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Reinventing Language, Vowel By Colorful Vowel, Clark Lunberry Dec 2017

Reinventing Language, Vowel By Colorful Vowel, Clark Lunberry

Clark Lunberry

A Fable of a Fable, or “The Story of One of My Follies”: After he’d invented “the color of vowels,” regulated the “form and movement of each consonant,” the young poet then, applying his “instinctive rhythms” to the task, proudly proclaimed that he had alchemically created “a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.” Notably, with his project in place, this poet, Arthur Rimbaud, tells us that he was then quick to “reserve translation rights.” This legal move on the poet’s part was perhaps thought initially necessary because, as he notes in 1873, the described synesthetic impact of …


Bodies Of Water: Somebody | Nobody (For E.D.), Clark Lunberry Dec 2017

Bodies Of Water: Somebody | Nobody (For E.D.), Clark Lunberry

Clark Lunberry

On a pond adjacent to the University of North Florida’s Thomas G. Carpenter Library, parts of Emily Dickinson’s well-known poem about being a “Nobody” were recently written on the water. During the fall of 2014, the familiar words of that poem’s opening line – “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” – appeared to float upon the library’s pond, reflecting vividly in the light of day (yet disappearing entirely in the dark of night). While inside the library’s large open stairway, on the tall windows that face directly out onto that pond, the first line of the poem’s second stanza – “How …


That’S The Beauty Of It, Or, Why John Ashbery Is Not A Painter, Clark Lunberry Dec 2017

That’S The Beauty Of It, Or, Why John Ashbery Is Not A Painter, Clark Lunberry

Clark Lunberry

The poet John Ashbery lived in Paris from roughly 1955 to 1965. It was during this period that Ashbery began writing art reviews, often examining the work of various Americans also living in Paris at this time. Among the many painters Ashbery was to review and publish about, one was the Chicago-born, Paris-based abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell and an exhibition of hers at a Paris gallery in 1964. In this essay I examine the early, more ““abstract”” poetry that Ashbery was developing during this period, thinking about it alongside the paintings of Mitchell (and, in particular, his writings about them). …


The Longest Night, Ted Olson Dec 2017

The Longest Night, Ted Olson

Ted Olson

No abstract provided.


Poetry As The Scholar's Art: An Interview With Poet Amy Newman, Julie Miller Sep 2017

Poetry As The Scholar's Art: An Interview With Poet Amy Newman, Julie Miller

Julie L. Miller

No abstract provided.


Giving Poems: Motivation And Personality In The Reading And Sharing Of Poetry, Leeann Bartolini Mar 2017

Giving Poems: Motivation And Personality In The Reading And Sharing Of Poetry, Leeann Bartolini

LeeAnn Bartolini

Most of the psychological work on poetry has investigated the poet (Mason, Mort, Woo, 2015; Jamison, 1989) or the expressive act of writing poetry (Fink & Drake, 2016, Coulehan & Clary, 2005). The National Poetry Foundation commissioned a study in 2006 that examined the general habits of the American public in terms of reading and sharing poetry. This survey found:
  • 14% of American population reads poetry.
  • Readers in general and poetry readers in particular tend to be women with higher level of education.
  • Poetry readers are not loners – high amounts of leisure activity and high sociability.
  • Poetry readers tend …


Not Conceited, Tara Thompson Dec 2016

Not Conceited, Tara Thompson

Tara Thompson

No abstract provided.


Forgotten, Tara Thompson Dec 2016

Forgotten, Tara Thompson

Tara Thompson

No abstract provided.


The New Recruit, Tara Thompson Dec 2016

The New Recruit, Tara Thompson

Tara Thompson

No abstract provided.


W I N D F A L L, Tara Thompson Dec 2016

W I N D F A L L, Tara Thompson

Tara Thompson

seasons change


I Am Pissed Off, Tara Thompson Dec 2016

I Am Pissed Off, Tara Thompson

Tara Thompson

what happens when you work harder than those around you


She Was, Tara Thompson Dec 2016

She Was, Tara Thompson

Tara Thompson

No abstract provided.


Primary Drive, Tara Thompson Dec 2016

Primary Drive, Tara Thompson

Tara Thompson

No abstract provided.