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Blissful Night, Dustyn Huber

Floodwall Magazine

No abstract provided.

She, Danika Ogawa

Floodwall Magazine

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Forever Thirteen, Claire Arneson

Floodwall Magazine

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Message Received, Chad Erickstad

Floodwall Magazine

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Half-Staffed American Flags, Chad Erickstad

Floodwall Magazine

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Tomorrow, Caitlin Scheresky

Floodwall Magazine

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After The Fire, Chad Erickstad

Floodwall Magazine

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Tough, Aubrey Roemmich

Floodwall Magazine

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The Day After, Autumn Thompson

Floodwall Magazine

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Unwilling Martyr, Aubrey Roemmich

Floodwall Magazine

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Laughter Is Warm, But So Is Fire, Aubrey Roemmich

Floodwall Magazine

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Gardening Lessons, Auden Eagerton

Poetry MFA Theses

A poetry collection centered on the poet's childhood trauma and reclamation of body and gender identity through transition.

Goddess Of., Megan Childs

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

My chapbook, “goddess of.”, is a compilation of poems that channel the larger-than-life personalities of the Ancient Greek gods and goddesses. I completed this project over the course of a semester in my ENGL470 course, Seminar in Creative Writing: Poetry. Professor Bylenok, who sponsored this project, was instrumental in the development of my poetry into a fully-fledged collection. My chapbook explores disillusionment, love, loneliness, and fear. At its core, it’s about having to live with yourself – even if it’s embarrassing, ugly, or painful. It’s a chance to feel as powerful as the gods themselves, or as pathetic as their …

Portal, Catherine M. Greenwood

The Goose

"Portal" is an ecoGothic poem from Siberian Spring.

Spit Brimming With Futures, Penny Molesso

School of Art, Art History, and Design: Theses and Student Creative Work

SPIT BRIMMING WITH FUTURES is an immersive video and audio installation that uses ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) to investigate the intersection of transgender and neurodivergent identity, expressing an urgent need to imagine stories about transgender, autistic people that affirm our agency and autonomy amidst a political climate that weaponizes neurodivergence to delegitimize trans experiences. The American political right’s vilification of transgender people is used to uphold structures of white supremacy and heteropatriarchy that become destabilized when rigid binary gender categories are challenged. The political right has a vested interest in keeping trans people out of public view, thus weaponizing …

Almost Human, Sarah Huang

Theses and Dissertations

A collection of poems centered on extinction, loneliness, cultural identity, and what it means to be human.

Darkroom, Alexandra Romero

Theses and Dissertations

Romero’s poetry manuscript “Darkroom” dips into the surreal with a playful tonal range, blurring the distinction between reality and dream state. Scenes are vivid and speakers ever-changing as the poems move between preoccupations of love, anguish and more, scaling from the microscopic to the universal.

For What Cannot Be Reached, Yasmeen Alkishawi

Theses and Dissertations

On searching and yearning for connection, forgiveness and love.

Polar Vortex, Travis Scholl

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.

Or What’S A Heaven For?, Don Russ

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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Winter Flowering On Chowning Place, Don Russ

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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Tintern Abbey, D. S. Martin

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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The Sign Of The Broken Sword 155, D. S. Martin

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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Prayer, Jeffrey Galbraith

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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Diving Lessons, Franklin Freeman

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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Dante’S Epiphany, Holly Wells

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

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Why Poetry Comics? An Overview Of The Form's Origins, Creative Potential, And Pedagogical Benefits, Mara Beneway

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

Abstract: Poetry comics are a subgenre or hybrid form that appropriate elements and techniques from its foundational genres: poetry and comics. A form that braids literary traditions with visual art, poetry comics’ rich history and metaphorical possibility make for innate and deep engagement. This paper offers a brief history of visual poetry, an explicit definition of poetry comics along with theoretical context for engagement, and pedagogical approaches to using poetry comics in the creative writing classroom. In a discussion focused on interpretation and individual meaning-making, I reference Bianca Stone’s creative work, Sarah Minor’s scholarship on “textual reading” vs. “visual seeing,” …

Letras 15

Letras

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Hailey's Hearing Aids, Hailey Marie Garcia

Whittier Scholars Program

Individuals from the deaf and hard-of-hearing community are likely to experience more anxiety and depression due to defective cognitive, social, communicational, and emotional skills (Azizi et al., 2019). The word “disability” is embedded with historical negative connotations with phrases such as “deaf and dumb” because if they were deaf or mute then they were automatically labeled as inferior (Horovitz, 2007). Since the 18th century, the DHH community has been seen as incapable, even inhuman, hence the development of emotional deficiencies that bleed into one’s perception of society and their self esteem (Gallaudet, 1886).

How do you navigate a hearing world …

Sustainability, Paul Willis

Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal

No abstract provided.