By: Maria Kornacki The main takeaway I got from Janet Kauffman’s Eco Dementia reading was the power of bringing people and environments together through writing. Not only through writing, but through visual media to help make connections to our world. Janet Kauffman began her reading performance with defining her own term “Eco-Dementia” as being the…
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Review of Janet Kauffman’s in-class discussion of ‘Eco-dementia’ (9/26/17)
By: Adam Malinowski FERN VERSE “i believe any string of words put together makes meaning” — Kauffman, at Emu, 9/26 the image of the fish (or, the logic of k=q=e) is the magical manifesto of Janet Kauffman’s Eco-dementia, a book of poems where all things—language, life, and all beings—are equal. Kauffman’s poetics nestle language thick inside…
New Graduate Literature Class for Winter 2012
If anyone is still looking for a literature class this Winter, here’s an option (with only two seats left!): NEW GRADUATE COURSE – WINTER 2012 LITR 578: Classy Postcolonialisms Prof. Natasa Kovacevic Struggles against European colonialism are inextricably linked to a contestation and/or adaptation of capitalist class relations that the colonizers established in their former…
Reminder: Close Reading Literature Workshop tonight! Thurs, Sept. 29, 6:30 p.m.
Literature Workshop I: Doing Close Reading Thurs., Sept. 29, 6:30-8:30 pm. Pray-Harrold Rm. 403 This workshop is designed with two aims: 1) to strength your close reading skills; 2) to increase your familiarity with the formal aspects of reading poetry. Andrea Kaston Tange and Christine Neufeld will run this workshop. Students are welcome to bring…
Free Workshops
The Literature Program is conducting a series of workshops for anyone who is interested in sharpening skills that will let them shine in English classes of all kinds. Please consider attending these: Literature Workshop I: Doing Close Reading Thurs., Sept. 29, 6:30-8:30 pm. PH rm. 403 This workshop is designed with two aims: 1) to…