Written by Amanda Ly I had my heart set on discovering new wonders, and the PCC Art Exhibition in November 2019 did not disappoint. When I entered the V Building Gallery, the atmosphere synchronized with the shine of the lights, which complimented the placement of the art. A photographer was snapping shots of the paintings as I, too, tried to capture the magic of the artwork...
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In the age of Coronavirus, poetry is more powerful than ever before. This is, after all, National Poetry Month, but probably quite a different one considering that all of the poets out there are sheltering at home (and with their poems).
Check out how these Ohio students are using poetry to ease their anxiety. Some people, like Sam Jackson, are using poetry to teach us all what's most important right now -- staying home. And this Doctor from Boston is writing about Coronavirus through poems -- However you celebrate National Poetry Month, remember that poetry has power and you can use it -- now, more than ever. Written by Cassie WilsonHard Child. Natalie Shapero. Copper Canyon Press. Townsed, Washington. 2017. Soft Cover. 67 pages. If Shapero’s Hard Child was read by the great feminist poets of the 1960’s they would lack enthusiasm. Not in her poetry, but in the lens of an unchanging world for women. Shapero’s poems undress the topics of humanity, feminism, pregnancy and death. She dances around these topics with witt, unrelenting humor and a twirl of sarcasm. Her poems lack structure and rhyme, in sense that calls for attention. They will stop you - mid coffee sip and force your jaw to drop. They are not optimistic. They are not bright and buoyant. They are certainly not jolly, but in the best ways possible. Her opening poem, "My Hand and Cold", begins in the middle of a thought, just as most of the poems in her collection do:
“Of surgeons putting their knives to erroneous body parts, stories abound. So can you really blame my neighbor for how, heading into the operation, he wrote across his good knee NOT THIS KNEE?” Written by Catherine HsuThe New Yorker is a literary magazine that mixes both news and literature together. The New Yorker reports profiles, breaking news, cultural coverage, podcasts, videos, and cartoons. As an American weekly magazine, it truly highlights the works of writers and artists through literary fare and humor. One main thing that would be a signature of this magazine would be the cartoonish appeal as their weekly cover theme and the black trim on the bind of the magazine. The overall artwork that is produced within each article definitely brings out what the magazine is known for.
Written by Noah KimI am an associate poetry editor apart of this semester's Inscape team and I have been working alongside the archive team. I was in charge of transcribing all the table of contents of each available archived issue of Inscape and Pipes of Pan into our website’s archive page. This project involved countless trips to the library's archives (the librarians did not even ask what I needed help with about halfway through, they would just stand and take me to the archives) and an extensive amount of picture taking. Upon nearing the end of this extensive project; after transcribing every table of contents from the archived issues in the Shatford library dating back to 1945, I stumbled across an issue that had no table of contents but instead just the collection of work. Naturally, skimming through the pages to get the titles and names of authors I had to read some of these older works. Two of them really caught my attention and appealed immensely to my particular poetic liking (I particularly like poetry that has a well flowing rhythm and rhyme scheme) as well as satisfying the nature of the Inscape brand. The Inscape brand focuses on work surrounding the eclectic, the human, the becoming, and the unexpected. |
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