Traumatic events can provoke introspection in a person's life and possibly cause an existential crisis, or, depression. These conscious thoughts offer a new perception of life as the individual understands that they define their own meaning and purpose to life. This leads to a series of choices. Those choices are often filled with the mundane, "everydayness" of life. Attempting to accept normalcy and navigate the mundane can lead to frustration, even recycling the individual back to a constant search for purpose and meaning. Poetry, as an art form, provides modules that can present mundane moments and use them to create a larger piece that recycles and searches for purpose and meaning, much like an individual
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abstract: A Brief Introduction to the Small Beast of Hearts starts from the basic assumption that th...
A collection of short stories and personal essays, Please Don’t Interrupt Me While I’m Ignoring You ...
This master's thesis is a collection of poetry focusing on the emotional and behavioral responses of...
This thesis is a collection of poems. The writer explores mental illness, isolation, trauma, and gri...
This is Only a Test, a collection of original poems, explores perception: how we view ourselves both...
This thesis uses poetry to explore the complex relationships surrounding the speaker and the father....
What to Expect explores the complex and turbulent experience of transitioning from girlhood to woman...
The poems collected here follow the implications of death, fears of failure and the hard cliff of ex...
This collection of poems explores the body, desire, heartache, and renewal. These poems run through ...
In photography, the device that allows a person to enter the darkroom safely (i.e. excluding light) ...
This is a collection of poems from my time in the MFA program. Divided into two sections, the first...
The poems of this collection explore issues of faith, womanhood, and what it means to be in relation...
Pearl Necklaces aims to excavate raw moments of connection and find beauty in the depravity of self ...
The poems in Because You Are Beautiful and Dead deal with dysfunctional people, substance abuse, los...
In times of loss, communities of faith come alongside bereaved individuals to offer support. That su...
abstract: A Brief Introduction to the Small Beast of Hearts starts from the basic assumption that th...
A collection of short stories and personal essays, Please Don’t Interrupt Me While I’m Ignoring You ...
This master's thesis is a collection of poetry focusing on the emotional and behavioral responses of...
This thesis is a collection of poems. The writer explores mental illness, isolation, trauma, and gri...
This is Only a Test, a collection of original poems, explores perception: how we view ourselves both...
This thesis uses poetry to explore the complex relationships surrounding the speaker and the father....
What to Expect explores the complex and turbulent experience of transitioning from girlhood to woman...
The poems collected here follow the implications of death, fears of failure and the hard cliff of ex...
This collection of poems explores the body, desire, heartache, and renewal. These poems run through ...
In photography, the device that allows a person to enter the darkroom safely (i.e. excluding light) ...
This is a collection of poems from my time in the MFA program. Divided into two sections, the first...
The poems of this collection explore issues of faith, womanhood, and what it means to be in relation...
Pearl Necklaces aims to excavate raw moments of connection and find beauty in the depravity of self ...
The poems in Because You Are Beautiful and Dead deal with dysfunctional people, substance abuse, los...
In times of loss, communities of faith come alongside bereaved individuals to offer support. That su...
abstract: A Brief Introduction to the Small Beast of Hearts starts from the basic assumption that th...
A collection of short stories and personal essays, Please Don’t Interrupt Me While I’m Ignoring You ...