Articles of poetry Archive

  • Poetry: A Student’s Perspective

    Poetry: A Student’s Perspective

    Written by Bryan Hall. I heard the statistic during my junior year: to earn a bachelor’s degree in Communication from Arizona State University, the average student will write approximately 1,700 pages cumulatively over the course of their college education.  This number includes all the undergraduate...

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  • Why I Pray

    Why I Pray

    by Rosemarie Dombrowski Ph.D. I like to consider myself a poet, but I’m painfully aware that I’m not a Poet.  Instead, I recognize that my primary vocation is conduit, a vessel through which the genius of the past is transmitted.  I consider this role an...

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  • Poetry is dead (or is it)?

    Poetry is dead (or is it)?

    Submitted by Rosemarie Dombrowski, Ph.D. The Battle between Image and Word: Why Poetry Died and How we Might Resuscitate it (one reader at a time) Poetry is dead.  Poetry is elitist.  Poetry is inaccessible, difficult, born out of sadness. Despite what the mainstream continues to...

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  • Pupils and Publications

    Pupils and Publications

    Submitted by Rosemarie Dombrowski, Ph.D A few weeks ago, it landed in my lap.  I was surprised by its benign appearance, the three staples that bind it together despite its thickness.  The cover, which is merely an 8.5 x 11 sheet of standard copy paper,...

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  • Ethnography of a college classroom

    Ethnography of a college classroom

    by Rosemarie Dombrowski, Ph.D eth·nog·ra·phy (n.) The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures. A genre of writing that uses “Fieldwork” to provide a descriptive study of human societies. A detailed description of the culture of a particular society,...

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  • Teaching and preaching poetry

    Teaching and preaching poetry

    Submitted by Rosemarie Dombrowski, Ph.D The Neo-Romantic poets of the 1970s were viewed as idealists, perhaps even political extremists by some of their contemporary counterparts.  Unlike the popular, confessional poetry of the late 50s and early 60s, groundbreaking in its sensationalized depictions of psychological anguish...

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