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Bike, Olivia Saldaña

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

Arrow Rock, 2011-2012, Full Issue

Arrow Rock

No abstract provided.

Thawing, Isabella Capasso '14

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

No abstract provided.

The Sibyl Dreaming Of Death And Murder While Hanging In Her Clay Jar, Bethany Buis '12

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

No abstract provided.

The Night And The Morning, John Gardner '55

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

Published in The DePauw Magazine, May 1956

Grapes And The Hills Of Spain, John Jakes '53

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

From The Boulder, December 1951

Lighters, Mark Joskowiak '14

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

No abstract provided.

Brain Injury, Amanda Feller '13

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

for M.A.S.

Guide To Light Head's Guide To Addiction, Stephen Shapiro '13

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

for Terrence Hayes

Biography, Barbara Kingsolver '77

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

Published in Opus, 4, Spring 1976.

Desiderata, Max Ehrmann '94

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

Largely unknown in Ehrmann’s lifetime, the poem was compiled by Frederick Kates, rector of Saint Paul’s Church in Baltimore, MD in 1959 as part of a devotional poetry collection. The Church’s name and founding year were inscribed on the collection: “Old Saint Paul’s Church, Baltimore A.D. 1692.” This date was mistakenly attributed to the poem itself, leading scholars to believe that rector Kates had found this 17th century poem that Ehrmann had taken credit for. This conspiracy theory died out, but the mark remains popular as a devotional poem. Les Crane’s spoken-word recording of the poem reached #8 on the …

Heathens And How They're Made, Garret Crowe

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This thesis contains 23 poems with an introduction in which I explain how I craft my poetry. In the introduction, I use examples from both critical and creative sources to identify tools I utilize during the craft process of a poem. The subject matter of the poems within this thesis ranges from speakers pondering childhood moments to mature voices examining domestic relationships. Some of the poems may be considered confessional poetry as the works are immensely personal and the speaker is I, the writer. Other poems apply literary styles that are commonly associated with Dirty Realism and Southern Gothic.

About A Yellow Ball, Shannon Alice Salter

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

These are poems made from many things: color, eggs, oranges, many kinds of seeds, leaves, wind, California, the desert, birds. They are things alive in the world and alive in my heart. I cannot take them out of the world, but from my heart I can have whatever appears on its surface. The language of steam.

They are poems that like to be at home.

California is my home and so is the Mojave (and so is every desert). I live in a valley about four hundred miles from the Pacific Ocean, in the city of Las Vegas. What better …

Iii., Connor Willett '12

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

2012 Winner of the Paul Query Prize in Poetry.

• Hometown; Bloomington, IN.
• Post-Graduate Plans; MFA in Poetry, University of Woshington.
• Influential Poets: Gary Snyder, William Carlos Williams.

Note on the Paul Query Prize portfolio published throughout this edition: Currently I'm working on an extended work titled, "Immunity." Right now I’m immersed in it. It started with my Grandmother, Holly, falling in a bed of poison ivy when she was pregnant, which led to my father's immunity to it. Yet it has evolved into so much more—a mythological tale about who I call ‘The Holy Field," and how and who it …

The Heart Of St. Laurence O'Toole, Zachary Darwish '12

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

No abstract provided.

Another Look, Ann Marie Elliot '12

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

No abstract provided.

X., Connor Willett '12

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

2012 Winner of the Paul Query Prize in Poetry.

• Hometown; Bloomington, IN.
• Post-Graduate Plans; MFA in Poetry, University of Washington.
• Influential Poets: Gary Snyder, William Carlos Williams.

Note on the Paul Query Prize portfolio published throughout this edition: Currently I'm working on an extended work titled, "Immunity." Right now I’m immersed in it. It started with my Grandmother, Holly, falling in a bed of poison ivy when she was pregnant, which led to my father's immunity to it. Yet it has evolved into so much more—a mythological tale about who I call ‘The Holy Field," and how and who it …

The Island, Micah Ling '03

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

Published in A Midwestern Review, Fall 2001

Dream, Micah Ling '03

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

Published in A Midwestern Review, Fall 2001

Vii., Connor Willett '12

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

2012 Winner of the Paul Query Prize in Poetry.

• Hometown; Bloomington, IN.
• Post-Graduate Plans; MFA in Poetry, University of Washington.
• Influential Poets: Gary Snyder, William Carlos Williams.

Portrait, Barbara Kingsolver '77

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

Published in Opus, 4, Spring 1976

You Never Had A Sister, Mary Ardery '15

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

No abstract provided.

Love Is Just A Word For The Last Body I'D Like To Keep Vigil Over, Robert Jagger

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Love is Just a Word for the Last Body I'd Like to Keep Vigil Over is a collection of poetry that was composed during my time spent at UNLV. Comprised mostly of prose poems, it was heavily influenced by the works of Richard Hugo, Robert Coover, Joshua Marie Wilkinson and several French poets who are often categorized as being members of either the Symbolist or Decadent movement. At its best, the collection attempts to invoke a sense of Joseph Cornell's boxes--odd juxtapositions of everyday items and language that create new and uncertain circumstances. Unlike Cornell's boxes, however, the poems aren't …

A Turkish Dictionary, Andrew Wessels

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The poems in this manuscript, A Turkish Dictionary, probe a number of related issues: What is the relationship between a word and its object? What is the connection between meaning in two different languages? How do we live in a city overwhelmed with history? What is necessary? How do we accept knowing that we cannot know? These and other questions constitute the investigative purpose of the manuscript as specifically and actively an exploration of the questions rather than an argument for a final, singular answer. Structurally, the manuscript uses two poetic forms: dictionary poems and prosaic poems. The dictionary poems …

Witness For The Prosecution: Erasure Poetics, Samantha M. Schaefer

Honors Theses

My Honors Senior Thesis is centered around the art of Erasure poetics. My definition of Erasure is most concisely stated as: a process of simultaneous poetic addition and subtraction to preexisting text, which results in a product whose creation process ultimately echoes the same revision process that human beings undergo; a process by which a new and beautiful truth is both created and uncovered in a paradoxical manner. I initially endeavored to complete a simple erasure of a collection of short stories by Agatha Christie called Witnessfor the Prosecution; but was soon so inspired that I ended up creating four …

Apre2012, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From April 2012 Robert Kelly Archives

Aprd2012, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From April 2012 Robert Kelly Archives

Pen And Pigment Collaborative Project, Unexpected, Jessica Dunn

Undergraduate Research Conference

Every year the School of Art teams with the English Department to produce a body of work titled Pen and Pigment. I was able to participate in this project through my Typography class with Peter Andrew. Our assignment consisted of two parts. First, we were instructed to produce a poster with a typographic design to exchange with the Creative Writing: Poetry class in the English Department. Second, upon exchange of works, we were given a poem to interpret while using typography as a strong element in our design. The poetry class, in turn, wrote poems based upon our art.

The End Of Her, Kerry Alexander

English Honors Projects

The End of Her is a collection of poetry that centers on ideas of celebrity, nostalgia, pain and healing, and collective memory. The poems depict the lives and times of tragic women: from Eve to Amy Winehouse. The project touches on both the real and the imagined in examining what it means to be famously tragic, as well as what it means to be a spectator of demise. Interwoven autobiographical pieces reveal the relationship between individual memory and shared history, as the collection positions personal accounts of love and loss in conversation with some of the world’s best-known stories.

Aprc2012, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From April 2012 Robert Kelly Archives