First Day of Class

I am thinking of an assortment of Topeka poets, their poems, and this article:

https://lithub.com/is-topeka-the-most-poetic-city-in-america/

January 1 offers new opportunities

So many literary magazines are reopening their calls on January 1st. I'm going to get things ready in the next few days to send out.

Strike Out evolving

In the strikeout Erasure is I'm doing I saw on the physical paper I was identifying different themes. I now realize I should save the jpegs I work on in those theme names and submit them out in batches. So I'm naming the files under a theme name, and placing them in a Word document to send out. I worked on four today.

Reflections

I finished three erasers today for strike-out.

 one aspect of having my sabbatical was having the time to reflect on writing. During this break I find that I am still reflecting, especially as my sister-in-law Joy stays with us for a few days. Carrie is making sure she gets her practice time in every day. I think that is the same with poets, but our practice is writing and reading. We have to read and write a little everyday to stay on top of it, and this is something like I said before that I'm going to do in the new year when school starts. Just having even little moments of reflecting to make sure that I stay on top of writing when a poem won't come oh, that's important! This is the practice that we poets have to stay on top of.

Submit soon with special requirements

https://www.pshares.org/submit/journal/guidelines

Strike Out: a memoir in erasure

As I am a descendant of a Vietnam Vet, this project explores war and what Dr. Christal Presley calls intergenerational PTSD via an erasure of the Pentagon Papers.

Sneak writing

As Carrie has the boys out while her father, Pat, and De work on the house, I am getting writing done! I finished my four micro-NF pieces from "The Move," the "We Highlanders" essay, and now I am off to work on Strike Outs. Yes!

A new commitment

 coming off of my sabbatical with enough energy to sustain me to further writing, I have found that a crucial part can be found in blogging what I am writing each day I write. It's a consciousness of what I'm doing in on what days. I've already started writing micro nonfiction best based on Beth and Finley's book Heating and Cooling. I've also done three strikeouts the erasers of the Pentagon papers today. And I did this in the midst of the chaos at home and trying to get a New Hope House feel like a home.

Teaching rotation

Spring 2019

EN300VA/VB Advanced Writing Nursing

EN199/399/WG/PY Psychology of Poetics

EN206 Beginning Poetry Writing

Fall 2019

EN300VA/VB Advanced Writing Nursing

EN101 First Year Writing /  Vets and Military

EN315 Reading as Writers

Spring 2020

EN300VA/VB Advanced Writing Nursing

EN210A Mythology

EN206 Beginning Non-Fiction Writing (online?)

Fall 2020

EN300VA/VB Advanced Writing Nursing

EN101 First Year Writing /  Vets and Military

EN190/390 Film App/Aspects of Film

Spring 2021

EN300VA/VB Advanced Writing Nursing

EN210A Mythology

EN206 Beginning Poetry Writing

Things for a trip

Books to sell
Room for books to return with
Quarters and pennies for elongated coins for the boys

BLM films

https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/blindspotting-sorry-to-bother-you-boots-riley/Content?oid=53258685

Speaking of Oakland, also Black Panther

EN103

http://course1.winona.edu/shatfield/air/MiddlewebRubric.pdf

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7653/55b49dcf011f44fbc1a49d12a0d18cb070be.pdf

Bear Review 4.2

https://bearreview.submittable.com/submit

https://www.facebook.com/barebearreview/

https://issuu.com/bearreview/docs/4.2

Please join us for another enchanted backyard reading! We're celebrating the recent launch of Bear Review 4.2, four good years of the journal, and the addition of a new co-editor, Haines Eason, to our masthead. We would like nothing more than for you to join us.

Come hear Alyse Bensel, Megan Kaminski, Jenny Molberg, and Hadara Bar-Nadav read their verse aloud in dusky light, with totem poles and fireflies. Bring a picnic, your favorite drink, a blanket or lawn chair, and plan to hang out for a bit afterward. 

