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 […]
Confessional Poetry, as we all know, is a school (or style) of poetry that focuses on the personal “I” and works to reveal, and therefore make readers witness to, the transgressions of the author’s life. These transgressions are extremely personal experiences that deal with the author’s psyche, personal trauma, and social taboos, such as being […]
Originally for my final project I wanted to take a look at The Tennis Court Oath from Ashbery and how it related to themes of exile and the other, but then I dived into his other collections and the criticism done on his poetics and decided against this. It would have been difficult to talk […]
As we have moved through the poetics of individual poets and schools of poets, I found myself particularly focused on the goals laid out for their work. The Beats poets wanted a poetry that rode a beat, pointed out political grievances, and embodied a lifestyle; the Black Arts Movement wanted to explore voice, oppression, and […]
Often singled out as one of the key female figures of the Beat movement – with her Loba, an epic-length collection of over 200 poems, frequently viewed as the feminist counterpart to Ginsberg’s Howl – Diane di Prima is certainly very feminist in her writing. Loba presents itself as a sort of creation myth that […]
I am approaching this project from the creative avenue. I plan on writing my own choreopoem about a queer black experience. The term “choreopoem” was coined by Ntozake Shange and combines aspects of poetry, and stage plays. I was inspired by Ntozake Shange and her choreopoem “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow […]
I’m investigating the concept of home as it appears in poetry published by writers affiliated with the Watts Writer’s Workshop, a workshop created by director Budd Schulberg in the late 1960s as a response to the Watts Rebellion of 1965. The Watts Rebellion, called a “riot” by the media at the time, was an uprising […]
Ann Phong : I am Not a Virus In 1975, Congress passed the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act. This program designated four hundred million dollars in funding for the emergency evacuation of over thirty-five thousand South Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees from their home countries to the United States following the fall of Saigon […]
Maya Angelou was an adored memoirist, actress, director, and a poet. As a writer, she adapted her life into literature that both inspires and encourages others to confront racism, classism, sexism, and discrimination. Through her poetry, she can project themes of love, survival, hope, and determination. As she shared her struggles and difficult upbringing with […]
One characteristic that both critical readings for this week share is that they focus on how 21st century poetry attempts to center experiences and works of BIPOC poets that previous poetic frameworks might have marginalized or relegated to lower status due to perceptions of race, politics, and subjectivity. Yu explains, “Rather than seeing the work […]