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The Touch So, Rob Diehm

Bryant Literary Review

the touch so

deep (little hairs

stand on end)

we become one

Impending Doom, Mario Duarte

Bryant Literary Review

Out of nothing, nowhere,

a boy grasping a red balloon

wavers over the circus tent.

Notes On Laureateship, Michael S. Harper

Bryant Literary Review

You must act like a Morpho in the forest

Perhaps thirty feet in the air

Hands That Drew Them As They Are, Unity Durieux

Bryant Literary Review

These hands have delved in ruin,

plumbed lovers' pockets, availed

themselves of coldcuts, goodbooks

The Sparrows, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

It's not their flight but how they

alight on the gutters where I might live.

Dyslexic, Will Nixon

Bryant Literary Review

The year I learned the hangman's noose

I tied it everywhere: tire swings, clothes lines,

Abuelita, Camincha

Bryant Literary Review

To Reyna María, it's like they never left. They visit her often, sometimes in groups, sometimes one at a time.

Verso

Bryant Literary Review

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Editor's Note

Bryant Literary Review

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Table Of Contents

Bryant Literary Review

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The Baker's Secret, Kathy Anderson

Bryant Literary Review

The town baker wakes at dawn, stands in his silent shop, with floured hands slaps rounded balls of dough

The Word Box, Christopher Brookhouse

Bryant Literary Review

We can't sleep.

I'm hungry, she says.

I know what she wants.

The Day After, Patricia Dobler

Bryant Literary Review

So I walked back to the place we'd found him,

needing to see the blood stains and my hands

in the place his head had lain.

Places, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

Salcajá, Lanquín, Purulhá:

the places we made love.

Consider, Mary Crow

Bryant Literary Review

Consider the polar bear

whose every white hair is a heat pipe

Fan Letter, John Mann

Bryant Literary Review

Dear life, dear earth, dear season of snow.

Mythic Circle #24, Gwenyth E. Hood

The Mythic Circle

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'One And One Are One'... And Two: An Inquiry Into Dickinson's Use Of Mathematical Signs, Michael Theune

Scholarship

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Rain Through High Windows By Edward Haworth Hoeppner, Michael Theune

Scholarship

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Selected Poems By Peter Redgrove, Michael Theune

Scholarship

Review originally published in Verse, Volume 17, Numbers 2 & 3/Volume 18, Number 1, 2001, pages 390-393.

Totem And Shadow: New And Selected Poems By Paul Hoover, Michael Theune

Scholarship

Review originally published in Verse, Volume 17, Numbers 2 & 3/Volume 18, Number 1, 2001, pages 368-372.

If That Mocking Bird Don't Sing, Andrew Glaze

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 14

True Story, Joseph H. Ball

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 3

Form, Katherine Varnes

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 36

The Artist, Martin Mcgowan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 29

Back Matter

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

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Using Critical Questioning To Investigate Identity, Culture, And Difference, Jill M. Gladstein

English Literature Faculty Works

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"Under The Umbrella Of Black Civilization": A Conversation With Reginald Mcknight, Bertram D. Ashe

English Faculty Publications

Talking to Reginald McKnight is like scanning an imaginary worldwide radio dial. At any given moment he can transform his pleasant speaking voice into a raspy, aged, Middle Eastern-by-way-of-New York accent - or a deep Southern drawl. In an instant he can switch from a precise West African dialect to hip, urban street lingo, and then effortlessly segue back to his normal voice. McKnight says he "hit the ground running" as a mimic, and his talent was broadened as he lived all over the United States as the son of an Air Force sergeant. His time spent on the road …

Fictional Teeth, Linda Dyer

Ahsahta Press

In her debut volume Fictional Teeth, Linda Dyer sorted out the world by pinpointing the unexpected connections that help it make sense, and turns the run-on tumbling syntax of an excited child into the medium for poems that first amuse, then haunt the reader. Venturing the territories of family and loss, persistence and hope, Dyer’s voice is wry and inventive in these poems, where a crayfish can be a child’s pet, a lover’s makeshift ashtray an erotic lure, office supplies a convenient resource for makeovers.

Dynamics Of Teachers' Aesthetic Engagement With Children's Literature, Susan C. Griffith

Educational Studies Dissertations

This research study seeks to bring the missing voices of teachers into the conversation about teaching and learning children's literature at the college level. Grounded in an empirical base that affirms a need for this perspective, the study investigates and describes the dimensions, patterns and variations that constitute the dynamics of engagement that characterize teachers' experiences with children's literature as aesthetic experiences of adult reading.