Responses to American Poetry

The aim of this online space is to host the research work of university students or young scholars as this emerges from larger projects focusing on the American poetry scene. The objective of this initiative is to bring this kind of research activity to the attention of the general public in an attempt to further promote the exchange of ideas with regard to the process of reading, understanding and appreciating poetry writing.

Tatiani Rapatzikou 
(Associate Professor, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Advisor and initiative co-ordinator trapatz@enl.auth.gr)

Shilo Previti                                                       Grant McMillan

“Become a Voice:” The Tallgrass in 5 Sapphic Photo-Poems

 

Braided Sweetgrass

How to avoid Species Loneliness:
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to be native to a place, we must learn to
speak its language” because…

Sweetgrass is the northern element of the
medicine wheel,                 ]

“It is incumbent on every human … 

Paper Birch

...
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i am greedy: i would touch the sky with all of my nakedness, soaking sun and warmth &
... warm water, plush-feeling, eyes closed for the ...
[
[

" and I on a soft pillow will lay down my limbs"

& the smell of the prairie, not salty but sweet, almost as good as Sappho-sea.
...
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American Bison

buffalo emergent:

12 herds
where               there     as few as none
...
of what should                galaxy or even more

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835 bison         on unci
...
and every spring     cull the band


utilitarian genocide

Shilo



Uncrowned, slender (herm) Aphrodite...

"not one girl I think
             who looks

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When Gello dies,

            two queers learn to love

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Like water/ Water is Life/ ...

Four Horsemen of the Prairie



"conservation"

big
... are four horsemen, clonal
colonies, vegatively, unsexed,
...
         [                     :

playas, prairiepotholes, 
                                     & Ursus
             americanus.

[
... of the greensea of Greece,
O' do you hear the 
prairie grass sing

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