This podcast features the winners in the voice-only flash fiction category. Josh McDonald earns first place in the flash fiction, voice-only category with his submission, "Lost." It's a comic, surreal story of a madman on a bus shelter roof...

"In this TMR podcast, we present the first place winner in the Voice-only fiction category of our 2008 Audio/Video competition, 'The Annunciation of the baby Jesus one block north of Riverfront Drive' by Ann Rosenquist Fee."--Publisher's Web site....

"This episode of our podcast features the first place and first-runner up entries in the Voice-only literature: creative nonfiction category. First place went to Albert Haley's 'The Cough.' Haley is associate professor of English at Abilene...

This episode of our podcast features three runners-up in the Voice-only poetry category of our 2007 Audio Competition. In 'The Golden lesson,' second runner-up Susan Somers-Willet gives an engaging performance of a poem rich in painterly image...
Author biography: Susan B.A. Somers-Willett is the author of two books of poetry, Quiver and Roam, and a book of criticism, The Cultural politics of slam poetry : race, identity, and the performance of popular verse in America. Her honors include the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize and the Robert Frost Foundation Poetry Award. Raised in New Orleans, she teaches English and Creative Writing at Montclair State University in New Jersey. [2010]...
Author biography: Eric Torgersen, Professor of English, Central Michigan University, has published two chapbooks and three full-length books of poetry, one book of fiction (a novella), and the biographical/critical study Dear Friend: Rainer Maria Rilke and Paula Modersohn-Becker, Northwestern UP. [2008]...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Today National Public Radio is a well-established mainstream news organization with an even, consistent voice that is characterized by an earnest, serious tone. But in the years...

This thesis examines the careers, theatrical ideologies, and directing methodologies of three contemporary Chilean women stage directors: Andrea Giadach, Alexandra von Hummel, and Ignacia González. Respective chapters ...

This dissertation focuses on the cinematic versions of the Robinson Crusoe story. Starting from the early 1900s, a significant number of films rewrite, reinvent, and rework the Crusoe myth. Instead of replicating Defoe's ...

Ever since Pong graced the screens of video arcades, one of the most influential interactions between technology and sound has been the video game console. Over the past decade, scholars have begun to recognize this ...

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings from 2005-2007. The clippings highlight events, people, and programs at the University of Missouri Department of Music.

This collection of poems, essays, and fictional stories is meant to mirror a confluence of rivers, made navigable by threads—or currents—that weave through and redirect my life. Some of my life’s water (so far) has been ...

A&S and the AAU -- MU's Role as a Land-grant University -- Supplemental Fees Make Impact -- EPSCoR Grant -- Documenting Language -- Now Hiring -- Good Science Requires Good Statistics -- Research Data Center at MU -- ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Ordination consists of a collection of eight short stories and an introductory essay that situates the author and his work in contexts biographical, ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Folklore and science, along with the subject of the future which has slowly over time worked its way into the discourses of both, have a long, complicated ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The January Party is an original volume of poems accompanied by a critical essay entitled Graphs of Totality. The poems engage and revise historical ...

Magazine of the College of Arts and Science. Subjects include Ghosts of Language Haunt Good Writing, Surviving Cancer Through Comedy, American Abroad: Following a Dream, Departments Are Like Family, Speaking Frankly of ...