Week 10: American Poets of the 21st Century Critical Introduction: Wiget, Andrew. “Sending a Voice: The Emergence of Contemporary Native American Poetry” Poetry: m.s. RedCherries – playing america in summer (#12) , finding tomorrow (#13) In “Sending a Voice”, Andrew Wiget comments on how varied the “Indigenous” voice is in the Contemporary American poetic […]
Week 9: NDN Poetry Critical Introduction: Poetry:
Week 6: Before, During, and Beyond the Black Arts Movement Critical Introduction: As a person from an othered population, I do not wish to take away, in any sense or form, from another othered culture. Therefore, I choose not to add commentary to this section on the Black Arts Movement, except to combine the two […]
Week 3: Black Mountain Poetry Critical Introduction: Roszak, Suzanne Manizza. “Redefining Terms, Rethinking Concepts: Anticolonialism for All Ages from Erdrich to Santiago.” Poetics: Jake Skeets: Poetry as Field Poetry: Jake Skeets – A Walk in Tsaile Joy Harjo – Eagle Poem (#6) The Black Mountain school of poetry presents an interesting challenge when trying to […]
As the end of the semester neared, the realization dawned that, yet again, in a course on Americans writing poetry in America, there are no examples of Indigenous work, no Native American poets to analyze, no Indians to examine through either their poetry or their critical analysis. Growing up a red girl in a white […]
Like every other course that I have taken in both undergraduate and graduate school that has examined multiple authors from various backgrounds, this course offers very little in the way of indigenous voices for examination or analysis. With the exception of a few mentions in excerpts from selected authors, Native American voices are notably absent […]
In ““The truth is memory has not forgotten us”: Memory, Identity, and Storytelling in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” Quan Manh Ha and Mia Tompkins examine how memory and storytelling interact to shape identity through the vehicle of “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong. While this article deals mainly with the book […]
In “Black Names in White Space: Lucille Clifton’s South“, Hilary Holladay attempts to shed light on some of Lucille Clifton’s work, including “at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989”. While Holladay’s work stands on its own, I am including a link to an interview I read on the Modern American Poetry Site between […]
It should not come as a surprise to many in the Post 45 class that I was initially not a fan of the “language poets”. I prefer my poetry to look and sound and act like poetry. I struggle to make sense of poems that look like random words squished into or spread out over […]
TW: Depiction of infant mortality In “On Your Twenty-first Birthday“, Joan Austin Geier formulates a formalist poem that is heartbreaking in its content. While examining this piece, I enjoyed the formalism even through a topic that is so tragic. As I have often stated though, as freethinking and progressive as I may be in many […]