First Generation Poetry

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED571133

http://www.cwucrimsonandblack.com/story/first-generation-cwu-student-finds-success-in-poetry

https://flourishingacademic.wordpress.com/2017/10/05/parallelograms-and-poetry-helping-first-generation-students-connect/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiPo7je6dvpAhVHVc0KHZm3AiEQFjAFegQIBhAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Frepository.usfca.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D2225%26context%3Dthes&usg=AOvVaw3F56MeqU-11JPrL5Pl7USs

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/teaching-struggling-readers-poetry/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.hamline.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx%3Fid%3D2147514389&ved=2ahUKEwibv9XJgd_pAhUHOq0KHek2ByYQFjADegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw1xujsvo_5Yiuq0kQqkxu7I&cshid=1590959512006

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f14e/a8199b9109c709e59787ca7165b30e26b5c5.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjXjOCngt_pAhUKUa0KHf4KDX4QFjADegQICBAB&usg=AOvVaw2fJNPNP4jAehOWrGOwpn-l

changes

High expectations
grading styles--with pictures
social aspect of college
demystifying college
glossery
first-gen engagement


 Sometimes they just want a friendly face or a place to chat for a few minutes. Sometimes they need a pep talk or a reminder to take care of themselves. Someone made me a sign asking everyone to not knock except for emergency, but I  just haven't had the heart to put it on my door. I always want my students to feel they have my support.

• What are some sacrifices you are making to be here?
• On a scale of 1 (very little)-10 (very much), how much parental assistance did you receive in preparing to come to college (e.g., research schools, applying, locating financial resources, developing expectations?
• Maybe other ratings regarding levels of confidence in navigating academic curriculum, participating in campus activities, making progress toward graduation, etc.
• What are some questions you have about navigating the college experience?

made me think of how, in my Psych Research Methods class, I ask students about their fears, goals, and strategies on the first day, as the course topic is one students often have lots of anxiety over. In the next class, I respond to students' fears, praise their goals, and give suggestions to improve their strategies' successes. I'm thinking of doing something similar but broader across my classes, perhaps as part of the "getting to know you" piece.

I would love to discuss ACE scores. I have complicated feelings about them, and would love to hear what others think. Would you want to start a new thread on that topic?

EN101 and EN103

Trauma-Informed Care AND _____

EN300 change

Trauma-Based Care and Sensitivity

Inclusivity and intersectionality

I am not trying to force any ideas upon you, but to ask for students to have an open mind

A diverse population

What is your idea of nursing? What does it mean to be patient-centered? Should nurses be aware of their own biases when treating a patient? For instance, obesity in patients?

https://ojin.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol-24-2019/No2-May-2019/Trauma-Informed-Nursing-Practice.html


https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/387007941/take-the-ace-quiz-and-learn-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean

First Gen Poetry

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1129&context=englishdiss

Xanadu Doc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrp-4dqHECM

First Day EN101 EN210

Picture with Ichabod

New Getting to Know You Questions

What would you like this class to be?

Would you mind if we took a self-care online day every other Friday?

Would cancelling a class or two help?

How much classtime is helpful for working on assignments?

Essays as scaffolded--

Would reading in class help?

What should I cover to help for your success?

Share the things I feel helpful.

Are you a first-gen student?

Teaching 1st Gen

https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/teaching-first-generation-college-students/

What kind of learner? First day questions EN210 EN101

I will be using this, for sure!

http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/index.shtml

1st Gen Book Chapt 2 3

Something from page 25 reminded me of how I passed out "help cards" to students. They are index cards where I tell students they can write their names of stay anonymous, they note if it is a public or private question, and then to ask any question of help they need. It was truly helpful! It took a little time, as I reached out to those students who had private questions to meet with me in conference. However, with COVID-19 I am not sure how to do this or if I should.

What do you all think? Should I have a dropbox for online "help cards" or not?

I believe that we won't be able to complete a full semester of in-class meetings in the fall.

Not trying to be the killjoy here, but how do we help students with the list of things on pages 25 and 26--especially with the social aspect? I am for asynchronous zoom videos over synchronous, so I would love to hear those who are using zoom to meet with a class. How is it going?

After reading p 35 thinking about the programming Washburn has had for first-gen students, maybe a Kanopy viewing with GroupMe texting would be fun?

I know Washburn is going to high schools, getting students in through the Summer Success Institute, etc. I was a success mentor for a student last year, too. There are things Washburn is doing to get first-gen students in and focus on retention.

