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Spin in Place, Bury Our Years: An Iowan Lyr
Award Winner
Recipient of the 12th Annual Graduate Student Symposium Scholarship Award, Creative Performances - Second Place (2019)
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Presentation Type
Creative Performance (Electronic Copy Not Available)
Abstract
Pulling from my most recent poetry chapbook, Spin in Place, Bury Our Years, I will give multimedia presentations of different selections from the collection. All of these selections examine the relationship our bodies and mind have to place. Specifically, these poems examine what it means to be a first-generation academic from a blue-collar background, and how that blue-collar background, in turn, can shape an academic career as well as day-to-day life in an ever-changing nation. The specific place influencing this work is my hometown, Dubuque, Iowa, which has been ranked the fourteenth drunkest city in America on multiple occasions. Along with the explicit commentary on working-class backgrounds, these poems discuss the toxic masculinity present in these backgrounds, and how that feeds into substance reliance.
Start Date
3-4-2019 12:00 PM
End Date
3-4-2019 2:00 PM
Year of Award
2019 Award
Faculty Advisor
Dr. Jeremy Schraffenberger
Department
Department of Languages and Literatures
Copyright
©2019 Seth Thill
File Format
application/pdf
Embargo Date
4-30-2019
Spin in Place, Bury Our Years: An Iowan Lyr
Pulling from my most recent poetry chapbook, Spin in Place, Bury Our Years, I will give multimedia presentations of different selections from the collection. All of these selections examine the relationship our bodies and mind have to place. Specifically, these poems examine what it means to be a first-generation academic from a blue-collar background, and how that blue-collar background, in turn, can shape an academic career as well as day-to-day life in an ever-changing nation. The specific place influencing this work is my hometown, Dubuque, Iowa, which has been ranked the fourteenth drunkest city in America on multiple occasions. Along with the explicit commentary on working-class backgrounds, these poems discuss the toxic masculinity present in these backgrounds, and how that feeds into substance reliance.
