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- 1From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMy grandfather left in a boat. It was dawn, and the lake was placid, sun sparkling across it, reeds reaching the surface. He shut off the motor, let the boat drift over the place where bluegill had often swarmed. My...
- 2From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Emmett Memorial Award and the Emmett Memorial Lecture are sponsored by the Emmett family, the PSU English Department, and The Midwest Quarterly. The award and lecture are named in memory of the late Dr. Victor J....
- 3From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewedfor Laura Everyone is smiling! Everyone is! There is something to do, to do. Like an end rhyme in a vatic wood with vatic bluebirds I am a racehorse before a derby till blinkered. Everyone is talking! Everyone is! I...
- 4From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSo much does God disapprove of the goings-on at Babel that he shuts the whole thing down. But the protagonist of the first biblical episode in which a city figures doesnt meet with a reaction of this uncompromising kind...
- 5From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAn all-accepting, celebratory energy exudes from Walt Whitmans poetry, often as an offering of understanding to his readers. One example of this energy is in Song of Myself where Whitman advocates for all types of people...
- 6From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis award recognizes outstanding scholarship by a graduate student at Pittsburg State University as selected by a panel of PSU faculty. Winners not only receive a cash award of $500, but also have their winning essay...
- 7From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedImagine the sun going up. A wilderness that plays and plays. A first flame that passions cheeks red. The softening of a spirit. Imagine a flagpole, the shadow overlaying a meadows only flaw. The inertia of this...
- 8From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAt night the bayous sigh their way to sea-- that murky water, and the trash it tows: oil floats while paper ghosts swim down below like little moon-caught fish. My love, to this, your swampland city, you have carried...
- 9From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThey came down all at once, falling from the maples after last nights storm. Theyd hung on until the wind rose, swirling in the branches, not choosing a way to go. A maelstrom of chances. Now its over and the trees look...
- 10From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedShake out sky, its backyard chimes. Clothespin the wind. Rake up stars. Through their opera glasses, squint. Now fold the clouds and wash galaxies. Pluck planets like berries. And tuck in the corners of your dismay. Now...
- 11From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSome mourned the lace sea. And a canteen of moonlight was passed. And the bartender served a lavender glass with sidecar of names....
- 12From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe enueg is a complaint mode of Occitan troubadour poetry (Race and Diaz 287), a bawdy song of annoyance that Knowlson misidentifies as a funeral lament (137), for such is the troubadour planh (Paden Occitan poetry 987;...
- 13From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince globalization has influenced almost every stage of individuals and societies lives from the viewpoint of economy, politics and culture, literary works are not likely to be free from the effects of such a process....
- 14From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne week before your latest scans, the air thins; half black, half red. A split heart. People hand out platitudes like candy on Halloween--but this aint no holiday. This costume is real-- and Ive tried all the classic...
- 15From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is something uncomfortable talking about the realism of J. M. Coetzee. His Foucauldian understanding of history as a kind of "discourse, his interest in the constitutive role of language as a novelist and linguist,...
- 16From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Stephen Meats Poetry Prize will be awarded once each year, starting in 2017. The prize is named for poet and Professor of English Stephen E. Meats in recognition of his service as Poetry Editor of the journal from...
- 17From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor the wave-smoothed granite blue herons and Canada Geese red-tailed hawks alongside seagulls perched on lamp-posts. Move the snakes shedding their skins chipmunks racing across buttery leaves. Let your words be wasps...
- 18From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMother and I on a walk amid the summer blue, a black cloud a gushing wind--we cling to a lamppost Then a blank and Im sprawled across the street I look up to see Mother thrown further down the block As if the black...
- 19From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCento sources: Pablo Neruda, Lorna Dee Cervantes, W.B. Yeats, E.E. Cummings We rose to meet the moon and saw no more. --Theodore Roethke as the immense moon disrobes in the sky spreading its yellow cloak across the...