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Change is never easy, and we know this is a challenging time as you navigate recent announcements affecting programs and operations at Oakland City University. We want you to know that your educational journey doesn’t have to pause.

At the University of Southern Indiana, we are fully committed to helping you transition seamlessly so you can stay on track with your education journey. We’ve designed this dedicated page specifically for you to explore our programs, access resources, learn about credit transfers and continue your education with minimal interruption.

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Poetry

Flight Dreams — J. Miller
Leaving Kansas — Victoria Givotovsky
Late Ode — Jeff Gundy 
Retreating Lights in New Harmony — Charlene Drake
Green — E. H. Wasserman
Humbert’s Soliloquy — Eric vonFurhmann
Grace — Barbara Savadge Horton
Snapshots — Barbara Savadge Horton
The Song, 1944 — Ruzha Cleaveland
Grampa’s Dead Hands — Richard Newman
Old Lonesome’s Way of Drinking Needles — Laurence Musgrove
Vanishing Point — Mary Jane Schenk
Ballet — Shanda Hansma Blue
The Cadences of Southern Kindness — Myra Shapiro
Escape — Terry D. Seaton 
Heart — C. A. Terry 
Discovery — Randy Mills
Standing Shadow in New England — John Gibson
Winter Play — David Hassler
Time, Now — Robin S. Chapman
Running Shadow in East Anglia — John Gibson
Dead Man’s Float — E. H. Wasserman

Fiction

Winter — Erin McGraw
Traveling Places — Bill Hemminger 
Name Tags — Amy Ramsden
Doppleganger — Richard Newman
Animal Shelter — Scott Saalman

Essays

A Moment’s Thought — ellen Bryant Voight
Grace Isabella Golden — Pat Sides
Reflections on the Liberal Arts — Steven C. Scheer
Ethical Questions of Human Genome Research — J. Stenftenagel
Postmodern History in D.M. Thomas’s the White Hotel — Phyllis Toy

Art/Photography

Remember Me — Carolyn Roth
Hood Ornament — Eric D. Braysmith
Square Yellow Cup — Anita Powell
Yellow Cup — Anita Powell
General Waste — Ann Hanat
The Machine — Margie Marx-Healy
Raccoon Tracks — Charles L. Price
A Group of Events Related by Occurrence, Unreality — Margie Marx-Healy 
Romance — Carolyn Roth
One Man Left Standing — John Hoag
Bacchus — Eric D. Braysmith
Letter on a Lonesome Day — Carolyn Roth
Grace Isabela Golden — New Harmony State Historic Site
Contract with America — Curtis R. Uebelhor
Frosted Oak — Charles L. Price