SL -- poetry reading

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As part of the Astronomy-theme Semester, Josie Kearns of the UM dept. of English read from her string-theory inspired book of poetry, "The Theory of Everything." SL had audio from the reading, and we also had the text for most of the poems in SL.

This was pretty cool. A very good example of why SL can be useful -- anyone anywhere could have attended the reading in SL. No need to commute to A2 to hear....

I had't been to a poetry reading since a teacher took a bunch of us to one when I was in junior high. That poet was Gary Snyder, and the poems he read to us were quite pornographic. The teacher who took us wished he'd read something else.....

This was tamer stuff than that, but interesting. I think the one I liked the best was the first. She started with a student having written "plutonic love" rather than "Platonic love," and thought about the ways love is like radiation.....



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