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Ish: How To Write Poemish (Research) Poetry, Maria K. Lahman Ph.D., Veronica M. Richard Ph.D., Eric D. Teman J.D., Ph.D. Dec 2017

Ish: How To Write Poemish (Research) Poetry, Maria K. Lahman Ph.D., Veronica M. Richard Ph.D., Eric D. Teman J.D., Ph.D.

Eric D Teman, J.D., Ph.D.

Discussion has occurred around what constitutes quality research poetry, with some direction on how a researcher, who is a novice poet, might go about writing good enough research poetry. In an effort to increase the existing conversation, the authors review research poetry literature and ideas from art poets on how to read, write, and revise poetry. The authors interrupt the prose text throughout with poetic interludes and quotes from poets. The conversation is framed by the conception of ish and poemish which is drawn directly from Reynolds’s powerful book ish. Poemish representations may be said to be research representations characterized …


Laramie 2.0: Journey Of A Queer Professor, Eric D. Teman J.D., Ph.D. Mar 2016

Laramie 2.0: Journey Of A Queer Professor, Eric D. Teman J.D., Ph.D.

Eric D Teman, J.D., Ph.D.

Through autoethnographic poetry, I take the reader on a journey through my experience of moving to Laramie, Wyoming, to become faculty at the University of Wyoming. As a gay male who is still haunted by the 1998 brutal murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, I engage in storytelling: relaying my personal experiences of living in modern-day Laramie, showing the reader my fears, obstacles, and revelations through prose.


Backup Of Here Is Act I Of A Play About Making Poetry Soup, Soup.Wbk, Rebecca Saunders Dec 2015

Backup Of Here Is Act I Of A Play About Making Poetry Soup, Soup.Wbk, Rebecca Saunders

Rebecca Saunders

Here is a short, two-act readers theatre play that is a tradition at our Christmas parties.  It's a play about making poetry and everyone who wants to participate gets a turn.   You can use the characters as written or include as many characters in the cast at your party.


On Reading & Teaching The Modern Long Poem, With Reference To Williams's 'Paterson' & Two Passages From Eliot's 'The Waste Land', Eric Alan Weinstein, Alan Filreis Jan 2015

On Reading & Teaching The Modern Long Poem, With Reference To Williams's 'Paterson' & Two Passages From Eliot's 'The Waste Land', Eric Alan Weinstein, Alan Filreis

Eric Alan Weinstein

Eric Alan Weinstein and Al Filreis spent some time in the Wexler Studio of the Kelly Writers House talking about the problematics of the modern long poem. Can it be taught? Why is it so challenging, despite its central importance? The discussion is intentionally general at first, but soon Eric and Al turn to Eliot's The Waste Land, and in particular to two modally quite distinct passages from the poem. This is a PennSound podcast, number 46 in the ongoing series. To see all episodes at once please see the PennSound archive. To see the series as part of Jacket2 …


Videopoetry: Evocative Representations Of Cultural Pioneers In Southern Idaho, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney Jan 2014

Videopoetry: Evocative Representations Of Cultural Pioneers In Southern Idaho, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney

James Armstrong

In the early 1900s, federal irrigation projects transformed the sagebrush desert of southern Idaho into arable land. This article tells the story of two Idaho cultural pioneers from that era, Clarence E. Bisbee, and Annie Pike Greenwood. The photographer Clarence E. Bisbee spent thirty years documenting the growth of the city of Twin Falls and the surrounding agricultural area. Annie Pike Greenwood, a mother, farmer’s wife, teacher and professional writer, wrote a memoir of her experiences over twenty years of living on a farm near Hazelton. To represent the experiences of Bisbee and Greenwood, the authors used the technique of …


At The Altar Of Educational Efficiency: Performativity And The Role Of, Jennifer Hennessy Phd, Patricia Mcnamara Phd Apr 2013

At The Altar Of Educational Efficiency: Performativity And The Role Of, Jennifer Hennessy Phd, Patricia Mcnamara Phd

Dr. Jennifer Hennessy

This paper critiques the impact of neo-liberalism on postprimary education, and in particular on the teaching of English. The paper explores the implications of performativity and exam-driven schooling on the teaching and learning of poetry. The authors argue that meeting the demands of an education system dominated by technicism and standardisation poses considerable challenge to teacher autonomy and pedagogy. They also draw attention to the uncontested dominance of this social contract in education and suggest it to be a catalyst for the standardisation and commodification of knowledge that has resulted in considerable de-professionalisation of English teachers. The paper proposes that …


