Dirty Water:London’s Low Tide

At low tide on Thursday 21 September 6,000 copies of a limited-edition artwork by internationally renowned artist Tania Kovats were given away at twenty locations from east to west along the River Thames. Produced in newspaper format, Dirty Water, London’s Low Tide is a collection of drawings, images, secret musings and writings edited by old River Thames herself, offered to those traversing the river at low tide on the morning of the Autumn Equinox. Dirty Water was also part of Totally Thames, the annual 30-day season of events celebrating the River Thames

Boston Harbor Seaside Educator's Guide

This resource provides essential practical details as well as a framework for how to use intertidal zone coastal resources as a powerful learning experience. The guide is designed to increase effective access to coastal resources. Designed for teachers, it can also be used by after-school program leaders, summer camp staff and community groups. Although written for Boston harbor, the information is general enough to be used for any coastal visit and covers all aspects of a field trip. The site allows one to download the complete guide or download by section. Educational levels: Intermediate elementary, Middle school, High school, Undergraduate lower division

The sound of violets: the ethnographic potency of poetry?

This paper takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors, and is in two halves, the first half discursive and propositional, and the second half exemplifying the rhetorical, epistemological and metaphysical affordances of poetry in critically scrutinising the rhetoric, epistemology and metaphysics of educational management discourse. Phipps and Saunders explore, through ideas and poems, how poetry can interrupt and/or illuminate dominant values in education and in educational research methods, such as: • alternatives to the military metaphors – targets, strategies and the like – that dominate the soundscape of education; • the kinds and qualities of the cognitive and feeling spaces that might be opened up by the shifting of methodological boundaries; • the considerable work done in ethnography on the use of the poetic: anthropologists have long used poetry as a medium for expressing their sense of empathic connection to their field and their subjects, particularly in considering the creativity and meaning-making that characterise all human societies in different ways; • the particular rhetorical affordances of poetry, as a discipline, as a practice, as an art, as patterned breath; its capacity to shift phonemic, and therewith methodological, authority; its offering of redress to linear and reductive attempts at scripting social life, as always already given and without alternative

A Regional Guide to Living

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Exhibition, Featuring

Exhibition, Featuring is a collection of poems inspired by art, life, and history intertwined with the very center of humanness, convergence of heart and brain. The poems assembled here attempt to recreate the sensation of memory and remembering, and at times, trying to forget. Concerned with language and the ways in which we communicate with others, the lines weave in and out of conversation, evoking daily interac­tions and thoughts carried within us, continuous as breathing. The collection is divided into five parts, each establishing a variance of the whole—all parts a harmony. The reader will discover formal poetry, poems evoking the senses, and even dialogue broken and pieced into verse. Imagination lies at the forefront of this collection with poems riding the edge of reality, flirting with the absurd. The poems use imagery to explore the unknown and unthinkable. In each stanza, lyrical language mediates reality and invention. The poems are interested in discovering place, time, and history, and understanding how every factor contributes to making a person a self. Within this exploration is also the question: how does family make us who we are and in what ways do the people who influence us continue to do so from a distance? Exhibition, Featuring circles around harrowing global issues, and also emphasizes the significant smallness of beauty through words