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Mondays
Shocking Google search alert. A search for "garfield monday" yields almost 16x the results of "garfield lasagna." I had no idea his disdain for Mondays was so prolific, especially compared to his legendary love of lasagna.
I hope your Mondays are fun, productive, healthy, and nicely setting up for an even better Tuesday.
Bulletin Contents
- Fall 2019 Registration: Reminders
- Course of the Day: Liberatory Poetics
- DuPlessis Lecture in Poetry & Poetics
- Help Your Fellow Honorables!
- Americorps Interest Sessions
Fall 2019 Registration...Are you prepared?!?
- Check out the Honors Course Guide for insight into fall 2019 Honors courses.
- Listen to Of Course, our podcast where we talk to professors about their upcoming courses.
- Make an appointment to speak with an Honors advisor if you have any questions before then.
COURSE OF THE DAY: LIBERATORY POETICS
ENGLISH 2900.02: Liberatory Poetics (CRN: 31236)
Tuesday & Thursday, 3:30 to 4:50 PM
Prof. Brian Teare
About: This hybrid literature and creative writing course will push each of us to investigate what it means for US citizens to seek liberation through poetry. It will invite us to ask: what, exactly is a liberatory poetics? and how does one go about writing it? The course will be divided into quarters: reading, writing, reading, writing. The first quarter of reading will present a short survey of liberatory poetries from the 60s and 70s, allowing us to access political and literary histories that include Black Arts Movement, second-wave feminist, and Language poetries as well as the scenes that developed in relation, in tandem, and in response to these movements, such as the Umbra poets of downtown NYC, the avant-garde feminist poetry of How(ever), and the New Narrative writers of San Francisco. The second quarter of reading will focus on individual contemporary poets whose work extends this history of political and aesthetic liberation into the present: Brenda Hillman, Danez Smith, Cecilia Vicuña, and CAConrad. The two quarters of workshop will address our own writing, generated in the context of our collective investigation of liberatory poetics. The first quarter of writing will be devoted to cold reading workshops – assigned poems written the 24 hours before workshop will be read and critiqued “cold” in class – while the second quarter will be devoted to discussing self-guided longer manuscripts submitted a week before workshop and studiously annotated before we meet.
About the Professor: Prof. Brian Teare is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Doomstead Days (Nightboat Books, 2019). He lives in South Philadelphia, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books. You can find him at www.brianteare.net
The DuPlessis Lecture in Poetry & Poetics
Come hear Allison Cobb, author of "After We All Died" and "Plastic: an autobiography", and whose work has appeared in "Best American Poetry" among other journals, as she presents her work for all interested students.
Wednesday, April 3rd
5:30 PM
Anderson 821
Help Your Fellow Honorables!
Focus Group!
Tuesday, March 26, 5 PM
Tuttleman 209
Do you consider yourself an underrepresented Honors student? Your thoughts, feelings and perspective are wanted for a student project on underrepresented students in the Honors Program. This study aims to analyze the experiences of under-represented students in the Honors Program, inside and outside of the classroom. Results will be shared with the Honors Program staff so we can better serve ALL of YOU.
RSVP and send any questions to EllaArdoin@temple.edu
Food + Toiletry Drive to Benefit Cherry Pantry
Today - April 16th
Honors Lounge
Drop off non-perishable food and toiletry items in lounge to help combat food insecurity within the Temple community. All donations make a difference and are greatly appreciated!
Acceptable items: peanut butter, jelly, pasta/sauce, rice, soup, tuna/chicken cans, oatmeal, cereal, deodorant, toothbrushes, shampoo/conditioner, soap, and tissues.
Short Survey
I'm an honors student representing Temple University in a national research poster competition, and I was wondering if it would be appropriate for me to include an announcement about my research survey in the student org shout-out. If this is allowed, here's my shout-out!
A Temple honors student is representing Temple in a national research poster competition. Help her out by taking this 5-10 minute survey! You'll be entered to win a $25 Amazon gift card delivered via email.
If you have any questions, please contact Tabby Miller at tabby@temple.edu!
Professional Development & Academic Opportunities
Alongside peer mentoring first-year students, Next Steps AmeriCorps members will also be committed to better their own communities through an emphasis of community service.
Click below for full info on the program and interest session dates/times or contact Genesis Rubio (nextsteps.temple@gmail.com). APPLY HERE!
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