Books John Brown Mythology

Title	Format	Call No. & Barcode	Status Overview
Black Ink - Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing	Book - 2018	810.9089 BLA 33247029262217	Due: May 17, 2018 Times Renewed: 3
Electric Arches - by Ewing, Eve L.	Book - 2017	811.6 EWI 33247028801353	Due: May 17, 2018 Times Renewed: 3
John Brown - The Legend Revisited - by Peterson, Merrill D.	Book - 2002	973.7116 PET 33247027115599	Due: May 17, 2018 Times Renewed: 1
Mythology - by Philip, Neil	Book - 2017	J 292 PHI 33247025638428	Due: May 17, 2018 Times Renewed: 1
Mythology - The Complete Guide to Our Imagined Worlds - by Dell, Christopher	Book - 2012	291.13 DEL 33247026890879	Due: May 17, 2018 Times Renewed: 1
The Oxford Companion to World Mythology - by Leeming, David Adams	Book - 2009	291.13 LEE 33247027804200	Due: May 17, 2018 Times Renewed: 1
Patriotic Treason - John Brown and the Soul of America - by Carton, Evan	Book - 2006	973.7116 CAR 33247020228852	Due: May 17, 2018 Times Renewed: 1
This Is Not Dixie - Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 - by Campney, Brent M. S.	Book - 2015	305.896 CAM 33247028535043	Due: May 17, 2018 Times Renewed: 3
The Tie That Bound Us - The Women of John Brown's Family and the Legacy of Radical Abolitionism - by Laughlin-Schultz, Bonnie	Book - 2013	973.7116 LAU 33247026350544	Due: May 17, 2018 Times Renewed: 1
When I Grow up I Want to Be A List of Further Possibilities - by Chen, Chen	Book - 2017	811.6 CHE 33247028484465	Due: May 17, 2018 Times Renewed: 1
World Mythology - The Illustrated Guide	Book - 2006	291.13 WOR 33247025902584	Due: May 17, 2018 Times Renewed: 1
Persepolis - [the Story of A Childhood] - by Satrapi, Marjane	Graphic Novel - 2003	SAT 33247021911647	Due: May 18, 2018 Times Renewed: 0
A Primer for Poets & Readers of Poetry - by Orr, Gregory	Book - 2018	808.1 ORR 33247029235924	Due: May 18, 2018 Times Renewed: 0
Lars and the Real Girl	DVD - 2008	DVD-AD COMEDY LARS 33247022730566	Due: May 29, 2018 Times Renewed: 0
Meet Me in St. Louis	DVD - 2004	DVD-AD MUSICAL MEET M5089-2 33247016903906	Due: May 29, 2018 Times Renewed: 0
Ruby Sparks	DVD - 2012	DVD-AD COMEDY RUBY 33247027163367	Due: May 29, 2018 Times Renewed: 0

GeNtry!fication

DocPo?

http://www.noemipress.org/catalog/poetry/webster/

Noemi Press
"GeNtry!fication is a book of poetry, but it is also a work of cultural criticism and intersectional race theory that is exhaustively researched and cited."

2018 MMLA Conference in Kansas City

The Conference website has a list of things to do in KC, but I feel there are a few overlooked things.

Some of the best KC Jazz (if you can't make it to 18th and Vine) is at the Green Lady Lounge (take the streetcar to 19th and walk east)
1809 Grand Blvd
https://greenladylounge.com/

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For a film and dinner, there is Alamo Drafthouse (close)
https://drafthouse.com/kansas-city

or Screenland Crossroads (take the Streetcar to 16th and walk a few blocks east)
http://www.screenland.com/crossroads

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For groceries, salad bar, deli, beer and wine, postcards and souvenirs, etc. go to Consentino's at 13th and Main
https://goo.gl/maps/8jhXQjdxyzC2
http://cosentinosmarket.com/locations/downtown/

Also, if you can't visit The Roasterie main cafe (close to Boulevard Brewery), Consentino's serves their coffee. It is my favorite coffee, as it is air-roasted.

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Ride the Streetcar!

