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C. Bowen, Plumber, Paul Hostovsky

Bryant Literary Review

I like this guy

before we even meet.

He's the only one

Moon Rise, John P. Kristofco

Bryant Literary Review

when colors and their implications fade

into the twist of trees,

Rebel In A Plaid Skirt, Janet Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

She moved robotically through junior high

learned by rote, kept imagination in check,

Shells, Barbara Mackay

Bryant Literary Review

today I walk a sullen beach

its sand a deep gray

had it once been white

Weather Wins, Francine Witte

Bryant Literary Review

It always does. Big blow

from the latest tornado?

That's just nature clearing

Going-Away Party, Elton Glaser

Bryant Literary Review

Inside the white envelope, I find

An invitation to my death.

You can steam off the stamps,

Junior Munson Does The Long Haul, Elton Glaser

Bryant Literary Review

I like to start my mornings

Sunnyside up at a truckstop,

The Propensity For Monologue, John Sibley Williams

Bryant Literary Review

I'd like to be a sparrow,

bring new morning

each time I speak.

To Ansel Adams, John Sibley Williams

Bryant Literary Review

It could have been

color

if mountains and dreams

The Cow Near Matamoros, Carol Hamilton

Bryant Literary Review

Tied to her terror,

her placid, brush-haired sides

so like a back room

Open At 10:00 A.M., Ron Koertge

Bryant Literary Review

I burst into the Gap on the morning

after Labor Day and surprise

the pretty clerks giggling,

Taking Liberties, Jim Hart

Bryant Literary Review

Geography

is melting

Glaciers

My Son Dreams That, As We Fished For Pumpkinseeds, A Shark Ate Me, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

Did I hook the shark, and it yanked me in?

Did it leap, and pluck me off the pier?

Yesterday's Tongue, John Mckernan

Bryant Literary Review

Its syllables

Dripping to the brown earth

Small Blue Butterflies, Buff Whitman-Bradley

Bryant Literary Review

On a walk around the lake

I pause to watch three small blue butterflies

Alone, Ron Koertge

Bryant Literary Review

Maybe it's just the kind of poetry I've been reading,

but I can't help noticing how alone most poets are:

Christmas Parade, Elizabeth C. Williams

The Mercury

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October Trail, Vanessa C. Curran

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

A Little Boy Lived Down The Street, James H. Garrett

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

Because I Was Young And My Love Wasn't Real, Kathryn E. Bucolo

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

A Midnight Blue Poem, Rachel E. Ciniewicz

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

How We Forget, Lauren E. Welles

The Mercury

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Hourglass, Kristyn M. Turner

The Mercury

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Lights And Shadows - 2012, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Strike Out Across The Shoreless Ocean, Julia Claire Paajanen

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

What happens between a reader and a poem is none of my business. The world has always been yours; find your own way.

(1) Every choice is correct.

(2) Everything is true.

(3) What is anything, unless so far as it is enjoyed?

All you have to do is see the course, and when you see it, go.

The Watchmaker Series, Christopher Michael Seelie

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The Watchmaker Series celebrates and inquires into time as a biproduct of consciousness and practices the application of this notion in poetry. The series begins with the numeral poems, all of which relate directly to the theoretical and polemical aspects. Along the way, other poems with individual titles are interspersed to reflect or redirect the abstract considerations to more concrete subjects. Gradually, as the series progresses, the interacting and recurring associations meld theory and practice into a compositional whole.

The central notion that contemporary poetry is not a machine made of words but rather, like the watch that gives itself …

Freebird At Eleven, Sean L. Corbin

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A project thesis submitted to the faculty of Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Department of English at Morehead State University Sean L. Corbin in May of 2011.

Weights, Measures, And Meaning, Monir Feezor

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Monir Feezor on April 21, 2010.

Satori 2011, Winona State University

Satori Literary Magazine

The Satori is a student literary publication that expresses the artistic spirit of the students of Winona State University. Student poetry, prose, and graphic art are published in the Satori every spring since 1970.

Volume 43 (2011), C. V. Davis

The Broad River Review

The 2011 edition of The Broad River Review was edited by C. V. Davis. The publication contains fiction, non-fiction, art, poetry, and photography. The cover, "Two Girls with Umbrella," was painted by Jennifer Hart. The winner of the J. Calvin Koontz Poetry Award, given annually for a portfolio of poetry to a senior English major, is Nikki Raye Rice. The Broad River Review Editor's Prizes in Fiction and Poetry are chosen among all submissions from Gardner-Webb University students. The prize in poetry was awarded to J. Lauren Fletcher for her work titled, "Woman." The prize in prose was awarded to …