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Flor Del Espinillo: Internacional Vii, Carlos Aguasaco, Diana Araujo

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Piedra del Guadalquivir Serie escrita leyendo el Arte Poética de Borges y siguiendo la numeración maya

21st Century Ecopoetics (Selected Topics In Literature And Science), Robert Balun

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Ecopoetics is the study of literature that is concerned with ecology and nature. However, beyond just literature about nature, this course will examine how ecology and nature have become complicated in the 21st century, the age of the Anthropocene, the age of the climate crisis and the 6th mass extinction (don’t worry, we will define these and other key terms).

In the 21st century, humans are now confronted with a growing awareness of their destructive impact on the earth, its environments, and its human and non-human inhabitants. In this class we will examine how ecology and nature have become complicated …

Megxit Yields Trumpxit, Marleen S. Barr

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This short story is about how Meghan Markle becomes Queen of the United States, makes America Great Britain again--and replaces Trump.

Kreplach Kayos Covid, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a fantasy story about how a feminist science fiction scholar defeats the covid virus and saves the world.

Low Textbook Cost Syllabus For Eng 2150 (Writing Ii), Maxine Krenzel

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Welcome to English 2150, a writing and reading intensive course that will introduce you to the practice and process of conducting original research. This class will walk you through the research process step-by-step, from drafting an initial research question, to reading and analyzing archival and secondary sources, and eventually mapping out your findings in a final research portfolio. You will learn over the course of the semester that the research process begins with simply asking a question that addresses a topic or issue that impacts you in some way; it is my hope that by the end of the semester, …

Introductory Workshops In Creative Writing: Writing Prompt Phase 2 - Relearning The Craft, Noelle M. Nagales

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For this assignment, you will be required to do two things. One: visit a specific place of your choice. It can be anywhere, on own your free time (either on the train, at a museum, a restaurant, at the movies with your friends, or even at your local cafe). There, you will jot down on a sheet of paper (NOT on your phone) a bullet point list of all the things you hear or see (conversations and observations). The point is to not have your phone in hand and to be completely observant of your surroundings. Two: then …

Introductory Workshops In Creative Writing: Writing Prompt Phase 1 - Understanding The Self, Noelle Marie Nagales

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What is this idea of “self?” How do we define it or more specifically how do we represent ourselves (as the writer) on page and to what extent can we make our own voice visible? Anyone can write a story, but where do you as the author exist within your own work?

For this assignment, you will be required to write a memoir (a personal narrative) or a short piece of fiction that depicts some aspect of yourself or an attribute of it, present within your own life. You can either focus on a specific moment of time, place, person, …

Translator Of Soliloquies: Fugues In The Key Of Dissociation, Seo-Young J. Chu

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Chu, Seo-Young. “Translator of Soliloquies: Fugues in the Key of Dissociation” (chapbook). Black Warrior Review 46.2, Spring 2020.

Trump Asks A Feminist Extraterrestrial For A Favor, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a feminist science fiction satire about impeachment.

Fake News Poetry Workshop As Radical Digital Media Literacy: It’S For The Thing We’Re Not Yet,, Alexandra Juhasz

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What does pedagogy mean to your writing practice? How do your poetics intersect with your pedagogy and education commitments? We invited participants to join together to think about the inventive and urgent possibilities of intertwined poetic-pedagogical work. What might emerge differently when we bring them together?

Urgent Possibilities, Writings on Feminist Poetics & Emergent Pedagogies grew out of the Feminist Poetics, Emergent Pedagogies Symposium organized by Andrea Quaid and Margaret Rhee. The publication collects work by symposium participants with documents and elaborations, including poems, poetic tracts, essays, workshop plans, and …

'I Don't Want To See Him Impeached, I Want To See Him In Prison,' Said Nancy Pelosi: Three Ways To Give The Speaker What She Wants, Marleen S. Barr

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This is three humorous fictitious drabbles about Trump which are linked by a common theme.

Short Stories Of Latin America From Antilles To Southern Cone, Mariana Romo-Carmona

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The study of the short story genre in Latin American literature. Literary currents in 20th century, from the Vanguards to The Boom, fiction of post dictatorships, exile, and entry into the 21st century.

'When You're A Star, They Let You Do It' To Trump: Or, President Vagina T. Fireball's Executive Order, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a humorous short story about how a star holds Trump accountable for his misogyny.

Trump Ships Out--Without Seeing The Ship, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a short story written in response to efforts to hide the U.S.S. John McCain from Trump when he visited Japan.

