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Touching My Reflection, Michele Heather Pollock

Bryant Literary Review

I peer into a mirror
of last night's rain

In A Field Near Sardis Dam, Louis Bourgeois

Bryant Literary Review

Silence. A scarecrow flickers in the wind.

The corn is dead. Geese speckle the horizon,

followed by crows and herons.

Dress Rehearsal For Utopia, Karen Donovan

Bryant Literary Review

We're glad they made Clear Falls.

The white rocks love the water,

the water loves its splash and brim.

The Wounded, Dave Cappella

Bryant Literary Review

The one-legged pigeon understands

the loneliness of the man.

Hobbling under the patio table

behind a chair, the bird waits

for a morsel from the stranger.

In Oxford Cemetery, Louis Bourgeois

Bryant Literary Review

You thought because

the trees moved

and the stones didn't

Lights And Shadows - 2004, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Every Rose Has Its Thorn: The Complex Nature Of The Female In Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Paintings And Poetry, Michelle A. Cullari

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Qualitative Inquiry Into Art History: A Tribute To Arthur P. Bochner, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

This poem is dedicated to the author's mentor Arthur P. Bochner, Distinguished University Professor, University of South Florida.

La Critique Et Léopold Sédar Senghor / Léopold Sédar Senghor Et La Critique, Fernando Lambert

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

L. S. Senghor has maintained a double relation with criticism: his poetical work has provoked plentiful critical production and the poet has always been in dialogue with his critical examiners. Furthermore, he has practised literary criticism himself. Criticism relating to Senghor comes from two quite different sources. From 1945 to 1960, the European criticism is outstanding, while the African criticism confines itself more to peripheral questions in the Senghorian poetical work: French language

and "Negritude". The withdrawal of the poet from the political stage in 1980 is a significant date for critical production in Africa. Let us add that the …

Excerpts From "Morning, Noon, And Night", Charles Hartman

English Faculty Publications

Presents the poems "Syzygy," "Offering," and "Giving," excerpts from "Morning Noon and Night," by Charles O. Hartman.

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

Poetry: "Twilight", Christiane Ferreira

Bridgewater Review

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What Isn't Anchored, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

I confessed I was drifting from you.

Days later, your hand in mine,

you reminded me, in hopeful mockery,

of what I'd said.

When The Music Stops, Tony Leuzzi

Bryant Literary Review

The sequined queen of sass says not on your life

"Prefer Slick, Feverish Grooves Over Funky Backbeats", Ace Boggess

Bryant Literary Review

blessed rock'n'roll R & B funk folk acid jazz

Kindergarten, Lisa Zimmerman

Bryant Literary Review

It's hard to know

how much they love their children,

these mothers and fathers

Investments, Austin Currier

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

Austin is a twenty year-old sophomore with aspirations to be a professional story-teller, and who finds the creation of a bio-blurb such as this very problematic. He likes to think of himself as being dark and mysterious. He finds it odd that so few people seem to agree with him.

Look Now, Charlotte Mandel

Bryant Literary Review

Bronze oak leaves like cupped hands

offer rainwater

Explanation, Peter Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

What should I tell you? That it rained for five straight days, that the gutters leaked in spite of the duct tape,that a rat ate through the cellar screen and killed the cat.

The Present, Fred Muratori

Bryant Literary Review

It's taken all our lives to get here,

and the consciousness of that

is like a pause. But we

The @'S Of Your %'S, Ken Fifer

Bryant Literary Review

The : )'s in my e-mail remind me how

our actual lives are also composed

of punctuation, and of punctuation's

Mother's Skeleton, Audrey Doire

Bryant Literary Review

I was sixteen when she

told me I wasn't her first.

Another Life, Kenneth Pobo

Bryant Literary Review

Shirley MacLaine claims she

made it with Charlemagne.

When Quoddy Head Falls Into The Sea, Karl Foss

Bryant Literary Review

It does not mean the world is about to end.

Go inland, where the black of water and sky separate.

The Tooth Fairy, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

What would a fairy want with all those teeth?

Our Americano, Denise Duhamel

Bryant Literary Review

An apple pie Americano -- attaboy! -- got the ax for being asleep

Daylight Savings, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

The body wakes at erstwhile 7:00

Solitaire, Priscilla Atkins

Bryant Literary Review

The computer version

leaves me cold

I want the slippery

What Happens To Kurt Cobain, William Snyder Jr.

Bryant Literary Review

Courtney Love carries Kurt Cobain's ashes on the jets she flies in.

The Interpretation Of Dreams, William Greenway

Bryant Literary Review

I was back in Georgia (where my Welsh

grandfather came to live),