Poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Aerial View, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_angelides_rikki.pdf
Overview
"The goal of this dissertation is to provide an individual perspective within the prevailing homogeneous societal opinion. The poems in this MFA thesis map my observations of our impossibly complete world, while examining the authenticity of chatter, the blurry lines of my imagination, the grey area of blended family, the precariousness of foreclosure, and the difficulties of defining oneself after coming-out. In this attempt at understanding what makes me human, the collection interrogates...
Dates:
2019
Around This Impossible Black, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019fall_alsamsam_dana.pdf
Overview
"The poetry manuscript "Around This Impossible Black" unravels what it means to be a queer, Syrian-American woman in America. Through the incorporation of Arabic language, Syrian heritage, and Islamic tradition, the poet navigates her identity as a borderland, ruminating on the loss of the inherited mother tongue and land while not being fully comfortable in America. This conflict is punctuated not only by the war in Syria and widespread Islamophobic terrorism, but also by the breakage of...
Dates:
2019
Daddy's Little Girl, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_leger_nico.pdf
Overview
"Daddy's Little Girl is a collection of poems that moves through the speaker's grief—for their father, for the time before the speaker's own conception, and for the premature end of childhood. Grappling with identity as a pre-determined condition, these poems center cultural scripts and ideologies, assigned gender, socioeconomic status, and familial legacy, reaching beyond the fixed nature of the speaker's geographic locality and toward the immobility of girlhood in a fatherless, patriarchal...
Dates:
2024
Episode 05: Shanaé Burch '13 on Making it in Public Health, 2022-08-02
Item — Preservica RG 009.02 Alumni Engagement
Overview
Shanaé Burch is a storyteller at heart and is now using her roots in the theater to revive health and reconcile hearts while pursuing an EdD in Public Health at Columbia University. Her path may seem like a winding one but as she shares her experiences on the stage, in the classroom and as a co-editor of Poetry for the Public’s Health, you’ll find that this Emerson alum is a living embodiment of our motto, Innovation in Communication and the Arts. Recorded on August 2, 2022.
Dates:
2022-08-02
FingerPrint, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_mihalek_katelyn.pdf
Overview
"FingerPrint is a collection of poems that weaves arcs of family and spirituality with bodily autonomy and acceptance. Expanding on the concrete and contrapuntal poetic forms, the poems physically create a set of hands by assuming the translated shape of the hands' cross sectional slices. The collection starts at the tips of the middle fingers, then moves down the fingers, knuckles, palms, and finally the wrists. These hands frame core questions: What do they reach towards? What do they hold...
Dates:
2024
Goodnight, Chandrama, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_maharaj_kiran.pdf
Overview
"Goodnight, Chandrama is a collection of poetry that aims to weave the tale of a Trinidadian-American poet who constantly finds himself in a nebulous space between two cultures. At first, it explores what life is like through the eyes of teenagedom and young adulthood; a sense of "is this all that I am?" The poems work through thoughts of suicide, of loneliness, one of Caribbean mythology, and of innocence, long lost. They aim to capture and question the lives that surround the poet as well,...
Dates:
2024
Heirlooms, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_gomez_crystal.pdf
Overview
"Heirlooms summons fragmented ancestral memory to illustrate the speaker's gendered relationships to land and place. In the first half of the collection, the speaker traverses a lineage of matriarchs and the delicate relationships between Puerto Rican women who survive displacement and diaspora. Through ritual and a multilingual incantation, the speaker honors the complexities of generational difference and struggle within an American setting. In the second half, the collection reflects upon...
Dates:
2024
Howard Camner Papers
Collection
Identifier: ACC-MSS 021
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials created and collected by Howard Camner between approximately 1976 and 2012 as part of his career as a poet, playwright, screenplay writer, and producer. It includes multiple books written by Camner, including his biography Turbulence at 67 Inches and the Pulitzer Prize nominated Poems from the Mud Room. There are also three original screenplys written by Camner.AV materials...
Dates:
1976 - 2012
Hyphenated, 2024
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Identifier: cw_2024spring_boateng_samantha.pdf
Overview
"A hyphen is a bridge; it links together different elements, allowing its bearer to straddle those spaces simultaneously. In identity, the hyphen connects, creating a complex bond where, previously, one would not exist. Hyphenated explores this concept of duality while navigating physical and psychological spaces. In Hyphenated's pieces, the speakers are mothers, daughters, immigrants, children, and more, attempting to define who they are and where they belong. This body of work questions...
Dates:
2024
I've Been Cancelling Appointments with My Psychiatrist for Two Years Now, 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_dever_sean.pdf
Overview
"I've Been Cancelling Appointments with My Psychiatrist for Two Years Now deals with the selfreflective understanding of a disabled man coping with his diseases and his overall livelihood in a world that marginalizes the voice of the disabled. It's intended to challenge the ways in which society looks upon those with serious health complications. The poet intends to raise awareness of the ongoing struggle endured by those like him living with disabilities. This is further evoked by detailing...
Dates:
2019
Life on a small planet casserole, 1993
Item — Item 0113502409205: [Barcode: 0113502409205]
Scope and Content Note
From the Series:
The series contains Master's theses from 1943 to present. The theses consist of either a production book and a media component or solely a production book. The production books were originally submitted as physical bound copies, but were later submitted digitally. The physical production books are stored offsite and the digital production books are stored in the College's preservation repository.The media components consist of U-matic tapes, VHS tapes, CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays and...
Dates:
1993
My Body, Electric, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_perino_binx.pdf
Overview
"'My Body, Electric,' is a journey through time, space, memory, and art; it is a retrospective, moving outward from the self into a sense of collective understanding. The poems within the manuscript explore the hostility of man-made climate change, the risk of deviating from one's assigned gender at birth, and the grief of the passage of time; all the while, there are reminder of joy, connection, and survival through nature, art, and expression. "My Body, Electric" dives fully into the...
Dates:
2023
My Dear Yeast, 2021
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Identifier: cw_2021spring_han_melanie.pdf
Overview
"'My Dear Yeast' is a collection of poems based on Melanie Hyo-In Han's experiences as a TCK (Third Culture Kid) growing up a Korean in East Africa, facing struggles around identity and racism, as well as cultural and linguistic barriers between her and her family. The inspiration behind her poetry comes from her own childhood and an exploration of identity, belonging, and culture through the use of fragmented form and inclusion of multiple languages. By having formal inventiveness in terms...
Dates:
2021