A Collection Of Poetry About The Las Vegas Mass Shooting 2017
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A Collection Of Poetry About The Las Vegas Mass Shooting 2017
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Author : Kristy Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-03-15
A Collection Of Poetry About The Las Vegas Mass Shooting 2017 written by Kristy Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with categories.
In the wake of living in a country where mass shooting happen far to often a collection of poems addresses this phenomenon. In Country Song a young woman recounts her evening at the country music festival that ended up being the background for the Las Vegas Shooting She lists off very early the four songs that she could possibly write to signify her experience that night. Like any good country song, they are all relevant, personal and passionate. The last being "I Love My Daddy" who was there by her side when she woke up in the hospital the next day after being shot and trampled at the event. Sometimes all we need is a little country to tell a solid story. Then we move to Last Date with Daddy which chronicles a father daughter date that neither one of them will ever forget. A trip that they both were so excited about happened to be the same night of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting of 2017. In the midst of the mayhem she loses sight of her father and finds herself standing in the middle of a now war zone looking for her hero, her father. Finally, she finds his boot and stands in that spot looking for him when a stranger tells her that he had been scooped up and taken to the hospital. Time has passed, they are both back home and safe. She tells him that she didn't want her last date with him to be that night, daddy's little girl.
Gathering Broken Light
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Author : Heather Lang-Cassera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09-28
Gathering Broken Light written by Heather Lang-Cassera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with categories.
Gathering Broken Light confronts pasts we cannot understand, largely following the October 2017 mass shooting. Anchored in the severity and the beauty of the Mojave Desert landscape, fractured narratives, surrealist repetition, and imagistic lyricism work to contemplate grief, including both overwhelming sorrow and deep love. A voice yearns, "I wish I could sing the sky to you." In a collection that refuses to flatten the horrors of gun violence, both "flashing restless anger" and immense sadness, acknowledging that grief never leaves entirely, these poems also offer small comforts, even hope, as the "century plants continue to bloom // slowly, like stars burn" beneath a "moon as emptiness traced / and brimming with promise / because both can be true." To those lost, this collection insists, "You deserve to be remembered."
A Collection Of Poetry About Gun Violence
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Author : Brad Shaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-02-12
A Collection Of Poetry About Gun Violence written by Brad Shaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-12 with categories.
One item that I believe everyone in America can agree on is that we have far too many school shootings and mass shootings in this country. in this collection we take a look at a school shooting from two different perspectives. 1 from the perspective of the excitement of the first day of school and the second from the perspective of someone we experienced a school shooting but still felt it important to make sure that people knew that the shooter was a nice kid. In Desk Umbrella we follow a young high school student through their first day. They're making new friends they're downloading social apps and they're experiencing their teachers and their classes for the first time. But it is in the midst of the speedy pace and the joy of the first day of school that shots are heard. In a matter of seconds their life is changed forever as they find themselves hiding underneath a desk like all of us did in elementary school to keep us safe. In Nice Kid We listen to the moments that lead up to the beginning of a school shooting. Hearing from the perspective of a student who knew everyone involved and how bullying can push a teenager who is already struggling with personal experiences and a difficult home life over the edge. But as described in this poem this particular kid was seen as a nice kid. It is important to remember that everyone who makes a bad decision has a family that could potentially love them very deeply and not see them as anything other than nice. *There is no justification for school shooting. There is never a reason to turn to violence.
The Cambridge Companion To Twenty First Century American Poetry
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Author : Timothy Yu
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-11
The Cambridge Companion To Twenty First Century American Poetry written by Timothy Yu and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to studying the diversity of American poetry in the twenty-first century.
Bullets Into Bells
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Author : Brian Clements
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2017-12-05
Bullets Into Bells written by Brian Clements and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-05 with Poetry categories.
A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Brenda Hillman, Natasha Threthewey, Robert Hass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Juan Felipe Herrera, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams; Senator Christopher Murphy; Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts; survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings; and Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir, and Lucy McBath, mother of Jordan Davis. The result is a stunning collection of poems and prose that speaks directly to the heart and a persuasive and moving testament to the urgent need for gun control.
Justice And Love
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Author : Mary Zournazi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-11-12
Justice And Love written by Mary Zournazi and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-12 with Philosophy categories.
How do we see and act justly in the world? In what ways can we ethically respond to social and economic crisis? How do we address the desperation that exists in the new forms of violence and atrocity? These are all questions at the heart of Justice and Love, a philosophical dialogue on how to imagine and act in a more just world by theologian Rowan Williams and philosopher Mary Zournazi. Looking at different religious and philosophical traditions, Williams and Zournazi argue for the re-invigoration and enriching of the language of justice and, by situating justice alongside other virtues, they extend our everyday vocabularies on what is just. Drawing on examples ranging from the Paris Attacks, the Syrian War, and the European Migrant Crisis to Brexit and the US Presidential elections, Williams and Zournazi reflect on justice as a process: a condition of being, a responsiveness to others, rather than a cold distribution of fact. By doing so, they explore the love and patience needed for social healing and the imagination required for new ways of relating and experiencing the world.
