Student Work: poetry

On Seeing Sound
Robert Hayden carefully intertwines the visual and sonic senses in his poetry, setting striking images to meticulously crafted poetic music.

Recordings from Beyond Quarantine
A showcase from the Spring 2021 Arts Workshop “Creating a Full-Length Text/Music Performance and Recording”

“You and I”: Grammar and Narrative in Kinship
“Look, Doni!” the girl called to me, “I’m like a bird!” She discovering “the other,” organizing the world around her into the grammar of you/I, bird/not-bird, like/not-like.

Outside Santos
Elizabeth Bishop very infrequently presents an uncritical or one-sided examination of any idea; her poems are filled with slight contradictions, subtle reversals, and moments of irony that force the reader to engage intimately with the material being described in order to find meaning.

Poetry as a Universal Mouth
“In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” W.H. Auden constructs a multifaceted modern elegy, switching between different poetic forms to examine his subject from different angles.

Showing Love for the Mundane
A series of poems after Frank O'Hara attend to the "lost moments" of daily life in New York City

On the Get Free Book Club
The book talk series seeking to honor and celebrate works by queer and disabled creators in the same academic spaces they were most likely to be pushed out of.

Bishop’s Visionary Seascapes
"The Bight" and "The End of March" cast light upon an invisible line that connects Elizabeth Bishop's earlier work to her later work.

Naked Demo
An image can be considered a reflection of its viewer. What does this say about advertisements presented as images, as reflections of the people they are designed to reach?

The Art of Noticing
In 'Questions of Travel' Elizabeth Bishop's talent for assiduous observation becomes even more pronounced in the face of uncertainty.