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Foreword To Visual Imagery, Metadata, And Multimodal Literacies Across The Curriculum, Jonas Zdanys

English Faculty Publications

As one of those educated to consider the primacy of the word – written and spoken – as the vehicle for creating and transferring knowledge, I am often surprised by the evidence around me that we live in a world inwhich technological devices of variousshapes and sizes have blunted the reliance on the layerings of words to define and engage in favor of various shortcuts to knowledge. Complexity of expression in the textures of language has given way, because of those devices and their applications, to abbreviations, neologisms, emojis, deliberate misspellings, instagrams, tweets, and other avenues of expression that focus …

Professor Zdanys Edits New Anthology Of Epistolary Poems, Jonas Zdanys

Jonas Zdanys

Zdanys’ book takes a contemporary look at a literary tradition more than 2,000 years old, now often forgotten, that combines the art of letter-writing with poetry. He selected them from many submissions and chose works by more than 50 poets from the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel, including Sacred Heart University student Mark Podesta ‘15.

Professor Zdanys Publishes Cormorants, Jonas Zdanys

Jonas Zdanys

Sacred Heart University English professor Jonas Zdanys recently published a volume of poetry entitled Cormorants, which consists of 25 modified sonnets that are thematically linked together.

A Woman’S Heart Drives Forces In Directions Distant, Justine Quammie Bassomb (Class Of 2013)

English Undergraduate Publications

The Insider -- Maelstrom -- My Story of "The Veil".

Three pieces from the portfolio for the Senior Writing Capstone course with Dr. Jonas Zdanys, English Department, Sacred Heart University.

Presented at the 2013 Sacred Heart University Academic Festival.

At Aunt Meg's Funeral [And] Poetic License, David F. Curtis

English Faculty Publications

Two poems by David Curtis, an associate professor of English at Sacred Heart University, published in Coe Review, a contemporary anthology which publishes a variety of writings from within the Coe community and throughout the country.