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Womanist Poetics: Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, And Audre Lorde, Aya Telmissany

Theses and Dissertations

Today, the sentimentality associated with poetry is often condescendingly dubbed in a patriarchal society as “feminine poetry.” The first women poets who dared to attempt the pen were often met with attacks on their femaleness and harsh critiques of their writing which was likened to sorcery and witchcraft. Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Audre Lorde are three American women poets who countered these attacks and turned them inside out in favor of their own womanist poetics. They wrote about experiencing the world as women and most importantly about experiencing poetry as women. What happens to poetry when a woman appropriates …

Cultivating Creative Storytelling, Emma Kuli

Canterbury Scholars

This essay investigates how the structural expectations and narrative conventions restrict contemporary creative writing. This work seeks to imagine how, in order to work towards the creation of an anti-racist creative space, a classroom may work without and against the limits set by writing and language conventions. Blending academic research, sample student work, and narrative anecdotes, this essay examines the ways in which storytelling can be used to uplift young writing voices.

Amjambo Africa! (June 2022), Kathreen Harrison

Amjambo Africa!

In this Issue Education ..................................3

Moonglade .............................4/5

Publisher’s editorial ..................7

Financial literacy: what is Credit .................8-13

In 7 languages Market Basket ..................14/15

Tips&Info ................................16

Lead in soil ..............................17

All about the Workforce ..18/19

Community Happenings .20/21

photos from community events

News from Africa .............22/36

Health&Wellness ...............24-31

Bridging the healthcare gap

In 7 languages

Columns .......................32/33/39

Nonprofit Organizations

Ask the D.A.

Let’s Talk/ELL

New Voices columns ........34/35

The Weak, The Wicked, The Divine: A Collection Of Poems, Grace Hedin

University Honors Theses

The Weak, the Wicked, the Divine is a collection of thirteen original poems based on the female figures of the Iliad and the Odyssey with scholarly analysis. The Introduction gives background on Homer and his works as well as their impact on both modern day and myself. The second section contains both the original work of Grace Hedin and the author's scholarly analysis of both their own work and the figure the poem is based upon. The Conclusion will hold the final thoughts and dedications from the author. An audio reading of all poems is attached to this thesis, with …

Trauma And Poetry. The Case Of Primo Levi, Ilona Klein

Faculty Publications

Most North American readers have come to know and appreciate Primo Levi by his major works in prose. His The Periodic Table (1984) catapulted Levi onto the American stage of scientific-humanistic authors, having the New York Times named it among the Best Books of the Year in 1985. Instead, American readers will likely stumble upon Levi’s poetry by accident, simply because every now and then one of his poems in translation appears in print somewhere. Compared to Levi’s prose, his poems inevitably evoke a sense of unease, for their tone, their style and their content are so unlike the familiar, …

Collateral Damage, Al Salehi

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Clocking Out, Al Salehi

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Unidentified Mother And Child In Mariupol, Al Salehi

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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"Hospital No. 3", Al Salehi

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Buster's Smile, Jim Washington Jr.

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Lobster Cantonese, Jim Washington Jr.

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Writing Poetry, Jim Washington Jr.

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Slant Six, Jack Wickens

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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For Whom The Bell Knells, Al Salehi

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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A Call To Prayer, Al Salehi

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Failed Study After Francis Bacon, Andras Gerevich

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Morning Tea, Eric Fantauzzi

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Terrorist Coffee, Michael Beahan

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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The Outsiders, Eric Fantauzzi

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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Reflections On Mals And Learning To Write, Kathy Fortin

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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You Want Me In Brown, Alberto Ruiz

CLAMANTIS: The MALS Journal

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My Learning Circles, Archana Kadam

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

This poem is written from the perspective of an autistic child who loves mathematical concepts. The poem attempts to explain his or her understanding of rules of social thinking.

'My Name Is Peaches': Black Women's Affect In The Blues Biomyth, Taylor C. Scott

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

For this project, I am interested in the study of nuanced self-representations of Black rage that appear within African American literary traditions, specifically the blues aesthetic, wherein artists narrativize a wide spectrum of intelligent and specific emotion--not just melancholy. Blues narratives in which Black people self-represent are in direct opposition to flattened narratives of certain affective modes such as anger as a useless, backwards, pathologized, and flat feeling that appear within dominant U.S. and global iconographies. What I see in the blues aesthetic is the capacity for a multichromatic approach to studying rage and Black authorship in America. By using …

Follow The Shimmer, Meghan Bradbury

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

Follow the Shimmer is a creative thesis collection of poems and songs that explore the depths of trauma, love, and healing. Told through the lens of fairy tale and fantasy, it is a story of grief and hope. Some of the tales are familiar, others are strange and abstract. Fables and nursery rhymes are remixed by the hands of a daughter who wishes for her deceased mother's touch. Archetypes and mythology are scrambled through the kaleidoscopic eyes of a woman who survives the violence of a patriarchal society. The world becomes a landscape of dangerous yet magical realms to discover; …

Heart Rate Cento, Danika Stegeman Lemay

The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal

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All The Trees Are Dead Inside, Danika Stegeman Lemay

The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal

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Soap Poem!, Hannah Klemkow

The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal

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The Picnic, Alan Feldman

The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal

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In Which Time Demands Its Shit Back, Cavar

The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal

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Allotropes, Prince Bush

The Woodward Review: A Creative and Critical Journal

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