Edouard Bisson, Sea Nymphs 1901. Ekphrastic Poetry with Ellen: An Examination of Idealism and Symbolism in 19th Century French Academic Art My project will focus on the study of ekphrastic poetry. Alongside a 3-4 page reflective paper, I will write a series of ekphrastic poems (with little captions of explications) about French […]
Ellen Gwin Dr. Anton Vander Zee American Poetry 26 October 2022 Poetry for All Lili Pâquet’s article “Selfie-Help: The Multimodal Appeal of Instagram poetry” argues for Instagram’s poetry place within academia citing instagram poetry’s use of ekphrasis and rhetorical importance due to audience reception. Pâquet first argues for Instagram poetry’s ekphrastic nature […]
Ellen Gwin Dr. Anton Vander Zee American Poetry 18 October 2022 Sticky Labels Danez Smith, author of Don’t Call us Dead (2017), Boy (2014) and the chapbook hands on ya knees (2013), is an African American writer from St. Paul, Minnesota. They are a founding member of the Dark Noise Collective, a multi-genre, […]
“This Adjective” after Charles Bernstein’s “This Line” This adjective is stripped of attributes. This adjective is no more than a blank void of your own subconscious. This adjective is bereft of description. This adjective has no distinguishable reference apart from its context in relativity, referentiality. This adjective only describes itself. This adjective does not distinguish: […]
Ellen Gwin Dr. Anton Vander Zee American Poetry 4 October 2022 Apathetic Obsession Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil, 1954. Estate of Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop has been described as someone who did not write prolifically but rather spent her time polishing her work (Elizabeth Bishop). This type of writing fits in perfectly with […]
Ellen Gwin Dr. Anton Vander Zee American Poetry 27 September 2022 White Stains and Glistening Black According to the Poetry Foundation the Black Arts Movement symbolically began the day after Malcom X was assassinated in 1965 when Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones at the time) said he would leave his home in New York’s […]
LILITH by Ellen Gwin I have flown upwards as Queen Demoness Towards the sentinel black veil as a lady of the night; Hellish hallucination projected, I am not some witch Over plain houses, illuminating moon Godforsaken creation, yellow-ish skin and black lips. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her […]
Ellen Gwin American Poetry Anton Vander Zee 13 September 2022 Poets Eat Surreal for Breakfast Frank O’Hara was the leader of the New York School of poets. This title refers to a group of poets in Manhattan during the 1950s and 1960s who felt influenced by literary surrealism and abstract expressionist painting as […]
Ellen Gwin Dr. Anton Vander Zee American Poetry Since 1945 6 September 2022 Becoming a Yes-Sayer The Black Mountain Poets existed as “a group of interconnected poets, many of whom were connected together through Black Mountain College” (The Black Mountain Poets). Although the group did not identify under the title “The Black Mountain […]
Bob Kaufman wrote and recited poetry often associated with The Beat Poets (Nelson 216). The Beat Poets existed as a group of poets who questioned mainstream politics and culture. They expressed this opposition towards popular culture through unconventional and abstract writing styles in hopes of “changing consciousness and defying conventional writing” (A Brief Guide). Alongside […]