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Davina Ward edited the blog post 8 Blog Posts, A Semester’s Commentary in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

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.

Earlier in the […]
Davina Ward wrote a new blog post More Poetry in Katrina’s Wake in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
Davina Ward wrote a new blog post Not Everyone Can Be Martin Luther King Jr in the group American Studies: 8 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Davina Ward wrote a new blog post It’s All Good Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 7 months ago

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 […]
Davina Ward edited the blog post The Holy Damned in the group American Studies: 9 years, 11 months ago

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]
Davina Ward wrote a new blog post The Way She Writes in the group American Studies: 10 years ago

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 […]

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