Wreading
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Author : Jed Rasula
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2022-03-29
Wreading written by Jed Rasula and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Jed Rasula is a preeminent scholar of avant-garde poetics, noted for his erudition, intellectual range, and critical independence. He's also a gifted writer-his recent books have won praise for their entertaining, clear prose in addition to their scholarship. He is also an alumnus of UAP's distinguished Modern and Contemporary Poetics series, which published his Syncopations fifteen years ago. Rasula returns to the MCP series with Wreading, A collection of essays, interviews and occasional writings that reflects the breadth and diversity of his curiosity. One of the referees likened Wreading to a "victory lap, but one that sets its own further record in the taking." This is a collection of highlights from Rasula's shorter critical pieces, but also a carefully assembled and revised intellectual autobiography. Wreading consists of two parts: an assortment of Rasula's solo criticism, and selected interviews and conversations with other critics and scholars (Evelyn Reilly, Leonard Schwartz, Tony Tost, Mike Chasar, Joel Bettridge, and Ming-Qian Ma). The collection opens with a trio of essays that complicate the idea of a "poet." By interrogating the selection of poets for anthologies in the 20th century, Rasula identifies a host of "forgotten" poets, once prominent but now forgotten. Another essay on the state of the poetry anthology reveals how much influence literary gatekeepers have, and what a reimagination of the anthology form could make possible. In subsequent chapters, Rasula finds surprising overlap between Dada and Ralph Waldo Emerson, charts the deep links between image and poetic inspiration, and reckons with Ron Silliman's The Alphabet, a UAP classic. In the book's second half, Rasula engages in detailed conversations with a roster of fellow critics. Their exchanges confront ecopoetics, the corporate university, the sheer volume of contemporary poetry, and more. This substantial set of dialogues gives readers a glimpse inside a master critic's deeply informed critical practice, and lists his intellectual touchstones. The balance between essay and interview achieves a distillation of Rasula's long-established idea of "wreading." In his original use, the term denotes how any act of criticism inherently adds to the body of writing that it purports to read- how Rasula "couldn't help but participate" in his favorite poems. In this latest form, Wreading captures a critical perception that sparks insight and imagination, no matter what it sees"--
Good Bones
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Author : Maggie Smith
language : en
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Release Date : 2020-07-15
Good Bones written by Maggie Smith and has been published by Tupelo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-15 with Poetry categories.
Featuring “Good Bones”—called “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International. Maggie Smith writes out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by watching her own children read the world like a book they've just opened, knowing nothing of the characters or plot. These are poems that stare down darkness while cultivating and sustaining possibility, poems that have a sense of moral gravitas, personal urgency, and the ability to address a larger world. Maggie Smith's previous books are The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen, 2005), and three prize-winning chapbooks: Disasterology (Dream Horse, 2016), The List of Dangers (Kent State, 2010), and Nesting Dolls (Pudding House, 2005). Her poem “Good Bones” has gone viral—tweeted and translated across the world, featured on the TV drama Madam Secretary, and called the “Official Poem of 2016” by the BBC/Public Radio International, earning news coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, the Guardian, and beyond. Maggie Smith was named the 2016 Ohio Poet of the Year. “Smith's voice is clear and unmistakable as she unravels the universe, pulls at a loose thread and lets the whole thing tumble around us, sometimes beautiful, sometimes achingly hard. Truthful, tender, and unafraid of the dark....”—Ada Limón “As if lost in the soft, bewitching world of fairy tale, Maggie Smith conceives and brings forth this metaphysical Baedeker, a guidebook for mother and child to lead each other into a hopeful present. Smith's poems affirm the virtues of humanity: compassion, empathy, and the ability to comfort one another when darkness falls. 'There is a light,' she tells us, 'and the light is good.'”—D. A. Powell “Good Bones is an extraordinary book. Maggie Smith demonstrates what happens when an abundance of heart and intelligence meets the hands of a master craftsperson, reminding us again that the world, for a true poet, is blessedly inexhaustible.”—Erin Belieu
Research Anthology On School Shootings Peer Victimization And Solutions For Building Safer Educational Institutions
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Author : Management Association, Information Resources
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2020-09-10
Research Anthology On School Shootings Peer Victimization And Solutions For Building Safer Educational Institutions written by Management Association, Information Resources and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-10 with Education categories.
Though decades ago school shootings were rare events, today they are becoming normalized. Active shooter drills have become more commonplace as pressure is placed on schools and law enforcement to prevent the next attack. Yet others argue the traumatizing effects of such exercises on the students. Additionally, violence between students continues to remain problematic as bullying pervades children’s lives both at school and at home, leading to negative mental health impacts and, in extreme cases, suicide. Establishing safer school policies, promoting violence prevention programs, building healthier classroom environments, and providing better staff training are all vital for protecting students physically and mentally. The Research Anthology on School Shootings, Peer Victimization, and Solutions for Building Safer Educational Institutions examines the current sources of violence within educational systems, and it offers solutions on how to provide a safer space for both students and educators alike. Broken into four sections, the book examines the causes and impacts that peer victimization has on students and how this can lead to further violence and investigates strategies for detecting the warning signs. The book provides solutions that range from policies and programs that can be established to strategies for teaching nonviolence and promoting coexistence in the classroom. Highlighting a range of topics such as violence prevention, school climate, and bullying, this publication is an ideal reference source for school administrators, law enforcement, teachers, government and state officials, school boards, academicians, researchers, and upper-level students who are intent on stopping the persisting and unfortunate problem that is school violence.
Columbine
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Author : Dave Cullen
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-02-14
Columbine written by Dave Cullen and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-14 with History categories.
**THE GROUNDBREAKING BESTSELLER AND CLASSIC** 'Excellent . . . amazing how much still comes as a surprise' New York Times Book Review 'Like Capote's In Cold Blood, this tour de force gets below the who and the what of a horrifying incident to lay bare the devastating why' People 'A staggering work of journalism' Washington Post 'The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror...' So begins the epilogue, illustrating how Columbine has become the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It makes the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this flame more urgent than ever. What really happened on April 20th, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we thought we knew was wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths or the Trench Coast Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on the scene, and he spent ten years on this book, the definitive account. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on mountains of evidence, insight from the world's leading forensic psychologists , and the killers' own words and drawings - several reproduced in a new appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar opposite killers. They contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors.