Author Archives: Individual Poet

About Individual Poet

I'm the poet laureate of Kansas; a poet, writer and author; a faculty member at Goddard College and community writing facilitator; and lover of the writing life.

Environmental Studies Alumni Interviews New Graduate On Connection and Place in the Ozarks

Posted on February 27, 2013

Environmental Studies alumni Kelly Johnson just posted a marvelous interview she did with Samantha Hutchinson, a new Environmental Studies graduate whose thesis centered on place and community in the Ozarks. Samatha’s bioregional website for the Ozarks, Catawba Bean, focused on … Continue reading →

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TLA Student Profiled For Bringing Poetry and Dance to Her Community

Posted on February 27, 2013

Angie Huckstep, a student in the Individualized MA concentrating in Transformative Language Arts, was just featured in the Peninsula Daily News in her position as coordinator of WorkFirst, a program that helps low-income students succeed. The article highlights Angie’s use … Continue reading →

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Renga: Endings

Posted on February 23, 2013

At the February 2013 residency, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Karen Campbell led a renga party, a chance to come together, experience Japanese treats and traditions, particularly the tradition of the renga. This ancient Japanese poetic form brings people together to write … Continue reading →

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Renga: Beginnings

Posted on February 23, 2013

At the February 2013 residency, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Karen Campbell led a renga party, a chance to come together, experience Japanese treats and traditions, particularly the tradition of the renga. This ancient Japanese poetic form brings people together to write … Continue reading →

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Origins, Land, Body & Poetic Power of Language: Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg on Place

Posted on February 21, 2013

Caryn’s talk on the place panel from the February residency Wind, trees, fields, horizons, light retracting or returning: I’ve always felt most alive in relation to place, whether the front stoop in front of a Brooklyn triplex 45 years ago, … Continue reading →

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Finding Our Way Back Home: A Talk by Faculty Susan Pearson

Posted on February 18, 2013

I’d like to speak about participatory epistemology and place, ways of knowing the place we’re in, whatever place we’re in. Like many of the stories I have been hearing of your childhood experiences of place, when I was a child, … Continue reading →

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Place in Vibrant and Vulnerable Times: An Interdisciplinary Conversation

Posted on February 18, 2013

Sonja Swift’s talk on place she gave as part of the Place panel at the February residency: In speaking of place it feels appropriate, if not essential, to introduce myself within the context of the place I am from: my … Continue reading →

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Arts, Stars, Autoethnography, Embodiment, Life Practices and More: A Sampling of Upcoming Faculty Workshops

Posted on February 8, 2013

Research Beyond Texts, Ethical Learning in the World, with faculty member James Sparrell. Join me for an engaged conversation about how to frame your questions in ways that help you to place them in a larger conversation and learn in … Continue reading →

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Graduating Student Presentations at the 2013 Residency

Posted on February 7, 2013

Health Arts & Sciences Grad Presentations: A Peace of Maine–Multi-generational Community Retreat Center, with HAS graduating student Jill Smith. The goal of this presentation is to share how I am developing a multi-generational community retreat center. The center will integrate … Continue reading →

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Thoreau, Twitter, Dust, Soul, Language, Sustainability, Imagination, and the Chestnut Trade: Workshops About Place at the Feb. 2013 Residency

Posted on February 5, 2013

Place: An Interdisciplinary Conversation for our Vibrant and Vulnerable Times, with faculty members Susan Pearson, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Ralph Lutts, and returning students  Josh Pollock & Sonja Swift. Join students and faculty from various programs and perspectives as we wander through … Continue reading →

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