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Natural Trouble, Scott Hightower

Poetry

Natural Trouble continues Scott Hightower’s investigation begun in Tin Can Tourist. Themes of inheritance extend through changes of landscape and bad weather to hungers, urgencies, inequities, and bereavements. Hightower also reminds us that the practice of writing is at the core of democracy: poetry seeks a foundation in the truth of the individual, guaranteed and restored through the integrity of language.

2003 Forces, Scott Yarbrough

Forces

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The @'S Of Your %'S, Ken Fifer

Bryant Literary Review

The : )'s in my e-mail remind me how

our actual lives are also composed

of punctuation, and of punctuation's

Mother's Skeleton, Audrey Doire

Bryant Literary Review

I was sixteen when she

told me I wasn't her first.

The Tooth Fairy, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

What would a fairy want with all those teeth?

"Prefer Slick, Feverish Grooves Over Funky Backbeats", Ace Boggess

Bryant Literary Review

blessed rock'n'roll R & B funk folk acid jazz

What Happens To Kurt Cobain, William Snyder Jr.

Bryant Literary Review

Courtney Love carries Kurt Cobain's ashes on the jets she flies in.

Second Showing, Todd Balazic

Bryant Literary Review

I do get to say

the clever thing I say

about Nietzsche and the pathos of distance

Bad Poet's Epitaph, Candice Rowe

Bryant Literary Review

If I die on the Martha's Vineyard ferry,

Water the arbutus,

The Present, Fred Muratori

Bryant Literary Review

It's taken all our lives to get here,

and the consciousness of that

is like a pause. But we

Comparison/Contrast, Rustin Larson

Bryant Literary Review

His elegy is good, but his elegy is not

Good. His whisper tends to shrink

Sacrament, Todd Possehl

Bryant Literary Review

Wait again for me at the bookstore café

What Isn't Anchored, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

I confessed I was drifting from you.

Days later, your hand in mine,

you reminded me, in hopeful mockery,

of what I'd said.

When Quoddy Head Falls Into The Sea, Karl Foss

Bryant Literary Review

It does not mean the world is about to end.

Go inland, where the black of water and sky separate.

Another Life, Kenneth Pobo

Bryant Literary Review

Shirley MacLaine claims she

made it with Charlemagne.

Our Americano, Denise Duhamel

Bryant Literary Review

An apple pie Americano -- attaboy! -- got the ax for being asleep

When The Music Stops, Tony Leuzzi

Bryant Literary Review

The sequined queen of sass says not on your life

Daylight Savings, Charles Harper Webb

Bryant Literary Review

The body wakes at erstwhile 7:00

Kindergarten, Lisa Zimmerman

Bryant Literary Review

It's hard to know

how much they love their children,

these mothers and fathers

Solitaire, Priscilla Atkins

Bryant Literary Review

The computer version

leaves me cold

I want the slippery

The Interpretation Of Dreams, William Greenway

Bryant Literary Review

I was back in Georgia (where my Welsh

grandfather came to live),

The Coffee Table Book, Mark Defoe

Bryant Literary Review

I flipped through the pages, when suddenly

a page seared -- snapshots of bodies ablaze,

bayonets, babies and boots in the face.

Northwest Island, Andrew Paul Sullivan

Bryant Literary Review

Before feathery lavender striations of mackerel sky I forget all else.

Explanation, Peter Johnson

Bryant Literary Review

What should I tell you? That it rained for five straight days, that the gutters leaked in spite of the duct tape,that a rat ate through the cellar screen and killed the cat.

Look Now, Charlotte Mandel

Bryant Literary Review

Bronze oak leaves like cupped hands

offer rainwater

Short Attention Span Scripture, Tommy Graves

Bryant Literary Review

My neighbor across the street was a hundred and ninety years old and she could fly

Feral, Antler Antler

Bryant Literary Review

Boy raised by wolves, boy raised by panthers

boy raised by dolphins, boy raised by sequoias

Using Music To Teach The Sounds Of Poetry: Some User-Friendly Advice For The Non-Musician, Jayme Stayer

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

I will offer some suggestions here that address both the gap in our teaching of poetic sounds and the fears and prejudices of students. While I do foist, unapologetically, the entire apparatus of poetic terminology on my students, my use of music to reinforce such concepts is supplemental and non-technical. In fact, much of my use of music in the Introduction to Literature classroom has less to do with actually listening to CDs, and more to do with talking about what my students already know about music, and then applying that knowledge to poetry.

William Blake: An Integrated Teaching Approach, Shawn C. Gaspaire

All Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project was to explore the usefulness of providing integrated curricula in today's contemporary classroom. The literature review illustrates that integrated approaches to teaching improve classroom engagement rates, retention, and skill level across grade levels when compared to non-integrated environments. A tenweek model using William Blake as a catalyst is presented. The integrated approach using Blake incorporates history, English, the arts, vocational arts, communication, and the technologies. Implications of integrated curriculum and William Blake are discussed.

Tests Of Poetry, Alan Filreis

Alan Filreis

Contribution to a forum convened by Robert von Hallberg to consider literary history as a method applied to poetry & poetics.