From the Editors

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The 2023 Graduate Symposium

Introduction | Fiona Paton

Keynote Address | Marc Dudley

Symposium Essays

“Nothing Ever Happens Once and Is Finished: Absalom, Absalom! and the Politics of Historical Memory” | Liam Kiggins

“’The Young Girl in White’: The Infantilization of May Welland in The Age of Innocence” | Dylan Perles

“Nostalgia For What Never Was: Exploring Myth in The Great Gatsby” | Aylie Rudge

“Frontier Women: Regional Modernism in Willa Cather and Elizabeth Madox Roberts” | Kimberly Sanford

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Poetry

Confessional (a golden shovel) | Susan Chute

personal mythos | Oliver Curry

Photo of a Suicide by Drowning | David Dear

Parking Lot | Adrianna DeBenedetto

In Autumn the Evenings | Thomas Festa

Forgive Us after Ilya Kaminsky | Priya Grace

Rough Customer | Ian Hall

Walking Peterskill | Mike Jurkovic (with Joann Deiudicibus)

Dig | Carina Kohn

I Want My Poems | Guy Reed

Dry Cleaning| Owen Smith

Sunflowers | Taylor Steinberg

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In Memoriam: Tributes to H. R. Stoneback

Stoney | Ron Smith

In Memory of H. R. Stoneback (with apologies to W.H. Auden) | Ron Smith

SWAGGER | Dennis Doherty

A Return of Sorts | Gregory E. Bruno

Still Lurking | Evan Hulick

Le Foyer et Les Champs | Nathan L. Lee

About Stoney | Bri Castagnozzi

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Essays from the Graduate Program

“The Power of Presence: Names and Titles in Sarashina Diary” | Deborah Brannan

“‘Give Her Good Watch’: Surveillance in Michael Almereyda’s and Gregory Dorn’s Film Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet | Emily Vanston

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Thesis Abstracts

“This Image of My Humiliation”: Writing and Reading Embodied Illness in John Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions-Erin Boss

Towards a Compassionate Rhetoric: A Buddhist & Feminist Exploration of Substance Abuse-Skylar Couch-Tellefsen

Spirit-Joshua Fleming

The Luna Bloodline: A Novel-Shannon Giambanco

All That We Can’t Leave Behind-Stephanie Gleeson