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Leaping Off The Page And Melding Modes: The Multimodal Space Poem As A New Form Of Poetry, Todd J. Erickson May 2015

Leaping Off The Page And Melding Modes: The Multimodal Space Poem As A New Form Of Poetry, Todd J. Erickson

Critical and Creative Thinking Capstones Collection

This paper develops and makes an argument for a new form of poetry referred to as a space poem, defined as a poem that is composed with an awareness of multimodality during its creation in such a way that results in a poem in which multiple modes work together symbiotically to create the poem. I trace the development of this concept over the course of my experience as a student in the Critical and Creative Thinking Master’s degree program at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Beginning with a consideration of my past artistic multimodal projects created at different moments during …


Prison Poetry Group, Master Of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program, College Of Liberal Arts, University Of Massachusetts Boston, Bay State Correctional Center Apr 2014

Prison Poetry Group, Master Of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program, College Of Liberal Arts, University Of Massachusetts Boston, Bay State Correctional Center

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

Beginning in September 2012, a graduate student enrolled in UMass Boston’s MFA Creative Writing Program served as the volunteer instructor for a Poetry Group at Baystate Correctional Center. Through creative development and community discussion, this program, which operates during the academic year (September-May), facilitates positive behavioral change in order to eliminate violence, victimization, and recidivism.


Romance And Reason: Contextualizing The Arthurian Romances Of Chrétien De Troyes, Alexandra Borkowski Mar 2014

Romance And Reason: Contextualizing The Arthurian Romances Of Chrétien De Troyes, Alexandra Borkowski

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

The twelfth century saw the birth of the romance in literature, as well as the intellectual and social developments of humanism. The romance often involved the adventures of the knight, focusing on the behavior of the knight using the ideals of courtly love and chivalry. Chrétien de Troyes (c.1135-c.1183) contributed to the discussion of chivalry and courtliness by writing narrative poetry involving the Arthurian legends. He focused on the consequences of his knightly characters’ choices in order to show examples of how a proper knight should behave. This emphasis on the choices of each knight conveys a humanistic perspective, which …


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 22 - 2014, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2014

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 22 - 2014, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 21 - 2013, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2013

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 21 - 2013, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 20 - 2013, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2013

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 20 - 2013, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Sharpest Tooth, Shea M.D. Mullaney Dec 2011

The Sharpest Tooth, Shea M.D. Mullaney

Graduate Masters Theses

This thesis comprises 38 poems. A mixture of free and formal verse, these collected works include poems created during the author's graduate study in Creative Writing in addition to earlier poems substantially revised during that time period. Themes of the work include family dynamics, social responsibility, eroticism, digital technology, as well as American and queer identity, from a post-structuralist perspective.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 19 - 2010, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2010

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 19 - 2010, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 18 - 2009, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2009

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 18 - 2009, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 16 - 2007, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2007

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 16 - 2007, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 17 - 2007, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2007

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 17 - 2007, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 14 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2006

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 14 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 15 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2006

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 15 - 2006, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 12 - 2005, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2005

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 12 - 2005, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 13 - 2005, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2005

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 13 - 2005, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 11.5 - 2004, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2004

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 11.5 - 2004, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 11 - 2003-2004, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2003

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 11 - 2003-2004, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


Tribute To Dr. Harold Horton, Trevor L. Clement Jan 2002

Tribute To Dr. Harold Horton, Trevor L. Clement

Trotter Review

Poem by Trevor Clement on the passing of Dr. Harold Willard Horton, Sr., to whom this issue of the Trotter Review is dedicated.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 10 - 2002-2003, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2002

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 10 - 2002-2003, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 09 - 2001-2002, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2001

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 09 - 2001-2002, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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Every Man's An Odysseus: An Analysis Of The Nostos-Theme In Corelli's Mandolin, Emily A. Mcdermott Jan 2000

Every Man's An Odysseus: An Analysis Of The Nostos-Theme In Corelli's Mandolin, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics Faculty Publication Series

In the sparkling first chapter of Louis de Bernieres's Corelli's Mandolin, the world of Homer's Odysseus is explicitly invoked. This is hardly surprising in a historical novel which will detail the Italian occupation of the Greek island of Cephallonia, near neighbor of Odysseus's Ithaca, during World War II. What is less immediately apparent is that the novel contains a further pattern of inexplicit allusion to the Odyssey, along with a pervasive theme of nostos. Emphasis on "homecoming" helps create the novel's ardent encomium to the Greek homeland that inspires such fierce love of place in its people …


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 08 - 2000-2001, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2000

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 08 - 2000-2001, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 07 - 2000, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 2000

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 07 - 2000, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 06 - 1998-1999, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 1998

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 06 - 1998-1999, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 05 - 1997-1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 1997

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 05 - 1997-1998, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 04 - 1996-1997, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 1996

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 04 - 1996-1997, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 03 - 1995-1996, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 1995

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 03 - 1995-1996, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 02 - 1994-1995, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 1994

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 02 - 1994-1995, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

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Tough Eloquence, Yusef Komunyakaa Mar 1993

Tough Eloquence, Yusef Komunyakaa

Trotter Review

I began reading Etheridge Knight's poetry in the early 1970s, and what immediately caught my attention was his ability to balance an eloquence and toughness, exhibiting a complex man behind the words. His technique and content were one—the profane alongside the sacred—accomplished without disturbing the poem's tonal congruity and imagistic exactitude. Here was a streetwise poet who loved and revered language. Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes seem to have been his mentors, but Knight appeared to have sprung into the literary world almost fully formed. He had so much control and authority; he was authentic from the onset. …


The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 01 - 1993-1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston Jan 1993

The Watermark: A Journal Of The Arts - Vol. 01 - 1993-1994, University Of Massachusetts Boston

The Watermark: A Journal of the Arts (1993-ongoing)

No abstract provided.