A Day In History: Glimpsing The Land As Primary Source, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney Jun 2012

A Day In History: Glimpsing The Land As Primary Source, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney

James Armstrong

For nine years, three Idaho professors have researched the early culture of the irrigated settlement communities along the Snake and Boise Rivers in southern Idaho. Massive federal projects in the early 1900s transformed southern Idaho from desert into arable land, thereby creating the foundation for Idaho as it is today. Through historical photographs and writings, the work of historians, and first hand visits to historical sites, we have tried to understand this brief, pivotal period in Idaho history. We have presented our findings through in poetry and videos, what Richardson (1994) calls “evocative representations” of research data. A host of …


Videopoetry: Collaboration As Imaginative Method, Peter Lutze, James Armstrong, Laura Woodworth-Ney Mar 2012

Videopoetry: Collaboration As Imaginative Method, Peter Lutze, James Armstrong, Laura Woodworth-Ney

James Armstrong

Three Idaho professors (a poet, videographer, and historian) have been collaborating for eight years on a cross-disciplinary project called VideoPoetry, which integrates historical narration, narrative poetry, historical photographs, and videography into the video medium. To this point we've worked primarily on a specific program, Culture of Reclamation, which explores the culture of the early irrigated landscape communities in southern Idaho. In reflecting on our work-process, we’ve discovered that we’ve fundamentally changed as scholars as a result of our collaboration. This paper identifies the nature of our changes and documents instances of the ways in which we have been challenged to …


Broom Closet Or Fish Bowl? An Ethnographic Exploration Of A University Queer Center And Oneself, Eric D. Teman Ph.D., Maria K. Lahman Ph.D. Feb 2012

Broom Closet Or Fish Bowl? An Ethnographic Exploration Of A University Queer Center And Oneself, Eric D. Teman Ph.D., Maria K. Lahman Ph.D.

Eric D Teman, J.D., Ph.D.

The authors detail an educational ethnography of a university queer cultural center’s role on campus and in the surrounding community. The data include participant observation, in-depth interviews, and artifacts. The authors review lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, ally, and questioning (LGBTAQ) issues in higher education, heterosexual attitudes, and queer theory. The findings of barriers to the Center’s mission plus the suicide of a Center student prompted the authors to explore research poetry as a means to express the inexpressible. Furthermore, they illustrate tensions between contemporary queer and gay theories through the telling of a straight tale (traditional research report) and a …


Videopoetry: Integrating Video, Poetry And History In The Classroom, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney Feb 2012

Videopoetry: Integrating Video, Poetry And History In The Classroom, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney

James Armstrong

VideoPoetry integrates video and poetry to explore historical or geographic subjects. VideoPoetry is both a process and a product. This paper will use a short VideoPoem, "Mary Hallock Foote at Stone House," to demonstrate how students of all educational levels can become engaged in creating VideoPoetry. Each VideoPoem offers students a cross-disciplinary experience that involves research, analysis of information, imaginative writing and video composition leading to a classroom presentation of the final product. As a process VideoPoetry requires the investigation of a subject, in this case, Mary Hallock Foote, artist and illustrator of the Western United States. Based on the …


Developing A Culture Of Reclamation: Integrating History, Poetry And Video, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney Feb 2012

Developing A Culture Of Reclamation: Integrating History, Poetry And Video, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney

James Armstrong

Culture of Reclamation (Armstrong, Lutze, & Woodworth-Ney, in progress) is a sequence of "videopoems" about Idaho, integrating poetry, historical photographs, music and videography in a video presentation, which also includes historical narrative. Three Idaho scholars in the fields of history, literacy education, and communication—the historian (Laura), poet (Jamie), and videographer (Peter)—collaborated on this cross-disciplinary project to reclaim a portion of the history of this state in a creative and engaging medium. Culture of Reclamation expresses a response to the culture of the early irrigated settlement communities along the Snake and Boise rivers. Between 1894 and 1920, a land rush to …


Videopoetry: Integrating Video, Poetry And History In The Classroom, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney Feb 2012

Videopoetry: Integrating Video, Poetry And History In The Classroom, James Armstrong, Peter Lutze, Laura Woodworth-Ney

James Armstrong

VideoPoetry integrates video and poetry to explore historical or geographic subjects. VideoPoetry is both a process and a product. This paper will use a short VideoPoem, "Mary Hallock Foote at Stone House," to demonstrate how students of all educational levels can become engaged in creating VideoPoetry. Each VideoPoem offers students a cross-disciplinary experience that involves research, analysis of information, imaginative writing and video composition leading to a classroom presentation of the final product. As a process VideoPoetry requires the investigation of a subject, in this case, Mary Hallock Foote, artist and illustrator of the Western United States. Based on the …


Videopoetry: Historical Photography In The Desert Garden, Peter Lutze, James Armstrong, Laura Woodworth-Ney Feb 2012

Videopoetry: Historical Photography In The Desert Garden, Peter Lutze, James Armstrong, Laura Woodworth-Ney

James Armstrong

This paper presents an integration of poetry, history and photography through the video medium to convey a cultural history of the irrigated desert in southern Idaho, USA, around 1900. The VideoPoetry project is an investigation of cultural history that employs video and poetry to make it come alive. This social history is revealed through the lives of Clarence E. Bisbee and Jessie Robinson Bisbee of Twin Falls, Idaho. Their marriage focused on their photography business that involved documenting the transformation of the desert into farms, towns, and cities. This project brings out for public view a selection of historical photographs …


Using Bibliotherapy, Poetry Therapy & Journaling, Roxanne M. Spencer Oct 2011

Using Bibliotherapy, Poetry Therapy & Journaling, Roxanne M. Spencer

Roxanne Myers Spencer

Bibliotherapy uses the written word, primarily books, as a tool for identification, self-exploration and problem-solving. This presentation explores expanding fiction or nonfiction reading to include poetry, and taking a step further into self-expression with journaling.


The Poetry Of (Li Bai, Alias Li Po, Alias Tai Bai (701-762) : A Voice From Imperial China Samuel Hinton Eastern Kentucky University Presentation At 2010 Annual Conference Of The, Samuel Hinton Mar 2010

The Poetry Of (Li Bai, Alias Li Po, Alias Tai Bai (701-762) : A Voice From Imperial China Samuel Hinton Eastern Kentucky University Presentation At 2010 Annual Conference Of The, Samuel Hinton

Samuel Hinton

No abstract provided.


Encuentros Causales, Marianella Machado Dec 2008

Encuentros Causales, Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado

Encuentros Causales recoge una variada selecci¿n de poemas compuestos por Marianella Machado entre los a¿os 2001 y 2006. Cada poema de este libro, representa un encuentro con Dios, (la Causa ¿nica), ya sea, en la oraci¿n, la meditaci¿n, la felicidad, el sufrimiento, la culpa, entre otras circunstancias. Cada uno de los poemas es el resultado de una reflexi¿n sobre la causa en torno a la cual ha tenido lugar el encuentro con Dios.


Menudencias, Marianella Machado Dec 2008

Menudencias, Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado

Menudencias es una colecci¿n de poemas breves inspirados en los Haikus de poetas japoneses, tales como: Bash¿, S¿gui, Kiorai, Riota, Taigui, Kit¿, entre otros. En Menudencias, Marianella Machado no intenta imitar fielmente a dichos poetas. M¿s bien, la poeta busca exceder los par¿metros de ese g¿nero mediante el uso constante de la variaci¿n de im¿genes.


Reflexiones Sobre La Relacion Poesia-Musica, Marianella Machado Dec 2004

Reflexiones Sobre La Relacion Poesia-Musica, Marianella Machado

Marianella P. Machado

A lo largo de la historia de la cultura universal es posible apreciar que la poesia y la musica siempre han estado muy intimamente unidas.


The Road To Kenema And Other Poems, Samuel Hinton Dec 2002

The Road To Kenema And Other Poems, Samuel Hinton

Samuel Hinton

In The Road To Kenema Samuel Hinton presents a poignant, sometimes searing portrait of a man who stands with one foot planted firmly in the ageless soil of Africa, the other on the promise-filled shores of America. Balancing memories of his homeland with dreams of his adopted country, Hinton takes his reader on a journey that is often upsetting, but always engaging. In poems such as “The Road To Kenema, Sierra Leone,” “Grave -Digger, Freetown,” he weaves a rich tapestry of a people who celebrate the primal joy of life while the “Rapists,” “Song To Somali Dead,” and “War Child” …


Songs Of An Immigrant: Poems, Samuel Hinton Dec 1986

Songs Of An Immigrant: Poems, Samuel Hinton

Samuel Hinton

No abstract provided.