
John C. Polles
Portfolio
Poetry
2025
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The Trees Don't Know | Radical Catalyst
2023
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Lake Erie in Late July | Whimsical Publishing Press
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intercoursing | self-published
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1941 (But what of the rain?) ◊ Mycelium | The Basilisk Tree
2022
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ellipsis | Nightingale & Sparrow Micropoetry Series
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burnt orange | Rubbertop Review
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quiet, quiet, quiet | Nightingale & Sparrow
2021
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Big Hands ◊ sediment & iron | Breaking the Silence†
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Whenever it snows. | Nightingale & Sparrow
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Boy | Kissing Dynamite
Fiction
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Fairy Rings by Morning | Wyrd & Wyse | 2022
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Red Run | FEED | 2021
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Guts | Luna Negra | 2018
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lovehandles | Luna Negra | 2018
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Fusion Magazine | excerpt | 2019
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As Editor (Creative)
Speaking
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About That Time My 15-Year-Old Self Wore Makeup to the Football Game | Courageously Queer Storytelling | Main Street Kent Rainbow Weekend 2023 | Kent, Ohio | speaker by invitation
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A Not-So-Anonymous Love Addict | Courageously Queer Storytelling | Main Street Kent Rainbow Weekend 2022 | Kent, Ohio | speaker by invitation
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sediment & iron | Breaking the Silence† Launch Event | Literary Cleveland | 2021 | Cleveland, Ohio | contributor & speaker by invitation
Additional Recognition
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beautiful boy | Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press 2022 Microchap Series | finalist
Juvenilia
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Norton High School Literary Journal | Norton, Ohio:
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Bones ◊ Bruises | 2008
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A Friend, Lost ◊ Wonderland | 2009
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Untitled | 2010
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†Breaking the Silence: Queer Self, Life, and Love in Northeast Ohio | Literary Cleveland Amplify Series
Academic Work (Undergraduate)
Blind Peer Review
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"Well, That's That" — Depictions of Masculinity in Dorothy Parker's "Mr. Durant"
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"In the Fashion of Those Women" — Intersections of Womanhood and Social Class in Eliza Haywood's Fantomina
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"I Felt as though I Was Helping Her Torture Him" — Intersectionality and Black Feminism in Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"
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"We Were Rich Before" — War, Class, and Privilege in Maus and Persepolis
Writing Portfolio (Writing Minor Capstone Project)
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Sovereign Women & Beardless Men: Gender in Literature of the Middle Ages
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The Huntress and the Fairy: Feminine Paganism in Medieval Arthuriana
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A City of Their Own: The Question of Proto-Feminism in Medieval Literature
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Swords, Shields, and Sex: Literary Knighthood and Medieval Constructions of Masculinity
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Under the Greenwood Tree: Homosociality in the Ballads of Robin Hood
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Coda | Weird, Indeed: The Ill-Gotten Power of the Witchy Woman in Macbeth
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As Editor
- The Writing Center Review vol. 22 | Editor-in-Chief
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The Writing Center Review vol. 21 | Co-Editor
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The Writing Center Review vol. 20 | Co-Editor
Scholarly Presentations
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"Once You Stumble ... Human Nature Is on You" — Septimus Warren Smith's Gender Nonconformity and Suicide in Mrs. Dalloway | Award of Distinction
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"Under the Greenwood Tree" — Hegemonic Masculinity and Homosociality in the Ballads of Robin Hood
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Swords, Shields, and Sex: Literary Knighthood and Medieval Constructions of Masculinity
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What Makes a Space "Safe"? — Reflecting on LGBTQ Issues in the Writing Center
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Tutoring Across Difference: Intersectionality in the Writing Center