Maybe She Found Me in a Poem

Maybe She Found Me in a Poem explores my own family relationship and family stories through a variety of poetic forms, persona poetry, and prose pieces centered on an imagined relationship with my grandmother who died before I was born. The collection asks, “How much are our family stories our own?” and “Can we create memory?” Themes of haunting, ghosts, queerness, shared memory, death, and burial are carried throughout the collection and brought forward in their respective sections. Images are placed throughout as part of the collection to amplify the “haunting” power of the text

The Bird That Flew Backwards

The Bird that Flew Backwards examines women poets from literary Modernism in the 1910s and Beat culture in the 1950s. Analyzing these eras in tandem reveals contrasting historical constructions of American womanhood and how sociocultural trends influenced how the “poetess” constructed herself and her work and illustrates the retrograde nature of women’s rights in the 1950s. Through close reading, digital mapping, and historical background, The Bird that Flew Backwards establishes a new critical perspective by linking the more well-known Modernists with lesser-known women in 1910s Greenwich Village Bohemia. This linkage between eras branches off to explore themes of formation of identity, queerness, and women’s sexual/spatial agency

The Grizzly, September 28, 2017

Constitution Day Sparks Student Discussions of Free Speech • Chin Brings Sexy Bad Girl Haikus, Asian American Blues Poems and Elegies to Ursinus Reading • Next Year\u27s Study Abroad Application Opens on October 3rd • Armstrong Lecture Brings Columbia University Historian Dr. Joshua Batts to Berman Museum • Home is Where the Bear is • New Species Comes to Ursinus • Opinions: Consciousness Raising Can Combat Rape Culture on Campus; Is This Sufjan Stevens Song Gay or Just About God? • Student Workers of the SMC • Pair of Wins Put Bears in Good Positionhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1626/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, October 12, 2017

USAS Fights to In-source Ursinus Cleaning Staff • Ursinus Releases 2017 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report • Dr. April Carpenter and her Team of Students Challenge the Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevate Approach to Recovery • Several Uninvited Visitors Reported in Reimert Courtyard • Sustainability Week Brought Fall Fun to Ursinus • Digital Aid for Humanities • Opinions: Puerto Rico Deserves Federal Assistance after Maria; Meal Plan Options Should Include Opt-out Opportunity • Mid-season Check-in with Ursinus College Field Hockey • Bears Upset Blue Jays, Remain Atop CChttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1628/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 22, 2018

Ursinus and Sodexo Investigate Sexual Misconduct Claims • Smoothie Bar Opens in Gym • Ursinus Begins Search for Director of Religious Life • Common Intellectual Experience Open to Change • Celebration of Professor Achievement • Digital Skills for the Liberal Arts • Opinions: Why Ursinus Needs a LGBTQ and Women\u27s Center; Student Proposals Should Prioritize Poetry in CIE • New Season Begins for Women\u27s Lacrosse • UC Clinches Fourth Seed in CC Playoffshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1638/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, March 1, 2018

Ursinus Administrators Hold Info Session to Discuss Sexual Misconduct Allegations • Collegeville Mayor Reflects on Career in Political Activism • Assistant Dean for International Studies Conducts Study Abroad Research • Multiple Yoga Courses Offered on Campus • Say Yes to Positive Sex Education • Digitizing the Past, Present and Future • Opinions: Respecting Women Requires Questioning Masculinity; Lysistrata is More Than Just a Greek Sex Comedy • Men\u27s Basketball Downed in CC Semifinal • Both UC Tennis Teams Ranked No. 7 in CChttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1639/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, April 19, 2018

U-Imagine Center Announces Winners of Innovation Competition • Ursinus Receives Grant for IDC • Intersex Activist Pidgeon Pagonis Screens Short Film • Class Offers Alumni and Parents a Taste of the Philadelphia (Theater) Experience • Ursinus LGBTQ Athletes Speak Out • Ursinus College Dance Company Welcomes Spring • Opinions: Ursinus Needs More Diverse Speakers Like Reyna Grande; Male Toplessness Exposes Gender Politics of Body Policing • Golf Squads Dominating Their Spring Schedules • UC Pitching Staff Weighs in on MLB\u27s Pace-of-Play Proposalshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1645/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, March 22, 2018

Black Hawk Down Author Speaks About New Book • Writer from The New Yorker Gives Talk on Opioid Empire • Kimberton Whole Foods Opens Near Campus • Q&A with UCSG President and Vice President Candidates • What\u27s Next for Retiring Professor Dr. Carol Cirka? • History Professor\u27s Legacy Becomes More Historic • Opinions: Gender Politics of Men\u27s Bathrooms at Ursinus; Failure of Representation in The Shape of Water • Clara Baker: A Leader for the Women\u27s National Team • UC Teams Hit the Road for Spring Breakhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1641/thumbnail.jp