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September 15, 2012: Fall Keynote Talk Features Perryman-Clark, Department Of English

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September 11, 2012: Ncte Student Affiliate To Host "Meet, Eat, And Greet", Department Of English

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September 6, 2012: Tisha Pankop Named Wmu English Department 2012-2013 Distinguished Alum, Department Of English

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September 4, 2012: Halperin Talk On New Book (Ann Arbor--9/11), Department Of English

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August 27, 2012: Kahn-Loftus's Summer Work Highlighted In Petoskey News, Department Of English

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August 24, 2012: Third Coast Writing Project Highlighted In Nwp Press Release, Department Of English

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August 23, 2012: Kalamazoo Gazette Highlights New Issues Press Fundraiser, Department Of English

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August 20, 2012: Herbert Scott Legacy Fund & New Issues Summer Celebration, Department Of English

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August 13, 2012: Third Coast Writing Project Highlighted By Otsego School District, Department Of English

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On Deadlifting, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

The first time I picked up four hundred pounds, I thought my eyeballs were going to explode.

July 28, 2012: New Issue Of Comparative Drama, Department Of English

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July 25, 2012: " Sounds Of Dolphins ", Department Of English

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Evolution, Bryan M. Furuness

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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July 11, 2012: Clifford Davidson's The York Corpus Christi Plays Profiled In Humanities, Department Of English

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Science Fiction And Fantasy: The Cosmic Players, Kristin Laughtin-Dunker

Library Presentations, Posters, and Audiovisual Materials

This presentation gives an overview of science fiction and fantasy, including its origins, the prominent writers in each era, and its many subgenres and variations.

June 19, 2012: New Issues Poetry & Prose Annual Celebration!, Department Of English

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June 16, 2012: Cfp: O-Zone: A Journal Of Object-Oriented Studies, Department Of English

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June 14, 2012: Cfp: Special Issue Of About Gender On Queer Studies, Department Of English

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A Poet’S Cento: Reflecting On The Written Word Through Writing, Nicole Trackman

Understanding Poetry

Students will create their own cento using lines from poetry discussed in class during a poetry unit. In a short analysis, students reflect on the lines of poetry that they chose to include as well as their process as a poet. This lesson allows the students to become even more familiar with their previously studied work while working through the writing process as an author. The short reflective analysis prompts students to be metacognative about their process and product. This lesson is best used at the end of a poetry unit.

America In Verse: The Laureate Project, Leah Kind, Dan Gleason, Erin Micklo, Margaret T. Cain

Understanding Poetry

The purpose of this project is to allow students to use their (developing) skills of poetic explication and close reading, combined with research and analysis, to discover and establish a solid case for a poet they will nominate as the next American Poet Laureate. Working in groups of 3-4, students will identify a published, living American poet who has not yet been designated a laureate. The project demands a wide array of skills as the students research bibliographic information on the poet: read and analyze the poet’s body of work and select one central poem to represent that poet; amass …

Triggering Subjects V. Actual Subjects, Tracy A. Townsend

Understanding Poetry

This classroom discussion-oriented lesson, which takes between sixty to seventy minutes, involves close-reading of texts, use of evidence to convey an interpretation, and discussion of authorial purposes and techniques. Students use poet Richard Hugo’s theory of poetry having both a “triggering subject” and an “actual subject” to analyze and respond to example poems selected by the teacher. The end goal is to engage in a discussion of how poets use observation and experience to take sometimes everyday moments and convert them into thoughtful, surprising, and moving commentaries. This lesson is well-suited to preparing students to read poetry more effectively and …

Imitism: Learning Imagism Through Imitation, Nicole Trackman

Understanding Poetry

Students will learn the components of Imagism through works of William Carlos Williams and D.H. Lawrence. As authors, students will demonstrate their understanding of this poetic movement through an imitation of either Williams’ poem “This is just to Say” or Lawrence’s poem “Green”.

Explicating Poetry: Shakespeare's Sonnet 46, Adam Kotlarczyk

Understanding Poetry

The term “explication” comes from a Latin participle of explico, which means to “unfold” or “disentangle.” The term is often applied to philosophy and to literature; in literature, it has become a procedure very important to New Criticism. In the process of explication, a reader forges a detailed analysis of the structural and figurative components within a work, focusing on ambiguities, multiple possibilities of interpretation, and interrelationships between various elements of the text.

This lesson introduces students to explication through the reading of a complex poem, practice explicating it as a class, and reading a model explication about the poem. …

June 7, 2012: Dan Mancilla Wins 2012 Flash Fiction Award., Department Of English

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June 4, 2012: New Issue Of Comparative Drama, Department Of English

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June 2, 2012: Tea & Mystery W/Beth Amidon, Department Of English

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May 16, 2012: William Saroyan International Prize For Writing, Department Of English

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May 13, 2012: Dailykos Notes Convening Of Medieval Congress, Department Of English

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May 11, 2012: Gws Event—5/17 In Center For Humanities, Department Of English

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Fantasy Revisited: A Writer's Escape From The Bindings Of Reality, Victoria Page

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A project thesis submitted to the faculty of Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Department of English at Morehead State University by Victoria Page in May of 2012.