English @ SUNY Geneseo | Ashley Kupiec | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ashleykupiec/activity/ Activity feed for Ashley Kupiec. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 3032b72c58152186e92fcebc19cff609 Ashley Kupiec wrote a new blog post Not My(August)self Today in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14520/ Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:05:04 -0500 “Thank you,” I said. “I came back to this place to find something, to connect with something lost, to reunite if not with my whole self, then with a piece of it. What I’ve discovered is that this thing is not her […]

]]> 0 1313c6068b3dbdfa4e280d0dcd765361 Ashley Kupiec edited the blog post 7 (6) in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14299/ Sun, 01 Dec 2019 15:34:49 -0500 Percival Everett’s poem “6” from the Logic section of his book re: f(gesture) is, interestingly enough, not about six, but rather about seven. The poem opens with “Seven men / can be obliterated” (Everett 70). […]

]]> 0 bf5172c786c8ec17e9ef6c321723be0d Ashley Kupiec wrote a new blog post Middle Fingers to Order in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14282/ Fri, 29 Nov 2019 22:31:57 -0500 A few weeks ago in class, Dr. McCoy asked us to line up in alphabetical order by last name. For a relatively large group of people, I think we were able to accomplish the task pretty quickly. Everyone seemed to […]

]]> 0 f875d232624b68d2f584f9f9b32baec5 Ashley Kupiec edited the blog post What's in a name? in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14199/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:52:31 -0500 Percival Everett’s abecedarian set of poems Zulus from his book re: f(gesture) comments on the importance of naming children. On two separate occasions, the speaker states, “Always name offspring” (Everett 20, […]

]]> 0 05a5491d9521ce9168ecd987d38e30f7 Ashley Kupiec edited the blog post H is for Teleology in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14184/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 03:21:22 -0500 In Percival Everett’s re: f (gesture), the abecedarian poem Zulus contains a multitude of allusions to a variety of people, places, stories, and more. In sifting through these many references, one in particular […]

]]> 0 f3c916c4441711575afc7b1fca69e8c7 Ashley Kupiec wrote a new blog post Archives and Intertextuality in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14052/ Sun, 10 Nov 2019 05:57:14 -0500 On Monday, Professor McCoy allowed us to take a mini field trip around campus with the mission of finding as many “archives” as we could. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an “archive” as “a repository or […]

]]> 0 c1c3e2fa0a478a90e37f2b29e6ddb504 Ashley Kupiec edited the blog post "Baaaa" - Conforming to the Herd and its Rules in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13799/ Sun, 20 Oct 2019 16:28:18 -0500 In Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier, Percival Everett (the character) warns Not Sidney, “‘Don’t be a sheep, Mr. Poitier'” (90). The professor cautions against joining the herd; it seems he thinks […]

]]> 0 dd4e403b535ba17b7cb6399d91cdd94a Ashley Kupiec edited the blog post "The Ship" (and Not Sidney?) are Not Themselves Today in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13706/ Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:18:06 -0500 During our class period on Friday, it became Susanna’s job to yell “The ship!” every time the philosophical problem of Theseus’ ship was applicable to some aspect of Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier. […]

]]> 0 749b82c87b3d2284e9be2035a02e610a Ashley Kupiec wrote a new blog post When the Ruler Can't Understand the Ruled in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13627/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 19:58:08 -0500 While reading Frenzy, I frequently found myself exclaiming the age-old complaint of “That’s not fair!” Injustice seems to run rampant in the novel, and I can’t seem to resolve this with the usual justification […]

]]> 0 3d5d517ede0d9c11e600c9d3b085cebd Ashley Kupiec wrote a new blog post Questions of Origin and Identity in English 203 in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13457/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:23:26 -0500 “Thank you,” I said. “I came back to this place to find something, to connect with something lost, to reunite if not with my whole self, then with a piece of it. What I’ve discovered is that this thing is not her […]

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