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Sarah Holsberg wrote a new blog post Independent Life: An Act of Creation in a Tumultuous World in the group American Studies: 3 years, 3 months ago
“I chose a spot near the river. There I prepared the seed to go into the ground. I gave it a thick, nutritious coating, then brought it out of my body through my right sensory hand. I planted it deep in the r […]
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Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post Learning/Leaning in the group American Studies: 3 years, 5 months ago
“Learn and Run!”–Octavia Butler, Dawn
The sentence fragment of “Learn and Run,” one of the course epigraphs, has a simple syntax: two verbs, present tense, joined together by the conjunction “and.” The verb […]
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Sarah Holsberg wrote a new blog post two creative writing workshops come to an end in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 3 months ago
I start every portfolio letter with saying that the writer’s portfolio is well-constructed. I geniunely mean that statement. Every portfolio that I have had the pleasure of reading is one that is well […]
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Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post The Environment and Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 5 months ago
Last class we had workshop outside. How could we not? It was sunny and warm, and the green just outside Welles looked so inviting. I was practically skipping outside, and desperate to find a good seat. […]
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Sarah Holsberg wrote a new blog post The End of Workshop in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 5 months ago
It’s hard for me to sit at my seat in workshop and not respond to people when they are critiquing my work. So hard. Sometimes I want to run over and hug the person who got the exact intention of my poem, or just […]
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Sarah Holsberg commented on the post, on Plath, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 5 months ago
I really appreciate this analysis! Plath is someone I personally can’t relate to as a writer, even though she is so praised in the field of female writers. The personification seems like a great technique to use, […]
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Sarah Holsberg commented on the post, The Ramblings of an Elephant Critic, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 5 months ago
There seems to be several strands of thought here: good poetry vs. bad poetry, intention vs. accident, and the idea of a meaning imbued in a poem. Those are interesting strands, but let’s suspend them for a […]
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Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post Confessions about the Confessional in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 6 months ago
The Art of Losing
Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
So many things seem filled with the intent
To be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept t […]
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Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post Re-Visiting ENGL 301 in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 7 months ago
It’s amazing how much can change in a year. I’m back in ENGL 301, at the same time as last year, and I am comforted by the familiar. I was in the workshop that was the test for the writing pods structure, which […]
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Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post Recursion, Feedback, and Friction in Lucille Clifton’s “surely i am able to write poems” in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
surely i am able to write poems
celebrating grass and how the blue
in the sky can flow green or red
and the waters lean against the
chesapeake shore like a familiar
poems about nature and […]
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Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post The Aftermath of a Threat and a Call to Action in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
It feels appropriately recursive that I end my time posting with the same topic that I started with: the topic of homelessness in Victor LaValle’s Big Machine. I predicted in my last post and in conversations w […]
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Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post Bloodchild and A Wrinkle in Time in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Octavia Butler’s piece Bloodchild disarmed me when I first read it. The way that T’Gatoi would speak to the narrator was something that disturbed me, and the idea that the male narrator would end up carrying an e […]
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Sarah Holsberg wrote a new blog post Disarming the Audience in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
I said that my next post would continue the epic saga of homeless people in Victor LaValle’s Big Machine, but I think that post will percolate for a little while more while I write out this post. Percolate, or t […]
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Sarah Holsberg commented on the post, What’s in a name?, on the groupblog (Im)Possibilities 4 years, 11 months ago
I was thinking of posting this in another blog post, but I thought this would be appropriate for the Solomon Clay name:
The name “Solomon” comes from the biblical king, who was known for his great wisdom. The […] -
Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post A Threat and a Call to Action in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
If you are reading this post and recalling whether there was a post with a similar title to this, you are absolutely right. This post is a continuation of my previous post, which happened to be my first post on […]
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Sarah Holsberg wrote a new blog post A Response to Maria Papas’ Post “What Wall Are You On?” in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
I admit, Maria’s post “What Wall Are You On” piqued my interest because of the mention of the words “Queer Eye.” I’m a fan of this show because I enjoy seeing the Fab Five completely transform someone else’s life, […]
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Sarah Holsberg wrote a new blog post Empowerment in “How Could Anyone” in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
I have been going to a Lutheran leadership ministry for four summers. It is only a week long, but each time I go it feels like a year. One of ways in which I remember the ministry is by creating a playlist of some […]
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Sarah Holsberg edited the blog post A Tale of Two Tributes in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
When I was flipping through the anthology, I noticed in Ntozake Shange’s poem “my father is a retired magician” that in the speaker’s idolect, certain graphemes are omitted from words, even though they make […]
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Sarah Holsberg commented on the post, History Through Song, on the groupblog (Im)Possibilities 5 years, 1 month ago
This is a really interesting question. There are plenty of non-black musicians (and artists in general) who appreciate historically black art forms/subject matter, like Artie Shaw and Buddy Rich. Arguably, there […]
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Sarah Holsberg wrote a new blog post The Rewards of Re-Reading in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
I’ve had the pleasure of reading selections of W.E.B Du Bois’ work The Souls of Black Folk three times, including as an assignment for this class. The most consistent element of my praise is how singular Du Bois’ […]
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