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Soft Tornado, Zoe Orcutt
Soft Tornado, Zoe Orcutt
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Soft Tornado is the creative senior honors project of Zoe Orcutt. It is the culmination of her creative undergraduate work, including 30 pages of poetry, a critical essay, and a self-reflection.
Letting Poetry Inside, To Stay, Erin Siegferth
Letting Poetry Inside, To Stay, Erin Siegferth
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
As a child, writing poetry came naturally, like learning to speak. Over time and throughout school, rigid styles of academic interpretation and an air of demographic exclusivity corrupted the genre. I came to associate poetry with historical, formal poets of history. It wasn't until my undergraduate studies introduced me to contemporary poetry that I realized poems were still being created and consumed today, by a diverse and thriving community. This realization renewed my perception of poetry and gave me permission to write in a way that felt authentic, despite the conventions and rules I had learned. In this introduction to …