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Campus Poetry Walk: (Re)Creating And Reconnecting A Community (Presentation), Lisa Villa
Campus Poetry Walk: (Re)Creating And Reconnecting A Community (Presentation), Lisa Villa
Staff publications
In January 2020, the Outreach and Engagement Team at the College of the Holy Cross began preparing a poetry walk, which was reconfigured to a social media “poetry event” due to COVID-19. With the anticipated return of students to campus for the Spring 2021 semester and a need for the community (especially students) to have recreational opportunities that were safe, socially distanced and preferably outside, the Team attempted for a second time to plan a poetry walk. CrossWorks, the institutional repository for the College, was a part of this plan from the beginning. Foremost, CrossWorks would support the scholarly and …
(Re)Considering Craft And Centralizing Cultures: A Revision Of The Introductory Creative Writing Workshop, Zoë Bossiere, Micah Mccrary
(Re)Considering Craft And Centralizing Cultures: A Revision Of The Introductory Creative Writing Workshop, Zoë Bossiere, Micah Mccrary
Journal of Creative Writing Studies
This article explores options for introductory creative writing curricula that allow for and encourage a greater consideration of personal identity and audience on the part of the student-author. It reaches toward possibilities for revising the introductory creative writing course as a space for student-authors to not only consider the cultural positions of the professional authors they study, but also the ways in which their own subject-positions influence their writing practices, craft choices, and understandings of genre. The article overall proposes a holistic revision to the standard, introductory creative writing curriculum, moving student-authors beyond considerations of “good” creative writing, and toward …
Counseling Center_Speak Your Truth Webpages, University Of Maine Counseling Center
Counseling Center_Speak Your Truth Webpages, University Of Maine Counseling Center
UMaine Counseling Center
Screenshot of the University of Maine Counseling Center's Speak Your Truth submission webpage. The project was a poetry platform for students and staff to give voice to their experiences through the pandemic and racial/socio/political unrest.
Counseling Center_Speak Your Truth Submission Form, University Of Maine Counseling Center
Counseling Center_Speak Your Truth Submission Form, University Of Maine Counseling Center
UMaine Counseling Center
Screenshot of the University of Maine Counseling Center's Speak Your Truth submission form. The project was a poetry platform for students and staff to give voice to their experiences through the pandemic and racial/socio/political unrest.
(Trans)Form: Spoken Word As Queer And Transgender Testimony, Kaileigh/Wesley Strobel
(Trans)Form: Spoken Word As Queer And Transgender Testimony, Kaileigh/Wesley Strobel
Undergraduate Distinction Papers
(Trans)form will explore the importance of spoken word poetry in and for the queer and transgender community. Especially underscoring the significance of public voice in a culture that often wants to conceal or minimize the lived lives of LGTBQIAP+ people. (Trans)form will be a collection of self-authored spoken word poems that are influenced by—and in dialogue with—powerful transgender spoken word authors. The project will open with an essay on the importance of spoken word poetry and voice.
Richard Wilbur's Book Of Nature, William Tate
Uproot, Jake Gentry
Uproot, Jake Gentry
UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity
Short story titled Uproot by Jake Gentry in UReCA: The NCHC Undergraduate Journal of Research and Creative Activity, 2021, pages 177-180.
First sentence
My Grams glanced up from her newly planted irises, her blue eyes spotting her 7-8-9-something-year-old grandson across the yard.