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Debriefing, Yvonne Sapia

Bryant Literary Review

You confess all. Even the truth.

You recount what you dread. Exile.

The face of disbelief. The fear

Measuring Time, Heather Hallberg Yanda

Bryant Literary Review

Standing here by her

stove, I am stirring

with her spoon, measuring

Constellation, Janet Mccann

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The sky was full

of bears and warriors,

God put them there.

They wheeled over us,

The Chess Game, James Damron

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I turn from my work to see them

Indian princesses in long gowns

Lying softly on the grass

The Thirteenth Colony, Jéanpaul Ferro

Bryant Literary Review

The morning had been like a mirage:

a green twilight along Kennedy Plaza after the show,

1863 Candid, Wendy Smith-Stenhouse

Bryant Literary Review

If I could

I would ask you why

you looked away

when the flash chiseled pewter eyes

Love Song, Steven Proulx

Bryant Literary Review

New shirt

cotton stiff

cuffs crisp, buttoned

flush against the hands

Virus, Ewa Bronowicz

Bryant Literary Review

"Language is a virus, and she infected me," he said and looked away, as if not interested in the effect his words would have on us.

La Révolution De Ventôse, Bayard Godsave

Bryant Literary Review

Time loves only those it has given birth to itself...

--Vasily Grossman

I have read about the neutron bombs. In the books there are diagrams of radiation waves, tipped with arrowheads,

Don't Date Men Who Live In Mushroom Houses, Amanda Dunne

Bryant Literary Review

When you brush your teeth,

I want to pull my eyes out,

place them in a Ziploc sandwich bag

The Shower, William Baer

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"Younger than springtime," she sings, fading

in and out, for nearly a half an hour,

Tearing Down The Depot, Patrick Carrington

Bryant Literary Review

It's one of those days that's no damn good

from the start. You drop the toast

How The Metaphor Becomes You, John Azrak

Bryant Literary Review

and is becoming, (no matter your where-

abouts), starts with the handsome

blanket you brought home from Santa Fe;

Mount Everest, Falling, Charles Webb

Bryant Literary Review

Three times before, her father'd pounded

9-1-1 in time to bring a team to pump

Letter To Borgstrom In Stone, Fredrick Zydek

Bryant Literary Review

Dear Kurt: If what the Hindus and Buddhists say

is true, everything that makes the universe tick

What You Have, Laura Hogan

Bryant Literary Review

He comes home wearing your husband's face, spreads his arms wide and calls, "Honey, I'm home."

Fishing Penny, Ryan Habermeyer

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Penny used three fingers to wedge the last moon pie into her mouth. I had sore fingers from feeding her all night.

A Salutation, Not An Embrace, Lois Marie Harrod

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

--George Santayana

Those moments when everything

slips away, perhaps

Fido's View Of Irony, Martha Christina

Bryant Literary Review

I found the shoe under the bed

when She Who Throws Things

threw my ball. "Fetch,"

Like The Man Who Fell In Love With Jesus, Erica Goss

Bryant Literary Review

I want to live in a

body that quakes, I want

someone's fingers to press

At 18, Your Life Opens Up, Marianna Hofer

Bryant Literary Review

Sometimes, just

out of high school,

you hitchhiked to

your first boyfriend's,

The Laughing Poet Moves On, Jim Daniels

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She laughed quickly, not with you

or at you. She laughed

in her own universe of fizz and whirl.

Winter Sleep, M. L. Brown

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She wants to tell him

about the birch in the field,

how it darkens against the snow at dusk.

Closures, Margaret B. Ingraham

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A grandmother's death, he said, put
final parentheses around my youth.

Your family homestead is so far

away and yet the forecast is clear

Noche, Erica Goss

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for Maria De Los Santos

Once in Mulege, Jose's father drove me back

to the long beach coated with moonlight.

Redbone, Erika T. Wurth

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--for 08765-031

The first time I ever thought about stealing a train, I was eight years old.

The doors closed and Jake was alone again,

Alimentary: Arthur Conan Doyle And Isabella Beeton, Kate Thomas

Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship

In 1893, overwhelmed by readers' insatiability for Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle killed his detective off at the height of his popularity. Writing to a friend in 1896, Doyle described how literally sick he was of the figure he had created: “I have had such an overdose of him that I feel towards him as I do towards pâté de foie gras, of which I once ate too much, so that the name of it gives me a sickly feeling to this day” (Chabon 17). Holmes's (first) literary demise was marked by his creator with a culinary simile, one …

Masculinist Theory And Romantic Authorship, Or Hawthorne, Politics, Desire, David Greven

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

“The Whole Numerous Race Of The Melancholy Among Men”: Mourning, Hypocrisy, And Same-Sex Desire In Poe's Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym, David Greven

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

An Initial Exploration Of The Undergraduate English Major Curricula Issued By The 2000-2001 Member Schools Of The Council For Christian Colleges And Universities, Maralee Sue Crandon

Dissertations

Problem

This study made the initial exploration of English major curricula among 101 members of the 2000-2001 Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), describing their nature and state and discerning evidence of Christian thought.

Method

Stewart’s (1989) Modified Categories of English Majors and Eisner’s (1991) education criticism provided frameworks to categorize all curricula and to describe a purposeful sampling of 20 selected by region, religious, and enrollment.

Results

Types 1.0 Straight Literature and 1.5 Primarily Literature majors represented 78% of the population and 75% of the sampling; Type 2.0 More Flexible majors represented 18% of the population and 25% …