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Judging, Gordon Graves

Bryant Literary Review

Old Dance Cameron looked over the rude plywood and the 2x4 structure that held the floral exhibits.

Lessons, Ronald Thorpe

Bryant Literary Review

I cannot remember
a day when I did not think
about dying.

School Spirit, J. Tarwood

Bryant Literary Review

Has anybody here ever cheered
A high school quarterback

Frog Legs, Robert Samarotto

Bryant Literary Review

They lie on my plate
like dismembered Barbie Dolls.

Contributors

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

The Middle Years, Walt Mcdonald

Bryant Literary Review

Planning a family, we thought heaven would be
four collie pups, two acres without a fence

"Tiny, Delicate Fishbones...", Peggy Lin Duthie

Bryant Literary Review

Some January days, every scrap of sky
sparkles needle-sharp blue and clean

The Gerbils, Rustin Larson

Bryant Literary Review

Happily busy in the middle of the night
Destroying their cardboard tube. To sleep

On The Horizon, Bill Sweeney

Bryant Literary Review

Girls measure their shadows across a tiny courtyard;
above, telephone lines, aerials, antenna

Walking Home From The Cemetery, Peggy Lin Duthie

Bryant Literary Review

I dreamed that corpses did not rot
but recomposed, chose new disguise:

The Letter Carrier, Ronald Thorpe

Bryant Literary Review

Who understood him? Not his brothers.
His father's love had been drained away

Lila Zemborain Folio, Lila Zemborain

Corresponding Voices

A bilingual folio of poems, entitled "Guardians of the Secret V," by the poet Lila Zemborain, presented in its Spanish original and in English translation by Rosa Alcalá.

Study/Statues, Leonard Gontarek

Bryant Literary Review

Philadelphia slips its branches
through the dusk. The statues flake off.

The Secret Agent Held Over At O'Hare, Bill Sweeney

Bryant Literary Review

It was nice to see Chicago
on the way to Santiago

The Nazi, Baron Wormser

Bryant Literary Review

I can't remember who played the Nazi
But his face thrummed like glass in summer sun.

Kathleen Mary Mccarthy, Jason Starbuck

Bryant Literary Review

chrysanthemums carnations red roses babies breath
mahogany casket golden lattice work dustless satin pillow etchings

Verso

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.

Tremors, David Jauss

Bryant Literary Review

The night I heard you have Parkinson's
I dreamed I was walking through the meadow

Fat Tuesday, Rosalynde Vas Dias

Bryant Literary Review

tonight
Jesus is in New Orleans
warm with good red wine

Lights And Shadows - 2002, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

The Strange Attraction Of Blake's Urizen, Kelly Kelleway

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Without Contraries is no Progression. With this simple statement in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake posited, in 1790, a process -- a Hegelian dialectic of sorts, if you will -- that has underscored much of his poetry and has revealed itself in his etchings and engravings. But what, exactly, this Blakean hypothesis means is open to debate. One way to explicate this notion is to look at it in terms of a process of reunification or recursion wherein one falls from the Blakean space of Innocence (or is dragged kicking and screaming) to the rather …

This Man's Heart: Masculinity In The Poetry Of E.E. Cummings, Willis John Whitesell Iii

Masters Theses

"This Man's Heart: Masculinity in the Poetry of E.E. Cummings" explores changing masculinity in the life and poetry of E.E. Cummings. The relationship between Cummings and his father, his first male role model, became strained when Cummings was a teenager finding his own male identity. As he rebelled against his father, a Unitarian minister, he began writing poetry in a modernist style under the direction of a new mentor, Ezra Pound.

Cummings' early modernist poems criticize conventional male roles and configurations of masculinity as outdated. As Cummings continued to grow as a man and writer, he confronted new realities which …

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 10 - 2002-2003, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-2014)

No abstract provided.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 24 (December 15, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring found art on homelessness and mail art by Bobolink Bob.

Bern Porter International: Volume 5 Number 23 (December 1, 2001), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring mail art by Black Bear Bob and art by Carolyn Chute.

Music And Poetry: Confessions Of A Rhyming Musicologist, Jean Kreiling

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.

Strange Blessing, Gabrielle A. Halko

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Westview: Vol. 21, Iss. 1 (Fall/Winter 2001)

Westview

No abstract provided.

Going Along With It, Katy Welter

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

Sure, Katy is a writing major. Yes, she's from Indiana. But remember, when you assume, you make an ass out of you and me.

First Sunset, Katy Welter

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

Sure, Katy is a writing major. Yes, she's from Indiana. But remember, when you assume, you make an ass out of you and me.