{"id":3843,"date":"2021-04-15T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T14:26:28","slug":"poems-in-conversation-with-the-work-of-andrew-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/2021\/04\/15\/poems-in-conversation-with-the-work-of-andrew-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems in Conversation with the Work of Andrew Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this assignment, Intro to Creative Writing students learn to make metaphors using Andrew Moore’s photograph, Courtyard, former Cass Technical High School building,<\/em> as inspiration. Through a series of generative-writing questions, students consider the mood and temperature of the image and the political or social situation it feels similar to. Moving from one room to the next in the photograph, students pick up details that invoke the political situation, by the fourth room they need to include the narrative “I,” and by the seventh room, they need to turn the reader’s attention elsewhere. Students are given the option of using the generated material to create a ghazal or sonnet.<\/p>\n

-Arisa White, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Department of English <\/p>\n

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Andrew Moore, Courtyard, former Cass Technical High School building<\/em>, 2008. Archival pigment print, 45 1\/2 in. x 54 1\/2 in. (115.57 cm x 138.43 cm). Gift of Barbara and Theodore Alfond, 2011.046.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

this place. <\/em>by Anonymous<\/p>\n

how many children got left behind in this place?
\nand now, just forgotten papers lie in this place.<\/p>\n

paint peeling, with cabinets both rusted and bent
\nsprawling shadows always did reside in this place.<\/p>\n

i never saw it then, occupied with colors
\nmy kind and i were catered to thrive in this place.<\/p>\n

the deafening silence of the long-broken clock
\ntime ran out for too many who tried in this place.<\/p>\n

the bureaucratic graffiti that stains the walls
\npriorities that never emphasized this place.<\/p>\n

i wonder how they look at the yearbook pages
\nthe sole proof of their future that died in this place.<\/p>\n

how many apaches and nighthawks did they buy?
\nis public school a fair price to pay in this place?<\/p>\n

a nation choked out by ignorance and virus
\nshould i, cole, feel tasked to modify this place?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Graduation Speech <\/em>by Bevan Fogdall ’24<\/p>\n

Burnt out as this collapsing lighting strip,
\nmy busy heart beats away somewhere else\u2014
\naway from mismatched chairs on which we sit,
\nfrom the stopped clock in which I see myself.<\/p>\n

I overturn the steel desk in my brain
\nand awake with my foot drawn back to kick
\nat the student\u2019s chair tied down in lead chains.
\nI hold back because \u2018gifted\u2019 means I tick.<\/p>\n

Or so teachers never fail to mention,
\nthough my dictionary\u2019s entry differs.
\nThe word rakes my skin with false affection,
\nthe scars a reminder to deliver.<\/p>\n

I have been bashed in and stuffed to the brim,
\na metal locker with no fat left to trim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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