A5021999717- Poetry Analysis and Criticism
- Themes in Literature Analysis
- Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Music History and Culture
- Comics and Graphic Narratives
- Digital Games and Media
- American Literature and Culture
- Short Stories in Global Literature
- Musicology and Musical Analysis
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Medicine and Dermatology Studies History
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
Metropolitan State University of Denver
2013-2024
Modern Language Association
2013
Why Comics Are and Not Picture Books:Introduction Charles Hatfield (bio) Craig Svonkin Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling (2012), by Martin Salisbury Morag Styles, is the most recent among best richly illustrated textbooks treating aesthetics, history, industry picture book. It has this to say about comics: growth interest in graphic novels years had considerable impact on children's picturebooks. In some instances, boundaries between these sequential "comic strip" art...
This essay explores Allen Ginsberg's conflicted relationship to his given Jewishness. Ginsberg dealt with ambivalence "endowed" identity through "transpiritualism," the adoption of marginalized spiritual identities as own. transpiritualism was quite complex, however, for he did not simply slough off an endowed Jewish appropriated or acquired Buddhist identity. Rather, crafted a spiritually hybridized and thus escaped "given" experienced limiting claustrophobic. Exploring psychological,...
Old Guard → Avant-Garde Kindergarde:The 2014 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry Lissa Paul (bio), Donelle Ruwe Craig Svonkin (bio) Winners: Dana Teen Lomax, ed. Kindergarde: Poems, Plays, Stories, Songs Children. Illus. Cliff Hengst. Lafayette: Black Radish, 2013. JonArno Lawson. Enjoy It While Hurts. Hamilton, Ontario: Wolsak, Honor Books: Robert Priest. Rosa Rose Other Poems. Joan Krygsman. Maurice Sendak. My Brother’s Book. New York: HarperCollins, For...
A New Parliament of Fouls: The 2015 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry Lissa Paul (bio), Kate Pendlebury Craig Svonkin (bio) Honor Books: Marilyn Nelson. How I Discovered Poetry. Illus. Hadley Hooper. York: Penguin, 2014. Lemony Snicket. 29 Myths on Swinster Pharmacy. Lisa Brown. McSweeney’s McMullins, judges love to argue.1 It’s one perks job. We delight mandate bicker about poetry, prosody, distinctions among good bad, beautiful ugly. thrill discovering a...
Outside the Inside of Box:The 2013 Lion and Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry Michael Joseph (bio), Donelle Ruwe Craig Svonkin (bio) Winner: JonArno Lawson. Down Bottom Box. Illus. Alec Dempster. Ontario: The Porcupine’s Quill, 2012. jury found themselves distracted this year by all things blurbs: how they credential a text, or close down critical judgment, possibly even betray sense doubt.1 We ourselves reflecting on purpose utility blurb. Does presence (name beloved...