AmLit Spring 2022

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I Hate the texture of these sheets Abby St Jean

Artist Statement: I often experience sensory overload, and this has happened to me numerous times when the texture of my sheets or an article of clothing is not quite right. This piece describes that feeling. Medium Statement: oil paint on paper

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Someone I Love is Slipping Away • • • Isabella Paracca

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Cleaning my room • • • Olivia O’Connor

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Time’s Autobiography • • • Nicole Flanagan

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I Hate the Texture of These Sheets

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Reflections on Time • • • Emma DiValentino

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Found in Nature • • • Demi Benard

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Childhood Dwellings • • • Isabella Paracca

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remains • • • Alexia Partouche

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Ripe, New Beginnings • • • Zahra DeShaw

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Speak, Hear, Listen • • • Hope Jorgensen

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Weep • • • Miriam Yarger

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Big Three • • • Kaitlyn Chesleigh

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Childhood Absence • • • Hope Jorgensen

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Loneliness • • • Emma Southern

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The Ocean’s Fairy Dust • • • Grace Hasson

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page 81

Grief • • • Emilee Rae Hibshman

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i will try to remember this • • • Heather Roselle

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Another Life • • • Jordyn Baker

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an ode to the brown

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ache is a noun and a verb • • • McKenna Casey

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Lights Out • • • Kathryne McCann

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The End • • • Mara Shepherd

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we are womxn • • • Stella Thé

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To the Woman I’ll Meet Tomorrow • • • Olivia Traub

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page 62

I Thought I Knew What Love Felt Like • • • Emily Rae Hibshman

1min
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Right? • • • Julia Kane

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page 56

Like broken pottery, fondly I think of you • • • Annika Rennaker

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There is So Much to Love in a Laugh

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I Remember Everything • • • Kaitlyn Chesleigh

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Stories • • • Miriam Yarger

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Diamonds for My Daughters

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untitled_1 • • • Katherine Mahan

1min
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The Worth of an Elephant • • • Hope Jorgensen

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It Was Just a Game • • • Emma Southern

1min
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I don’t know why I like old things • • • Annika Rennaker

1min
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a concert in the square • • • Isabel de Oliveira

1min
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Things I Need to Fix • • • McKenzie Taylor

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Fern After Dark • • • Dori Rathmell

1min
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Bloodrush • • • Audrey Magill

3min
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Banshee • • • Tilly Boraks

1min
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ICARUS! • • • Mei Matute

1min
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Bloom 2 • • • Isabelle Ri

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Josephine • • • Mara Shepherd

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heitara • • • Caroline Siebert

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A Letter to My Maker • • • Connaught Riley

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The Girl in the Yellow House • • • Kathryne McCann

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indifference • • • Sydney Muench

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She Shoots, She Mourns • • • Liah Argiropoulos

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It’s the Little Things • • • Olivia Traub

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Wrath • • • Hope Jorgensen

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Spring 2022

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60,000 • • • Jordyn Baker

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A Civic and Orange Slices • • • Ellie Blanchard

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No One Told You? • • • Julia Mitchell

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