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Confounding Changes: Collected Poems
(2023)
ABSTRACT
This is a collection of poems addressing how to live as a problem solver in a dangerous world. I am aware of two planet-sized existential crises—climate and nuclear war. I trained as an environmental educator in ...
When There Were Knives I Dreamed of It
(2021)
This thesis, When There Were Knives I Dreamed of It, is a collection of poems and prose in three parts. It is prefaced with a long-form poem comprised of 11 parts, which is intended to establish the tone for the work that ...
No One is Looking For You
(2022)
The poems in this manuscript explore the emotional landscape of an emotionally repressed speaker to explore opposing themes of isolation and connection; self-denial and self discovery; and rage and hope. It is perpetually ...
The Fiction We Make Between Us
(2013)
This manuscript contains two sections, “Quiet Project” and “Notes for a Memoir,”
each of which could later expand into a separate chapbook, or a section of a book, of
poems.
In the first section, “Quiet Project”, the ...
Stealing Fire
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2015)
The poems that make up this collection tend to play with what is one of the oldest
concepts to exist, transition. This collection attempts to demonstrate the experiences that
generate the pressures required; such as light ...
Life without my head
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-24)
This book of poems understands the human body as artifice, a device to
broadcast and receive pain, even as it promises great pleasure. Here, this device
is mostly female: a hyper-sexualized screensaver for a voyeuristic ...
Threads Bared
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This thesis is part response part exploration into the world of those fighting and losing
the battle over addiction. It is meant to follow the progression of addiction, from the root
causes beginning in early childhood ...
On Earth, As It Is
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This manuscript of poems addresses the collisions of the body—what is often meant
when we say intersectionality. These poems take on the politics of race, religion, gender, and
history and employ the filters of persona, ...
The Shape of the Room as Silence
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
This thesis in creative writing is a manuscript of poems that examine grief and loss, and their reverberations through the objects and memories of people that are left behind. It is the result of workshops, collaboration ...
Beneath the light: stage-bound and ankle-cuffed
(2014-07-30)
The creative thesis includes both plays and poetry which cover multiple themes surrounding the female performer, in the media, on the stage, and in everyday life. The play, "An Evening of Alli Jordan" is a meta-theatrical ...
Family Portraits
(2021)
This thesis is a collection of poems in two parts. The first section is comprised of poems about my grandfather and his genealogy research. It endeavors to explore the ways we see people after they are gone. My grandfather ...