Small Bird Movements follows the poet past youth to a budding awareness of feminist issues. The manuscript's four sections detail the structure of a bird feather, ending with the section Flight to illustrate this change ...

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This is a manuscript of poems dealing, in various ways, with oppositional states, particularly as they manifest in language and the body.

This poem evolved in slow stutters after I had returned to Colorado from India and Kashmir last summer and started transcribing two, small notebooks of language fragments collected over the two month visit--transliterations ...

This collection of poems explores what it means to be a body in the Anthropocene.

The poems in Geneva McCarthy's thesis, The Junipers, explore intersectionality as a function of sentience-based epistemological and ontological concerns. The pieces explicitly seek to engage the world in terms of connectivity ...

Mechanisms Light and Miraculous is a work concerned with form. From abecedarians to long stretches of terza rima, to the innovated "Little Box," each poem in the collection is beholden to a set of constraints that intimately ...

A refrain is the line or lines repeated in music or verse. The poems that compose my thesis repeat themselves formally (the'’re all sonnets) and thematically. The central figure of the poems is Lester Lovely. Lester is a ...

Of a Vale uses the form of the poetic Bildungsroman to account for the formation of a poetic and a subjectivity, all while staying aware of the stakes, limits, and implications of the generic framework that it operates ...