Compassion

Our students are stressed and exhausted. The one thing we can do to help out is give them self-care suggestions and time to complete assignments including the overall work they need to do outside of our own classes. Also, I don't believe in traditional finals. We need to find other ways to allow students to engage in their work other than giving them a test. Are we curmudgeons or collaborators? That's all!

Better

Follow your curiosity.
Find people riding in the same thing you are interested in, get their books, carry them with you.
Be sure to go slow, as it's not a race.
Write something, send it out, and when it comes back revised it and send it out again.
Be patient with people, especially yourself.
Remember the genre you're writing in, as well as what you are defying.

Finding angles

Again, when I feel like my poetry sucks I go to literary magazines I wish I were a part of and start examining those poems. Maybe this is a good practice, but I also know that I need to write what is real to me. I need to find my own way of phrasing. I can't rely on parlor tricks.

experimental poetry

https://berkeleypoetryreview.submittable.com/submit/146732/poetry-for-issue-50

Taking It Easy

Just like the Eagles in their song, you sometimes have to take it easy. I'm realizing in my process I have to be very careful. I just found out about another Predator and the wound opens again. So I think just collecting the images and the text might be how I work right now. But I need to approach it alongside my at the movies project. I need to keep the resilience as well as the protective side, switching back and forth.

Junk Man

http://www.kscourts.org/Cases-and-Opinions/opinions/supct/2000/20000726/81835.htm
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/junk-man-poet-and-professor-albert-goldbarth
"wrote a f- poem describing the glaze of a co-ed on his own c-"
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-old-but-not-gone-problem-of.html
How does this junk man continue? Even in his poems, he is pointing out.


And you

perhaps don't like this poem: its free verse
or its narrative or the way it uses
gender or the heavy-handed
word-play of its title.

Like I care.

I wrote this for me.
―from "‘Try the Selfish'"

And we
don't like his poem or his free verse
 narrative the way he uses women

his heavy-handed
 words about women
He doesn't care.

It's him.
 
Contaminated

https://www.epa.gov/ks/57th-north-broadway-superfund-site-wichita-kansas-fact-sheet-june-2018

https://www.epa.gov/ks/occidental-chemical-corporation-inc-facility-wichita-sedgwick-county-kansas-fact-sheet-june-2018

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article216625720.html
power plants

 https://www.kmuw.org/post/spj-award-winner-dangerous-chemical-invades-west-wichita-drinking-water
coal

Faithbased

https://imagejournal.submittable.com/submit

Last Lecture

I am amazed at students who in the short four years here become known, popular, but it is not from any professors or Greek life. It is from their work to be known. They place themselves out there in the vulnerable spaces of students, of peer educators, of making connections with professors. We crave these connections, yet know not every student will connect. There is only so much time. Yes, these superstars somehow connect, plan the time to do the work, often work here on campus. It only takes four years to put in the work for further freedom. It was an opportunity I didn't realize I had, but am saying this to you now, to those students who are in college--find any way to embrace this time here! Quit your fast food job. Seriously, put in applications here, talk to people, find some other way to earn money. Students tell me they already have bills, and I understand that. I mourn that part of my life that I didn't live. I hope you can embrace your living, wherever it gives an opportunity to.

If the person you are dating does not support your being in college, it's time to date someone new.

Last Lecture

I have had to always manage my mental health. Many don't know my story, but know who I am through my work at Washburn. They might be shocked to know what I've survived. But likewise, many are at Washburn who have yet to face a lot of cruelty, hard decisions, things they might have never known they would need to face. I read an article about how optimism helps with resiliency, and that fits my story well. Maybe my smile was developed to hide my pain when I could, or to go through the motions that everything is okay. I can say it is genuine today, but it took a lot of hard work, a lot of breaking my own stigmas about myself placed there by others and me. So do it, develop an optimism that is contagious. Even if it feels fake, it won't take long to feel the benefits, that the best response to negative forces is to reflect and stay optimistic. It is one of the few things one has control of in their life.

At the Movies Yearbook

I've found the best way to work on these poems are to handwrite them--to track changes, to play with words and ideas. I am using my journal to finish the work, but I also updated my file to use the three chosen movies for each year, to narrow it down.

In my journal I have laid out the remaining years I need to write. I find it easier to read in a voice-to-text to messenger, then copy over to the file to revise and finish.

Depression Kansas part I

I think I like these titles better

Passing Through Depression, Kansas
Leaving Depression, Kansas

I will give a vote

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So that Historical Society sent an email:

Good morning Dennis,

Thank you for your interest in our collections. I’d like to refer you to our https://www.kshs.org/p/permission-and-use-fees/17337Use & Permissions page and our Fees page.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

https://www.census.gov/history/img/1850_map.jpg

https://www.art.com/products/p12916170281-sa-i6411350/kansas-nebraska-map-1854.htm

/

https://www.kancoll.org/books/robinson/r_intro.htm

So the least amount to pay would be $40 per image.  And that is pending permission.

