AJUP Catalog

Rockhurst College

The Rockhurst Review is an annual fine arts journal presenting poetry, prose, photography, and drawings. Each volume features a collection of the finest submissions from the Rockhurst community, compiled by a student-led staff under the direction of Dr. Patricia Cleary Miller, Associate Professor of English and noted poet.

1988

includes the fiction and poetry of award-winning Mia A. Leonin, the English and French poetry of Patricia Cleary Miller and poetry in English and Spanish by Eileen M. O'Connell. Editors: Robert Cronkleton and Frank Garcia-Ferrer.

1989

includes poems by Michele Dew, Joycelyn Moody, Eileen O'Connell, Rita Roth, and Richard Janet; fiction by Christopher Lyons and Elizabeth Donahue; artwork by Joe Huyett, Charles Steib, and Angelo Wright. Edited by Marc Anderson and Maureen Quillen.

1990

features a startling cover photograph of a portrait of the artist as an Egyptian Pyramid, titled "Building Character" by ceramics instructor Lisa Tully Dibble, and a photograph of Professor William Valk's "Ceremonial Axe" appears simultaneously serene and menacing. Poet Mary Beth Lamb writes of good girls, and telephone rape. Jeffrey Beshoner describes meeting "Camus at the Shopping Center." Michele L. Dew, editor.

1991

features previously unpublished verse by Kansas City poet Patricia Cleary Miller. Also featured are poetry and short fiction by Tom Ventresca and the work of other writers and artists affiliated with Rockhurst College. Eileen M. O'Connell, editor.

1992

highlights poetry in traditional forms:terza rima by Frederick P. Kaffenberger, III, and Molly Cronin offers a rondeau on Charles Cowdrick's photographic parodies of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti. The issue features the longest poem ever published in the Rockhurst Review, Mac McGory's "A Poetic Response to 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' by Maya Angelou." Editor, Todd L. Reding.

1993

features short stories and poetry by Stanley Banks, Annemarie Dalton, and Tom Ventresca. Prize winning poets Patricia Cleary Miller (the Daniel W. Brenner Award), Mia Leonin (1994 Penware Poetry Award), and Marie Asner contribute their finest poems in this edition of the Review. Melea L. Seward and Donna Murray, editors.

1994

highlights infants and the surreal, with a computer-altered photograph of a cherub by Charlene Cuatico and Steven Ulrich on the cover, and inside, a juxtaposed painting and drawing by Angel Reed. Radcliffe-Harvard Bunting Fellow Patricia Cleary Miller rap-dances around "The Blue Neon Word" no English teacher should use if she wants NEA funding, Simon Madrigal explores "halogen skies," and Maggie Niedergeses wonders about "Odysseus' Less-Fortunate Daughter." Melea L. Seward, editor, and Todd L. Reding, moderator.

1995

finds temptation, transgression, meditation, contemplation and revelation in this collection featuring photography by Sherry Best and Judy Ray; "Night Sweats," short fiction by Barbara Zimmerman; poetry by Trish Reeves and Fernand Roqueplan, as well as new poems from Patricia Cleary Miller. Dawnell Reese and Elizabeth Vondrak, editors.