Last year, when I saw that Chris Jones set up office hours in the library, I did, too. I started to have more students visit me there. I also became aware of the hard work the people who work at Mabee are doing for first-gen students, their frustrations, and how a lot of the work is unrecognized. I highly recommend to everyone to try it and see the difference in your perception of students and Washburn programs.

What are things you do to help students who work full time and have family obligations outside of extensions? Do you ever give advice? Or coach? I am wondering if I need to do more of this, too. Or should I?

Night Poems

Tonight I Have Never Felt More Night, Lullaby for Aldwyn,  Starting Out from a Long-Ago Quest, I Hope for Another Fairy Tale Ending, Watching Xanadu (1980) Again

right away

https://crazyhorse.submittable.com/submit/21003/poetry-submission

Massive Attack

I hadn't heard of them until 2004 when I've been just started listening to mezzanine all of the time and that whole album became my soundtrack. Of course I was already a Portishead fan in a tricky fan when they came out but somewhere in the haze of my 1998 Fiasco I just had never heard of Massive Attack.

Kansas Poems

Kansas Weather Report, Kansas Spell, Kansas Tallgrass Prarie Drawing, Letter to Kansas, It Gets Me Dizzy

Topeka poems

In Topeka; O, Topeka, Topeka, Topeka!; Another Attempt at an Elegy for Another Mother;  Letter to Kansas;At the Movies in the B&B Theatres, Topeka, Kansas, Before the Shutdowns

These poems from Topeka which might be "the most poetic city in America" examine Topeka further.

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

Last Lecture

I am sure you all have stories of friends appearing out of nowhere. Let It Go when Jericho was taking English classes and decided to take my poetry class it turned into both an academic and sibling collaboration. She and I taught psychology of Poetics. We spent time every week together even on Zoom during the pandemic to write poetry. We also shared poems for feedback. They're just a handful of people I would want to share my poems with for feedback and it ended up that she would be so trusting and understanding and just amazing about my flaws and who I am. She's a really good friend and sister.

En210

https://www.armstrong.edu/history-journal/history-journal-containing-the-kalon-kakon-the-portrayal-of-women-in-ancien

En210

I want students to submit their best work. You learn what it is by doing it.

Last Lecture

A funny story about one of my best friends and how when we met I knew we would become best friends. When Melanie came up to the campus to interview my class was used for her to give her presentation. She was so nervous because she had researched my name and found I had as a published poet I seemed very prolific. Then when she came in I was just myself. I guess I made her feel so relaxed and at home and she gave a certainly a kick-ass presentation and I was moved and inspired. I asked if I could get copies of some of her materials. They were so cool especially the Picasso one. Now when my birthday rolled around that summer it was when Captain America the First Avenger came out and I had ordered a special cake from Baskin-Robbins. It had the Captain America theme and I was so excited about turning 42. I don't have that many parties but that year I decided to invite lots of different writers and people I knew around Topeka. I used Facebook for the invite and truly did take it seriously when people said that they would be coming. However, it look like no one was going to show up. I was about to get my heart crushed and then Here Comes Melanie with her family to my party. They really did Save the Day. I decided to not for a party again but I also realized when no one gave their regrets that I have to make sure who I'm going to invite to my parties. It was a good lesson and thinking having expectations about people coming making sure that you get the word that they will become anymore and that's sometimes people have a lot more going on but they might not even think not coming would be a big deal. I do my best to let people know if I can go or not to anything I agreed that I would. I'm very selective especially now that I have five boys.

Last Lecture

Spring 2020 semester has just ended andaz places are gradually reopening because of the Coronavirus universities are optimistic that the campuses will reopen. However, I am on a group of colleagues where we are reading articles and engaging in first generation students and how to revamp a class as well as right a book or write things for other colleagues to read about first generation students. Everything I'm reading talks about the trauma students are going through and to try to get the faculty to understand that trauma. I've already been reading the body keeps the score and have already experienced my own trama. Even one of the videos I watched about students dealing with trauma and forms us that we too are under trauma that it doesn't have to be physical or violent but just being Sheltering in place as this coronavirus pandemic hits us is a form of trauma. Also students being back at home students who are facing new challenges because of their jobs. Now this video ended on Rumi and Maya Angelou poetry so that really confirmed to me what is my role as a poet? It's to create that work that people turn to in difficult times. Poetry has saved my life so I know the power of teaching people that they too can write or do their art or do music or whatever it takes to engage in helps with the trauma.