I have found my relief in this lawyer's analysis of the law:

https://hamptonsarthub.com/2018/05/16/features-creativity-the-law-collage-and-fair-use-under-the-copyright-laws/

So I have a creative reason to use the work, the work must be transformative, and I can't use the whole work.

That fits my intent exactly!

So maybe someone is combing through this to see if I was aware of copyrighted material and should be penalized? I say, I am aware, and I have a creative reason to use the work, the work is transformative, and I didn't use the whole work.

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The last thing I would like to say is, because of this, I was inspired to turn to the books at Mabee Library. Using the collection of Kansas-based books, I have images at my disposal. I took pictures of a few: Maps of Kansas, Newspapers of Kansas, How the Body Works (Golden Book).

This project will require several trips to Mabee--something to squeeze into my schedule. I am here, after all.

 https://www.kshs.org/p/alfred-m-landon-grant-past-recipients/16014

https://www.kshs.org/p/edward-n-tihen-historical-research-grants/15431

https://www.kshs.org/p/edward-n-tihen-historical-research-grants/17620

https://www.kshs.org/p/awards-and-grants/11380

https://territorialkansasonline.ku.edu/index.php?SCREEN=immigration&topic_id=86&search=Daily%20Life

https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/sara-lawrence-robinson/16901

K o h k b r o  s

For Kevin

Look on gmail for okay to repub book

Blurb

Letter of rec

Depression Kansas

Carry around other docpo books about environment.

https://flyingketchuppress.submittable.com/submit/151415/hybrid-poetry-book-contest

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cjonline.com/history-guy/news/local/2017-09-27/topeka-history-guy-kansas-was-first-state-ban-ku-klux-klan%3ftemplate=ampart

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-1867-medicine-lodge-treaty-changed-plains-indian-tribes-forever-180965357/

Poetry Collections by one author will be evaluated on how they fit the theme of “new” as well as creativity, risk, & craftmanship as a hybrid poetry book. 

Yes, this is new, this is real, believe scientists. Topeka vs. Darwin, education at war with itself, won't you believe that?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_in_Kansas

https://www.kcur.org/post/kansas-city-millenials-fight-climate-change-clotheslines-hybrid-cars-and-activism#stream/0


Each page should give advice, rise above
Selfie

Report on selfies each page
Topeka maps

Depression in its definitions
OED
Etymology
Topeka Insane Asylum
Witness of women
Menningers
How women write about depression
How depression was viewed. Melancholia
Self care
Newspapers
My own experience photos

https://www.khi.org/policy/article/19-35

A Local Guide to Self Care

Depression anxiety connection
No anxiety about climate change, no way to feel depressed. Continue on. It's out of our hands.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=climate+crisis+kansas&oq=cli&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j69i57j69i60l2.2642j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

https://statesatrisk.org/kansas

County go geographically through Kansas to find where environmental issues are problem

https://www.fastcompany.com/90202861/lawsuit-blame-monsanto-for-widespread-kansas-crop-losses

Brown v board white flight

https://www.google.com/search?q=redlining+in+kansas&oq=redlining+in+kansas&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.10231j0j9&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/five-since-brown.html

the cold problem in Wichita look for those maps that Troy provided in his writing

Windmills the bypass in Lawrence

Colonization mapping where Native American things changed

Little House on the Prairie Fiasco

Allwood depression as a theme running through

https://www.cjonline.com/news/20180713/monsanto-to-blame-for-kansas-crop-loss-lawsuit-says

Kansas Oil Museum

https://genesight.com/could-climate-change-cause-depression/

Use colons instead of periods to represent colonization, use capital letters when discussing capitalization a capitalized world

Lower case to show resistance include the things about punctuation somewhere

Quindaro became a waste dump

Make a list of all of the things I found around Kansas, fracking, send it to Margie and ask her what things she notices that I'm missing

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/hidden-costs-industrial-agriculture

Maybe this is my new Topeka project instead of working on Topeka conflict which will be nothing but appropriation this will have my writing in it

With the use of the PDF editor I can actually use whatever typeface is in there 2 write my own things

How to install solar paneling place your body in your front yard wait for the sun to come up abs absorb Energies you took for granted

The signs for coming to different parts of Kansas as a new opportunity

Exploitation of women and of people of color the thing about Kansas and giving slaves land

I'm just realizing this is the new Topeka conflict, to broaden it to Kansas as far as ecosystems

Economy the study of one's home look inside to find the cash

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna946751

Recycling as a sham that most of the recycling in Topeka gets thrown away

A town of as an example of rebuilding after tornado by pouring lots of cash into a green Friendly's town in the middle of nowhere Kansas

https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/?q=opinion/search/results&query=Kdot

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/what-psychotherapy-can-do-for-the-climate-and-biodiversity-crise/