Browsing 2018 UMKC Theses - Access Restricted to UMKC by Thesis Department "Creative Writing and Media Arts (UMKC)"
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The Cherry Orchard
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)Similar to the namesake of this manuscript, Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard, the poems that make up this collection explore loss—loss of home, loss of time, loss of loved ones, loss of self. Some of the poems ... -
Life underwater
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)This collection of short stories examines the different lives of people as they navigate the strange and confusing nature of their daily lives. There is a particular focus on how the monotonous can be equally as bizarre ... -
Mother’s Little Helper: A Memoir in Vignettes
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)Mental illness debilitates the afflicted and impacts friends and family members. The collage of scenes in this memoir reveal the ways family members developed survival strategies and coping mechanisms to manic depression. ... -
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 ... -
Splitting Lips
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)This collection is comprised of short fiction and two essays, dealing with themes of disillusionment, power dynamics, and the messiness of identity. "Ladybug" is about a dependent woman who fakes a pregnancy. "Salt and ... -
To turn on every light
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)This collection of poems focuses on the interior and exterior landscapes of a speaker in relationship with objects, with others, and with God. The poems seek to explore these relationships through a symbolic lens, so ... -
Wishful Thinking
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)The novel interrogated what it means to live in a midwestern college town while not being in college. What it means to have stayed in one place long enough that everyone who left has decided to come back. What it means ...