Getting around to different parts of Downtown KC is easy and free, thanks to the new streetcar:


http://kcstreetcar.org/how-to-ride/arrival-times/

http://kcstreetcar.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/new16x18guideFNL.pdf 

Aim for 2020

The Diode Editions 2018 Chapbook Contest is Open for Submissions!
https://www.diodeeditions.com/

https://thecollagist.submittable.com/submit

Books about film and the sublime

Landscape and film /      

The symbolic, the sublime, and Slavoj Žižek's theory of film /        Flisfeder, Matthew, 1980-

Terror and the cinematic sublime : essays on violence and the unpresentable in post-9/11 films /

Other Houses by Kate Cayley

https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781771314541/other-houses.aspx

Poetry. In OTHER HOUSES, Kate Cayley's second collection of poetry, objects are alive with the presence of the people who have handled them. Myths and legends are interwoven with daily life. Visionaries, mystics, charlatans, artists, and the dead speak to us like chatty neighbours. An imaginary library catalogues missing people. Reading becomes a way of remembering the dead. Home is an elsewhere we are "called to," a mystery that impels children to wander off, and adults to grow in unexpected directions. Cayley couples a rich, meaty lyricism with the intimacy of direct address, creating a poetry that is at once embodied and spectral. She directs us to wonder, "Did light and dark have a taste and texture, like food?" At the same time, her command of voice and narrative is masterful—each of these poems unfolds with the sweep and precision of a compressed novel.

"Beware of Kate Cayley. With an agility stolen from some other world she flicks this one open and invites us to watch our certainties scuttling away. Predatory and unsettling, these exquisitely crafted poems suggest that we are at our most human when yearning to reach beyond the visible."—Martha Baillie

The Fates by Joanne M. Clarkson Poetry from a hospice nurse!

https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781892471857/the-fates.aspx

Poetry. "Joanne Clarkson's THE FATES is a relentlessly engaging collection; you'll be hooked from the start. 'Anything can be spun: mare's tail, thistle, / free will. My task is dust / and the sticky milk of love,' she writes, assuming the guise of one of her three presiding goddesses. Like them, she spins, measures, and cuts—birth, life, and death—with language as her vital thread. Whether exploring her personal history or the stories of widows coping with grief, at almost every turn Clarkson draws from her broad experience as a hospice nurse. These poems display a deep compassion; their wisdom has been earned; and always they guide us toward finding ways 'to beat back blues / and yellows, every bruise, and just release / into the terrible need to live.'" —Richard Foerster 

Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems by Jennifer S Cheng

"With curiosity and attention, MOON shines its light on inquiry as art, asking as making."

I can't wait for this one!

https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781939460158/moon-letters-maps-poems.aspx

Son of Achilles by Nabila Lovelace

https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781936919512/sons-of-achilles.aspx

I can't wait for this book!

Finishing

Two mothers poems

Include films
The Great Books
Star Trek tng
Driving them to work, graveyard shift
Their careers
Their meeting
Their wedding
How many times, Greek myth, back from the underworld

Planned poetry readings

Thursday, October 18, 2018 Without Violence Open-Mic Poetry Reading
1:30-2:30pm

Thursday, April 4, 2019 Ichabods Speak Out Open-Mic Poetry Reading
1:30-2:30pm

Ichabods Speak Out: Poetry in the Age of Me, Too

Introduction

We are living in the age of #MeToo. This viral social media movement has millions of participants worldwide voicing their stories to demonstrate both the prevalence of sexual violence (including assault and harassment) and the prevalence of those who empathize with, advocate for, and support survivors. It is a historical moment—one we believe will not slip quietly into the annals of history, reserved for mere mention as a line in a paragraph dedicated to “special” topics of culture, gender, and social power. Rather, we believe this movement is a testament both to the hope that things will get better, and to the commitment to make things better.

It is within this global context of social change that Washburn University’s commitment to consent and to the prevention of sexual violence has been developing and is being implemented. For example, the University’s Department of English and the Sexual Assault Education and Prevention Project collaborate in a poetry workshop and reading—a Speak Out Against Sexual Assault event—in April of every year to acknowledge Sexual Assault Awareness Month and to promote a healthy campus of consent. Through coordinated efforts of many individuals and offices on campus, as well as in conjunction with community partners such as the YWCA Center for Safety and Empowerment, numerous other events and programs have been instituted on campus as well. Examples range from ongoing sexual consent education and active bystander training for faculty, staff, and students, to the recent creation of a permanent staff position for a campus victims’ advocate. It is from this milieu that Ichabods Speak Out is offered. Based on Dennis Etzel Jr.’s research, this is the first for a university to publish a literary magazine of poems specifically against sexual assault and for consent. With this project, Washburn University establishes another use of media to show we, too, are a campus of consent.

