a conspiracy
of sky

Airport, Alex Russo

Bryant Literary Review

a universe of utter transience connects people
moving in every direction like twelve thousand

Scribbling, Katherine Tozer

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

No abstract provided.

Preying Mantis, Paige Sandgren

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

No abstract provided.

Friday Afternoons, Emily Bell

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

No abstract provided.

Other: Poems, Catherine Pritchard Childress

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This creative thesis is a collection of original poems entitled Other. The poems in Other reflect my study of the aesthetics of poetry as well as that of how women are represented as poets and as the subject of poems. Some of these poems are the product of my particular interest in the use of persona. Most reflect my desire to achieve self-reflection, to write from my experiences and perception, while still maintaining the universality that is an essential element of successful poems.

The critical introduction situates my poems within the framework of the poetic mode Personal Classicism—poetry that …

Strange Little Vehicles, Andrew Merecicky

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

It isn't an exploration in or an experiment regarding. It is a praxis, as a commute is the opposite of an adventure. As le chat regarde le poisson. As when one looks at anything, it becomes strange. That is, a thing (a thought, a feeling, Gertrude Stein's "piece of coffee") once considered becomes little and different. It is the world that is large and alike. It is ultimately the similarity, the recognition of which we, who feel small and unique in the grand scheme, find terrifying. Language is always, as Lyn Hejinian wrote, social; it is a vehicle.

As I …

Samsara, Erica Anzalone

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

In Samsara, I bring a spiritual-historical lens to art, war, feminism, religion, and the body in extremis. Although the word samsara resonates mostly within the Hindu and Buddhist faiths, meaning literally to wander through the rounds of death and rebirth, my poetics of transience and trauma crosses cultures, including Muslim, Christian, and Judaic notions of spirituality. Bosnia, Iowa, Boston, and Prague are all shifting sands within the mandala-like hourglass of this collection. My voice often issues from a working class register and speaks with rebellious power from a place of powerlessness: "E-bay nirvana, you want me to yes sir/I'll get …

Dogwood Thoughts, Grayson Pitts

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

No abstract provided.

For Monique, Carianna Arredondo

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

No abstract provided.

The Home-Wrecker, Jim Easterhouse

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

No abstract provided.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, New York, 1911, Nicky Chokran

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

No abstract provided.

Fuchsias, Amanda Feller

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

2013 Paul Query Prize in Poetry

Seance In A Soybean Field, Amanda Feller

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

2013 Paul Query Prize in Poetry

Always Away, Mollie Bergeron

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

At any given time, there are pages of notes and thoughts running through our minds; these have to come out in some way. In order to stay sane, to stay human, I write poems. These poems are interested in breath and space, memory and nostalgia, loss and water. Each of these ideas has its own fit as part of the poem as well as part of life and being alive. Human emotion is varied through these. Observation and perception, turned into poems through the very physical act of putting words onto a page, allow these memories and experiences to live …

Pyramid Of The Sun, James Joseph Brown

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Pyramid of the Sun is a novel which is experimental in structure. It weaves traditional prose with original poems based on Aztec creation myths. The narrative is not strictly linear, but approaches the plot from several angles - past, present, and future - simultaneously. It comes back to its starting point at the end, like a snake devouring its own tail. The novel takes the Aztec and Mayan belief that time is circular and never-ending and reinterprets it in a contemporary, hard-edged setting that touches down at various points across the globe, including Moscow, Seville, Seoul and Las Vegas. Pyramid …