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 […]
Bearing Witness to Immorality: Poetry by Perpetrators and Victims of the Vietnam War Poetry from and about the Vietnam War is extensive and inexhaustible, with poems still being written about the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC, and the prolonged impacts of the war felt by those who served and those who […]