Still, we acknowledge that some of the poems in this book do tell stories of sexual trauma; in others, you will instead read of the hope of which we speak; and some of the poems tell of transformations from horror to hope. However these stories are told, it is their very telling that holds and offers power: these poems speak to the reality that wherever there is oppression, there is resistance to it and opportunities for empowerment. As such, this book is a document of the times, a physical representation of the Washburn University campus and Topeka community collective to speak out against sexual assault and to speak for consent.

We are immensely grateful to Shelley V. Bearman who ignited the spark for this project, to all who contributed poems to this work; to the Washburn University Alumni Association and Foundation—especially Sarah Towle and Jeremy Wangler—whose adoption of this project through the IMPACT initiative provided the mechanism to obtain crowdfunded support to print copies of this book for free distribution on campus and in the Topeka community; and especially to the generous individuals who provided that crowdfunding, listed on page 15.

Jericho Hockett, Ph.D. and Dennis Etzel, Jr.

February 22, 2018

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Contents

Introduction                                                                            11

Donors                                                                                    15

Shelley V. Bearman 

            I Stand Up                                                                   19

Elise Barnett

            Self-Esteem                                                                 20

            How to Break Rules                                                    22

            How to Keep a Secret                                                 23

SB

            “Someone is told to keep quiet”                                  24

Tara Rhiannon Bartley

            To Trust                                                                      25

            Contemporary Myths                                                   27

Anonymous

            Was it Rape? A Question for Myself at Twenty           29

Katy Chase

            Conceptualization                                                       31

TC

            “Because of you, I am frightened of the dark”             32

Kay Duganator

            NO                                                                              35

            I am “Fine”                                                                 37

            #MeToo                                                                      39

Anonymous

            I’m Supposed to Write a Poem About Rape                41

TD

            “COPE”                                                                      43

Julie Eisele

            Kissing Sounds                                                                        46

Natalie Engler

            Everything is (NOT) Fine                                            48

            F*** Him                                                                     50

            Months                                                                        51

Dennis Etzel Jr

            Hollywood, Too                                                          53

Sydney Haugh

            Me Too                                                                        54

Jericho Hockett

            Rising                                                                          55

            A Lovely Piece of Art                                                  57

Maggie Hutchinson

            Two Young Women                                                    58

Maureen Kennedy

            [Consent]                                                                     60

            [Womanhood]                                                              61

            [Definition]                                                                  62

Anonymous

            Just Because                                                                63

Diamond Mclaughlin 

            Sins                                                                              64

            Pain                                                                             65

            Dreams                                                                        66

Anonymous

            “All I wanted to do”                                                    67

Dave Proverse

            Live and Let Live                                                         68

            What She’s All About                                                  70

Lakpa Sherpa

            My Body is a Story                                                       72

Anonymous, from one human to another

            “strength taken away”                                                 74

            “as a flower grows”                                                      75

Molly Steffes-Herman

            For You My Love                                                        76

Linda Thorton

            Some Say Love                                                            77

            Vestri Cupidita                                                              78

Julie Velez

            The Wave (Alternately: Don’t Panic)                           79

            Prompt: Shadow self: the dark part of yourself

that only you know and only light can expose 80

            Wonder                                                                        81

Barbara Waterman-Peters

            “Your hand slid inside my jacket”                               82

Sharon Sullivan 

            “I am a secret keeper”                                                 83

A Tribute to Shelley V. Bearman                                             87

Contributors                                                                            91

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This printed book is made possible by a Washburn Impact Fund whose contributors are:

Erin Chamberlain- $20

Barbara Waterman-Peters -$100

Vicki Pepperdine -$25

Kelly Erby -Undisclosed Amount

Sarah Fizell - $60

Anonymous - $25

Alan & Shelley Bearman - $50

Amy McCaskey - $25

Sharon Sullivan - $10

Christopher Jones - $15

Linsey Moddelmog - $25

Mary Ralston - Undisclosed Amount

Anonymous - $5

Julie Velez - $25

Elaine Becker - $25

Anonymous - $25

Julie Hendrickson - $15

Tara Bartley - $25

Jericho Hockett - $25

Jennifer Pacioianu - $25

Denise Low - $25

Anne Hawkins - Undisclosed Amount

Karalyn Kendall-Morwick - $10

Dennis Etzel Jr - $15

Shelley Bearman - $25

Thank you so much!