Poetic Representation Of Immigrant Bengali Women From Queens, New York: A Qualitative Exploration Of Narrative In Relation To Physical And Cultural Migration, Tabashshum J. Islam

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Poetic Representation of Immigrant Bengali Women from Queens, New York: A Qualitative Exploration of Narrative in Relation to Physical and Cultural Migration is a qualitative poetic inquiry and collaborative creative writing project. Five participants were interviewed and invited to engage in a collaborative writing process with the themes of immigration, cultural negotiation, and oral family history. All participants identified as college-educated Bengali women with a connection to Queens, New York, as well as being an immigrant or relative of an immigrant in the United States. From transcriptions of one-on-one interviews and personal notes, research-poetry was created to center on the …

Writing For The Humanities And Arts, Yolande E. Brener, Julia Brown

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This Writing for the Humanities website includes the syllabus, schedule, assignments, and OER reading materials for the course. The syllabus covers a number of genres, and examines what it means to write for the humanities. This stretches beyond Art and Literature to cover History, Philosophy, Theater, Music, and Media Communications. The assignments are designed to help students in their future careers, especially if they aim to work in the Humanities, which include teaching, curating, counseling, technical writing and journalism. The assignments will teach students how to compose an effective resume and cover letter, how to create a focused report based …

Milk Duds, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a satirical short story about Trump's immigration policy.

Feminist Sci-Fi Author Pens Fantasy Short Story Collection About Trump Post-Impeachment, In A Galaxy Far Far Away, Marleen S. Barr

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This blog post contains a short story published in Marleen S. Barr's WHEN TRUMP CHANGED: THE FEMINIST SCIENCE FICTION JUSTICE LEAGUE QUASHES THE ORANGE OUTRAGE PUSSY GRABBER.

Brett Kavanaugh Enters The Twilight Zone, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a short story about Brett Kavanaugh and THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

My Unfair Trumpie Closely Encounters 'Julie Andrews', Marleen S. Barr

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This is a humorous short story about Trump.

"Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor", Seo-Young J. Chu

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In this lyric essay/work of creative nonfiction (listed among “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in Best American Essays 2020), Seo-Young Chu uses poetry, autotheory, and creative nonfiction to explore the generational trauma/postmemory han she inherited from her parents and the importance of destigmatizing mental illness through dialogue.

Writing For The Humanities And Arts, Shamecca A. Harris

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This dynamic English Composition course asks students to both create and engage with texts, in a variety of forms, that demonstrate how culture and personal experience inform a writer’s work. In this class, students will read and write voraciously about social, political, economic and cultural issues that influence their lived experiences and use the conventions of multiple genres to both reflect and respond to the times in which they live. Moreover, they will also consciously consider what it means to write academically at the college level through regular self-reflection and revision. In doing so, students will strengthen their rhetorical knowledge …

Forever? Or Ursula K. Le Guin Makes America Great Again By Repositioning Trump As The Dispossessed, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a poem about Ursula K. Le Guin and Trump.

Radical Digital Media Literacy In A Post-Truth Anti-Trump Era, Alexandra Juhasz

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An article about Fake News Poetry workshops as radical digital media literacy given the truth of fake news.

An Interview With Feminist Science Fiction Scholar Dr. Marleen S. Barr, Marleen S. Barr

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This is an interview with Marleen S. Barr about her single authored short fiction anthology WHEN TRUMP CHANGED; THE FEMINIST SCIENCE FICTION JUSTICE LEAGUE QUASHES THE ORANGE OUTRAGE PUSSY GRABBER.

A Feminist Extraterrestrial Special Forces Commander Causes Trump To Become Gone With The Wind, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a humorous short story about Trump.

Little Trumpie Runs Amok At Mar-A-Lago, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a short story that imagines that Trump becomes a child who wreaks havoc at Mar-a-Lago.

The Body Confesses, Jennifer Sears

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If #Metoo Came True: Author Marleen Barr And K-B Have A Chat, Kit-Bacon Gressitt, Marleen S. Barr

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This is an interview with Marleen S. Barr which refers to her short fiction collection When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction Justice league Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber.

Feminist Science Fiction W/ Marleen S. Barr, Erin Bagwell, Marleen S. Barr

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This is an interview with Marleen S. Barr in which she describes her new book--the first single authored fiction collection about Trump--When Trump Changed: The Feminist Science Fiction Justice League Quashes the Orange Outrage Pussy Grabber.