1st Gen Research Group

https://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2020/05/11/single-most-essential-requirement-designing-fall-online-course?fbclid=IwAR0CvfIbbvEMm0yDVwRuEGyOD7WyCnr312fYEgw8IxkEU1k5_ypNWMfezPA

our students are learning from a place of dislocation, anxiety, and trauma. So are we. This is the single essential that must be built into the structure, assignments, thinking about what and how we will teach online in the Fall.

Think of the student first
Be a human first

What do our students need now?  That is the essential question for going on line.  Whether teaching algebraic geometry or sociology or literature or art or religion, we need to begin with the question of: what would I need if I were a student in this historic moment?  A great place to start?

  Ask them!

  

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https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/04/09/higher-institutions-should-start-planning-now-reopening-fall-it-wont-be-easy



I appreciate there are naysayers who will chant, no need to coddle; this virus situation isn’t that bad; buck up and be tough. I’m sorry, but that posture seems totally out of touch with the realities of the moment. It is not coddling or being a snowflake to reflect wisely on how to respond to a traumatic moment in our nation and in the lives of our students, faculty and staff.

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https://www.chronicle.com/article/Covid-19-Is-a-Pivotal-Moment/248501

En210

What are ways mythology or personal Mythos helps with the traumas we face?

submit in September

https://sub.terrain.org/

https://jubilat.submittable.com/submit

https://ninthletteronline.submittable.com/submit

https://southdakotareview.submittable.com/submit

Plans

Xanadu, "Suddenly" for three days
Ghost of the Matriarchs


Military book with body keeps the score
Strike Out, one per day June & July

Submit in june

http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/

https://pleiadesmag.com/submit/

Pirennes fountain

http://www.ippyawards.com/

http://diodepoetry.com/submissions/

https://theadroitjournal.org/about/submissions

https://midwestreview.submittable.com/submit


Awp panel
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chapbook due june 30
https://manager.submittable.com/opportunities/discover/158676

Last Lecture

Unlike many of my colleagues who could have the background which led straight from high school, to college, graduate classes, into their careers, I had to be like Doctor Who and go the long way around. Yes, there are a few like me who had to put their lives on hold or didn't even know if life went past a fast-food counter, but I had to make my own way, to fight again for what I found my passion to be. I read articles about how this isolation in the midst of COVID-19 is different than what one experienced at the McDowell Colony in their early thirties or on some writers retreat. EEKS. My time at home will not have space for writing or for solitude. Five boys keep us busier than ever. But this is a wonderful life. I know the privilege I have needs to fight for my students who were like me--working full time jobs, maybe in an abusive relationship, maybe in a life they are doing their best to change. I am your trickster imposter. If it looks like I am not intelligent, or I don't voice things in an academic way, or whatever you wish to judge me on, guess again. I listen to the emotional intelligent sacredness of that force against the Patriarchy in the Anthropocene. I also learn to choose my words. I'm a poet, after all.

submit in August

https://creamcityreview.submittable.com/submit

https://coloradoreview.submittable.com/submit

https://washingtonsquare.submittable.com/submit

August 15 themed  https://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/submit-2/

Trail to Mythos

D&D meets Edith Hamilton meets Clash of the Titans

Ghosts of Sondra

Watching the films we watched

Out of Africa
Somewhere in Time


Read The Necropastoral
Incorporate

poems will be about ghosts but also the body--cancer--her healing through biofeedback methods

dolphins

animal imagery

hospital system
partner wife

she was married in the hospital



6 to 20 poems to submit to The Missouri Review

ypically, successful submissions include 8-20 pages of unpublished poetry (note: please do not send complete manuscripts—published or unpublished—for consideration). The Gerald T. Perkoff Prize in Poetry is an ongoing series, awarded at least once a year at the discretion of the editors. This prize is given to a poet published in the most recent volume year whose poetry addresses some aspect of the experience or meaning of illness, healing, death and dying, or the practice of medicine.

