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Full-Text Articles in Poetry

Examples: What Teachers Are Doing With Poetry, Penny Miller, Sarah Duffer, Carole Damin, Libby Duggan Dec 2009

Examples: What Teachers Are Doing With Poetry, Penny Miller, Sarah Duffer, Carole Damin, Libby Duggan

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In November, 112 teachers from across Indiana attended a full-day professional development workshop with renowned poet Georgia Heard. Here is a sampling of the things these teachers are now doing in their schools and classrooms as a result of that workshop.


Lucille Clifton's Mercy, Angela Dipace Sep 2009

Lucille Clifton's Mercy, Angela Dipace

Presidential Seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

In Mercy, Clifton situates herself and the reader amid the terror of September 11, 2001, and excavates from this horrific tragedy a sign of redemptive liberation. Clifton's most sensitive readers also point to the affirmative tone of her poetry which sustains and uplifts what otherwise might be a nihilistic view of life.

In her thirteenth book of published poetry - Mercy (2004), Lucille Clifton encapsulates many concepts which have evolved in nearly four decades of poetry making. Mercy demonstrates Clifton’s consistent and persistent adaptation of various spiritual traditions to arrive - at a vision of interconnectedness between the ordinary …


¡Escriba! ¡Write! Volume 7, June 2009, Hostos Community College Library Jun 2009

¡Escriba! ¡Write! Volume 7, June 2009, Hostos Community College Library

¡Escriba!

No abstract provided.


Early Night, Alan Soldofsky Jun 2009

Early Night, Alan Soldofsky

Faculty Publications, English and Comparative Literature

No abstract provided.


Reclamation: The Value Of Black Gay Writing Lgbtq Studies Panel, Lisa C. Moore Apr 2009

Reclamation: The Value Of Black Gay Writing Lgbtq Studies Panel, Lisa C. Moore

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

How gratifying to see a packed house on October 14, 2008 for a discussion of Reclamation: The Value of Black Gay Writing! Co-sponsored by CLAGS and Freedom Train Productions (www.freedomtrainproductions.org), the panel of scholars—Terry Rowden, Professor of African-American Literature, College of Staten Island (CUNY), Jafari Sinclaire Allen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies/American Studies, Yale University, La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Ph.D. student, African-American/American Studies, Yale University—and me, publisher Lisa C. Moore (Redbone Press) came to discuss the impact of black gay writers on the community and academia... and to bear witness, reclaim and critique the work within the first …


Modern American Poets And Their Printers, Sally Dickinson Apr 2009

Modern American Poets And Their Printers, Sally Dickinson

Watkinson Publications

Guide to Watkinson exhibit held in 2009


Reading And Becoming Living Authors: Urban Girls Pursuing A Poetry Of Self-Definition, Kelly Wissman Jan 2009

Reading And Becoming Living Authors: Urban Girls Pursuing A Poetry Of Self-Definition, Kelly Wissman

Literacy Teaching & Learning Faculty Scholarship

Wissman uses the poems of living women authors to help her students develop their own poems.


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)

No abstract provided.


Why Do That?, Lex Runciman Jan 2009

Why Do That?, Lex Runciman

Faculty Publications

This essay offers one poet's view on why he chooses to write poetry.


Tattoo And Tabula Rasa, Anmarie Trimble Jan 2009

Tattoo And Tabula Rasa, Anmarie Trimble

University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.


Shanghai Suite And Other Poems, Glen Phillips Jan 2009

Shanghai Suite And Other Poems, Glen Phillips

Research outputs pre 2011

The Shanghai Suite was written during a two month period in early 2004 while I was a visiting professor teaching a course in 'Western' Culture' at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology. This was also part of the research for my PhD in Creative Writing. During and after those months, I composed most of the poems about Shanghai and that region of China...