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Papa, Scott Walmsley

Bryant Literary Review

His crow's feet walked a thousand miles

His dark bags carried all his treasures.

Waiting For The Sun, Nina Bennett

Bryant Literary Review

Venice Beach is smaller than I imagined,

not large enough to hold its history

Leonard Cohen Sings All Night, John Tustin

Bryant Literary Review

Leonard Cohen sings all night

on my miserable wet black drive

Nights When Father Jived With Demon Rum, Madelyn Garner

Bryant Literary Review

Dogs yelped. Mother spat blood. Which explains

the slamming of doors, clawing through back room windows,

Sowing The Seeds, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

Grandfather would sit in a rocker by the window

smoking a pipe and gazing upon his bountiful garden

Bingo, Seth Benton

Bryant Literary Review

Mosquitoes spatter the wall

beside us as the sweet rot

smell of marsh at low tide

Robots, Joseph Scott (J.S.) Kierland

Bryant Literary Review

The Major drove north along 95 into the oncoming darkness. The sun hung low over the desert behind him,

Fly In The Air, Judy Klass

Bryant Literary Review

...strafes the dinner party guests but does not land, cuts through the invisible gases jagged,

Why I Cannot Love Picasso, Devon Miller-Duggan

Bryant Literary Review

Sure, he gets that everything is broken

And still charged with lusts.

Pulse, Nathan Alling Long

Bryant Literary Review

Dad stopped the car on the hill above school and put it in park.

Posted: Don't Poach, Nathan Whiting

Bryant Literary Review

You now read an uncollected poem.

If a poem collector, you should

John 3:10010000110, John Supinski

Bryant Literary Review

Welcome to the kingdom of the Immortal

Where races are run barefoot

Professional Learning Communities And First-Year Composition Instructors., Erinn Bentley

Dissertations

This study is situated within the field of writing teacher education and investigates the professional development of first-year composition instructors. The purpose of this study is to examine the flexibility of one K-12 teacher professionalization model, the professional learning community (PLC), for offering first-year composition instructors ongoing support and for promoting instructors' pedagogical content knowledge growth.

This study builds upon scholarship within the field of rhetoric and composition to examine current trends in training graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) who teach first-year composition courses (Dobrin, 2005; Latterell, 1996; Pytlik & Liggett, 2002; Tremmel & Broz, 2002; Yancey, 2002). Such research indicates …

Recalling Walden: Thoreau's Embodied Aesthetics And Australian Writings On Place, John Charles Ryan

Research outputs 2011

This essay argues that the works of the nineteenth-century American philosopher, poet, and naturalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) have moulded Australian place writings of the last one hundred years. Beginning with the foundational work into Australian literature done by the American critics C. Hartley Grattan (1902-1980), A. Grove Day (1904-1994), and Joseph Jones (1908-1999), the article goes on to contextualize the discussion in the contemporary transhemispherical scholarship of Australian literary historian Harry Heseltine and American ecocritic Robert Zeller. Both syncretic and embodied, Thoreau’s literary approach to place draws from a fusion of multi-sensory experience, ethnographic inquiry, and bodily participation in …

Lyric #1, Ryo Yamaguchi

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 92

Heaven Overland, Luke Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 102-103

Incident At The Edge Of Bayonet Woods, Luke Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 98-99

Lyric #5, Ryo Yamaguchi

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 96

The Best Part Of The Day, Charles Harper Webb

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 82-83

Bourbon Aubade, Stephen Kampa

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 39-41

It Is Late The Husband Is Tired The Wife Is Reading, Frank Giampietro

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 29-30

From The Manual On Auto Mechanics, Joanne Lowery

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 48

Stuck, Sidney Wade

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 76-78

A Poem In Which My Father Is Not The Villain, Deborah Ager

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 1-2

Crown Of Cyclamen, Sheri Allen

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 3

Shaker Village, Lesley Jenike

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 35

Best Phlebotomist Ever, Frank Giampietro

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 31

The Forbidden Experiment, Stephen Kampa

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 36-38

Why We Make Gardens (& Other Poems), Luke Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 104-105

Day-Cruisin', Erica Dawson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 9-10