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Butterflies And Honey, B. Z. Niditch

Bryant Literary Review

You keep your voice

shivering in the blue sun

butterflies and honey

Between Us There Are More And More Things, Becky Kennedy

Bryant Literary Review

Frying bacon in the morning

every morning washing dishes in a place

where I see trees

Terrible Twos, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

O God of Mercy, drop me in the sea.

Turn my feet into propellers; my chest,

The Walnut, David Cappella

Bryant Literary Review

Consider the walnut

its crenellation, its meat

like a miniature human brain

Photography, Rustin Larson

Bryant Literary Review

Earth takes a long-exposure photo of herself--

her apartment a kind of camera obscura--

The Third Of May, 1808, At Madrid: The Shootings On Principe Pio Mountain, Oil On Canvas, 1814, Ravi Shankar

Bryant Literary Review

When they come for you, Cossack-capped,

in lockstep, carrying the black eye of death

against their shoulders, how will you react?

Two Swans In A Pond Next To The Highway, J. R. Solonche

Bryant Literary Review

They have chosen well, these two

swans, one swimming the circumference

of the water, its neck a parenthesis

Elegy For The Residents Of The Niagara Apartments, Ken Meisel

Bryant Literary Review

I

Because there are stories too disturbing to retell

I have to first talk about the field of yellow flowers

Compost, Ravi Shankar

Bryant Literary Review

Filling a tarp full of spindled elm leaves

that cling and loosen in wake of dragging

Squid, Mary Ann Mayer

Bryant Literary Review

We dissected one in school,

and it squirted ink all over the room

when I squeezed it.

For Chance, Keep Beauty Warm, Nancy Lee Craven

Bryant Literary Review

Keep truth ardent, fresh and limber

protect it by finding it in lowly places

and leave it there--

New In Town, Nancy White

Bryant Literary Review

Yes, he still drops by, still for no reason. Even

today when rain bathes the house and

the path sheds its glove of dust.

Late Visions, Lynn Domina

Bryant Literary Review

He's an old man with an infant

daughter dead seventy years.

"And Today", Jack Lindeman

Bryant Literary Review

And today I wonder what should be done

and what not done,

and whether there is really

any difference between the two

Drawing Blanks, John Azrak

Bryant Literary Review

I turned my memory over

to you when, unexpectedly

A Field Of Pumpkins, Martha Christina

Bryant Literary Review

Glimpsed from the train

they're a sudden

and short-lived gift.

In Some Town's Junk Shop, John Hazard

Bryant Literary Review

A photo: someone's tall father leans on a shovel

in failing light. It's black and white, but I see

the orange in the tip of his smoke

The Iris And The Blade, Kathleen Hellen

Bryant Literary Review

The body Japanese:

perfect as the words;

Rory Gilley, Cody Stratton

Bryant Literary Review

People always wonder

But never question why

Some Less Well-Tempered Claviers, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

This thinking is not all solitary.

Sometimes I take music along.

Johann Sebastian Bach,

Falcon, Colleen Abel

Bryant Literary Review

The falconer makes a show of the release:

pretending to heave the bird to open air,

Falling Leaves, Gary Hanna

Bryant Literary Review

In the crispness

of the night

I reach out, knowing

Body Piercing, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

When he was five, my brother was chased by bees

after poking their hive with a stick

Convergent Dualities: The Explorations Of A Developing Poet, Jonathan Cetrano

Undergraduate University Honors Capstones

This capstone analyzes Cetrano's own poetry and becomes a foundation for future publication of his works.

Yankee, Go Home!: Translations And Poems With Critical Introduction, Devin Jay Hepner

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

This paper attempts to outline the various influences and similarities of my poetry to other poets and poetry of the twentieth-century. The critical introduction will cover those influences and the research I have done on the poets. It also contains individual poems that I feel have a connection with my own poetry and poetic translation. After the critical introduction, I include my poetry in stylistic order followed by Russian translations in chronological order. I will first describe how I came to write and read poetry and its value for me.

The Lantern Vol. 74, No. 2, Spring 2007, Jan Cohen, Chris Schaeffer, Jennifer Mingolello, Dayna Stein, Serena Mithboakar, Dan Sergeant, India Mcghee, Brett Celinski, Stephanie Bartusis, Trevor Strunk, Phil Repko, Thomas Richter, Tori Wynne, Ian O'Neill, Menaka Gopalan, Monica Crary, Michael Silber, Rachel Heller, Jon Gagas, Kevin Bendis, Christopher Curley

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• La Viuda
• The Curb After Light Drizzling
• Loose Cream
• The Problem of Ants
• Streetplay
• Avignon, Anno Domini 1348
• Autophagia
• Silverette-New Wave Fascist Date Routine
• Mint Shavings
• Dogtags
• Millenials
• Rain That Sleeps by Itself at Track Number 5
• Amorphous
• I Found a Flashlight
• Sippikkul Muthu: Pearl Within Shell
• Of Lies
• The Complications of a Fish-Only Diet
• Ashes
• Unto the Fourth Generation
• Marooned on Piano Island
• Sweet

2007 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

The World Is White And Slow And Infinitely Flat, Rob Baum

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Eco-feminism, cultural study and the environment coalesce in the form of poetic cultural commentary, originally fieldnotes. I draw exclusively from my years in the Alaskan Arctic among the Iñupiat Eskimo, who call themselves "the People of the Whale." The striking and severe natural environment, a landscape of endless ice, is central to the poetry, which richly portrays a vision of the Arctic absent from tourist travel guides, National Geographic and anthropological volumes. These magazines vend the Far North's beautiful austerity, including at times the physical beauty of its animal inhabitants, including humans, while disregarding human specificity and violence …

2nd Stanza, "Samoa," From Meet You In Hawaiki, Rosanna Raymond

Pacific Studies

An image of a woman with a poem.

Dream Driving, Don Russ

KSU Press Legacy Project

In Don Russ's collection of poetry, Dream Driving, life is a journey. It has dream-like stages, apparitions, visions, and revelations. The journey itself is in some ways a dream, a sleep-wandering among the labyrinths of the mind, of the imagined world, of even the "real" world. What can we finally know for sure? Do we not at least partly create what we see in the act of seeing it?

Section I includes the poems:

• Here
• In the Driveway
• At the End of the Woods
• Fauns
• Metamorphosis
• Easter Biddies
• Walk on Water
• A Little Visit
• The Bachelor Tells a Family Story …