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The Volcano Lover

The Volcano Lover Heather Ryan Kelley __________ 2025, oil on canvas, 12.5 x 8 inches __________ << Back Next >> To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.

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Aesop’s Fables

Aesop’s Fables Heather Ryan Kelley __________ 2019, oil on canvas, 15.5 x 10.5 inches __________ << Back Next >> To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.

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Prayer (FW 259)

Prayer (FW 259) Heather Ryan Kelley __________ 2025, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 inches __________ << Back Next >> To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.

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Tome

Tome Heather Ryan Kelley __________ 2017, oil on canvas, 9 x 17 inches __________ << Back Next >> To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.

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Finnegans Wake

Finnegans Wake Heather Ryan Kelley __________ 2024-25, oil on canvas, 16 x 11.5 inches __________ << Back Next >> To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.

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Ulysses

Ulysses Heather Ryan Kelley __________ 1996, oil on canvas, 16.5 x 11 inches __________ << Back Next >> To learn more about submitting your work to Boudin or applying to McNeese State University’s Creative Writing MFA program, please visit Submissions for details.

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Artist Statement

Artist Statement Heather Ryan Kelley __________ The image of a single object can succinctly communicate an idea; and when that object is a book cover, a host of associations- invisible on the painting’s surface- can be embodied. The book covers I have chosen to paint are those with which I…

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Budding

Budding Jianqing Zheng __________ After Yasunari Kawabata’s “The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket” __________ Kids are catching bell crickets,their colorful lanterns are floating everywhere on the riverbank.Soon, a boy jumps up shouting, “Anyone wants a grasshopper?”Some boys run toward him, but he keeps shouting until a girlemerges, murmuring she wants…

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At a Highway Seventy-Five & Between the Rows of Corn

Abby Manzella __________ Photos by Abby Manzella __________ At a Highway Seventy-Five fields blur after harvest     corn is scythed                  hay bales sag Stop. Thoreau yourself        with a pause and a pace.                    Take in the fading light. Dried grass and setting sun        speak of endings and death                    or nature appreciation. The choice is yours. __________ Between the…

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[Only lines from Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, and Script for The Lost Boys] & [Only lines from Agha Shahid Ali, Countee Cullen, and Script for Gremlins]

Zebulon Huset __________ Written as part of the Exquisite Cento project with Jessica Huset __________ [Only lines from Robert Lowell, Robert Frost, and Script for The Lost Boys] They are speeding along a moon-lit beach(ocean air!)redolent and roly-poly as a sperm whaleHey, dude. My beach.                 My wave—it is speckled with…

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