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On Freedom, Lisa Haag Kang

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Still In The Air, Susan Hodara

The Lindenwood Review: a journal of literary prose

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Island Voices, Sarah Hirsch

Honors Theses

A story that’s actually a series of poems, told somewhat by the people themselves but mostly as it is seen by the ocean, which narrates lovingly, scathingly, honestly, feelingly.

Experimenting With The Future: Born Magazine, Multimedia, And The French Avant-Garde, Anmarie Trimble, Jennifer Grotz

University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Born is an experimental online magazine that brings together writers and "new media" designers and artists, who have collaborated to create multimedia interpretations of poetry (and more rarely, short prose). As editors of one of the earliest, enduring literary publications on the Web, we often receive invitations to share our “vision” of Web poetics, literary multimedia, et cetera. This presents a problem—Born evolved without consciously intending to even focus on poetry (only our current incarnation), but rather with an intent to be a creative, collaborative community. As such our work and vision are shaped as much by the interests of …

Toward The History Of Study Of Symbiogenesis: On The English Translation Of B. M. Kozo-Polyansky’S A New Principle Of Biology (1924), Victor Fet

Biological Sciences Faculty Research

We reproduce the text by Victor Fet, which was read on 6 October 2011 at the Moscow Society of Naturalists during the presentation of new book translation (B.M. Kozo- Polyansky. Symbiogenesis: A New Principle of Evolution / transl. by Victor Fet; ed. by Victor Fet & Lynn Margulis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. 138 p.) This half- forgotten book by Boris M. Kozo-Polyansky was known only by name to Western biologists. Victor Fet gives a brief history of this new translation, enthusiastically initiated and supported by Lynn Margulis (1938–2011), a famous naturalist who was always eager to gave credit …

Good Walls, Andrea Amulic

English Honors Papers

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Desperate Not To "Forget The Gods": Mormon Fantasy And The Epic Poem, Gerrit Van Dyk

Faculty Publications

Because of humanity's fixation on death, religion and the afterlife have played a part in human culture throughout history. As a result, belief, religion, and theology have been central to the main action of stories since the earliest forms of literature. One of the greatest ancient literary genres, the epic, is no exception.

Epics have many universal characteristics, such as elevated language in poetic form, vast settings, and strong protagonists who demonstrate feats of great strength and genius. They also commonly contain "supernatural forces-gods, angels, and demons-[who] interest themselves in the action" (Harmon and Holman 185). After the Renaissance, the …

The White Hydrangeas, Larry O'Brien

Bryant Literary Review

You notice them first while getting the mail,

in the airless heat of an August noon,

Come To Bed, Geoffrey Jarok

Bryant Literary Review

It's a sad day for woman.

She sees dreams,

Like a debtor looks at bills.

Go Gentle Into That Good Night (After Dylan Thomas), Bart Edelman

Bryant Literary Review

Please, please, go gentle into that good night,

Old age should never burn at close of day;

Mozart, B. Z. Niditch

Bryant Literary Review

You came to me

early

like butterflies

in my secret universe,

The Swings On Crane Avenue, Parker Williams

Bryant Literary Review

He loved them,

would sit there for hours and dream about flying,

Apple For Your Thought Processes?, Eric Cisternelli

Bryant Literary Review

Like hundreds of flies to a carcass

Sacrificing money at an altar,

C. Bowen, Plumber, Paul Hostovsky

Bryant Literary Review

I like this guy

before we even meet.

He's the only one

Moon Rise, John P. Kristofco

Bryant Literary Review

when colors and their implications fade

into the twist of trees,

Rebel In A Plaid Skirt, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

She moved robotically through junior high

learned by rote, kept imagination in check,

Shells, Barbara Mackay

Bryant Literary Review

today I walk a sullen beach

its sand a deep gray

had it once been white

Weather Wins, Francine Witte

Bryant Literary Review

It always does. Big blow

from the latest tornado?

That's just nature clearing

Going-Away Party, Elton Glaser

Bryant Literary Review

Inside the white envelope, I find

An invitation to my death.

You can steam off the stamps,

Junior Munson Does The Long Haul, Elton Glaser

Bryant Literary Review

I like to start my mornings

Sunnyside up at a truckstop,

The Propensity For Monologue, John Sibley Williams

Bryant Literary Review

I'd like to be a sparrow,

bring new morning

each time I speak.

To Ansel Adams, John Sibley Williams

Bryant Literary Review

It could have been

color

if mountains and dreams

The Cow Near Matamoros, Carol Hamilton

Bryant Literary Review

Tied to her terror,

her placid, brush-haired sides

so like a back room

Open At 10:00 A.M., Ron Koertge

Bryant Literary Review

I burst into the Gap on the morning

after Labor Day and surprise

the pretty clerks giggling,

Taking Liberties, Jim Hart

Bryant Literary Review

Geography

is melting

Glaciers

My Son Dreams That, As We Fished For Pumpkinseeds, A Shark Ate Me, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

Did I hook the shark, and it yanked me in?

Did it leap, and pluck me off the pier?

Yesterday's Tongue, John Mckernan

Bryant Literary Review

Its syllables

Dripping to the brown earth

Small Blue Butterflies, Buff Whitman-Bradley

Bryant Literary Review

On a walk around the lake

I pause to watch three small blue butterflies

Alone, Ron Koertge

Bryant Literary Review

Maybe it's just the kind of poetry I've been reading,

but I can't help noticing how alone most poets are:

I Think They're Asleep, Christopher C. Moore

The Mercury

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