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The Name, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

There should be a name for people

who sit on a rock for hours

Passio #008, George Gott

Bryant Literary Review

If we know

what we ought to know

we join hands with the mighty world

John 3:10010000110, John Supinski

Bryant Literary Review

Welcome to the kingdom of the Immortal

Where races are run barefoot

My Kind Of Nothing, Elizabeth C. Williams

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Dry Wood, Gregory E. Scheiber

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Ghazal For Emptiness, Eric J. Kozlik

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Paper Heart, Kelly J. Weitner

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Against The Wind, William M. Buerger

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Buddha Speaks With His Oncologist (For David Getches), Frank Pommersheim

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Woodwords, Carol Harrington

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

Commonthought (2011), 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.

Ua68/6/1 Potter College Of Arts & Letters English Publications, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Publications created by and about the English Department.

Zephyrus is produced by the English Department and contains student creative writing.

"A literary magazine called Voices had been produced for a number of years prior to that, but in 1969 Professor Gatlin, with the help of Professor Will Fridy, came up with the title Zephyrus, the Roman name for the west wind, because Dr. Wood had asked that "Western" be included in the title." From A Centennial History of the Department of English of Western Kentucky University by James Flynn

"In 1979, Frank [Steele], along with his wife, Peggy, began publishing …

Orphan, Indiana, David Dodd Lee

University of Akron Press Publications

Orphan, Indiana is a collection of spontaneous outbursts framed by reticence and the guiding mania of the subconscious. Profane and poignant, accidental-seeming but soaring with satirical intent, David Dodd Lee's poems capture a verisimilitude that's phenomenological, and yet of the moment.

Traveling To Oklahoma For My Grandmother’S Funeral, I Write A Poem About Wallace Stevens, Dean Rader

English

No abstract provided.

Nothing Fatal, Sarah Perrier

University of Akron Press Publications

What happens when love is replaced by romance? In Nothing Fatal, Sarah Perrier explores this and other questions about our contemporary understanding of dating, relationships, sex, and marriage. In the opening lines of “Too Darn Hot,” a poem fueled by the same weary ardor as Cole Porter’s song, the speaker asks, “Why sort the doubletalk from the innuendo? / They’re both lyrical.” Rather than sorting the one from the other, the poems of Nothing Fatal delight in the ways that the imperfect and seductive power of language has, for centuries, helped us find new and inventive ways to woo …

Daimon, Miranda Foster Merklein

Dissertations

The following creative dissertation is a book of 57 poems.

How A Giant Counts His Calories, Devinne Walters

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

Remains; Everyday, Stephanie Polizzi

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

Aunt Winnie Is Dying, Tabitha Russo Parker

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

The Son's Return, Gary Charles Wilkens

Dissertations

This dissertation is a collection of poems accompanied by a critical preface.

Our Song, Adam Benkendorf

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

Cheers, Death, Richard Vie

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

The Nightingale Of Austerlitz, Lindsay Marianna Walker

Dissertations

The Nightingale of Austerlitz employs poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to articulate the theme of (mis)communication. A pliable, multi-genre approach was necessary to convey the urgency of two central characters’ desire to connect despite the impossibility of doing so. Prose interrupts and challenges the set precision of poetry in order to embody the stops and starts—the literal and figurative breakdowns—of communication. The juxtaposition of genres dramatizes dialogue, silence, affective distance, and desire. Song, sound, repetition (using lullaby, referencing music, thematizing the ear) further assert the power of language as performance and aesthetics as consolation, and provoke a particular kind of attention …

Upstate Roadkill Memorial Service, Scott Christian Fynboe

Dissertations

Upstate Roadkill Memorial Service is a collection of poems that examines death and mortality and includes a critical preface.

You And I, Gregory Sherl

Bryant Literary Review

This morning we decide to build
a baby in your belly.

36., Sean Lause

Bryant Literary Review

Thomas Null, machine 36, the hole-puncher,
was secretly apprenticed to despair

A Map For Students, William Jolliff

Bryant Literary Review

They want to make their poems right themselves,
and they know they should, but to win the A
they need me to like their work (so goes the rumor).

On The Pardoning Of Two Thanksgiving Turkeys By The President Of The United States Of America, Jennifer Perrine

Bryant Literary Review

For this particular sentence, there is a reprieve
because there's a precedent, an annual event
stretching back to Harry Truman's postwar days, lurking

Villanelle For The Sleepless Nights, Tabitha Russo Parker

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

Home, Stephanie Polizzi

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.