Research Mentor: Nicole Pekarske, Associate Teaching Professor, UMBC English
Tears Made of Ink
Research Overview
Small collection of Poetry done within Poetry courses at UMBC and in personal time – lyric and confessional poetry. The collection includes poems that were composed using various techniques and stylistic constraints, showcasing my range of work, experimentation, and growth as a poet and artist. Pathetically Poetic was composed in personal time. Family Dinner 504 was created from a prompt, “Childhood Kitchen”, students were instructed to describe the kitchen, physical elements, such as colors, textures, sounds. A Damning of Jurors was composed by taking a collective noun prior to writing, and making the collective noun the title of the poem. Children and A Broken G.I. Joe was composed by taking a previous longer poem, creating a list of words found within that poem, then using that list of words to create a new poem. The Cruelties of War and The Beauties of Beyond was created in a similar way, but with even stricter parameters. Both of these poems were created from assignment instruction in ENGL 273: Introduction to Poetry. Children and A Broken G.I. Joe and The Cruelties of War and The Beauties of Beyond were written sequentially. I am inspired by lyric and confessional poetry, emotionally driven and emotionally honest writing.