Thursday, March 5, 2015

My TSCPL Checkouts


326 ABO  The abolitionists  _TSCPL   0 

 978.102 CAM  African American Topeka  _TSCPL   0 

 305.42 EIC  Revolutionary heart : the life of Clarina Nichols and the pioneering crusade for women's rights  _TSCPL   0 

 978.1 COX  Blacks in Topeka, Kansas, 1865-1915 : a social history  _TSCPL   0 

 978.1 OER  Bleeding borders : race, gender, and violence in pre-Civil War Kansas  _TSCPL   0 

 978.1 PAI  Exodusters : Black migration to Kansas after Reconstruction  _TSCPL   0 

 ROBINSON  Governor Charles Robinson of Kansas  _TSCPL   0 

  372.4 MCG  Growing a reader from birth : your child's path from language to literacy  _TSCPL   1 

 DVD-AD DRAMA HAML  Hamlet  _TSCPL   3 

  372.21 TOU  How children succeed : grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character  _TSCPL   1 

 811.54 LOW  Mélange Block  _TSCPL   0 

 978.163 OAK  Oakland's first one hundred years, & ghost towns of Shawnee County  _TSCPL   0 

 822.33 SHA  Shakespeare uncovered. Series 2  _TSCPL   3 

 978.163 HOO  Topeka  _TSCPL   0  

 978.163 BIR  Topeka : an illustrated history of the Kansas capital  _TSCPL   0 

 322.42 KLA  Klansville U.S.A.  _TSCPL  3/26/2015  0 

Monday, March 2, 2015

Poetry Project

Topeka Birth and Women Center
Artemis
Kansas Government and Mores

Friday, February 27, 2015

Friday, February 20, 2015

New Project

Houses of My Ancestry

Sounds mythological, and it is. I just found out about Etzel Dairy--something Carrie and I have a huge interest in, around raw milk and how it was delivered to Oakland, Little Russia (Roosha), and North Topeka.

Plus, my Grandpa Jack built the house my Grandma Ruby, my mom, and aunt grew up in.


Monday, February 2, 2015

Poetic Memoir Washburn University EN199 EN399 Summer First Session Online



EN199/399: CW Poetic Memoir. This special topics creative writing class explores mixed-genre/contemporary form examples from writers who use verse, prose, image, appropriation, experimentation, and form to "show" their autobiography/memoir. Students will write their own poetic memoirs inspired by these examples. No previous creative writing experience necessary.

Please ask your advisor to see if this can fulfill a Gen Ed requirement or an upper-level course requirement for your major.


No experience is necessary for the course as we go over examples and question what makes a memoir (what it is and can be), what makes a poem (what it is and can be), then move into two contemporary poetic memoirs. The three books for the course will be my book of poetry The Sum of Two Mothers, Joseph Harrington's Things Come On, and Kaia Sand's Remember to Wave.

Really, these examples set a launching point for students to write their own poetic memoirs, coming up with three to four small projects to help launch larger projects to move forward with after the class is over.

The course is designed so you can approach your writing with whatever major you are, your interests--your life!


Sunday, January 25, 2015

Poetry Workshop Exercises for Health Care Professionals

I am working on a book-length workshop book aimed at giving health-care professionals or poets going into such workshops both advice and lessons. Are you such a person? Would you find this beneficial? Please send me an email!

http://www.dennisetzeljr.com/contact.html

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Projects

Quindaro: needs research
Tallgrass Prairie: needs research and visits
My boys + Willow
Two Mothers: continuation
My Springboards of 2004