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Afflictionary: Defining Disability And Chronic Illness Through Poetic Dictionary Entries, Jaime Chernoch
Afflictionary: Defining Disability And Chronic Illness Through Poetic Dictionary Entries, Jaime Chernoch
Graduate Masters Theses
Afflictionary, Defining Disability and Chronic Illness Through Poetic Dictionary Entries is a poetry collection that uses the format of a dictionary to explore individualized experiences of both medical and non-medical words. The definitions and reference quotes that come before the poems come from the Oxford English Dictionary and various medical journals. The quotes act as a prompt or framework that helped shape the personal entries. They may echo the content in the poems, be placed in opposition, or complicate our understanding of the word. Some of the words list multiple years of personal entries which shows the chronic and recurrent …
Tough Eloquence, Yusef Komunyakaa
Tough Eloquence, Yusef Komunyakaa
Trotter Review
I began reading Etheridge Knight's poetry in the early 1970s, and what immediately caught my attention was his ability to balance an eloquence and toughness, exhibiting a complex man behind the words. His technique and content were one—the profane alongside the sacred—accomplished without disturbing the poem's tonal congruity and imagistic exactitude. Here was a streetwise poet who loved and revered language. Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes seem to have been his mentors, but Knight appeared to have sprung into the literary world almost fully formed. He had so much control and authority; he was authentic from the onset. …
Twin Peaks, Vince Putnam
Twin Peaks, Vince Putnam
New England Journal of Public Policy
Poetry by Vince Putnam, a resident of Fifty Washington Square, Newport, Rhode Island. His work has appeared in In the Heart of the City, a literary magazine produced by the residents of Fifty Washington Square. He is pursuing an MSW degree at the University of Rhode Island.
A Single Man And Christmas, Steve Johnson
A Single Man And Christmas, Steve Johnson
New England Journal of Public Policy
Steve Johnson is a resident of Fifty Washington Square, Newport, Rhode Island. His work has appeared in In the Heart of the City, a literary magazine produced by the residents of Fifty Washington Square.
Question, Edward Baros
Indemnified In A January Soup Kitchen Line, Ray Hall Jr.
Indemnified In A January Soup Kitchen Line, Ray Hall Jr.
New England Journal of Public Policy
Poetry by Ray Hall, Jr., a contributor to Pile of Papers; Stack of Karma, a collection of poetry published by the Portland Coalition Press. Reprinted with permission.
Anger, A. E. S.
Anger, A. E. S.
New England Journal of Public Policy
Poetry by A.E.S., a member of the Portland (Maine) Coalition for the Psychiatrically Disabled.
Circle, Dean Hamlin
Circle, Dean Hamlin
New England Journal of Public Policy
Poetry by Dean Hamlin, a member of the Portland (Maine) Coalition for the Psychiatrically Disabled. His poem first appeared in Pile of Papers; Stack of Karma, a collection of poetry published by the Portland Coalition Press. Reprinted with permission.
Winter, Edward Baros
Winds Curse, Robert Pavel
Winds Curse, Robert Pavel
New England Journal of Public Policy
Robert Pavel is a member of the Portland (Maine) Coalition for the Psychiatrically Disabled. His poem first appeared in Pile of Papers; Stack of Karma, a collection of poetry published by the Portland Coalition Press. Reprinted with permission.
A Visit To The Vet Hospital, D. B.
A Visit To The Vet Hospital, D. B.
New England Journal of Public Policy
D.B. is a member of the Portland (Maine) Coalition for the Psychiatrically Disabled. His poem first appeared in The Portland Coalition Advocate. Reprinted with permission.
Untitled, Kathie Boulanger
Untitled, Kathie Boulanger
New England Journal of Public Policy
Poetry by Kathie Boulanger, who is a member of the Portland (Maine) Coalition for the Psychiatrically Disabled. Her poem first appeared in Pile of Papers; Stack of Karma, a collection of poetry published by the Portland Coalition Press. Reprinted with permission.