English @ SUNY Geneseo | Davina Ward | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/davina/activity/ Activity feed for Davina Ward. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 76814cff619016f38f262a2b986562fa Davina Ward edited the blog post 8 Blog Posts, A Semester's Commentary in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10216/ Thu, 03 May 2018 03:45:55 -0500 Hello, so as not to crowd the blog with 8 blog posts, I’ve condensed them all into one major blog post. I believe they function similarly to a commentary on the semester. Please enjoy.

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]]> 0 3c16981e518ab1f5213cad59404cc1f3 Davina Ward wrote a new blog post More Poetry in Katrina's Wake in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9843/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 04:06:52 -0500 Poet Sunni Patterson deals with complex problems and ideas in her spoken word poem entitled “We Made It.” I’ve heard this poem read numerous times in the past six years, it has never reflected my scholarly […]

]]> 0 8fb1031590d3bfc94ad8c9115c464d9e Davina Ward wrote a new blog post Not Everyone Can Be Martin Luther King Jr in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8850/ Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:13:23 -0500 A few years ago, during my freshman year in the African American literature course, Beth was showing a video and before she showed the video implored us as people not to take what was shown in the video and use […]

]]> 0 2684da3605c3a4ce40f1a70c46a49c29 Davina Ward wrote a new blog post It's All Good Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7771/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 04:52:53 -0500 I contemplated getting a tattoo of the phrase “It’s all good poetry”, not because I’m a huge fan of the technicalities or history of poetry, I’m not. I couldn’t name many famous poets, or properly dissect a p […]

]]> 0 9af5ac8c0b4a08e3a4757a88e7b5883b Davina Ward joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7770/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 02:53:48 -0500 0 95ff6b4f0673d831b452de0a7988bbec Davina Ward edited the blog post The Holy Damned in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7350/ Fri, 30 Sep 2016 03:46:52 -0500 I’ve been told many times that the Bible is the greatest book ever written, from a purely literary standpoint, I might even be inclined to believe this. The correlations to biblical figures or stories to modern day literature is a prevalent subject of discussion that I have with myself. In class when we discussed the Holy Trinity, I realized there…[Read more]

]]> 0 035320d7fa2f64292538e3364f76eb47 Davina Ward commented on the post, Toni Morrison's Inspiration?, on the site (Im)Possibilities http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/05/toni-morrisons-inspiration/#comment-4 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 02:15:01 -0500 I read Beloved as well and wrote about it in my post, but I also found this article which you might find interesting as it details Morrison’s inspiration for Beloved! […]

]]> 10b8f23833380de4071a85bd1cf7f56d Davina Ward wrote a new blog post The Way She Writes in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7057/ Wed, 07 Sep 2016 02:12:21 -0500 One of the questions posed on the first day of class was whether or not reading one Toni Morrison book was akin to reading them all. I am very intrigued by this because, while most authors have definitive and […]

]]> 0 4e23d3b1a77b20bc6e52fe3072e06179 Davina Ward joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7015/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 12:49:01 -0500 0 299da36ba178cb2df15ce10355e82ed6 Davina Ward became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7013/ Mon, 05 Sep 2016 12:45:57 -0500 0