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Presenting, Camille Floyd Dec 2025

Presenting, Camille Floyd

Student Scholar Symposium

In Camille Floyd’s collection, “Presenting,” the lyric speaker describes her internalized gaze, obsession with connection and understanding, and modes of presenting to others. Floyd’s work examines the feminine experience in different moments and spaces. The collection features the speaker wrestling with how she relies on and trusts in memory, religion, and the normalized rules around movement and being.


Commonthought (2025), Commonthought Staff Dec 2025

Commonthought (2025), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.


Sky, Atreyee Majumder Dec 2025

Sky, Atreyee Majumder

Articles

A peer-reviewed ethnographic poem, it is a reflection on the travel of the soul across time and in and out of bodies, a theory that is well regarded in the corpus of Hindu philosophy. Formally, the poem is an attempt to excavate the skeleton of the Indian poet/scholar/translator A K Ramanujan's poem Chicago Zen.


Midlife, Michael Sevcik Dec 2025

Midlife, Michael Sevcik

Poetry MFA Theses

Abstract

Midlife by Michael James Sevcik is a collection of poetry that explores issues of age, gender, sexuality, identity, desire, family, and loss within a predominantly domestic space while addressing broader social, cultural, and philosophical issues using a phenomenological poetics grounded in everyday experience. The collection is organized into three distinct yet interrelated “movements:” the first movement, “Anchored,” establishes an existential yearning amidst professional and amorous stasis and familial pressures. The second movement, “Liminal,” explores temporality and its relationship to place and memory. The third movement, “Renewal,” incorporates travel, family history, and art, transforming them into critical modes of aesthetic …


Autastic!, Torri Blue Dec 2025

Autastic!, Torri Blue

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Artist Statement (creative writing, poetry):

"Autastic!" is a poem about the beauty and tenderness of autistic experience. It's also about autistic relationality--our connection with one another in the neurodivergent community, as well as with the more-than-human world. It's a snapshot of autistic culture and communication as lived by one autistic poet, an invitation into an "autistic we."


Where The Shadows Mark Me, Jan A. Wozniak Dec 2025

Where The Shadows Mark Me, Jan A. Wozniak

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.


Midday Rehearsals—Philosopher’S Walk, Early Term, Jan A. Wozniak Dec 2025

Midday Rehearsals—Philosopher’S Walk, Early Term, Jan A. Wozniak

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.


Parking Lot Lights, Rachel Furey Dec 2025

Parking Lot Lights, Rachel Furey

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.


Neurodivergent Kintsugi, Jenée Stanfield Dec 2025

Neurodivergent Kintsugi, Jenée Stanfield

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Jenée Stanfield is a late-realized, neuroqueer woman living in the Pacific Northwest with her spouse and her dog. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific Lutheran University and is currently working towards a MS in Restorative Practices at the International Institute for Restorative Practices.

She has presented professional development workshops and conference sessions on topics related to neurodivergent community and neurodivergent-affirming restorative practices in higher education. She co-founded a neurodivergent staff and faculty community at the college where she works as an advisor.


Retreat From Severodonetsk, Stan Galloway Dec 2025

Retreat From Severodonetsk, Stan Galloway

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


On Ghosts, Sam Hamilton Dec 2025

On Ghosts, Sam Hamilton

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Yellow Pajamas, Stan Galloway Dec 2025

Yellow Pajamas, Stan Galloway

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Return Of The Sapiens, Kiya Whitaker Dec 2025

Return Of The Sapiens, Kiya Whitaker

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Dementia Unearthed, Kathy Fuller Guisewite Dec 2025

Dementia Unearthed, Kathy Fuller Guisewite

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


The Teammate, Not The Player, Mackenzie Buckley Dec 2025

The Teammate, Not The Player, Mackenzie Buckley

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Where Our Roots Remain, Sydney Collins Dec 2025

Where Our Roots Remain, Sydney Collins

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Weeping Willow’S Rose, Emelyn Buttercup Koene Dec 2025

Weeping Willow’S Rose, Emelyn Buttercup Koene

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


What The Window Would Have Said, Emelyn Buttercup Koene Dec 2025

What The Window Would Have Said, Emelyn Buttercup Koene

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Too Much Edgar Allan Poe, Stephanie S. Gardner Dec 2025

Too Much Edgar Allan Poe, Stephanie S. Gardner

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Pasado, Luis Gutierrez Palacios Dec 2025

Pasado, Luis Gutierrez Palacios

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Stork Lament Outside Mariupol, Stan Galloway Dec 2025

Stork Lament Outside Mariupol, Stan Galloway

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


The Spot On The Highway Where The Fog Is The Thickest, Mason Lawhorne Dec 2025

The Spot On The Highway Where The Fog Is The Thickest, Mason Lawhorne

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Untitled, Jess M. Dec 2025

Untitled, Jess M.

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Akur – A Ballad In Four Voices, Vanessa Rouillon Dec 2025

Akur – A Ballad In Four Voices, Vanessa Rouillon

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


The Not So Easy Road, Samuel Oduro Dec 2025

The Not So Easy Road, Samuel Oduro

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Cherophobia, Elizabeth D’Aurora Dec 2025

Cherophobia, Elizabeth D’Aurora

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


In Memory’S Arms, Kiya Whitaker Dec 2025

In Memory’S Arms, Kiya Whitaker

Philomathean

No abstract provided.


Day In The Life Of A Labor And Delivery Nurse, Jordyn Roel Dec 2025

Day In The Life Of A Labor And Delivery Nurse, Jordyn Roel

Honors Projects

"Day in the Life: Labor & Delivery Nurse," explores the profound duality of labor and delivery from a nurse’s perspective. It will honor the sacred role of the labor and delivery (L&D) nurse, whose hands both welcome new life into the world and comfort those facing the unimaginable pain of loss. This piece aims to offer a deeply human and empathetic portrayal of the realities of this field, showcasing both the breathtaking beauty of birth and the profound grief of natal loss.


Lemonpoem, Ana Paul Dec 2025

Lemonpoem, Ana Paul

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.


Naked, Jenna Curtis Dec 2025

Naked, Jenna Curtis

Gandy Dancer Archives

No abstract provided.