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Rachel Britton wrote a new blog post I Had to Mention Ekphrasis Eventually in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 8 months ago

While the year is coming to a close, I couldn’t end the semester without saying something about ekphrasis, writing inspired by art. It has long been one of my favorite methods of writing. It allows […]
Rachel Britton wrote a new blog post Where We Write in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 9 months ago

Why do so many writers go to coffee houses to do their work? It’s become a bit of a trope, sitting there for a couple hours with a laptop, earbuds, and a long empty mug. I can easily answer my own question, b […]
Rachel Britton edited the blog post Seeking Poetic Signature in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 10 months ago

After a couple rounds of workshop, it’s easy to tell which poem belongs to its respective poet. Even without a name or initials being printed on the page. Sometimes the telling factor is a recurring theme in imagery, a topic, or tone. I’d say that, as a group of poets, we’ve gotten to know each other’s voices really well.

Maybe it’s a result of…[Read more]
Rachel Britton wrote a new blog post There’s a Poem in That in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 10 months ago

Picture a tea kettle. It’s boiling, but not yet whistling. Steam tumbling from the spout and fogging up the hood of the stove.

There’s a poem in that.

I’m laughing at myself, because it’s something […]
Rachel Britton edited the blog post Using Form As You Like It in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 11 months ago

My first literary love, I confess, was William Shakespeare. Although I smuggled the Harry Potter books out of my elementary school library, it was not until reading “Twelfth Night or As You Will” at the age of twelve that I fell for poetry. I swooned for syllables. Devoured the copy of the Completed Works of William Shakespeare my parents gave me…[Read more]
Rachel Britton edited the blog post Poetry in the Grass in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 11 months ago

For some time now, I’ve been mulling over genre. Perhaps it’s a result of the classes I’ve taken in college or the people I spend time with, but I’m starting to think the boundaries of genre are as real as the monster I thought lived in my mother’s closet until I was ten. Not that it’s a bad thing; maybe, though, the lines don’t always have t…[Read more]
Rachel Britton wrote a new blog post Lively Lines in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 11 months ago

When I think of a line, I think of a moment. A snapshot. It is a space in which I linger while being pulled forward, as though a tour guide is leading me through a museum. But a painting catches my eye! I […]
Rachel Britton wrote a new blog post Biomythography: Fact and Fiction as Identity in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 5 months ago

When you search “Biomythography” on internet search engines, the first result that comes up will say it is a term coined by Audre Lorde to describe her book Zami. There isn’t much variance in the subsequent resul […]
Rachel Britton wrote a new blog post Morrison and Unlearning Women’s Bodies in the group American Studies: 9 years, 9 months ago

While discussing threads/patterns/images/etc. in Toni Morrison’s Paradise and Dante’s Paradiso this week, Emily brought up the idea of working to “unlearn.” Our group applied this to multiple facets of the society […]
Rachel Britton wrote a new blog post Revising the Paradisaical Fall in the group American Studies: 9 years, 9 months ago

In reading Linda Krumholz’s essay “Reading and Insight in Toni Morrison’s Paradise” on Wednesday, I was struck by her connection of the Ruby residents in Toni Morrison’s Paradise and the biblical Adam and Eve dur […]

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