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Flaming Red Wig, Carla Christina Howl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

"Flaming Red Wig" is a collection of short stories and prose poems with a critical preface. Both the preface and the creative work explore notions of artifice, apposition and entering into a text (both written and character) with stillness or intrusion. I try to create an examination and communion with language on much the same level, ultimately yielding a musicality that creates a rhythmic discourse and dynamic between the significance and the notion. The title of my thesis refers to the obvious motif of artifice and the reoccurring theme of emotional pain attached to gender and humanistic role within specific …

Education, Lee A. Blaser

The Mercury

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How To Cope, Alyssa O'Keefe

The Mercury

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Caution, Lauren R. Barrett

The Mercury

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1972, Caleb S. Baker

The Mercury

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Re-Enacting, Eric J. Kozlik

The Mercury

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He Kisses His Pillow, Matthew W. Barrett

The Mercury

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Getting Lost, Sarah R. Flynn

The Mercury

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Vision And Desire: Jim Morrison's Mythography Beyond The Death Of God, Ellen J. Greenham

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The poetry of Jim Morrison, as opposed to his lyric verse, has been the subject of little critical examination. The aim of this paper is to open up an understanding and interpretation of a mythographic landscape developed by Morrison in his response to existence in a demythologised western culture. Through the use of the Greek myth of Oedipus in its entirety, as opposed to the two most universally known events of the adult Oedipus' life, discussion here will attempt to demonstrate that Morrison developed a cohesive, holistic vision of the human condition of existence in the world, and presented a …

Tattoo And Tabula Rasa, Anmarie Trimble

University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

The Mercury 2009

The Mercury

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Gentle Fingers, John A. Mazzoni

The Mercury

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Sitting, Kelly Bennett

The Mercury

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In Cold Bronze, Kathleen M. Flynn

The Mercury

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The Autumn Leaves Of Gettysburg, Rahul Sinha

The Mercury

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Lights And Shadows - 2009, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Mudskipper, Robbieana Leung

Global Tides

The "Journeyer's Journal" consists of short narratives describing international experiences by Pepperdine University undergraduate students. Here, Robbieana Leung shares her poem about Chinese heritage.

Past Due: A Collection Of Poems, Byron Lee

Theses

"Past Due" is a co1lection of poems written almost entirely in free verse and almost exclusively based on personal experience. I find, at least at this point in my growth as a writer, that when I try to adhere to poetic structure, I feel confined. My style is sparse because I feel that this aesthetic best cuts to the emotion I'm trying to convey. I also love playing with line breaks, since I find that doing so can give several lines in a poem their own statement, like each poem makes its own statement even when bound in a co1Iection …

Shanghai Suite And Other Poems, Glen Phillips

Research outputs pre 2011

The Shanghai Suite was written during a two month period in early 2004 while I was a visiting professor teaching a course in 'Western' Culture' at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. This was also part of the research for my PhD in Creative Writing. During and after those months, I composed most of the poems about Shanghai and that region of China...

Homefront, Stacy Elaine Pratt

Dissertations

This collection of poetry and essays explores the nature of marriage, time, and human experience. Many of the pieces center on the author's experience as the wife of a soldier deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Others use scientific and mathematical imagery to illustrate spiritual concepts.

A History Of Nursing, Anne Webster

KSU Press Legacy Project

Gutsy life experience poems from a nurse-poet who knows "the forces that bend people like trees under a wet spring snow." Read these poems again and again to get the truth -- the whole truth of how her life was and how her life remains. Here in strong poems, is a complex life fully exposed.

The poems in A History of Nursing combine the professional life of a woman in the healing arts with the other aspects of her life. Just as she can never stop being the child of her parents, and adult woman, or a mother, a life …

The Lantern Vol. 76, No. 1, Fall 2008, Louisa Schnaithmann, Dayna Stein, India Mcghee, Callie Ingram, Nathan Taylor, Nathaniel Rosenthalis, Brett Celinski, Chelsea Catalanotto, Nicole Dillie, Robert Whitehead, Ryan Sullivan, Maire Moriarty, Katherine Lecours, Christopher Schaeffer, Robert Evans, Colin Ottinger, Amanda Schwartz, Abigail Raymond, Sarah Round, Maximilian Kreisky, Patrick Hayakawa

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Cruel
• A Night in Three Parts
• The Moment I Said It
• To Know
• I Will Never Skipskipskip a Rock
• The Ravine
• Untitled
• Skeleton
• Midnight Letter
• Where Children Come From
• Orphan of War
• Ciega / Mezquita
• The Other Side
• Those Dancing Days are Gone
• Cycling
• The 2nd of July
• The Tantric Semantics of Studying Abroad
• A Three-Part Study in Musical Relations
• Amway Man
• Hard Luck Investigator
• Spring
• Interview With Poet Eleanor Wilner

Using Poetry To Improve Fluency And Comprehension In Third-Grade Students, Karen E. Newsome

Georgia Educational Researcher

This study examined the effects of repeated choral reading of poetry on fluency and comprehension of third-grade students (N = 76) in the southeastern United States. Student attitudes toward poetry were also measured. Students served in regular, remedial, and special education were taught reading using the school’s basal series for four weeks. Choral repeated reading of poetry was then added to the curriculum. The DIBELS ORF test, STAR reading assessment, and an attitude survey were used to assess student performance. Statistically significant gains were made during the poetry intervention in fluency (M = 18.78, p < .01) and comprehension (M = 0.33, p < .05). Slight improvements in students’ attitudes toward poetry were also observed.

Commonthought, Vol 19 (Fall 2008), 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.

Moore, Earl Austin, 1892-1978 (Sc 1747), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1747. Poem "Graduations" written by Earl Austin Moore, Western Kentucky State Teachers College faculty member, in memory of a young American pilot killed in a bomber crash.

Maybe So, Charles Hartman

English Faculty Publications

The article presents the poem "Maybe So," by Charles O. Hartman. First Line: We have a little time here; Last Line: every fear we came to love with, and the love.

We Become Delicate Boats: Poems And Essays, Deja Anne Earley

Dissertations

My collection of poems and essays, We Become Delicate Boats, takes inspiration from a broad range of sources that shift into each other: paintings, pop culture, literary figures, dreams, relationships, faith, family, history. For example, some poems throw together unexpected bedfellows, like Kafka's Gregor Samsa and Marie Antoinette; others are anecdotal, like one that describes going on a blind date with a man who actually turns out to be blind, some re-imagine stories we already know, like one in the voice of Medusa, talking about which occasions call for her various snake "wigs." Although quite a few pieces are playful, …

Parliament Of Owls, Allison Renee Riddles

Dissertations

In this work of poems, I experiment with different forms (villanelles, sonnets, cinquains, sestinas, prose poems, and free verse) to create an original accompanying space for the existence of my speakers. I also use many of my poems to illustrate moments, feelings, and scenarios of relationships as well as place new perspectives on poems based on the work of other poets. Parliament of Owls provides an array of vistas on relationships, loneliness, and triumph.

Sinosummer Is To China As Kindergarten Is To College: Reflections On A Cultural (Or Maybe Not So Much) Journey, Traci Nigon

Honors Capstones

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

"The 30th Birthday" And "Paraphrasing Iraq", Dean Rader

English

Two poems by Dean Rader, originally published by DMQ Review Spring/Summer issue 2008.

https://www.dmqreview.com/springsummer-2008?rq=spring%2Fsummer%202008