https://submissions.missourireview.com/


https://vimeo.com/244055651

https://lithub.com/poetry-ritual/

This ritual will be holding on to the books Sondra had listening to the music she enjoyed and thinking of the films we watched together. Sandra was both a Mystic and someone traumatized. Sadly her mysticism came through when she went under in near-death experiences. She foresaw when she was going to die as well as when my mother was going to die by someone she met when she was almost dead or dad. The thing about her life was that a lot of the many early traumas had translated then into spending addictions and creating many of her selves of what the southern people call tall tales. She called herself Southern on many occasions even though we know she just came from Joplin. But she would spend summers at her aunt's down in the South and enjoyed those times which is what I'm guessing she grew fondness of the rich life and all the sophistication of culture. But because of her spending she was always poor that great contradiction that we can find also in poetry. As this year I have finally shaken off all of my addictions and those family secrets I'm wanting to prepare a memorial ritual a poetry dedicated to her so that both Cassandra in the past as well as the ghost Sondra can be healed. If scientists are right that there is no reason for time to exist and if CA Conrad is right and what they have done with their own rituals I'm going to adapt from these sources that feel right to me and create these poems and one of the worst months for both of us July and August.


The reason why I call it ghosts of Sandra is because our culture still has not created a name for her that I could call her a one word name that people would understand who she is to me. When I say mother people will assume my birth mother. Or even if she wasn't my birth mother people would assume my single mother. Saying other mother or another mother also seems like I'm placing her second. Saying stepmom really messes things up too. So I have to say Sondra just for my own psychological sake so I can concentrate on her name as a being. Mom so no one would understand until I could tell them.

Divergence Projects

Thinking of my ADHD while watching the film
Thinking of my sons' diagnoses while watching the film

My Own Tarot Cards

With Michelle Tea's Modern Tarot, alongside my previous working knowledge of tarot, I plan to make my own set. I know my energies from childhood were around movie trading cards. Pre-VCR, they were the way to reimagine and live through a film again. Like Selah Saterstrum's divination methods with images, I plan to seek out those characters and images to align with tarot deck. I often feel more connections with a film character than the person acting in the film. Black Widow will definitely be the High Priestess. But do I just want to use Black Widow for the designation? Hmm.

Mysticism

https://www.greenlindenpress.com/interviews-and-reviews#/simeon-berry/

Hybrid

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-are-so-many-monsters-hybrids

Many hate category violation. The poetry community as a whole is guilty of this. They are looking for a poem like X, or maybe Y. Not XYZ.

They want a slow poem, while the poem might not ask to be slow if there is a sense of urgency.

I'm just saying, if you are a hybrid in a sexist, racist, antolgbtq worlds, be forewarned and do whatever it takes to be heard!  You are the monster that could save the planet!

Submit in december

https://www.magnificentfield.com/guidelines

Books

https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781940090122/the-sacramento-of-desire.aspx?fbclid=IwAR3bWMvYx2Hz93svrVdEDMKb23POrfgaDkY5ierZtydOpYALAY2_shTM32Q

https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9780900575068/death-industrial-complex.aspx

https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781931824750/echolocation.aspx

http://counterpathpress.org/the-body-in-language-an-anthology-edited-by-edwin-torres

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062682406/modern-tarot/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1947793810/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_vUZUEbJVEBNK1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1556595662/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_jl0UEbZWBBC5M

https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781933996721/the-body-in-language-an-anthology.aspx

http://eohippuslabs.com/annex-series/

https://shop.wizkids.com/products/marvel-heroclix-black-widow-movie-black-widow-with-motorcycle

https://newfound.org/shop/claire-oleson-things-from-the-creek-bed-print-only/

Poets dictionary

EN210 Mythologies

Examine mythology

How does mythology inform our personal lives? Public lives?

How can we write personal poetry out of mythology?

Outside of being sacred texts, what can we learn from studying mythology?

In the midst of destructive forces, how can we use mythology? 

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/05/07/fuck-the-bread-the-bread-is-over/?fbclid=IwAR3lEr4fnkhPaxn15e2IB_7bLdTdB3-GFwcUkm5hP7VdzBkEukSPxZnkqsQ

At the Movies Question

Maybe At the Movies with the Predator also includes the human species?

Submit in May

https://www.thetinymag.com/

https://www.thecommononline.org/submit/

submit in July

https://batcityreview.submittable.com/submit

by july 6

http://sixthfinch.com/submit.html

https://salthilljournal.net/

july 15-30 https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit

poetry packet

May 1 packet 

may1packet

I'm Not Ready for Curbside, Strange, Ars Poetica from a Distance (from Xanadu [1980]), I’m Alive (from Xanadu [1980]), and The Virgin Suicides (2000)


May 2 poems

 

"O, Topeka, Topeka, Topeka!,""Wendy," "No Stops," "The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear," and "Ars Poetica as My Sons Love Birds in Ways I Couldn’t"